Belfast news

• VFW in Belfast to ‘stuff a cruiser’ in upcoming food drive - WABI

  29-10-2025 23:18
  VFW in Belfast to ‘stuff a cruiser’ in upcoming food drive  WABI
  
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• West Belfast security alert ends after 'viable device found' - Belfast Telegraph

  29-10-2025 22:58
  West Belfast security alert ends after 'viable device found'  Belfast Telegraph
  
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• Elite League: Cardiff Devils beaten by Belfast Giants late show - BBC

  29-10-2025 22:46
  Elite League: Cardiff Devils beaten by Belfast Giants late show  BBC
  
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• Government spent more than £4m on defence of Soldier F

  29-10-2025 22:34 via bbc.com
  The figure was revealed in a parliamentary answer to a question asked by Foyle MP Colum Eastwood.
  
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• West Belfast: Security alert ends after locals evacuated from homes - BBC

  29-10-2025 21:05
  West Belfast: Security alert ends after locals evacuated from homes  BBC
  
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• Security alert ends after a number of residents evacuated

  29-10-2025 21:05 via bbc.com
  Police said an object in the Glenalina Gardens is a viable device.
  
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• President-elect of Ireland visits Belfast for Irish language event - AOL.com

  29-10-2025 20:47
  President-elect of Ireland visits Belfast for Irish language event  AOL.com
  
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• Belfast: Assault on two tourists treated as 'racially-motivated hate crime' - BBC

  29-10-2025 20:28
  Belfast: Assault on two tourists treated as 'racially-motivated hate crime'  BBC
  
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• Assault on two tourists treated as race hate crime

  29-10-2025 20:28 via bbc.com
  Police said the two men were attacked when walking in the Royal Avenue area of the city on Tuesday night.
  
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• President-elect of Ireland visits Belfast for Irish language event

  29-10-2025 20:01 via bbc.com
  Connolly attended the official opening of Oireachtas na Samhna in Belfast's Waterfront Hall on Wednesday.
  
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• Education minister's Israel trip a 'propaganda mission', say Alliance

  29-10-2025 18:20 via bbc.com
  Nick Mathison says there is "questionable judgement" around Paul Givan attending the trip, due to it being paid for by Israel.
  
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• Delay in crematorium redevelopment 'hugely disappointing'

  29-10-2025 18:15 via bbc.com
  The funeral director said bereaved families are limited to 20 minute services which "is very rushed".
  
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• Four arrests made following unprovoked attack on two tourists in Belfast - The Irish Times

  29-10-2025 18:06
  Four arrests made following unprovoked attack on two tourists in Belfast  The Irish Times
  
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• Catholic abuse survivor awarded six-figure settlement in Belfast - Premier Christian News

  29-10-2025 18:02
  Catholic abuse survivor awarded six-figure settlement in Belfast  Premier Christian News
  
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• Sinn Féin blocks "one-off" Belfast Council funding payment to Shankill group - Yahoo News UK

  29-10-2025 17:28
  Sinn Féin blocks "one-off" Belfast Council funding payment to Shankill group  Yahoo News UK
  
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• President-elect Connolly in Belfast as she keeps her promise to make her first trip north - The Journal

  29-10-2025 17:15
  President-elect Connolly in Belfast as she keeps her promise to make her first trip north  The Journal
  
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• Two men sentenced to life for Kieran Quilligan murder

  29-10-2025 16:25 via bbc.com
  Niall Long, 33, and Luke Taylor, 27,were both found guilty of Mr Quilligan's murder last week last week.
  
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• PM in 'regular contact' with PSNI chief over funding shortages

  29-10-2025 16:04 via bbc.com
  Sir Keir Starmer refused to be drawn on requests for help from the Treasury to help meet the costs of compensation for a major data breach.
  
