Eimear Mcgovern

The cost of Irish reunification is overblown and its benefit underplayed, academics have suggested.

Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has said one of the key ideas behind their new music release – for the first time in six years – was the idea of love from the distance of time.

Tuesday morning will be mostly dry with the chance of a light shower at first, forecasters have said.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage chose to back the DUP’s Ian Paisley and Sammy Wilson because they’re his “old beer buddies” - but the party’s support of the TUV still stands, Ben Habib has said.

North Down general election candidate Stephen Farry has called on candidates to condemn the removal of some of his posters – some of which were replaced with paramilitary flags.

People are calling every dentist in a 20-mile radius in an effort to register to be seen, an MLA has said.

A membership body representing homeless charities working in Northern Ireland has said they stand in solidarity with the Welcome Organisation after graffiti threatening workmen was sprayed at its premises.

The team behind 2012 biopic Good Vibrations is behind new feature film Saipan – charting the events leading up Ireland’s incendiary 2002 World Cup campaign.

A rogue trader convinced an elderly person he would carry out work on their home in Belfast before taking payment for a service he never returned to complete.

A Northern Ireland newsreader was left red-faced after checking her phone and chatting to a colleague - unaware her actions were being broadcast live.