Belfast news

• Headley poetry reading, discussion in Rockland

  10-04-2018 23:52
  Midcoast poet Betsy Headley will read from her new book, "Something Is Always Left," Saturday, April 21, at 1:30 p.m. at Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St. There will be an open Q&A afterward, and books will be for sale. Headley, a resident of Swanville, is a poet and photographer.
  
  Read more

• Liverpool through to semi-finals of Champions League after Man City win

  10-04-2018 22:34 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Mo Salah and Roberto Firmino sent Liverpool into the semi-finals of the Champions League with a 5-1 aggregate win over Manchester City.
  
  Read more

• In Video: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears before US Congress

  10-04-2018 21:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has given evidence before US Congress about false information on the platform and its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
  
  Read more

• Five in running for Barry McElduff West Tyrone Westminster seat

  10-04-2018 21:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Five candidates are contesting the West Tyrone by-election.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Dec to present Britain’s Got Talent live shows without Ant

  10-04-2018 20:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Declan Donnelly will present Britain’s Got Talent live shows solo for the first time.
  
  Read more

• Bill Clinton urges Belfast to ensure next generation is free to enjoy peace

  10-04-2018 19:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Bill Clinton accepted the freedom of Belfast with a plea to its citizens to ensure the next generation is free to enjoy peace.
  
  Read more

• Raymond McCord Jnr murder: Prosecutors reviewing decision not to charge former police officers implicated in killing

  10-04-2018 18:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Prosecutors are to review a decision not to bring charges against former police officers implicated in a loyalist paramilitary killing.
  
  Read more

• Man arrested after tractor driven into Feeny home

  10-04-2018 18:52 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 63-year-old man has been arrested after serious damage was caused to a house when a tractor was driven into a gable wall.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Our home is your home: President Bill Clinton and Senator George Mitchell receive Freedom of City of Belfast on Good Friday Agreement anniversary

  10-04-2018 18:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Former US President Bill Clinton and Senator George Mitchell have been made Freemen of the City of Belfast in a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, with the Lord Mayor of Belfast telling them "our home is your home".
  
  Read more

• Linwoods to make 90 workers redundant

  10-04-2018 18:36 via bbc.co.uk
  The firm says business has been hit by changes in consumer taste, particularly falling demand for white bread.
  
  Read more

• 90 jobs cut at Northern Ireland food business Linwoods - sales in white loaves blamed

  10-04-2018 17:56 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Armagh-based food business Linwoods has announced it is to cut 90 jobs from its workforce.
  
  Read more

• Gerry Adams describes how he knew the 1998 peace agreement would be accepted

  10-04-2018 17:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Former SF leaders Gerry Adams describes how he knew the Good Friday Agreement would be accepted.
  
  Read more

• Good Friday deal anniversary 'marks how far NI has come'

  10-04-2018 17:29 via bbc.co.uk
  But the Good Friday peace deal milestone shows how far NI still has to go, says the 1998 talks chairman.
  
  Read more

• Pro14: Wiehahn Herbst set to miss rest of Ulster season

  10-04-2018 17:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Ulster receive a blow ahead of Friday's game against Ospreys with the injured Wiehahn Herbst likely to miss the rest of the season.
  
  Read more

• Northern Ireland politicians sweeping issues under the carpet: Wife of IRA bombing victim claims

  10-04-2018 17:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Politicians have swept the victims' issue under the carpet, a teacher whose husband was badly injured in an IRA bombing said.
  
  Read more

• Architects of Good Friday Agreement mark anniversary at Queen's University Belfast

  10-04-2018 16:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The architects of the Good Friday Agreement have appeared together at an event to mark the 20th anniversary of the historic deal.
  
  Read more

• Petition demanding Ulster Rugby recall for rape case pair Jackson and Olding reinstated after removal

  10-04-2018 15:47 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  An online petition calling on Ulster Rugby to reinstate Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding to its squad has been reinstated after it was removed.
  
  Read more

• UUP selects councillor Chris Smyth for West Tyrone by-election

  10-04-2018 15:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Ulster Unionists have nominated Omagh councillor Chris Smyth to contest the upcoming West Tyrone by-election.
  
  Read more

• UUP selects candidate for West Tyrone by-election

  10-04-2018 15:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Ulster Unionists have nominated Omagh councillor Chris Smyth to contest the upcoming West Tyrone by-election.
  
  Read more

• Northern Ireland trio tell of shock and delight at invite to royal wedding

  10-04-2018 15:33 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A former soldier from Ballymena and a mother-and-daughter from Derry city will be among the guests at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle next month.
  
