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Belfast City Council was warned of threats to HMOs a year before racist attacks

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0100

Officials were aware of threats against properties housing migrants in June 2025

Comment: When Belfast burned, it was ordinary people who came to the rescue

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:32:00 +0100

Volunteers and neighbours stepped in to get families to safety

Finucane Inquiry opens amid promises of full state cooperation

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:29:00 +0100

The inquiry will now not sit again until September

Lough Neagh management body recommended entering ownership talks before due diligence, emails reveal

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0100

One environmental researcher said it would like going into negotiations “completely blind”

Pat Finucane public inquiry formally opens after 37-year campaign for answers

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0100

But full evidential hearings are not anticipated until Spring 2027

‘The facts are the facts’: Ex-Ombudsman stands over Loughinisland collusion finding 10 years on

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0100

Dr Michael Maguire says he had “no concerns” about using the term collusion in his investigation into the 1994 killings

The Pope ‘would be totally opposed’ to Sperrins gold mine, priest claims at public inquiry

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:45:00 +0100

Dalradian said the mine’s impact on peatland archaeology would be "negligible"

Changes to road through Sperrins mine could impact Catholic community and the disabled, inquiry hears

Thu, 28 May 2026 18:21:00 +0100

However the equality sceening said the impact would be 'minor'

One in four arrested over 2024 Belfast race attacks have since been reported for domestic abuse

Thu, 28 May 2026 06:30:00 +0100

Perpetrators of domestic abuse in Northern Ireland are overwhelmingly male, white, British/Irish, and known to the victim

The secret group linked to security services that helped shape the Legacy Act

Tue, 26 May 2026 06:00:00 +0100

Attendees warned of 'vast' legal risks from Government's legacy proposals

PSNI called after heated exchanges at Sperrins gold mine inquiry over road closure dispute

Fri, 22 May 2026 15:52:00 +0100

The inquiry saw heated exchanges over a public road running through the site

No official assessment of Sperrins mine traffic impact on schools, inquiry told

Wed, 20 May 2026 09:38:00 +0100

A “significant volume of concerns” were raised about child safety

Dalradian mine traffic plans are ‘public safety issue', Sperrins inquiry hears

Tue, 19 May 2026 15:55:00 +0100

Concerns were raised over a proposed 70 daily HGV trips on narrow Tyrone roads

Sperrins gold mine inquiry facing potential legal challenges over delays

Fri, 15 May 2026 13:20:00 +0100

The long-awaited public inquiry into Dalradian's application to mine in the Sperrin Mountains has been beset by delays

Dalradian gold mine would not harm Sperrins tourism, inquiry told

Thu, 14 May 2026 15:15:00 +0100

Concerns were raised about dust, noise, traffic and emissions from the mine

Mining sector is among the world’s ‘deadliest and most dangerous’, inquiry hears

Wed, 13 May 2026 17:10:00 +0100

Trócaire said it had observed many harms in mining projects around the world

PSNI made no child exploitation referrals after Ballymena riots despite internal concerns

Wed, 13 May 2026 06:00:00 +0100

A third of those arrested in Ballymena and other towns last year were children

Sperrins gold mine could cost PSNI up to £3m a year, inquiry hears

Fri, 08 May 2026 13:19:00 +0100

The PSNI has previously written off a £500,000 bill linked to the mine's security costs

Royal family could make millions from Sperrins gold mine, inquiry hears

Thu, 07 May 2026 12:15:00 +0100

The Crown Estate legally owns almost all gold and silver deposits in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

Dalradian goldmine claims of local economic benefit are ‘like candy floss’, inquiry hears

Wed, 06 May 2026 11:08:00 +0100

Concerns were raised over delays and a possible third postponement of the public inquiry

30 femicides in Northern Ireland since 2020 — Belfast rally demands ‘not one more’

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:59:00 +0100

Campaigners said that Northern Ireland was the most dangerous place to be a woman in the UK

Palestine Action accounts for third of cases involving displays of support for terror groups in Northern Ireland over the past 25 years

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:55:00 +0100

There has been a sharp rise in PSNI referrals to prosecutors relating to Palestine Action

Police attend Dalradian inquiry after man citing disability refuses to stop recording

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:36:00 +0100

Planning appeals commissioners also raised concerns over late submissions of evidence

Dalradian relying on ‘out of date’ economic assessments of gold mine, inquiry hears

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:23:00 +0100

It was claimed that the economic viability of the Sperrin Mountains mine has been 'misrepresented'

Global gold supply means Sperrins mine ‘not needed’, inquiry hears

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:49:00 +0100

The inquiry heard challenges to the economic case for Dalradian’s project

Closed doors and open questions: inside week one of the Sperrins mine inquiry

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:55:00 +0100

A long-running battle over a controversial gold project reached a pivotal public inquiry stage this week

Tommy Greene: Stormont can’t keep ignoring the evidence on Lough Neagh sand dredging

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:57:00 +0100

New research shows sand dredging is "negatively affecting water quality, habitats, and biodiversity"

Dalradian operated in planning breach for years at ‘temporary’ Tyrone site, inquiry hears

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:35:00 +0100

Dalradian applied in 2017 to mine gold and other precious metals in the Sperrin Mountains

Cyanide still referenced in Dalradian Gold’s Sperrins mine application

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:13:00 +0100

The bid to mine in the Sperrin Mountains received 50,000 objections to the project

Dublin-Holyhead facial recognition trial scans thousands but finds no matches

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0100

Thousands of passengers travelling from Dublin to Holyhead were scanned in February as part of a UK immigration enforcement pilot

Half of all Scotland’s terror support cases tied to Palestine Action ban

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:01:00 +0100

Most other Scottish cases related to UVF and other loyalist paramilitary groups

‘Disastrous’ anti-fraud scheme that wrongly cut child benefits to resume

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:25:00 +0000

More than twice as many families in Northern Ireland were affected than originally thought

HMRC child benefit crackdown under investigation after thousands of families wrongly targeted

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:55:00 +0000

The National Audit Office will examine how HMRC used flawed travel records to incorrectly identify parents suspected of living abroad

Tommy Greene: Who decides the future of Lough Neagh?

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:17:00 +0000

A rare interview from the Earl of Shaftesbury has reopened questions about who holds power over the future of Ireland’s largest lake

Launch of No Stone Unturned Journalism Fellowship

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:14:00 +0000

"Investigative journalism is essential in restoring public confidence at a time of widespread distrust"

Barry McCaffrey: Will Finucane Inquiry be allowed to get to the truth?

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:32:00 +0000

Journalist Barry McCaffrey asks whether the new inquiry will answer the question of whether collusion was the work of rogue agents, or the product of policy

PSNI challenged on claim that journalists were not treated as criminal suspects

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:45:00 +0000

Mr Boutcher said politicians and the media had continued to ‘misinterpret’ revelations emerging from the Investigatory Powers Tribunal

Irish officials warned before mass facial recognition scans on Dublin–Holyhead route

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:48:00 +0000

An earlier trial in November 2025, during which more than 7,500 faces were scanned over six days, leading to one arrest

PSNI surveillance included detailed 'profile' of journalist's private and public life

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:02:00 +0000

Submissions to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal allege that the extent of MI5 and PSNI surveillance of Vincent Kearney was “unprecedented”

Dublin passengers scanned with controversial tech by UK border force

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0000

The Home Office scanned more than 7,500 faces were scanned on the Dublin-Holyhead route, leading to one arrest

Eight times more prosecutions of republican paramilitary displays than loyalist

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:56:00 +0000

The figures have emerged amid renewed debate over how laws on paramilitary symbols are enforced

PSNI curbs migrant victims’ data sharing with Home Office after ‘institutional racism’ concerns

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:02:00 +0000

Deputy chief constable Bobby Singleton said that “any fear that prevents victims coming forward damages confidence in policing and allows offenders to go unchallenged"

Wind farms and carbon credits: ‘advanced’ plans over Lough Neagh’s future

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:45:00 +0000

Lough Neagh provides half of Belfast’s drinking water and more than 40% of Northern Ireland’s overall supply

Call for pitches

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:55:00 +0000

The Detail is inviting pitches for investigations and analysis that address our strategic areas of focus

HMRC deemed risk ‘remote’ before wrongly cutting child benefit for thousands

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0000

This was despite evidence from a pilot of the scheme showing travel data was wrong in 46% of cases

'Deeply troubling': 63% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:10:00 +0000

The error rate in the wider roll out of the scheme (63%) is significantly higher than during the pilot (46%)

NI Water’s pollution performance far below official figures, documents reveal

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“It clearly shows there are hugely significant issues that many people will have suspected for some time"

AI girlfriends ‘reinforce dangerous ideas about how women should behave’ - Women’s Aid

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

One in eight men in Ireland had a romantic relationship with an AI chatbot in the past year

Palestine Action: PSNI faces questions on policing of support for proscribed groups

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:15:00 +0000

Despite arrests and advisory letters since Palestine Action was banned, no similar action was taken over displays of support for paramilitaries

Calls for inquiry as faulty Home Office data leaves thousands without Child Benefit

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Parents wrongly accused of leaving the UK describe distress, financial hardship and invasive demands for proof after HMRC suspended payments based on inaccurate travel records

