Women are regularly waiting more than a year for “urgent” gynaecology appointments in some areas of Northern Ireland. Records ...

Almost half of all areas in Northern Ireland were classified either as ‘Red’ zones unsafe for asylum seeker accommodation, or ...

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council’s barrister, Conor Fegan, told the inquiry that a number of habitat features, including ...

The inquiry also heard that waterways which are already breaching environmental targets could be further impacted by the mining firm’s plans ...

MORE people are being made homeless following intimidation than official figures show, a victims’ charity has claimed. The Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) records the number of people who ...

The Good Friday Agreement was signed 24 years ago this week, relationships north-south and east-west are evolving and changing. In this context, what are the issues that are relevant and to be ...

SAND has been extracted from Lough Neagh for more than a century. Workers initially used shovels to remove sand for use in building projects. But over the decades, extraction has become a major ...

CLOSE to double the number of Catholics as Protestants were arrested and charged over a five-year-period in Northern Ireland, according to PSNI statistics released to The Detail. From the start of ...

Moy Park farms spread 20 times as much poultry manure on Northern Irish fields as the major meat producer promised environmental authorities, a new report has found. The company said they would spread ...

PLANS to remove intimidation points from social housing applications have been a long time coming. The Housing Executive (NIHE) awards points to applicants who are at serious risk - mainly from ...

An excess of slurry leaching into our waterways has been blamed for toxic blue-green algal blooms which have choked Lough Neagh, the River Bann, Lough Erne and other key habitats over the summer. But ...

When Stephanie Hanna was admitted to a psychiatric ward six months after giving birth, she did not know how long she would be separated from her baby. “That really scared me. The idea of not being ...