  Read more

• RHI inquiry told boiler 'earned £35k in one year'

  10-04-2018 15:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Official denies Department of Agriculture staff kept "lucrative" nature of RHI scheme to themselves.
  
  Read more

• Peter Robinson: 'I was right to oppose the Belfast Agreement'

  10-04-2018 14:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Former NI first minister says voters have validated his Good Friday Agreement decision since 1998.
  
  Read more

• Bill Clinton reflects on Good Friday Agreement

  10-04-2018 14:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Former US president Bill Clinton says peace in Northern Ireland was born out of weariness of children dying.
  
  Read more

• 'IRA spy' Stakeknife: Scappaticci legal bid quashed

  10-04-2018 14:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Judges rule it could be damaging to pre-empt the outcome of the investigation into the activities of Stakeknife.
  
  Read more

• IRA victim's dad loses bid to charge 'Stakeknife'

  10-04-2018 14:21 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The father of an IRA murder victim has lost a High Court battle to have perjury charges brought against a west Belfast man for denying he was the top British agent Stakeknife.
  
  Read more

• Watch: How to get a full-body workout with one simple piece of equipment

  10-04-2018 14:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  You know how it is... come 5.30pm on a Monday, everyone and their grandmother seems to have made their way to the gym (often to make up for their sins of overindulgence at the weekend.)
  
  Read more

• Public 'would pull down Irish border' - Ahern

  10-04-2018 13:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Bertie Ahern says it would not be terrorism but "ordinary people" who would resist a hard border.
  
  Read more

• Deal primer

  10-04-2018 13:34 via bbc.co.uk
  As Northern Ireland marks the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, what exactly is it?
  
  Read more

• Theresa May reflects on Good Friday Agreement

  10-04-2018 13:27 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM calls on all parties to 'redouble their efforts' to restore devolution to Northern Ireland.
  
  Read more

• Seamus Mallon ‘sad and angry’ at state of politics in Northern Ireland

  10-04-2018 13:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  One of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement has said he is sad and angry at how politics in Northern Ireland sits 20 years after the landmark deal.
  
  Read more

• Police arrest youth (17) in connection with murder of homeless Polish man

  10-04-2018 13:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police have arrested a teenager in connection with the murder of a Polish man in Co Londonderry.
  
  Read more

• 'Prisoners release a heavy price, but price worth paying' for peace says PSNI Chief Constable

  10-04-2018 13:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton has said that the release of prisoners following the Good Friday Agreement was a 'heavy price, but a price worth paying' for peace.
  
  Read more

• Game of Thrones wraps filming on epic final season battle in Co Antrim

  10-04-2018 12:42 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The eyes of Game of Thrones fans around the world are on Northern Ireland as filming for the final series continues - and production on one epic battle has completed in Co Antrim.
  
  Read more

• Some loyalists 'just crime gangs' says chief constable

  10-04-2018 11:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Chief constable says the east Belfast UVF "is pretty much just a mid-range organised crime gang".
  
  Read more

• Belfast council passes motion on abortion decriminalisation

  10-04-2018 11:29 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Councillors in Belfast have passed motion calling for the decriminalisation of women who use abortion pills.
  
  Read more

• Children of the Good Friday Agreement

  10-04-2018 11:26 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News NI asks young people how much they know about the Good Friday Agreement.
  
  Read more

• SDLP's Claire Hanna calls for name of Raymond McCreesh Park to be changed

  10-04-2018 11:02 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  SDLP MLA Claire Hanna has said that the name of the Raymond McCreesh Park in Newry should be changed.
  
  Read more

• Tyrone GAA player hit man with walking stick after chip shop row

  10-04-2018 10:56 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A GAA star who admitted attacking an elderly man with his own walking stick after a row at a chip shop has escaped going to jail.
  
  Read more

• Two men arrested over disturbances in Lurgan area

  10-04-2018 10:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Two men have been arrested on charges related to an un-notified parade in Lurgan.
  
  Read more

• Four men charged over un-notified Lurgan parade

  10-04-2018 10:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Four men arrested on charges related to an un-notified parade in Lurgan have been charged to appear in court.
  
  Read more

• Northern Ireland Commonwealth boxer McComb detained after incident at nightclub

  10-04-2018 09:56 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The captain of Northern Ireland's Commonwealth Games boxing squad has been involved in an incident at a nightclub on the Gold Coast.
  
  Read more

• Cookstown 100: Michael Dunlop to make Tyco BMW debut at Orritor circuit

  10-04-2018 09:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Michael Dunlop will make his debut for the Tyco BMW team at the Cookstown 100 over the Orritor circuit at the end of April.
  
  Read more

Follow @belfast_nws on Twitter!