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• Tourists ‘attacked and racially abused’ by group in Belfast city centre - The Irish News

  29-10-2025 15:19
  Tourists ‘attacked and racially abused’ by group in Belfast city centre  The Irish News
  
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• Everything you need to know about Europe's biggest Halloween party

  29-10-2025 14:59 via bbc.com
  Billed by organisers as the largest Halloween event in Europe, the four-day festival gets under way on Tuesday.
  
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• Halloween events cancelled or rescheduled due to wind warning

  29-10-2025 14:57 via bbc.com
  The Met Office yellow wind warning alert lasts from 13:00 GMT until 23:00 on Thursday.
  
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• 'Rocks and Minerals Tell a Story' family presentation in Belfast - PenBay Pilot

  29-10-2025 14:17
  'Rocks and Minerals Tell a Story' family presentation in Belfast  PenBay Pilot
  
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• Foodstock opens new Education and Empowerment Centre in Belfast city centre - Belfast Media Group

  29-10-2025 13:15
  Foodstock opens new Education and Empowerment Centre in Belfast city centre  Belfast Media Group
  
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• 'I've married an Ulsterman, I've got children here, I won't go back to the States' - Life during wartime from letters of Helen Ramsey Turtle detailed in new documentary - Belfast News Letter

  29-10-2025 11:49
  'I've married an Ulsterman, I've got children here, I won't go back to the States' - Life during wartime from letters of Helen Ramsey Turtle detailed in new documentary  Belfast News Letter
  
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• Young people in west Belfast create TikTok videos to challenge myths around poverty - VIEWdigital

  29-10-2025 11:07
  Young people in west Belfast create TikTok videos to challenge myths around poverty  VIEWdigital
  
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• Irish and Ulster Scots approaches 'don't need to be carbon copies'

  29-10-2025 10:32 via bbc.com
  Former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor Lee Reynolds is the commissioner for the Ulster Scots and Ulster British tradition.
  
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• North Belfast community celebrates Halloween in latest event at transformed interface area - Belfast Media Group

  29-10-2025 09:40
  North Belfast community celebrates Halloween in latest event at transformed interface area  Belfast Media Group
  
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• Five scramblers seized by police in North Belfast - Belfast Media Group

  29-10-2025 09:29
  Five scramblers seized by police in North Belfast  Belfast Media Group
  
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• Free baby clothes to support parents facing hardship

  29-10-2025 07:45 via bbc.com
  Free baby clothes for children up to the age of five are being offered in a new shop in Strabane.
  
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• Education bursary 'gives you that incentive to go on'

  29-10-2025 07:38 via bbc.com
  Young people from Belfast say getting a bursary to put towards their education will really help.
  
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• Home Office arrests more than 200 people for 'working illegally' in NI

  29-10-2025 07:33 via bbc.com
  The Home Office says it is part of the "largest crackdown on illegal workers since records began".
  
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• Belfast couple’s ‘waste free’ wedding: ‘Looking amazing doesn’t have to cost the Earth’ - Belfast Telegraph

  29-10-2025 07:09
  Belfast couple’s ‘waste free’ wedding: ‘Looking amazing doesn’t have to cost the Earth’  Belfast Telegraph
  
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• ‘Beast of Ballysillan’ back on Belfast streets after serving time for ‘sickening’ sexual abuse - Belfast Telegraph

  29-10-2025 07:05
  ‘Beast of Ballysillan’ back on Belfast streets after serving time for ‘sickening’ sexual abuse  Belfast Telegraph
  
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• Fillmore rallies past rival Genesee Valley/Belfast in semifinals - Olean Times Herald

  29-10-2025 05:29
  Fillmore rallies past rival Genesee Valley/Belfast in semifinals  Olean Times Herald
  
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• Man arrested after €8m cocaine seizure

  29-10-2025 00:35 via bbc.com
  Suspected cocaine worth more than €8m (£7m) is seized by detectives in the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau.
  
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• Irish man killed in first Australian mine explosion in a decade

  29-10-2025 00:04 via bbc.com
  Ambrose McMullen, who was known as Ambie, from Cootehill, in County Cavan, is understood to have been killed at the Endeavor mine at Cobar.
  
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