Belfast news

• A-grade expectations: Does Belfast need more office space?

  27-10-2026 11:48 via Belfast Telegraph
  The cranes have been going up for several years, but most of the major office schemes in Belfast and beyond are either completed or full of tenants. Pavel Barter examines what’s next for development and wider office market in NI
  
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• Paddy McKillen Jr hits back at non-disclosure claims as he fights for debt deal

  29-10-2026 23:06 via Belfast Telegraph
  Press Up co-founder said money he owes is all related to company borrowings he personally guaranteed
  
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• Joey Carbery’s World Cup hopes get A+ rating after Ireland’s call but no place for young gun Charlie O’Shea

  29-10-2026 21:59 via Belfast Telegraph
  Mark Sexton unveils squad for Cork clash against Fiji ‘A’
  
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• Carla Lockhart set to quit DUP and leave party with just four MPs

  29-10-2026 20:09 via Belfast Telegraph
  Move comes after clash with leadership on collapsing Executive
  
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• Travel review: Set sail for Christmas bargains with a duty-free day trip across the Irish Sea

  29-10-2026 19:55 via Belfast Telegraph
  Get your gifts sorted early at a fraction of the price on the Stena Estrid
  
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• Motion passes calling for Derry and Strabane council to play no part in job fairs including Armed Forces

  29-10-2026 19:50 via Belfast Telegraph
  Unionist representatives strongly oppose proposal at meeting which is told that the history of the military in city remained deeply sensitive for many families
  
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• New Bishop of Derry joins fight to save school as Protestant neighbours rally behind threatened Catholic primary

  29-10-2026 19:31 via Belfast Telegraph
  St Columba’s in Newbuildings has attracted more than 5,000 petition signatures as campaigners urge Department of Education to reconsider proposed closure
  
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• DUP: Lockhart set to walk as Robinson fudges forcing O'Neill out

  29-10-2026 18:22 via Belfast Telegraph
  DUP leader Gavin Robinson says Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly will quit joint engagements with First Minister Michelle O’Neill - but he won’t be pulling her out of the executive.The DUP’s party officers met on Thursday to discuss their options.Before the meeting, Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart published a letter to the party making it clear – that if it didn’t pull Emma Little-Pengelly out of the executive, she would take her “own course”.Lockhart insists that Michelle O�
  
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• The Divorce Diaries: ‘He wrote me an AI message explaining why we broke up. The man has no feelings’

  29-10-2026 18:00 via Belfast Telegraph
  In our Divorce Diaries series, we speak to people about their experience of marriage and divorce. This week, a man in his 50s with two children talks about separation from his perspective
  
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• Robinson insists it would be ‘madness’ to topple Assembly, instead blocking joint engagements by Stormont leaders

  29-10-2026 16:29 via Belfast Telegraph
  Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly will no longer appear with First Minister Michelle O’Neill at official engagements or permit her to attend them alone
  
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• Robinson insists it would be ‘madness’ to topple Assembly as joint engagements for Stormont leaders are paused

  29-10-2026 16:29 via Belfast Telegraph
  Michelle O’Neill branded Gavin Robinson’s comments ‘arrogant and supremacist’
  
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• U-turn as Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly confirms he will stand in 2027 Assembly election

  29-10-2026 12:07 via Belfast Telegraph
  North Belfast MLA says election is an opportunity to ‘stand up against those who want to drag us back to the past’
  
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• Stephen Nolan’s hit BBC show Peelers confirmed for second season, as he tells viewers what to expect

  29-10-2026 11:09 via Belfast Telegraph
  Familiar characters will return, along with new faces from police teams in Lurgan and Portadown
  
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• Revisited: The witch trials of Islandmagee

  29-10-2026 09:45 via Belfast Telegraph
  Islandmagee is a quiet civil parish on the east coast of Northern Ireland. But in 1711, a newcomer to the area begins to have fits, regurgitates pins and buttons, and suddenly dies. In the weeks following her death, eight woman and one man are found guilty of witchcraft at a local Courthouse – one man is executed. It was the last witchcraft trial in Ireland. Olivia Peden speaks to Dr Andrew Sneddon of Ulster University, and Martina Devlin, the author of “The House where it happened” abou
  
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• ‘You make your own luck’: Psychological performance coach shares his biggest life lessons

  29-10-2026 08:12 via Belfast Telegraph
  Niall McAlinden, psychological performance coach and the founder of the Personal Agency Academy, shares his life lessons
  
