Belfast news

• Shock over ‘sickening’ knife attack in north Belfast

  09-06-2026 14:28 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  A man believed by police to be Sudanese has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a violent incident involving a knife in north Belfast. The attack, which has been declared a ‘critical incident’, happened in Kinnaird Avenue shortly after 10.30 PM last night. The victim, a man in his 40s, is in hospital in a serious condition. A video of the attack has shocked and horrified the public in Northern Ireland. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer labeled the in
  
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• Homes set on fire in Belfast and police car and hijacked bus among vehicles ablaze as disorder erupts

  09-06-2026 22:49 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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• Barbaric knife crime didn’t arrive in Belfast with a refugee... it’s been here for decades

  09-06-2026 22:49 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  “Any Roman Catholic would have done”
  
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• Police car, hijacked bus and car set on fire as disorder breaks out after man charged over ‘attempted beheading’

  09-06-2026 22:24 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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• Barbaric knife crime didn’t arrive in Belfast this week... it’s been here for decades

  09-06-2026 22:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  “Any Roman Catholic would have done”
  
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• Hijacked bus and car set on fire as disorder breaks out after man charged over ‘attempted beheading’

  09-06-2026 22:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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• Belfast ‘attempted beheading’: Hijacked bus set on fire while masked youths among protestors gathering after man charged

  09-06-2026 21:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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• Switzerland defeat Northern Ireland at Mourneview Park as teenager Emily Cassap scores stunner on debut

  09-06-2026 21:11 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Northern Ireland 1 Switzerland 2
  
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• Man from London fined for stealing headphones from shops at Belfast airport told police: ‘I do silly things when drunk’

  09-06-2026 21:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Defendant told police who arrested him: ‘I do silly things when I’m drunk’
  
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• Belfast ‘attempted beheading’: Traffic disruption as protests gathering after man charged with attempted murder

  09-06-2026 21:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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• West Belfast dad who fought off knifeman with hurl is named as Go Fund Me set up for him

  09-06-2026 20:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  ‘He said I’m going to kill him’
  
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• Donaldson Trial: Eleanor says husband Jeffrey unfaithful throughout marriage

  09-06-2026 20:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Eleanor Donaldson “met with a blank wall” when asking her husband Jeffrey about an incident with an alleged abuse – a jury has heard.  Eleanor Donaldson also accused her husband of infidelity during police interviews.  And Jeffrey Donaldson told police a letter sent to one of his alleged victims had nothing “to do with any allegation or any action involving sexual abuse”. His trial over alleged sexual offences is continuing in Newry Crown Court. The 63-yea
  
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• Belfast ‘attempted beheading’: Man charged with attempted murder as crowds gather to protest in Newtownabbey

  09-06-2026 20:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Live updates below as warning issued over social media footage while ‘bravery’ of intervention hailed and politicians appeal for calm
  
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• Noah Donohoe unlikely to have died by suicide, experts tell inquest

  09-06-2026 18:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Teenager’s ‘bizarre’ behaviour on evening he disappeared ‘are not indicative of suicide but are unexplained and prompt further questions that do not currently have answers’, consultant psychiatrist tells jury
  
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• NI ‘attempted beheading’: Police say attack ‘not terror related’ as Home Office say suspect was given temporary leave to remain in UK

  09-06-2026 18:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Live updates below as warning issued over social media footage while ‘bravery’ of intervention hailed and politicians appeal for calm
  
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• North Belfast ‘attempted beheading’: Police not advising businesses to close over protest reports as Chief Constable gives information on suspect’s movements

  09-06-2026 17:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Live updates below as warning issued over social media footage while ‘bravery’ of intervention hailed and politicians appeal for calm
  
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• North Belfast ‘attempted beheading’: Police ‘absolutely not’ advising businesses to close over protest reports - suspect was ‘given leave to remain’ in NI 

  09-06-2026 16:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Live updates below as warning issued over social media footage while ‘bravery’ of intervention hailed and politicians appeal for calm
  
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• North Belfast ‘attempted beheading’: Police tell media briefing suspect ‘given leave to remain’ in NI and attack ‘not terror related’

  09-06-2026 15:33 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Live updates below as warning issued over social media footage while ‘bravery’ of intervention hailed and politicians appeal for calm
  
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• ‘Take off the balaclavas’: Ex-Presbyterian moderator tells those behind ‘sinister’ email to speak up publicly

  09-06-2026 15:25 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Anonymous group queries proposed appointment of new clerk as General Assembly meets amid safeguarding scandal
  
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• ‘Take off the balaclavas’: Ex-Presbyterian moderator tells those behind sinister email to speak up publicly

  09-06-2026 14:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Anonymous group queries proposed appointment of new clerk as General Assembly meets amid safeguarding scandal
  
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• North Belfast ‘attempted beheading’: PSNI hosting press conference as DUP leader says suspect was in UK under visa

  09-06-2026 14:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Live updates below as warning issued over social media footage while ‘bravery’ of intervention hailed and politicians appeal for calm
  
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• North Belfast ‘attempted beheading’: DUP leader says suspect was in UK under visa and has ‘abused privilege of nation’

  09-06-2026 14:25 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Live updates below as warning issued over social media footage while ‘bravery’ of intervention hailed and politicians appeal for calm
  
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• North Belfast stabbing: PSNI issue clarification over arrested man and condition of victim after Stormont parties issue joint statement

  09-06-2026 14:02 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Live updates below as warning issued over social media footage while ‘bravery’ of intervention hailed and politicians appeal for calm
  
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• Stormont parties issue joint statement over ‘disturbing’ north Belfast stabbing after PSNI confirm Somalian man arrested

  09-06-2026 13:11 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Live updates below as warning issued over social media footage while ‘bravery’ of intervention hailed as politicians appeal for calm
  
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• Airbus to IPC Mouldings: the Northern Ireland firms helping aerospace take off

  09-06-2026 12:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  With the recent sale of Spirit AeroSystems in Belfast, as well as other aerospace firms landing government contracts, Pavel Barter looks at the state of the sector here and the companies seeing major success
  
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• This Working Life: ‘Giving back to the business community is something I am passionate about’

  09-06-2026 11:32 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  The vice-president of EMEA and APAC at hiring platform Greenhouse, Co Down woman Danielle McConville chats to Mary McCarthy about networking, DEI and how AI is changing recruitment
  
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• PSNI say Somalian man arrested over north Belfast ‘critical incident’ as Sir Keir Starmer brands attack ‘sickening’

  09-06-2026 11:25 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Man arrested after victim hospitalised. Warning issued over social media footage while ‘bravery’ of intervention hailed as politicians appeal for calm.
  
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• ‘Horror’ at north Belfast stabbing as MLA reacts to ‘some of most depraved and barbaric violence I have ever seen’ 

  09-06-2026 09:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Man arrested after victim hospitalised. Warning issued over social media footage while ‘bravery’ of intervention hailed.
  
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• ‘My Belfast tech conference is my new way of living after battling stage four cancer’

  09-06-2026 09:28 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Alastair Cameron, founder of TechTides, speaks this week to Belfast Telegraph podcast In Good Company
  
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• Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO odyssey has some very far out valuations attached to it

  09-06-2026 09:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  If proof was needed that the stock market is one giant step beyond reality, this is it, writes Richard Curran
  
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