Northern Ireland news

• Victims of Narrow Water massacre remembered 47 years on from IRA bombs that killed 18 soldiers

  27-08-2026 17:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  We think of their families, friends and comrades, whose lives were changed forever, says UUP leader Burrows
  
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• English far-right party chucked off pier in election stunt target Belfast with migrant ‘invasion’ scare

  27-08-2026 16:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  The British Democratic Party caused a major scene after Reform leader Nigel Farage was re-elected in the UK earlier this month.
  
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• The quiet roads of Northern Ireland are slowly wearing down your front shock absorbers 

  27-08-2026 15:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  The Autumn months in particular can prove to be harder on your car’s suspension. 
  
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• Row over plan to scrap GCSE Economics as exams body faces calls to rethink

  27-08-2026 13:43 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  NI needs ‘economic literacy’ says Queen’s expert
  
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• Mum ‘felt like she was in hell’ after being doused in petrol and set alight on her doorstep, court told

  27-08-2026 12:06 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Man accused of the attempted murder of Alexis Campion is refused bail
  
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• Irish woman and partner found dead in hot tub in Spain may have died in ‘chain-reaction accident’

  27-08-2026 11:54 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Three relatives thought to include an uncle are now with the teenage boys aged 14 and 16 at a hotel in Cullera near Valencia
  
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• New Chopstix to open in Belfast with 1,000 free spring rolls for early arrivals

  27-08-2026 11:34 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Restaurant opens in CastleCourt on September 14
  
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• Jamie Dornan to star in Apple TV heist drama premiering this autumn

  27-08-2026 11:31 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  NI star joins Anthony Mackie, Jack Kesy and Emmy Award nominee Kali Reis in cast of 12 12 12
  
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• Chantelle Cameron: ‘Katie Taylor would be in interviews saying ‘I want the trilogy’... but it was never going to happen’

  27-08-2026 11:27 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  English boxer on letting go of third fight with Taylor after ‘grab-and-run rematch’ and the pursuit of boxing happiness
  
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• Fifty 50 Part 4 — Ranking the 50 best All-Ireland Final displays of the last 50 years

  27-08-2026 10:43 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Counting down from 20 to 11 across football and hurling
  
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• American millionaire hires boat accident specialist as $50m lawsuit over mystery death of Irish woman escalates

  27-08-2026 10:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Mystery still surrounds entrepreneur’s death with conflicting evidence from post-mortem examinations
  
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• How a scenic Co Down town became unlikely battleground for race attacks and hate crimes

  27-08-2026 09:36 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Recent weeks has seen the picturesque seaside town of Holywood struck by obscene graffiti and attacks on innocent migrants
  
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• ‘Trust is implicit; abuse of trust is abhorrent’: Former doctor exposes medicine’s dark side in new thriller

  27-08-2026 08:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Fatal Practice, by Paul Carson, is set in late 1980s Co Cavan. He explains how his decades-long career inspired the novel and how it taught him something uncomfortable about human beings
  
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• ‘Irish mythology is never given the acknowledgement it deserves’: Co Antrim writer’s debut book aims to restore ‘forgotten’ history

  27-08-2026 07:39 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Caoimhín Mac Giolla Íosa explores ‘tales from the deep past of Ireland’ in Before The Myth
  
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• Irish Government seriously explored opening Belfast passport office in 2000, but baulked at consulate proposal

  27-08-2026 07:29 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Prior to Good Friday Agreement, there were 7,000 NI applications a year for Irish passports - now that figure is 84,980
  
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• ‘A very special moment for us’: four-decade love story leads to hospital wedding after hospice proposal

  27-08-2026 07:24 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Londonderry couple tie knot after 44 years, raising thousands of pounds for the team who supported them
  
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• Sinn Féin controlled Tallaght using guns and ‘muscle’, British Embassy told in 2000

  27-08-2026 07:23 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Labour councillor warned there was ‘more urgent need for decommissioning in Dublin South West than in Northern Ireland’
  
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