The sister of a teenage boy killed in the Omagh bombing has condemned as "sickening" Sinn Fein's intervention in support of a man found liable for the 1998 blast.
A disabled ex-soldier from Co Antrim who set out to raise £10,000 by Remembrance Day to help support fellow veterans has already exceeded his fundraising target.
Members of the Fivemiletown branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL) will gather in the town's memorial garden today (1pm) for the official dedication of a new sculpture to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice.
Jeff Dudgeon's sweeping and elegantly written assessment (on page 8) of where things stand on the legacy of the past is one of a number of devastating essays in our series.
When this newspaper, the oldest English language daily newspaper in the world, began publishing in 1737 Britain was in the early phases of the Enlightenment.
There's an old phrase that goes along the line of 'It's only being so cheerful that keeps me going,' the irony being that it is now applied mostly in reference to someone who is characteristically gloomy and pessimistic.
William Dunlop was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council's Gala Sports Awards in Coleraine on Friday evening.
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