Ministers warned Palestine Action ban would be viewed as anti-Muslim, pro-Israel bias

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

“Debate will also likely concern whether using terrorism powers to counter criminal but non-violent direct action groups is a proportionate response"

HMRC rolled out anti-fraud system despite pilot showing almost 80% error rate in Northern Ireland

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:05:00 +0000

Sinn Féin MP Dáire Hughes said the high error rates were “a staggering failure"

HMRC U-turn after families wrongly stripped of Child Benefit

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:30:00 +0000

HMRC said they will now no longer automatically stop payments before first contacting parents

HMRC ‘urgently reviewing’ flawed benefit crackdown as families impacted across the UK

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:10:00 +0000

At the weekend, it emerged that about 350 families in Northern Ireland had been wrongly caught up in the crackdown

HMRC crackdown wrongly targets Northern Irish families using Dublin Airport

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“A fair degree of distress being caused to families who have done nothing wrong”

'I’d be in floods of tears': Why Northern Ireland still has no mother-and-baby unit

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:05:00 +0100

“That really scared me. The idea of not being able to see her was the worst part”

Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey reaction to the McCullough Review

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:13:00 +0100

They expressed grave concerns that state surveillance of journalists and lawyers has become “normalised”

Stormont officials privately warn of 'permacrisis' of racist unrest

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0100

“These are not just operational challenges; they are indicators of a broader failure to protect the rights and safety of minority communities”

Campaigners urge Stormont action after UN genocide findings in Gaza

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0100

Amnesty International has accused the UK government of “genocide denial” and warned it could be complicit in war crimes if arms exports to Israel continue

Watchdog kept in dark as PSNI spied on journalists

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Police were expected to flag any journalist surveillance during annual inspections

One in three arrested for Ballymena riots had been reported for domestic abuse

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0100

“They use the language of ‘violence against women and girls’ as a smokescreen to cover for the racism"

Almost half NI race rioters reported for domestic abuse

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 10:10:00 +0100

The figures for Northern Ireland – 48% - were higher than the UK average (41%).

Luke Butterly: Violence in Ballymena part of long history - with 24,000 race hate incidents in Northern Ireland since 1996

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:57:00 +0100

Concerns began to grow that as sectarian violence of the Troubles decreased, ethnic minorities would become targets

‘We risk tying ourselves in knots’: Invest NI emails cast doubt on claims of no arms links to Israel

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:36:00 +0100

Martin Butcher, Oxfam’s policy advisor on arms and conflict, said that the unique set up of the F-35 programme means it is "absolutely" the case that parts produced in the UK - including Northern Ireland - would end up in Israeli jets

PSNI told to withhold information on tech used to hack journalist’s phone

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland director, said what The Detail had uncovered was of “serious concern”.

New investigative journalism training opportunity

Fri, 23 May 2025 14:36:00 +0100

The training will be provided by some of the world’s leading journalists and security researchers

'It's a great legacy to leave': the rise in Irish-English street signs across Northern Ireland

Mon, 12 May 2025 08:00:00 +0100

“No one is trying to do them any cause or damage by putting that sign up, it's just an expression of our love for our language, our love for our place names."

Chris Quinn: Shaping a just future for our children

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0100

The minimum age of criminal responsibility in Northern Ireland is 10 – one of the lowest in Europe.

'If we don’t record the problem, how can we solve it?': PSNI criticised over lack of paramilitary hate crime data

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Senior police officers have highlighted paramilitary involvement in racist attacks.

‘People are in fear’: Muslim family set to leave Belfast following riots

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000

There were 234 reported race hate crimes in August 2024 - the highest on record.

Pet welfare complaints soar to five-year high

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Complaints across Northern Ireland’s 11 council areas rose from 5,894 in 2019 to 7,143 in 2023

Care home shortages force scores of children to stay in juvenile detention

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Between 2021 and 2023, the Department of Justice recorded 148 delays in releasing children on bail

‘She can't cope in there’: Teenager with severe learning difficulties has to stay in jail due to lack of care home places

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Sophie Rodgers, from Randalstown, Co Antrim, has the mental age of a 10-year-old

Review into surveillance of journalists 'does not go far enough'

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:24:00 +0000

An independent review, headed by Angus McCullough KC, is investigating PSNI surveillance of journalists

Luke Butterly: Removing intimidation points won’t fix our housing crisis

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0000

An average of 215 households are accepted as homeless due to intimidation each year

‘You have to keep asking, asking, asking’: Survivors of mother and baby homes still battling to access their records

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000

One survivor said vital files on her care have been lost

Journalists call for public inquiry after landmark tribunal rules against PSNI and Metropolitan Police

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:45:00 +0000

The Detail editor Trevor Birney and former Detail journalist Barry McCaffrey have made British legal history today

Barry McCaffrey: Was taking an Investigatory Powers Tribunal case worth it?

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:45:00 +0000

Since 2001, the IPT has looked at 4,073 complaints against the various intelligence agencies and has only found in favour of complainants in 1% (47) of those cases

Denzil McDaniel: Republic’s election results show little thirst for change

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are expected to form a coalition government again

Children in care: Frequent PSNI call-outs to children’s homes ‘disruptive’ and ‘scary’

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Police visits to children’s homes have increased every year since 2019

‘We advise them not to go near the flag areas.’ Migrant leaders on navigating Northern Ireland’s politics

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Although around 8% of Northern Ireland’s population is from an ethnic or minority background, the north’s politics is still dominated by the unionist and nationalist divide

Denzil McDaniel: Democracy is at stake in the US election

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Politics has always been regarded as a dirty business but this has been a particularly unedifying campaign

Irish Travellers ‘feel like second-class citizens’ over police stop and searches

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0000

PSNI figures have consistently shown that Travellers are ten times more likely to be stopped and searched.

Health trust forced to pay back tens of thousands to adults with learning disabilities after they were overcharged

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0100

The Southern Health and Social Care Trust overcharged adults with a learning disability for utility bills for years

Rosalind Skillen: How will Sinn Féin scandals affect the party's election chances?

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0100

The challenges for Mary Lou McDonald and her party are mounting against the backdrop of poor results in the local and European elections

Denzil McDaniel: Stormont urgently needs to raise more money

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0100

The debate in Dublin is how the government should spend a surplus amounting to billions of euro, while London is warning of a multi-billion pound black hole in its finances

National Union of Journalists rejects ex-police officer's claims Labour MP accepted money from the union

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:27:00 +0100

The claim was made by Darren Ellis, a retired officer with Durham Constabulary, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in London heard

Ex-police officer's claims that solicitor tried to buy a gun were 'based on a joke meme the lawyer received'

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:14:00 +0100

A tribunal is investigating if police subjected two journalists to unlawful surveillance in an attempt to uncover their sources

Ex-police officer who led probe into alleged theft of Police Ombudsman documents rejects claims he called journalists 'criminals and thieves'

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 22:06:00 +0100

Former officer Darren Ellis was quizzed during an extraordinary hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in London today

Barry McCaffrey: Police surveillance puts investigative journalism under threat

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Just as every society needs a police force to uphold the law, society also needs a free press to ensure accountability and transparency

Rosalind Skillen: New Belfast Grand Central Station a move in the right direction

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

As one of the largest bus stations in the UK, thousands of passengers will pass through its doors every day

Peter Bryson: No mention of rising child poverty in draft Programme for Government

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Other jurisdictions on these islands are prioritising child poverty, why aren’t we?

Rosalind Skillen: Draft Programme for Government uninspiring and scant on detail

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Northern Ireland has not had a Programme for Government since 2015

Denzil McDaniel: A new Ireland? It's already here

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Roger Casement said: "A nation is a very complex thing."

Rosalind Skillen: Belfast Mela celebrates the city as it truly is

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Belfast Mela is an incarnation of the best of the city

Probe into destruction of files on controversial tax relief scheme finds 'no wrongdoing'

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Under the scheme, quarrying and sand dredging firms in Northern Ireland were given up to £175 million in tax credits

Maria Hassan: Recent protests show why hate crime legislation is needed

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

From the scale of the anti-racism protests outside City Hall last week, it is clear that Belfast is a city determined to prevent violence from taking root again

Denzil McDaniel: Thuggery has no place in a multicultural Northern Ireland

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Violence is being driven by the far-right, as populism rises on the back of an agenda which promotes fear of difference

Farms broke environmental rules thousands of times over last decade

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Mark Horton, the All-Ireland Director of The Rivers Trust, said more must be done to stop pollution

Victims of race hate attacks refused government compensation

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

The Victims of Crime commissioner said the compensation scheme is no longer “fit for purpose in today's environment”

Rosalind Skillen: Violence in Belfast and Dublin shows the need for social change

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 09:46:00 +0100

The dust is only beginning to settle in Belfast and Dublin following disorder and violence in both cities last week

Barry McCaffrey: Latest IPT hearing echoes with so many elephants in the room

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:21:00 +0100

It's Thursday July 18 and the unbearable heat inside courtroom 72 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London feels like we are actually in the Serengeti.

Maria Hassan: A little investment in the arts would make a big return

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Northern Ireland spends significantly less on the arts than our neighbours.

