It was a pile of rubble on a vacant site in a loyalist east Belfast heartland up until two months ago. Today sunlight streams through the windows of a bright pink-and-green tiled building at the ...
Video: Reuters An Irish language school that sparked protests by a group representing loyalist paramilitaries last year has now opened its doors. Video: Enda O'Dowd Beaumont Hospital has a brand ...
A plan for an Irish-medium school in east Belfast was "causing polarity and volatility in the community," according to a ...
Convicted loyalist killer Clifford McKeown ... In an interview with The Irish News in 2021, Mr McGoldrick’s mother Bridie said her only son was “just sunshine”. Billy Wright's murderous ...
When local government in Northern Ireland, ruled by unionists, was abolished in 1972 a loyalist paramilitary group called the UDA emerged. The 'Provos' emerge when the IRA fails to protect ...
A loyalist killer who gunned down a Co Armagh taxi driver at the height of the Drumcree stand-off has died. Clifford McKeown (65) was released from prison last year after being handed a life sentence ...
At least a year before August 1969, community tensions across Northern Ireland had been heating up ... protestors threw stones and bottles at the loyalist parade as it passed close to a Catholic ...
An Irish language school that was previously the target of loyalist opposition has opened in east Belfast. Planning permission for Irish language primary school Scoil na Seolta (‘School of the ...