Allison Morris

The family of murdered Belfast man John George has thanked the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust for helping bring the father-of-two’s remains back to Ireland.

The image of 87-year-old widow Bridie Brown being helped into Belfast’s Court of Appeal by her daughter is a shameful indictment of Northern Ireland’s failed legacy system.

He’s being tipped as a future President of Ireland, and speaking on RTE’s Late Late Show at the weekend, Jarlath Burns was certainly looking and sounding very presidential.

With Elon Musk clapping enthusiastically behind him, President Donald Trump revealed his plans to sign an executive order to “restore free speech”.

An autopsy carried out on murdered Belfast man John George prior to his body being returned to Northern Ireland showed he was stabbed before being shot.

Lawyers representing a man alleged to have been recorded in an MI5 sting operation targeting the New IRA have argued that his extradition would be a breach of his human rights due to post-Brexit changes to the UK justice system.

An autopsy carried out on murdered Belfast man John George prior to his body being returned to Northern Ireland showed he was stabbed before being shot.

A recruitment scheme announced yesterday to boost the PSNI to 7,000 officers requires an additional £200m to the policing budget, yet to be approved by the Northern Ireland Executive.

Northern Ireland’s police service is currently sitting at 6,300 officers — well below the numbers envisioned by Chris Patten in his ground-breaking policing reform report that led to the formation of the PSNI in 2001.

There has been condemnation of online racist comments following the launch of a PSNI recruitment drive encouraging applications from Northern Ireland’s ethnic community.