Denzil McDaniel: How is unionism losing its power? Gradually, then suddenly

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

The election results across many of the 18 Westminster constituencies last week felt like something of a moment in history

Farm planning fraud not properly investigated, Audit Office finds

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:03:00 +0100

The Detail revealed last year that false soil sample results were submitted as part of more than 100 farm planning applications, in a bid to bypass environmental legislation

Farm planning scandal: Councils and Stormont department cannot agree who should investigate potential fraud

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

False soil sample results were submitted as part of 108 applications for farm sheds and biogas plants, in a bid to bypass environmental legislation

Lough Neagh: Major review into sand dredging will include long-awaited survey of the lake bed

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

The Detail understands that the review will include a comprehensive survey of the lough bed - the first official one to ever be carried out

Rosalind Skillen: Belfast city centre can be regenerated, but it’ll take a bit of vision

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

There’s been a lot of talk in recent days about the state of Belfast city centre and what can be done to regenerate it

Maria Hassan: Young people are politically engaged but disillusioned by elections

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

This year, 40,000 young people in Northern Ireland will be eligible to cast their vote for the first time

Denzil McDaniel: Old loyalties still dominate at election time

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Whatever the outcome of the election, there is a debate going on about the future. Brexit was a game changer for many, and people are thinking more deeply about complex issues of identity

Rosalind Skillen: What will change under a new UK government?

Wed, 29 May 2024 08:00:00 +0100

If Labour is elected, we may not see big policy changes for Northern Ireland; however, it is interesting some of the key operators in Starmer’s team have strong knowledge of Irish politics

‘Nomadic life has all but disappeared from Traveller culture in the north’

Tue, 28 May 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Twenty years ago, a quarter of all Travellers in Northern Ireland lived in caravans.

But by 2021 that number had dropped to just 10%, according to Census figures.

Maria Hassan: Victims of sexual violence are still being failed by the justice system

Wed, 22 May 2024 09:15:00 +0100

More than five years after the publication of a review into how Northern Ireland’s criminal justice system deals with serious sexual offences cases, victims are still being failed

Travellers on their fight against prejudice: 'No one's looking for special treatment, just equal treatment'

Mon, 20 May 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Around a third of Northern Ireland Life & Times Survey respondents said they would not “willingly accept” a Traveller as a neighbour or a relative through marriage

Three-quarters of Irish Traveller children still leave school with fewer than five GCSEs

Mon, 13 May 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Around three-quarters of Irish Traveller children are still leaving school with fewer than five GCSE pass grades - a decade after a Stormont strategy aimed at improving Travellers’ education was set up

Barry McCaffrey: PSNI must come clean over spying operation against me and other journalists

Thu, 09 May 2024 11:55:00 +0100

"We’ve been fighting this case for six years now and have visited more rabbit holes than Watership Down"

PSNI put group of ‘trouble maker’ Northern Ireland journalists under surveillance

Wed, 08 May 2024 18:02:00 +0100

Officers are understood to have accessed the journalists' phone bills and cross-referenced them with police telephone numbers every six months in an attempt to discover the reporters’ sources

Denzil McDaniel: Building relationships the key to ending sectarian division

Wed, 08 May 2024 09:30:00 +0100

A divided education system has led to financial and practical pressures

Political grandstanding over asylum seekers in Republic not supported by data

Wed, 01 May 2024 14:50:00 +0100

Despite a week of political rows, no data has been presented to back up Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee’s claims over asylum seekers and the border

‘The Legacy Act, do you know what is for? To keep us all quiet and hope we go away’

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Helen Whitters' son Paul was just 15 when he was shot dead with a plastic bullet in 1981

British Government protected security forces from justice during Troubles, international experts find

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0100

The British government operated a “widespread, systematic, and systemic” practice of protecting security forces from justice during the Troubles, human rights experts have found

Rosalind Skillen: Bad weather can't be divorced from climate change

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0100

We talk about the weather a lot and there’s certainly been plenty of rain to complain about over the last month

Flávia Gouveia: Political instability has hit us in the pocket

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Since business resumed at Stormont in February, the agenda has been dominated by severely underfunded public services

Report into PSNI surveillance of journalists criticised as ‘utterly vague’

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:12:00 +0100

At a board meeting today, several members said the report, which is not available to the public, did not have sufficient detail

PSNI reported tens of thousands of migrant victims and witnesses of crime to immigration authorities

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Between October 2018 and March 2023, police reported an estimated 29 migrant victims and witnesses of crime each day to the Home Office

Denzil McDaniel: Sean Brown’s family deserve answers, not evasion

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0100

After 27 years the question remains, why Sean Brown?

Peat being cut at protected site near Lough Neagh and ‘sold to garden centres’

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0100

A council is investigating claims that peat has been illegally extracted from a protected site near Lough Neagh for years and sold to garden centres

Rosalind Skillen: The climate crisis isn’t just a young person’s issue

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000

We miss out on so much when generations work in isolation, and climate action could open a pathway for all age groups to work together in meaningful ways. It also serves as a reminder that the climate crisis affects all of us.

Soaring rents forcing thousands into homelessness

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000

The number of people facing homelessness because they cannot afford to rent is at the highest level since 2008, a charity has warned

Flávia Gouveia: XL Bully ban will not stop fatal dog attacks

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000

As a dog owner my stomach sank when I saw the news that Northern Ireland will follow Britain in banning XL Bully dogs

Stakeknife: Kenova team got access to millions of intelligence documents withheld from other inquiries

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

It is more than 20 years since Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci was publicly identified as Stakeknife - a key state agent who also worked in the IRA’s internal security unit, interrogating suspected informers

PSNI surveillance report to be given to Policing Board within weeks

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:03:00 +0000

A report on the PSNI’s use of surveillance against journalists since 2011 will be handed to the Policing Board within the next four weeks, chief constable Jon Boutcher has said

PSNI challenged to 'come clean' on surveillance of journalists

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:39:00 +0000

“The public rely and trust journalists to hold authority to account on their behalf.

“In no other democratic society in the world is that a crime.”

Denzil McDaniel: Police spying case of major concern to all journalists

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Barry McCaffrey: How three UK police forces sought to carry out secret surveillance against journalists

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:07:00 +0000

In an unidentified court room, somewhere in the imposing Royal Courts of Justice in London, a secret intelligence hearing took place to decide the fate of journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey

Rosalind Skillen: Disposable vape ban in Britain a win for campaigners - now north must follow

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000

The British government’s landmark decision to ban disposable vapes in early 2025 comes after just a year of campaigning

Flávia Gouveia: Housing and anti-poverty strategies need to be top of the political agenda

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000

For all of the successes and political headwinds of the last few weeks, already there are hints that without challenge Northern Irish politics will not deliver for the most vulnerable

Maria Hassan: Rise in sexually transmitted infections show the need for better sex education

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000

According to the Public Health Agency, 5,280 new STI cases were detected in clinics in 2022 - a 42% increase from 2021

Victims' charity questions drop in housing intimidation figures

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000

The number of people presenting as homeless due to intimidation has fallen consistently over the past five years, according to figures from the Northern Ireland Housing Executive

Denzil McDaniel: Stormont is back, but will it be a false dawn?

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Northern Ireland society is broken in all sorts of socio-economic ways and trust in the devolved political process is at a very low ebb

Policing Board 'must launch inquiry into PSNI surveillance of journalists'

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:13:00 +0000

Amnesty International and the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) said the PSNI has not provided clear information on the use of surveillance against journalists

Rosalind Skillen: Return of starling murmuration to Belfast shows the power of volunteer action

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Where some politicians chew on the empty calories of division, there are groups like Wild Belfast working towards common goals and imagining shared narratives to create something good

Flávia Gouveia: Why are Stormont departments sitting on unused land amid a housing crisis?

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0000

While the housing waiting list grows year on year, with more and more families facing the prospect of homelessness, Stormont spends millions on land it can’t seem to find a use for

Unpaid carers ‘running themselves into the ground’ to help loved ones

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0000

"What the (health) trusts are saying, essentially, is that it's up to family members to take on even more, to cover for gaps in statutory services"

Denzil McDaniel: Rows over the border have been a constant since 1921

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Considering all the demographic changes in the western counties of Northern Ireland, it seems remarkable that various attempts at addressing the anomalies and tensions caused by a border, meant in 1921 to be a temporary solution, came to nothing

Will Stormont’s expected return next year come too late?

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Any excitement that Sir Jeffrey Donaldson would signal the return of the Executive before Christmas proved premature, to the surprise of nobody and the frustration of many struggling families

Phosphorus pollution from Northern Ireland farms more than double sustainable level

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:01:00 +0000

Although plants need phosphorus to grow, when too much of the mineral is produced - generally in animal manure - it runs off fields into rivers and lakes and contributes to the growth of harmful algae

Health trust overcharged adults with learning disabilities for utility bills

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000

A health trust has been forced to apologise after it overcharged scores of adults with a learning disability for utility bills

If Stormont is restored, will border areas still be neglected?

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000

"It’s no exaggeration to say there’s considerable resentment, even anger, in the west at the alienation and neglect of border areas by what people believe is a Belfast-centric decision-making process"

'New environmental low' after farm fined less than £22 for breaching pollution rules

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000

A farm linked to a planning application scandal was fined just £21.89 in what an expert has branded as a “new low” for environmental protection in Northern Ireland.

