The former president of Sinn Fein is suing the BBC over a claim that he sanctioned the killing of informer Denis Donaldson in 2006.

Solicitor advocate Professor Peter Watson said the decision to seal the documents was ‘extraordinary and unjustified’.

Driving instructors could be prevented from reserving tests under proposals to crack down on bots mass-booking new slots. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is also considering preventing ...

Care workers employed by Enable Scotland will begin a five-day strike tomorrow over pay. The walkout, announced by Unison, will be the first national care strike in Scotland in more than a decade. It ...

Crowds of fans flocked to Easter Road stadium to pay their respects to “salt of the Earth” Sir Tom Farmer as his funeral hearse passed by the club he once helped save.

RTE executives have defended an unfinished newsroom promo which is expected to cost 77,000 euro plus VAT, a committee has heard. The advertisement aims to portray “a day in the life” of three RTE ...

Prosecuting a man for burning the Koran is “tantamount to reintroducing a blasphemy law” in Great Britain, a trial heard.

A 74-year-old former surgeon who raped hundreds of victims over more than two decades has been given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison by a French court. Joel Le Scouarnec was found guilty of ...

The death of Hollyoaks and reality TV star Paul Danan from a cocktail of drugs including cocaine and heroin was misadventure, a coroner has concluded. Danan, 46, played bad boy Sol Patrick from 1997 ...

Here is everything you need to know about the new Netflix crime drama Department Q, which is set in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Survivors of the Nottingham attacks, who suffered life-changing injuries, have written to local MPs to create a “powerful voice on the national stage” amid the public inquiry into the fatal incident, ...

A UN official said earlier that 47 Palestinians were injured, mostly by gunfire, at the distribution site in the southern city of Rafah.