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However, in the Republic, Taoiseach Micheal Martin has signalled his intention to proceed with the visit. Despite criticism in some quarters, ministers have defended the decision. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe told Today FM’s The Last Word on Thursday: “The economic and political benefits of the ongoing engagement that we have had with the US is so important to our country. “If I was to look at what the definition of essential travels are – one of them would be meeting the US President for the betterment of our country. “If that event is happening the Taoiseach, I believe, should...

Stormont health minister Robin Swann proposed the step to help drive down case numbers. Ministerial colleagues at the Executive in Belfast agreed the move and there are suggestions the curbs could ultimately continue until Easter. An extended lockdown closing non-essential retailers, keeping schools shut to most pupils and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas. First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill during a media briefing at The Hill of O’Neill centre in Dungannon, Co Tyrone (Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye) Family gatherings are prohibited...

By Press Association 2021 NI chief scientific adviser in legal bid to block disciplinary investigation Northern Ireland’s chief scientific adviser is mounting a High Court bid to block a disciplinary investigation into allegations he failed to tell the family of a nine-year-old girl who died about “failings” in her treatment. Claire Roberts died from hyponatraemia, which is linked to a shortage of sodium in the blood, at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Belfast on October 21 1996, shortly after she was admitted to hospital f...

Coronavirus vaccine: NI pharmacies ready to give roll-out plan a ‘shot in the arm’ as programme scales up Niall Deeney © Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 4th January 2021 Picture by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Some... This comes amid a national campaign by the News Letter and its sister titles across the UK to challenge the government to ensure that every citizen is only a short walk away from a vaccine centre. We urge the government to deploy the UK’s network of more than 11,000 pharmacies – hundreds of which are in Northern Ireland – as front-line vaccinatio...

In Northern Ireland, the remnants of a troubled past still linger, with more than 100 peace walls in Belfast separating the Catholic and Protestant areas with corrugated metal sheeting and wire mesh - a constant reminder of the division that existed between the two communities in one of the region's most socio-economically deprived areas. Now, as the coronavirus takes hold, the links between that deprivation and Covid-19 shows how the burden of illness and death is being shouldered by both sides of this historic divide which have, in fact, much in common in war, in peace and in a pandemic. In...