Mid Ulster Council criticised after it found fake farm documents did not breach planning controls

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Mid Ulster received 30 of 108 applications which used fake documents - the highest of any local council

Most ‘alarming’ environmental scandal in decades being overlooked, campaigners claim

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000

A series of investigations has been launched after The Detail revealed that more than 100 applications for pig, poultry and cattle sheds and biogas plants submitted false soil sample results in a bid to bypass environmental legislation

Northern Ireland’s first psychiatric mother and baby unit due to be announced within days

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:53:00 +0000

It is understood the unit, aimed at helping women suffering severe mental illnesses after giving birth, will be housed in the Belfast health trust area

Race hate victims ‘enduring months of attacks’

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:00:00 +0100

Nikki Yau from the Migrant Centre NI said she recently helped an elderly woman who needed several surgeries on her jaw following a random attack on the street

Race hate victims 'failed' by justice system

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 08:00:00 +0100

A spate of race hate crimes against ethnic minority-owned businesses in south Belfast over the summer has prompted serious concerns

Race hate crimes in one area of Belfast have doubled since 2017

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0100

Analysis by The Detail has found that race hate crimes in Botanic, which includes the predominantly loyalist areas of Sandy Row and Donegall Pass, have risen from 70 in 2017/18, to 147 in 2022/23

Troubles law ‘poses questions about UK’s credibility’, human rights experts warn

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0100

A bill which will offer a conditional amnesty to those accused of killings during the Troubles became law earlier this week

Call to scrap British citizenship fees after Home Office made more than £1.3m from NI families

Sun, 17 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0100

The Home Office has earned around £1.3 million from applications for British citizenship in Northern Ireland over a decade

Lough Neagh: Council challenges plans to relax sand dredging restrictions

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0100

Firms which dredge sand from the lough bed had asked the Department for Infrastructure to allow them to use larger dredging barges and allow the barges to operate after dark during winter

Trade unions call on Queen’s to scrap contract with company running asylum seeker barges

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0100

Trade unions Unite, NIPSA, and the University and College Union (UCU) have written to the Vice Chancellor of Queen’s asking the university to “sever its contract" with Australian company Corporate Travel Management

Gerard Lawlor murder: Family reject Police Ombudsman’s finding of no collusion in killing

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:32:00 +0100

A Police Ombudsman’s report into the murder of Gerard Lawlor (19) highlighted a string of “significant failings” in the PSNI investigation but no collusion

Queen's University has travel contract with company running asylum seeker barges

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 17:20:00 +0100

Australian company Corporate Travel Management (CTM), which operates barges housing asylum seekers in the UK, was recently awarded a contract as Queen's University Belfast's new travel provider

Mother and baby home survivors in 'indescribable distress' after details shared in data breach

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:00:00 +0100

A senior civil servant has been forced to apologise after the email addresses of 77 people, including birth mothers and adoptees from mother and baby homes, were mistakenly revealed

PSNI 'must publish report which criticised journalists' arrests'

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:00:00 +0100

A PSNI review, which strongly criticised police’s handling of the case, was completed last year but has never been published

Calls for Policing Board to investigate 'secret surveillance of journalists in Northern Ireland'

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 01:00:00 +0100

Barry McCaffrey, a former senior journalist with The Detail, said he was alarmed to learn that his phone was compromised over a period in 2013

PSNI accessed journalist’s phone while he was investigating potential corruption

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 01:00:00 +0100

Barry McCaffrey, one of Northern Ireland’s most respected journalists, said he was stunned to learn that his phone was compromised over a period in 2013

Audit Office writes to councils over planning scandal

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:00:00 +0100

An NIEA investigation found that 108 applications had submitted “misrepresented” soil sample results

Commissioner should be appointed to assess PSNI use of surveillance powers, report finds

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:00:00 +0100

The Policing Board’s human rights adviser John Wadham has looked at the PSNI’s powers to investigate crimes and how they impact on the public’s right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights

Experts call for public health campaign over growing ammonia danger

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 08:00:00 +0100

Between 2005 and 2020, emissions rose by 5%, compared to a 10% decrease in Scotland and England

PSNI ‘ignored’ child strip search rules

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0100

A Policing Board report found that in most of the strip search cases “the PSNI appeared to ignore the rules and no-one was present to support the young person during this very invasive and humiliating use of power by officers”

Ammonia pollution: British government ‘needs to make emergency interventions' in Northern Ireland

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0100

Although the north’s first climate legislation, which aims to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, was passed in March last year, it cannot be enacted due to the 18-month hiatus at Stormont

Second major investigation into planning scandal

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0100

The Northern Ireland Environment Agency has confirmed it has uncovered “the submission of misrepresented soil sample analysis results” in 21 applications for pollution permits and waste management licences and exemptions

Planning probe now investigating more than 100 farm applications

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0100

The NIEA has now confirmed that it is now investigating 108 applications - 101 for pig or poultry units and seven for biogas plants

More than a dozen applications for new pig and poultry units under investigation

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0100

The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) has raised “significant concerns” about the validity of vital documents submitted as part of at least 14 applications for new farm developments

Border communities discuss constitutional change in new book

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0100

Around 40 people from both nationalist and unionist backgrounds were interviewed for ‘People on the Border - Exploring Our Shared Way of Life’

Ammonia strategy would only save fraction of Northern Ireland's conservation areas

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0100

The strategy, which has been branded as toothless and insufficient, would only save 16 of the north’s 394 protected sites, according to departmental research

Good Friday Agreement: More work needs to be done to tackle inequality

Fri, 26 May 2023 13:57:00 +0100

The Detail hosted its first conference, along with the Social Change Initiative, around the anniversary of the agreement referendum on May 22, 1998.

Good Friday referendum: ‘I had arguments in my own household, with my own friends’

Mon, 22 May 2023 08:00:00 +0100

“A lot of lives were lost, a lot of friends were lost. Some people weren't ready.”

South West Acute Hospital: Former doctors raise patient safety concerns

Thu, 18 May 2023 08:00:00 +0100

Several doctors who used to work at the Enniskillen hospital spoke to The Detail to raise their concerns about how the facility, which was only officially opened in 2012, is being run

Good Friday Agreement: Most deprived areas still waiting on peace dividend

Mon, 15 May 2023 08:00:00 +0100

"Peace is about jobs, about hope, about collaboration, about investment... It can't just be the same without the violence."

Raychel Ferguson inquest: Mother hits out at medical and legal 'cover-up'

Thu, 11 May 2023 16:58:00 +0100

“I think in our case it was a medical cover-up that led to a legal cover-up."

Raychel Ferguson inquest: Coroner rejects call to stand down

Tue, 09 May 2023 18:05:00 +0100

Counsel for the Fergusons made a formal application last week for coroner Joe McCrisken to recuse himself

Raychel Ferguson inquest: Family ask coroner to recuse himself over 'bias'

Thu, 04 May 2023 14:20:00 +0100

The nine-year-old died from hyponatraemia - an abnormally low level of sodium in the blood - in June 2001

Good Friday Agreement: 'We’re fed up with not having a voice'

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:00:00 +0100

“It’s the same old, same old that’s been talked about for the last 25 years.”

Good Friday Agreement: Civic Forum ‘didn’t have a snowball’s chance’

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 08:00:00 +0100

The Civic Forum, an institution of the Good Friday Agreement, was set up in October 2000 and mothballed just two years later.

Climate change: 'Not much hope' of Northern Ireland meeting emissions targets due to lack of Executive

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:00:00 +0100

The chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) said the lack of an Executive is seriously hampering progress on achieving net zero targets

Good Friday Agreement: 'Politics was men in grey suits’

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:00:00 +0100

"Some man said to me (at a PUP meeting) ‘when you’re going out to the kitchen love, stick the kettle on’ ".

"I asked him if his arms were broke."

Integrated education still faces challenges, 25 years after Good Friday Agreement

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:37:00 +0100

Twenty-five years ago, just 56% of people said they would prefer to send their children to mixed-religion schools

Good Friday Agreement: 'Friends said my mixed marriage had let the side down'

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:33:00 +0100

“Fellas that I would have run about with and went to school with, certainly had a major problem."

The Good Friday Agreement: 'Wise up Daddy, things aren't like that any more'

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 09:25:00 +0100

“When we were younger, we were told the front part of the Waterworks is our side (nationalist) and then the back part was the other side (unionist)."

‘It affects every aspect of our lives’: Academics say universities must stop relying on fixed-term contracts

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0100

The academics said a lack of certainty over contracts - which can vary from a few months to several years - has had a detrimental impact on their relationships and living arrangements and has prevented some from having children

PSNI apologises for claiming migrants might make fake domestic abuse claims

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000

The PSNI told Stormont’s Justice Committee in 2020 that if it stopped sharing migrant victims’ data some people could make fake domestic abuse claims in order to avoid deportation

Good Friday Agreement: Young people say they want to move past ‘inherited trauma’

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:03:00 +0000

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement next month, young people told The Detail that they were often tired of the same old conversations about sectarianism and the Troubles

Universal Credit: Students suffering from ‘horrendous’ miscalculation errors

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Several students who claim benefits, and a benefits expert, have told The Detail there are serious problems with misinformation and miscalculation

UK police referred sexually exploited children and victims of domestic abuse to immigration authorities

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 16:15:00 +0000

Victims included people who suffered domestic violence, human trafficking and modern day slavery, an investigation by The Detail and the Guardian can reveal

PSNI 'will not stop' sharing migrant victims of crime’s data with Home Office

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Migrant support groups, including the Migrant Centre NI, told The Detail they were concerned that some people are too frightened to report crimes in case they face deportation.

