Uzanne Breen News Today

A former assistant chief constable is calling for a public inquiry into the PSNI’s “outrageous” covert surveillance of journalists and lawyers.

A month after 16-year-old Ron McMurray bombed the Rose and Crown bar in Belfast’s lower Ormeau, killing six people, he sat his O-levels.

The DUP has amended the Facebook page of its Lagan Valley “team” after it suggested that Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was still part of it.

Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots is not taking action against DUP Education Minister Paul Givan for a comment he is alleged to have made in response to a gay Alliance MLA.

Alliance has said it is confident Stephen Farry will be re-elected North Down MP as he will be the only “progressive candidate” in the contest.

INDEPENDENT MLA Alex Easton has said he is the only unionist who can unseat Stephen Farry as North Down MP.

The two unionist challengers to Alliance’s Stephen Farry in North Down couldn’t be more contrasting characters.

An Alliance councillor is set to make history as Belfast’s first openly gay mayor.

Gerard Slane was already dead, but his nine-year-old son didn’t know that. Sean sat on the stairs holding his father’s hand and begging him to wake up.

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is well accustomed to media attention. We have tracked his lengthy political career over the decades.