Barry McCaffrey (left) and Trevor Birney outside the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in London in 2024. Photo courtesy of Sarah ...

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

Almost half of all areas in Northern Ireland were classified either as ‘Red’ zones unsafe for asylum seeker accommodation, or ‘Amber’ zones where officials had “reservations”. The documents were ...

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 ...

Almost half those arrested for race hate disorder in Belfast last August had previously been reported to the PSNI for domestic abuse, The Detail can reveal. The police data, obtained through a freedom ...

FOR a year, The Detail has been investigating serious concerns about the management of one of Northern Ireland’s most precious resources - Lough Neagh. The 392 km2 lough is the largest freshwater lake ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police data from the past three years has consistently shown that a significant number of those arrested for their involvement in racist violence across the UK also had a history of domestic violence.

THE sand which built some of Ireland’s best-known landmarks is running out, experts have warned. For decades, millions of tonnes of the “diminishing resource” have been dredged from Lough Neagh, which ...