Women face 'bleeding and incontinence for years' as gynaecology waiting lists soar

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Dearbhail McNulty (25), from Banbridge, Co Down, told The Detail she had to wait for three-and-a-half years for her first appointment after experiencing abnormal bleeding in 2019

More than a third of Troubles payment applications turned down

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

The Detail can reveal that of the 348 cases so far decided on by the Victims’ Payment Board (VPB), 123 have been deemed ineligible

Migrants in Republic ‘terrified’ to report crime to gardaí

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Migrant support groups have said victims are too frightened to report crimes to gardaí because they are concerned officers will investigate their immigration status.

Migrants risk being deported after reporting crimes to PSNI

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Migrant groups have expressed serious concerns after The Detail discovered that police handed over information on at least 33 victims to Home Office Immigration Enforcement between May 2020 and May 2022.

Lough Neagh: Year-long investigation exposes serious issues with management of the lake

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:10:00 +0000

The 392 km2 lough is the largest freshwater lake in Ireland and Britain and one of the biggest in Europe.

Lough Neagh: Facts on sand dredging

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Companies use suction hoses and dredgers more than 60 metres in length to remove more than a million tonnes of sand from the bed of the lough every year.

PSNI admits it should have told Loughinisland journalists about review which criticised handling of their arrests

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

The review, carried out by a senior barrister, strongly criticised police’s handling of the case and questioned whether officers should ever have investigated Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey

Lyra McKee murder and Loughinisland journalists’ arrests place UK below Israel in new global freedom of expression index

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

The UK has been ranked in the third tier of the global index - below Chile, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic - due to the “chilling effect” of policing, government policies and the treatment of journalists

PSNI criticised over failure to properly record community background of people arrested

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

The Policing Board's human rights adviser, John Wadham, told The Detail that he had concerns that people’s community backgrounds were not being properly recorded

Lough Neagh: Sand dredging must be better monitored, UN experts warn

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

The lead author of a major UN report into sand mining said he was not aware of issues around sand extraction at Lough Neagh until they were highlighted by The Detail

Amnesty writes to PSNI Chief Constable over damning review into handling of Loughinisland journalists’ arrests

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

The PSNI review found police investigators were not properly objective and looked at minor issues in the case “through an overly suspicious lens”

PSNI review strongly criticises handling of Loughinisland journalists' arrests

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

The PSNI review, carried out by a senior barrister, questioned whether police should ever have investigated Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey

Policing Board criticises PSNI after The Detail probe shows Catholics are more likely to be arrested

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 06:00:00 +0000

In December 2021, The Detail reported that almost twice as many Catholics as Protestants were arrested and charged over a five-year-period

Groups facing post-Brexit 'financial cliff edge' over British Government funding

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Groups will not know if they will receive British Government money until late March - just days before the current EU funding runs out

PSNI changes strip searching policy following The Detail investigation

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

The PSNI has set up an accountability panel to investigate every time an under-18 is strip searched

Management of Lough Neagh a ‘civil rights issue’

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Although Lough Neagh’s water is publicly-owned, the bed and banks are owned by the Earl of Shaftesbury - an English aristocrat based in Dorset

Women facing ‘postcode lottery’ over perinatal mental health services

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Almost two years after funding was put in place for services, one health trust is still not taking patient referrals

Lough Neagh: New research reveals scarring caused by sand dredging

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000

For many decades, sand has been dredged from the bed of the lough

‘I’m safe here.’ The Arabic choir bringing asylum seekers, migrants and locals together through song

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000

The Yallaa choir - meaning ‘let’s go’ in Arabic - was launched earlier this year by Tunisian native Rym Akhonzada

‘A culture of fear and secrecy.’ How paramilitary-linked illegal lenders are exploiting the cost of living crisis

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Some people are turning to illegal paramilitary lenders in desperation to pay for essential goods

'When she speaks with her daddy in Polish he is so proud': The school helping migrants' children retain links with home

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Every Saturday, dozens of pupils travel to a primary school in south Belfast for lessons in Polish language, history and geography

Lough Neagh goes ‘back into the imagination and the history of Ireland’

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000

The lough and its myths have been an inspiration for writers including Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and AE Russell

Lough Neagh sand a 'diminishing resource', experts warn

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000

GAA pitches across Ireland, Parliament Buildings in Belfast, a major golf course and a key road have all used Lough Neagh sand

'All our friends come here.' How a lunch club became a lifeline for the elderly Chinese community

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Results from the 2021 Census show that minority ethnic groups account for 3.4% of Northern Ireland's population

Dr Michael Watt: ‘Shocking’ report into deceased patients’ cases published

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 07:03:00 +0000

Half of the deceased patients reviewed were given treatments which may have caused harm.

Dr Watt scandal: Deceased patients’ families still have questions ahead of key report

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 06:57:00 +0000

“Disgraceful, shameful and an absolute travesty.”

Students to set up Northern Ireland's first housing co-op amid accommodation shortage

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0000

A lack of student housing was exacerbated by the pandemic, when some landlords opted to change their properties into B&Bs or standard rentals

Hundreds from Northern Ireland give up British citizenship due to UK immigration laws

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Several people told The Detail they did not want to give up their British citizenship but felt forced to do so after tough UK immigration rules were introduced a decade ago

Equality Commission refuses to investigate complaints over lack of bilingual signs at Magee

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Ulster University's Students' Union voted in favour of Irish and English signage in Magee's union building four years ago.

Departmental probe into tax relief scheme was 'inadequate', campaigner claims

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Crucial information about the scheme was contained within departmental files which were destroyed, a campaigner has said

Probe launched into tax credits scheme which campaigners claim ‘brought planning system into ridicule’

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 10:31:00 +0000

The Aggregates Levy Credit Scheme (ALCS), which only operated in the north, ran between 2004 and 2010

Concern at sharp rise in ethnic minorities being stopped by the PSNI

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0100

There has been a sharp increase in the percentage of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds stopped by the PSNI under anti-terrorism laws

Ethnic minorities fear being racially profiled during immigration checks

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0100

Civil society groups on both sides of the border have raised concerns about “selective passport checks” on journeys to and from Northern Ireland

UN decision on accreditation of NI Human Rights Commission deferred again

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0100

The commission was set up as part of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Immigration rules restrict thousands from crossing border

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0100

“Before coming here I didn’t have any idea that we would be restricted and that we can’t move around the whole island."

‘It’s 2022... women are lying on the streets because they have nowhere else to go’

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0100

Former Regina Coeli workers have called for the urgent establishment of a new women-only hostel.

‘Lives are being lost’ amid lack of psychiatric mother and baby unit

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0100

Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK without a unit.

UN accreditation of NI Human Rights Commission under threat

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 07:30:00 +0100

The commission said its level of funding from the NIO is "not sustainable”.

Major drop in Terrorism Act charge rate in Northern Ireland

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 07:00:00 +0100

The Home Office has dismissed calls for it to launch a review into police's use of the act's robust detention powers.

Mental Health Champion’s office “intentionally created” to lack power and independence

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:52:00 +0100

“What’s needed is bold thinking about our approach to mental health."

Almost 59,000 ‘full body searches’ of NI prisoners in five years

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:17:00 +0100

Only 48 (0.08%) of these searches resulted in prison officers finding weapons.

Council to vote again on west Belfast greenway plan

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 11:58:00 +0100

"Serious questions must be asked" of councillors if the proposal is voted through.

Most new NI poultry farms near protected nature sites

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:47:00 +0100

More than 70% of such farms have been developed within 7.5km of protected nature sites.

“Significant level of falsification” of official documents in poultry applications

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:05:00 +0100

Experts have said government agencies have failed to both prevent and adequately tackle the problem.

Almost £8.5m spent on Belfast Trust recall of neurology patients

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:09:00 +0100

The trust declined to comment on the £8.45m cost of this recall process.

Huge number of neurology patients transferred from NI for care

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 08:40:00 +0100

Neurology services are under strain following on from the scandal relating to the practices of Michael Watt.

Belfast Trust chief ran joint clinic with Michael Watt

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 08:27:00 +0100

Dr Jack ran the joint clinic with Michael Watt from 2004 until 2007.

Major rise in hotel use for asylum-seekers: “It feels like we are in a prison”

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0100

In April 2022, close to 1,100 asylum-seekers were in hotels in Northern Ireland.

"The future on this island will be shared regardless of numbers or polls"

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0100

Peter Osborne speaks about the need for Brexit to be managed in a way that benefits all people in Ireland.

Ombudsman may investigate PSNI strip searching of under-18s

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0100

Two children aged from 12 to 14 were strip searched by officers here.

