Mark Rainey

Irish nationalist politicians gloating over England’s defeat to Spain in the Euros final have been criticised as “pathetic” and “childish” on social media.

​The government and football authorities in Gibraltar have been outraged at the Euro 2024 winning Spanish players leading “provocative and insulting” chants on their return to Madrid.

Northern Ireland’s health minister has welcomed the BMA NI Consultant Committee’s decision to recommend a 5.26% pay uplift offer to its members.

East Belfast MP Gavin Robinson said he still see “better days ahead” for shipbuilding in the city, after the “unsettling” news that the Harland & Wolff chief executive has taken a leave of absence from the firm.

A councillor in Larne has called for calm after a number of “very sinister” incidents in the town, including petrol bombings and a racially motivated hate crime.

​A Belfast woman has been awarded more than £305,000 in what is believed to be the largest ever individual equal pay claim in Northern Ireland.

The owners of XL Bully dogs in Northern Ireland are being urged to “take immediate action” to comply with new legal requirements.

​The issue of assisted dying will be back on the agenda at Westminster on Friday with the first reading of a bill introduced in the House of Lords by Lord Falconer.

An overnight arson attack on a van in Larne has also caused severe damage to two properties, police have said.

​A new public consultation on police Codes of Practice has been launched by the justice department at Stormont.