Michael Fassbender has done sci-fi, sword-and-sandal and slasher movies. But his latest role, as the IRA hunger striker Bobby ...

At the height of the Troubles in the early 1980s Ian Bownes, a young trainee psychiatrist in Northern Ireland, was sent into the notorious H blocks in Belfast’s Maze prison to assess if its ...

Former Rangers and Burnley player Joey Barton has been criticised after a making a post saying ‘tiocfaidh ár lá’ on social ...

Jim Allister has questioned what would be lost if Stormont was to collapse again, pointing to the First Minister’s claim that ...

Plans to regenerate the site near Lisburn have been in limbo for almost 12 years due to a political row.

He was the IRA commander in the Maze prison during the 1981 hunger strikes. McFarlane was imprisoned there for his part in a 1975 IRA attack at a pub in the Protestant Shankill Road area of Belfast.

The pro-Union community in Northern Ireland needs to waken up and smell the political coffee by realising the Alliance Party ...

We could have done with Norman Tebbit in the Commons this week, if only for dramatic variety. MPs were discussing welfare ...

Maeve Murphy is hoping to shine a spotlight on the 1981 murder of a sex worker in her new short film, exploring the powerful protest by the English Collective of Prostitutes and the ongoing battle ...

Despite harsh, discriminatory conditions, low pay and lack of appreciation, deaf women have fought with brilliance and dedication for personal and professional recognition, including the right to vote ...

The USDA’s decision to cut $1 billion worth of food aid is causing layoffs, supply shortfalls, and the end of donations at ...