Calls for PSNI to stop strip searching children

Tue, 31 May 2022 07:00:00 +0100

Last year saw 34 instances in which under-18s were strip searched by the PSNI.

PSNI strip searching of under-18s is “deeply shocking”

Fri, 20 May 2022 07:00:00 +0100

Two children aged from 12 to 14 were strip searched by officers in 2021.

NI prison head tried to “rewrite” critical solitary confinement report

Thu, 19 May 2022 07:30:00 +0100

"I was particularly concerned about the lack of focus on the people in your care.”

PSNI prioritisation of public order over hate expression criticised in report

Thu, 12 May 2022 07:00:00 +0100

Approach of the police, “problematic at a number of levels”.

NI proxy voting system should be removed according to expert

Wed, 04 May 2022 07:00:00 +0100

"I would get rid of proxy votes."

"It's like a cartel": Migrant voters feel ignored in Northern Ireland

Tue, 03 May 2022 07:00:00 +0100

"You might as well open up your politics and let us through the door.”

Review of neurologist’s deceased patients to be published

Tue, 26 Apr 2022 07:15:00 +0100

Thousands of deceased patients of Michael Watt have not been included in this review.

PSNI conducted twice as many stop and searches on Catholics as Protestants

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 08:00:00 +0100

CAJ's Daniel Holder said the figures show “such a significant disparity” that require "further explanation”.

NI law falls "well short" of UN standards on corporal punishment

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0100

The 1998 Education Order is not in keeping with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Cross-border workers increasingly "confident" part of all-island economy since 1998

Sat, 16 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0100

Cross-border trade has long been on the increase in the 24 years since the Good Friday Agreement.

Ulster Canal restoration shows all-island management of waterways “makes sense”

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0100

There is hope that phase two of the project, from Clones to Clonfad, will be completed by the end of 2023.

“There are no borders in nature”: climate change resistance on the island of Ireland

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0100

Stark warnings have been issued about the severe effects climate change will have across the island.

Thousands of cross-border trips made for AIL rugby

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:05:00 +0100

“We couldn’t wait to stay overnight in the north.”

Millions spent on cross-border cultural peace programmes since Good Friday Agreement

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0100

Museums are viewed as the poster child of cross-border co-operation.

Drug policy “categorically failed” as figures show PSNI focus on cannabis

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 08:00:00 +0100

Cannabis was seized by police more often than the force collected all other drugs combined.

Hundreds of PSNI officers in Protestant fraternal groups and Freemasons

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 07:50:00 +0100

The PSNI has recorded that just two of its officers are in Catholic fraternal organisations.

Legal challenge quashes PPS decision to drop Soldier F prosecution

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:10:00 +0000

The decision to drop the prosecution against Soldier F “crosses the threshold of irrationality".

Report finds “very worrying” failings at children’s mental health hospital

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Beechcroft is Northern Ireland's only inpatient mental health hospital for under-18s.

Lyons unaware of take-up of broadband scheme costing £200m of public money

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Quality broadband services are “as important as water and electricity supply”.

Digital exclusion concerns voiced over Stormont’s £200m broadband scheme

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0000

“I can’t see why that information couldn’t be released. It’s public money."

CJINI report finds prisons breached UN rules on solitary confinement

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 06:30:00 +0000

“I appreciate this is a hard message, for many involved in the care of prisoners, to hear."

"This is not the time for the British or Irish governments to give up on each other"

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Peter Osborne chairs the Centre for Cross Border Studies and Remembering Srebrenica NI.

PSNI rejects request to train authoritarian Gulf state police force

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Northern Irish police last provided public order training to the Royal Oman Police one-year-ago.

Western Trust’s “final opportunity” to tell truth about Derry girl’s death

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:50:00 +0000

A new inquest into Raychel Ferguson's death was ordered over two years ago.

“Dying is dying, it doesn’t matter where you live, it’s universal and Ireland is one island.”

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 07:00:00 +0000

The All-Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care was founded in 2010.

Since 1998 Good Friday Agreement all-island co-operation has grown exponentially

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 06:59:00 +0000

It’s a new future that’s taking shape; a very different scenario to the stand-off of the two jurisdictions years ago.

Almost twice the number of Catholics as Protestants arrested and charged by PSNI

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 07:00:00 +0000

CAJ's Daniel Holder said the situation “cries out for explanation and remedy”.

Covid: Disproportionate number of BME people fined in NI

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Almost 7% of fixed penalty notices were issued to people from an ethnic minority background.

Immigration plan set to impact vulnerable children seeking safety in Northern Ireland

Fri, 03 Dec 2021 07:00:00 +0000

"If any thought has been given to the rights of children, such thoughts have been completely dismissed.”

“Potentially unlawful” restraint and seclusion in schools not addressed in Stormont plan

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Experts have called for a policy that applies to all children and adults in all settings.

Northern Ireland, policing the world

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:00:00 +0000

“The number of Belfast accents in Iraq was overwhelming."

PSNI considering request to deliver further training to Omani police force linked to protest suppression

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 07:00:00 +0000

It is a criminal offence to insult the Sultan in Oman, the country’s absolute ruler.

134 sexual assault allegations against PSNI officers in five years

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0100

Only one of these complaints resulted in a disciplinary recommendation being made.

"Distressing" physical restraint and confinement of teenagers in Bangor care facility

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 07:30:00 +0100

The use of restrictive methods in the Lakewood centre has been defended by those in charge of the facility.

Enniskillen bomb victims launch legal challenge against PSNI Chief Constable

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0100

“I deserve to know the truth because my dad cannot uncover the facts. This is for him.”

PSNI officers faced no professional discipline in almost two-thirds of domestic abuse cases

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0100

The situation has been described as “shocking'' and “deeply disappointing”.

Call for Stormont to reject BMA and GMC stance on NI duty of candour

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:21:00 +0100

They oppose a public inquiry's call for a legal requirement of honesty for individuals working in healthcare.

MI6 and CIA supplied Afghan mujahideen with Belfast-built weapons

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 07:45:00 +0100

Over 300 of the missiles were supplied to the jihadi group in the 1980s.

PSNI trained Lebanese security forces guilty of human rights abuses

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0100

The UK Government remains a “long-standing supporter” of Lebanon’s security forces.

Further delay to RQIA review of neurologist’s deceased patients’ medical records

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0100

"Absolutely nothing to show" for review commissioned 40 months ago.

Lord Chief Justice expresses frustration at the failure to resolve legacy issues

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 07:09:00 +0100

Sir Declan Morgan also discussed same sex marriage, Stormont’s structures and press freedom.

"Respect for the integrity of each other’s professions meant our case was never discussed"

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0100

Barry McCaffrey has written about the gratitude he feels for Sir Declan Morgan, while being unable to thank him.

Afghans in NI “distraught” amid calls for British Home Office to resettle their family here

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 07:29:00 +0100

“I hope they can help my family come here but we don’t know what will happen.”

Stormont fracking report “merely a political tool”

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:15:00 +0100

A company called Hatch Regeneris was commissioned to conduct the research 10 months ago.

Concern as department fails to produce employment tribunal reports

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:57:00 +0100

"It is impossible to know how many cases actually proceed to a full hearing in any given year."

UN concerns over use of isolation in British prisons raises further questions for justice department

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 06:58:00 +0100

The Justice Minister, Naomi Long, does not accept that our prisons use solitary confinement.

"Concerning" increase in people from conflict zones refused entry to Ireland

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 06:52:00 +0100

"Refusals have actually increased for countries such as Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Eritrea.”

UK Government silent over MI5 influence on new policy plans relating to Troubles

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:00:00 +0100

“It is a fair question to ask how influential the security services have been in shaping the present proposals.”

Official Secrets Act reform could target journalists exposing state failings in Troubles’ killings

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 06:52:00 +0100

“Journalists should always be allowed to do their job in holding the state to account without fear of prosecution."

Criticism of proposed changes to PSNI’s storage of public’s DNA and fingerprints

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 06:52:00 +0100

New arrangements for the governance of the PSNI's retention of biometric material must be implemented.

PSNI trained Gulf regime ahead of crackdown

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 06:55:00 +0100

If the PSNI “supports human rights, it shouldn’t be supporting Oman’s police who are oppressing people”.

Covid-19 care home review terms of reference only set 10 days before report publication

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 06:58:00 +0100

"The report should not be taken in any way as a definitive resolution of the very serious issues that have been raised.”

Ulster Museum’s famed mummy Takabuti was donated by slave-owner

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 07:29:00 +0100

Thomas Greg, who lived in Holywood, Co. Down, came from a family of merchants, industrialists, and slave owners.

Hawaiian representative appeals for museum to repatriate human skulls

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0100

“There’s a respect in honouring our culture that needs to be acknowledged, that hasn’t been acknowledged."

ROBORDER: PSNI developing AI-controlled border surveillance system

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0100

"The robots will be able to identify humans and independently decide whether they represent a threat."

“Questionable” £14.6m funding for PSNI under Fresh Start Agreement

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0100

The money was allocated to the police for their work as part of the Paramilitary Crime Task Force.

Belfast Trust “unlawful” in denying people freedom to leave care homes

Fri, 28 May 2021 07:00:00 +0100

Deprivations of liberty fell "outside the scope of the Mental Capacity Act".

