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All roads lead to Kesh on Friday, June 3, for HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

WITH parties and individuals now jockeying for political position as Northern Ireland prepares to hold Assembly elections soon, there’s a lot to…

The DUP has complained about a PSNI operation ahead of an Orange Order parade banned from marching through a mixed area in north Belfast.

Tributes have been paid to Robert (Bob) Mulligan, the former Mayor of Dungannon, who has passed away. The long-serving Ulster Unionist councillor died peacefully at his home on Glenhoy Road in Augher on Thursday following a period of illness. A public representative of 26 years experience, Mr Mulligan served on Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council from 1993, holding the office of Mayor and other senior positions on a number of occasions, until its reformation in 2014. He then served on Mid Ulster District Council until 2019. He was also a great community activist, being an elder in Gle...

Moderate unionists saw Drumcree as a 'line in the sand' Stand-off between Orangemen and RUC officers at Drumcree 1996. Picture from Pacemaker Éamon Phoenix The huge problem of contentious parades was highlighted to Tony Blair's incoming Labour Government. Newly-released files show a report was compiled for Dr Mo Mowlam on the scale of the issue. Weeks before Ms Mowlam became Secretary of State in May 1997, a senior Northern Ireland Office official said that the establishment of a Parades Commission would have "high political voltage on both sides of the com...