Ben Lowry

​And now we are here, at the peak of the calendar in Northern Ireland.

​This has been a terrible week of violence in Northern Ireland, with wicked scenes of houses and vehicles burnt out.

​When I joined the News Letter 19 years ago, it was days after the Irish general election at the end of May 2007.

​On Thursday there was a very important milestone on the crucial matter of the legacy of the Troubles.

​This week I was at a film about a Northern Ireland company’s role in creating or improving major buildings around the UK.

​There is something almost Shakespearean about the fate of Keir Starmer. ​

The big lesson from the dramatic outcome in the Gorton and Denton by-election is not the rise of the Green Party and Reform.

​The popular News Letter writer Charlie Warmington was remembered in his home town Enniskillen last week.

This video clip shows vehicles trying to decide whether or not to risk driving through a flooded road in Co Down this morning.

​The service to commemorate the Kingsmill massacre was held in Bessbrook last Sunday, but the actual anniversary was marked at the scene of the attack on Monday.