Housing Executive sought to use homelessness funds for repatriation flights

Wed, 26 May 2021 07:00:00 +0100

“A mechanism to facilitate repatriation is essential."

PSNI partnership with Israeli police and prisons ministry

Mon, 24 May 2021 07:00:00 +0100

“The distressing scenes from East Jerusalem and Gaza should now be a wake-up call.”

Over 150 sets of Troubles-era documents concealed from public in 2020

Fri, 21 May 2021 07:00:00 +0100

“When it comes to the north there’s an extra degree...of supervision, vetting and filtering of files."

Call for Sinn Féin to apply its southern housing policies to west Belfast “housing crisis”

Mon, 17 May 2021 06:57:00 +0100

"The recent riots happened in the absence of a thriving community at the Mackie's site."

Does job creation offset "ethical qualms" about MOD's east Belfast drones?

Thu, 06 May 2021 07:00:00 +0100

"The Middle East gives us a pretty good idea as to how and where these new Belfast made weapons might be used."

"No clinical evidence” for majority of Belfast neurologist's reviewed patients' blood patches

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0100

The Belfast Trust examined 66 of Dr Michael Watt's epidural blood patch patients.

“No guarantee” National Museums NI will repatriate any objects linked to colonialism

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0100

National Museums NI says it holds 4,500 objects, 800 of them from Africa, in its ‘World Cultures’ collection.

Home Office policy led hundreds in Northern Ireland to renounce British citizenship

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0100

“A lot of people would have said if we renounce our British citizenship, what happens in the future?“

Stormont Executive criticised for failing to acknowledge historic slavery links

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0100

“As one of the regions involved (in slavery), Northern Ireland has not yet done anything about it.”

Queen’s University investigating if historical benefactors had links to slavery

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 06:29:00 +0100

The investigation began in late 2020 and is being carried out by the university's Development and Alumni Relations team.

Chief Constable addresses disproportionate stop and search and Covid-19 fines for BAME people

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 13:52:00 +0100

Simon Byrne said it was important to recognise how society is changing “so we can adapt our style and policy to that".

Estimated 3,500 patients seen by neurologist died in 10-year-period

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 06:55:00 +0100

The RQIA review of Dr Watt's deceased patients' records was commissioned three years ago, but it has not begun.

Virus experts criticise "superficial" report on hospital discharges and Covid-19 in care homes

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:10:00 +0100

“I am concerned that there appears to be a lack of expertise required to look at this properly."

Claire Byrne Live show "primarily designed for a southern audience"

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:32:00 +0100

The early focus on flags, emblems and anthems was one straight out of the peace process playbook.

PSNI has third highest stop and search rate in UK

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Over 25,000 people were stopped and searched in Northern Ireland by police last year.

Call for coroners to record prescription drug use

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The niece of a Coalisland man who took his own life, after having an adverse reaction to Sertraline, is leading this call.

Loughinisland journalists hold virtual meeting with PSNI Chief Constable

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 06:59:00 +0000

Press freedom and ex-parte hearings were the focus of the discussion.

Covid-19 fines disproportionately issued to black people in Northern Ireland

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 06:59:00 +0000

“The high rate in which black and minority ethnic people are criminalised is shocking, but not surprising.”

Department of Health criticised for stance on hyponatraemia inquiry findings

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 06:57:00 +0000

Justice O'Hara's report, published over three years ago, examined the deaths of five children in Northern Ireland.

‘Bertha Challenge’ on housing and land rights in Belfast comes to a close

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The Bertha Foundation supports activists, journalists and lawyers from all over the world.

Concerns over ‘voluntary repatriation’ of homeless migrants during Covid-19

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Charities say there are "long-standing concerns" about use of such programmes in a homelessness context.

Homeless migrants missing out despite 'Everyone In' pandemic policy

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:00:00 +0000

This has led to calls for “political will and fresh thinking – not more excuses for inaction”.

Queen's University fails to address issues relating to Chinese flights

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:55:00 +0000

The university values just eight international students as having an economic impact equivalent to £1 million.

Policing Board to question PSNI over monitoring of social media

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 07:25:00 +0000

The “retention of material and identity of individuals/organisations“ is set to be raised with the PSNI.

Calls for Health Department to do more for refugee and asylum seeker doctors

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 07:52:00 +0000

“It would make a huge change, if they allowed us to work.”

PSNI launch investigation as blank interview tapes sent to Loughinisland journalists

Sat, 13 Feb 2021 07:00:00 +0000

“These tapes just didn’t erase themselves."

Social housing waiting list 10% higher since start of pandemic

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 23:48:00 +0000

The full impact of Covid-19 on homelessness is yet to be seen, as minister admits current system is "broken".

Department fails to confirm if it accepts entirety of hyponatraemia report

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Justice O'Hara's public inquiry report examined the deaths of five children in Northern Ireland.

PSNI monitor and report on public’s social media activity

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 07:01:00 +0000

Police monitor and report on the public’s social media activity to “measure sentiment in the community”.

No evidence prison review will establish if torture has occurred in CSU

Fri, 29 Jan 2021 06:24:00 +0000

The UN Mandela Rules state that over 15 consecutive days spent in solitary confinement is a form of torture.

Epidural blood patch policy an “attempt to explain away previous errors” linked to Dr Watt

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 05:40:00 +0000

The scandal surrounding Dr Watt initially broke due to his performance of epidural blood patches.

PSNI criticised for begging arrests during pandemic

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The police's approach has been described as “counterproductive and damaging”.

Chief Scientific Advisor in court challenge over GMC hyponatraemia investigation

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 06:30:00 +0000

"Professor Young is fervently attempting, through judicial review, to block the General Medical Council (GMC) investigation.”

NIPSO denies conflict of interest in helping health trusts “manage complainants’ expectations”

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Legal challenge aims to establish if Boris Johnson signed Withdrawal Agreement in bad faith

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 07:00:00 +0000

An urgent judicial review leave hearing is listed in the High Court in Belfast this week.

Nearly £100,000 spent on “photo opportunity” for Muckamore’s “dark dungeon” seclusion room

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 07:06:00 +0000

Seclusion is considered an emergency management procedure and should be used as a last resort.

Reflections on Shared Island Unit launch

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 07:00:00 +0000

"After a century of operating two systems across a small island, greater co-operation makes a lot of sense."

Naomi Long proposes CSU review but won’t accept UN solitary confinement definition

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:54:00 +0000

A man who recently spent time in the Care and Supervision Unit (CSU) in Maghaberry told The Detail: “Anyone who doesn’t realise how bad it is needs their head checked."

Calls for Health Minister to look at “unacceptable failings” in vulnerable man’s care

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:00:00 +0000

The man, who is in his thirties, is a vulnerable adult with an acquired brain injury and mental health issues.

Solitary confinement in Northern Ireland prisons fits UN definition of torture

Fri, 30 Oct 2020 07:05:00 +0000

There were 611 occasions, in three years, when prisoners in Northern Ireland spent 15 consecutive days or longer in our prisons’ ‘Care and Supervision Units (CSUs)’.

Call for investigation into Stormont’s “scandalous” £200m slurry tank scheme

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:00:00 +0000

The Farm Nutrient Management Scheme (FNM Scheme) was designed to provide financial assistance for the improvement of animal waste storage on farms.

No commitment to social housing in ‘masterplan’ for west Belfast land

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:00:00 +0100

This masterplan includes the site where Mackie’s factory was formerly located, as well as some of its surrounding area.

“Confusion and distress” over legal basis for RQIA accessing records of deceased Dr Watt patient

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 07:01:00 +0100

Criticism has been levelled at the RQIA over its handling of these medical records.

Son of Dr Watt patient who died in 2002 questions reliability of two diagnoses his mother received

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 07:00:00 +0100

Dr Watt diagnosed Ruth Armstrong as having epilepsy in February 2001. In June 2002, she was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour.

Covid-19 underscores need for a duty of candour, says brother of hyponatraemia victim

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 07:00:00 +0100

Gareth Roberts' sister, Claire, was one of five children whose deaths were examined by Justice O’Hara in the Hyponatraemia Inquiry.

Muckamore report falsely cites RQIA as regulator of hospital at centre of abuse allegations

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 06:51:00 +0100

The Department of Health refused to comment on the report’s false labelling of the RQIA as Muckamore’s regulator.

Antipsychotic drug not recommended for dementia patients prescribed in Northern Ireland

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 07:20:00 +0100

The drug, Olanzapine, is linked to increased rates of mortality in dementia sufferers.

Over 200 litigation cases against Belfast Trust relating to suspended neurologist Dr Watt

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 07:00:00 +0100

The General Medical Council (GMC) also believes it has “sufficient evidence” to progress its primary case relating to Dr Watt’s clinical skills “in order to protect future patients”.

Polish woman questions PSNI handling of threat to burn down her south Belfast home

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:47:00 +0100

While the PSNI told the woman they were aware of this arson threat, she was only informed that this came from “another department” within the police.

Taoiseach's department has nothing to say on resources for Shared Island Unit

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 07:02:00 +0100

The new Dublin coalition's Programme for Government states that it will establish this unit to work towards “a consensus on a shared island”.