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• ‘Perfectly Pure came from wanting to care for people. Ten years later, that’s still at the heart of it’

  29-10-2026 07:55 via Belfast Telegraph
  Kathie McCausland is celebrating a decade of her thriving wellness brand, which was born out of a deeply personal family story and founded on a £40 ingredients haul
  
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• ‘My life completely changed’: How a family illness helped launch NI wellness brand stocked at more than 50 stores

  29-10-2026 07:55 via Belfast Telegraph
  Kathie McCausland is celebrating a decade of her thriving wellness brand, which was born out of a deeply personal family story and founded on a £40 ingredients haul
  
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• ‘Everyone is raving about it’: Co Down antique store opens Halloween pop-up with spooky walk experience

  29-10-2026 07:48 via Belfast Telegraph
  On The Square Emporium thrills with spooktacular sister shop On The Skull Emporium
  
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• Passenger on cruise ship once stranded in Belfast now stranded in Cambodia ‘not certain what next steps are’

  29-10-2026 07:08 via Belfast Telegraph
  Villa Vie resident once stranded in Belfast faces extended stay in Cambodia as ‘never ending’ cruise company battles rising fuel costs
  
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• ‘I don’t know what happens now, but I’m not giving up on this ship’

  29-10-2026 07:08 via Belfast Telegraph
  Villa Vie resident once stranded in Belfast faces extended stay in Cambodia as ‘never ending’ cruise company battles rising fuel costs
  
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• From riding horses to farming cows and sheep — meet James McNabney, Ireland’s latest exciting prospect

  29-10-2026 06:30 via Belfast Telegraph
  The 23-year-old back-rower could earn a first cap next month after recovering from an ACL injury sustained in Andy Farrell’s set-up last year
  
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• How torture videos are escalating drug debt intimidation in Ireland  

  29-10-2026 03:37 via Belfast Telegraph
  Incidents of violent drug-debt intimidation are rising in Ireland – and the methods are becoming more concerning and elaborate.Brutal enforcers are now using ‘disappearing’ video technology on social media platforms to capture and distribute graphic footage of torture.The targeted aggression goes beyond those allegedly in arrears, with innocent friends and family members increasingly caught up in the cruel crossfire.What are the gardaí doing about it?Is there a class issue at play?And wha
  
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• Olwethu Makhanya earns Rangers a point in Derek McInnes’ Tynecastle return

  28-10-2026 23:15 via Belfast Telegraph
  Hearts 2 Rangers 2
  
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• Celtic settle for a point against Dundee United after second-half onslaught

  28-10-2026 22:54 via Belfast Telegraph
  Celtic 2 Dundee United 2
  
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• Meaty judgment gives greater clarity for future parading decisions

  28-10-2026 20:56 via Belfast Telegraph
  Judge rules that Secretary of State was right to call time on parading decision and that third party convention rights must be considered
  
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• ‘His story deserves to be told’: Belfast actor’s play on ‘fifth Beatle’ Stuart Sutcliffe set for world premiere next year

  28-10-2026 20:00 via Belfast Telegraph
  Gerard McCarthy says tragic painter more than just a footnote in band’s history
  
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• From hauntings to poltergeists, exorcisms and buried bones: Belfast’s streets creak with dark secrets, says horror tour guide

  28-10-2026 20:00 via Belfast Telegraph
  Former journalist Andrew Johnston has reinvented himself as a chronicler of real-life macabre stories from the scarier corners of our past
  
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• Dissident republican guns already on Garvaghy Road ahead of decision to ban parade, ‘high-grade’ police intelligence suggested

  28-10-2026 18:30 via Belfast Telegraph
  Judge references intelligence update as he finds Secretary of State’s decision to ban parade was lawful
  
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• Judge dismisses Orange Order challenge but warns against "joy in the outcome"

  28-10-2026 17:47 via Belfast Telegraph
  A judge has dismissed an Orange Order against the Secretary of State’s decision to ban the Drumcree parade from going down the Garvaghy Road.  But Mr Justice Scoffield said those against the march should take “no particular joy in the outcome”.  He said that a lawful decision-making process has established the lodge’s right to parade in law. He also told the court that Sir Chris Bryant’s decision was lawful but highly regrettable that it happened in the circumstances it did. And he
  
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• Stormont to receive extra £270m for public services under Budget

  28-10-2026 16:25 via Belfast Telegraph
  Rise in minimum wage, extension of fuel duty cuts and £100 cost-of-living payout also announced by Chancellor
  
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