Department of Health denies issuing misleading statement about legal threat to journalist

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:00:00 +0100

The Departmental Solicitor's Office (DSO) sent correspondence to the journalist on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride.

Significant increase in people refused entry to Republic of Ireland in 2019 "deeply concerning"

Fri, 17 Jul 2020 07:00:00 +0100

A total of 7,455 people were refused entry at Irish ports, airports and the land border in 2019, according to figures published by Eurostat.

Almost 70,000 Northern Ireland homes not covered by adequate broadband during Covid-19 lockdown

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 06:54:00 +0100

This figure, from the Department for Economy (DfE), makes up almost 8.5% of the total number of homes in Northern Ireland.

Lord Chief Justice quashes police search warrants used against Loughinisland journalists

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:11:00 +0100

Delivering the verdict, Sir Declan Morgan stated that the conduct of the hearing to obtain the search warrants fell “woefully short” of the required standard.

Campaigners considering legal action over status of planning inquiry into Tyrone gold mine plans

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 07:43:00 +0100

The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) has confirmed the public inquiry into plans for a controversial gold mine will not be led by a judge, as had been hoped by campaigners.

Vulnerable man’s family backs judicial review plans over “serious deficit" of mental health scrutiny

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0100

"We just wonder if everything we’ve experienced would have transpired if our country’s mental health services faced proper scrutiny.”

Time for a serious debate about the future of journalism – and its impact on communities

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 08:01:00 +0100

Traditional journalism has been in decline for years as advertising revenue disappears into the pockets of Google and Facebook.

Media decline is damaging deeply divided societies – can we 'build back better' after Covid-19?

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 08:00:00 +0100

It is now more important than ever to support journalism, but also to promote good practice, especially in deeply divided societies.

"In Palestine the familiar issues of killings, raids, riots and arrests persist despite Covid-19"

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:44:00 +0100

"In my home country of Palestine, the consequences of internal political division, along with the military occupation, have been fatal during this pandemic."

Worry that RQIA's Dr Watt deceased patient review “moved from a shallow grave to a deeper one”

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 07:22:00 +0100

This follows yesterday's news that the entire nine-member board of the RQIA has resigned over decisions made, regarding care homes, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Toppling statues: from Cecil Rhodes to John Mitchel

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:00:00 +0100

"If statues could quake, there would be considerable movement on plinths across the world, including the one in Newry which supports the statue of the radical 19th century nationalist, John Mitchel."

Loughinisland verdict leads to calls for reaffirmation of Police Ombudsman powers

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:08:00 +0100

An attempt to quash the Police Ombudsman report into the Loughinisland murders was rejected by the Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan.

No assurance from Foster and O’Neill on age discrimination law timing despite political pressure

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:00:00 +0100

Representatives from Alliance, the SDLP, the UUP, People Before Profit and the Greens have all criticised the current situation in respect of age discrimination legislation in Northern Ireland.

Lack of clarity from Department of Health on Northern Ireland pandemic simulation

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:34:00 +0100

The Department of Health has refused to confirm whether Northern Ireland tested its response arrangements for a pandemic in the years preceding the COVID-19 outbreak.

Passport checks on cross-border buses not recorded by Translink

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 08:00:00 +0100

Infrastructure Committee member, Martina Anderson, said Translink's approach is potentially a ‘dereliction of responsibility’.

Scale of immigration checks higher in Belfast than London

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 07:28:00 +0100

Just one third of all immigration checks in Northern Ireland led to arrests with the remaining two thirds seeing the individual stopped being released.

Concerns over ‘disproportionately high’ levels of immigration checks in Belfast

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 07:27:00 +0100

The data, obtained through a Freedom of Information request from Britain's Home Office, shows there is a higher rate of checks taking place in Belfast than other UK cities – almost four times higher than in London.

"Very likely" that public bodies could abuse FOI policy adopted during COVID-19

Fri, 05 Jun 2020 07:52:00 +0100

Concerns have been raised about the Information Commissioner’s Office's (ICO's) decision to not penalise public authorities for failing to comply with Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation during the COVID-19 crisis.

Criticism of "divergent" approaches to quarantine of sea and air travellers on both sides of border

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 18:08:00 +0100

A leading human rights organisation has criticised a “lack of joined-up thinking” behind plans for quarantining travellers in Great Britain and the island of Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Racist intimidation in the Village in south Belfast “going on for years”

Tue, 26 May 2020 08:09:00 +0100

Sahra Mahamuud left Somalia for Europe as a 14-year-old. She has lived in various other countries, but said the racism here has been the worst she's experienced.

Gerry Adams and the rule of law

Fri, 22 May 2020 07:37:00 +0100

It was only to be expected that there would be an emotional reaction. On May 13, 2020 the Supreme Court quashed the 1975 convictions of Gerry Adams for attempting to escape from lawful custody.

Concerns over resuscitation policy in Northern Ireland hospitals during COVID-19

Tue, 12 May 2020 07:55:00 +0100

The Department of Health (DoH) has confirmed it is not collating data on the number of deceased COVID-19 patients who signed “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNR) forms.

Northern Ireland has "gap in protection” for elderly using NHS during COVID-19

Mon, 11 May 2020 08:00:00 +0100

The Equality Act 2010 ensures that age-based practices by the NHS and social care organisations need to be objectively justified, if challenged. This act is applicable in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland.

Losing local media means losing a platform for communities "to hold people in power to account"

Fri, 08 May 2020 08:30:00 +0100

While COVID-19 has made it next to impossible for local and regional media to pay for itself – with both advertising and sales revenue collapsing – the crisis has also illustrated the centrality of community to our lives.

New figures raise concerns over accuracy of COVID-19 care home death numbers

Thu, 07 May 2020 06:37:00 +0100

The overall number of care home deaths increased by almost 70% in Northern Ireland following the start of COVID-19 having a fatal impact here.

Division over abortion exposed during COVID-19 despite change in law

Wed, 06 May 2020 06:50:00 +0100

The conversation around abortion in Northern Ireland has shifted dramatically in the last nine months.

With MPs set to examine new legacy proposals for Northern Ireland, we hear a Palestinian perspective

Fri, 01 May 2020 07:00:00 +0100

Yasmin Ayyad is a trainee reporter with The Detail. She is a Palestinian journalism graduate from Birzeit University in the West Bank.

Activists from around the world speak out on their responses to COVID-19

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:30:00 +0100

Homeless families "suffocated" in hostel during COVID-19 lockdown

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 07:35:00 +0100

Ardmoulin Mews Hostel in the Divis area of west Belfast caters for some of the homeless families on the Housing Executive waiting list.

Council plans for Mackie's site in west Belfast criticised amid calls for social housing

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 06:30:00 +0100

International political stunt group, the Yes Men, also came to Belfast to highlight social housing need in the west of the city.

"Societies everywhere will be compelled to reassess what matters most to them"

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 06:26:00 +0100

Families of loved ones with mental ill-health "left to fend for themselves” during COVID-19 crisis

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:00:00 +0100

Support for those with mental ill-health during COVID-19 is “wholly inadequate” and lacking a coherent strategy, according to a man whose nephew has severe mental health issues.

"As a society we should be ashamed of how we treat and resource the NHS"

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:06:00 +0100

Leaving hospital after 16-days in coma, solicitor Niall Murphy praises “inspiring” NHS staff

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:00:00 +0100

RQIA has ceased inspecting care homes during COVID-19 crisis

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 06:45:00 +0100

Rory Winters looks into the reasons why the Department of Health took the decision to stop the RQIA inspecting care homes during the COVID-19 crisis.

Armagh doctor in London: "There aren’t enough ventilators to go around"

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 07:00:00 +0100

Dr Cillian Ó Coinn is a consultant in HIV medicine from Armagh and has been working on the frontline against COVID-19 in one of London’s central teaching hospitals. He has since tested positive for the virus, but he is mending well.

A holistic approach to COVID-19 is needed for everyone in Northern Ireland

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 07:00:00 +0000

A UN expert on humanitarian planning and coordination for complex emergencies writes about how society needs to respond to COVID-19.

While Brexit is a threat to the Good Friday Agreement "it can be managed"

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 08:02:00 +0000

Former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, talks to The Detail about his views on Brexit, the Good Friday Agreement, the issues facing the Stormont institutions and the lieklihood of a new Ireland.

Irish unity requires respect but political immaturity shows there's a "long way to go"

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:03:00 +0000

Lucinda Creighton explains that Brexit has amplified the Irish unity debate but also why the island, north and south, may not be ready for such a constitutional change.

A 10 year programme for a new Ireland "makes sense"

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:02:00 +0000

Paul Gosling makes the case for a 10 year programme in order to prepare for a united Ireland.

What are the logistics of a unified health service for the island of Ireland?

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:01:00 +0000

Professor Jim Dornan explains why one health system, servicing the whole island of Ireland, makes sense regardless of whether or not Irish unity occurs at a political level.

Border poll to be decided by those with "least commitment to the constitutional issue"

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 01:08:00 +0000

Paul Nolan takes a look at the role that Alliance voters will play in any prospective border poll.

Sinn Féin tapped into a demand for change on "specific domestic issues" in southern election

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 01:07:00 +0000

Kevin Cunningham looks at what the LucidTalk poll tells us about the Sinn Féin surge in the Republic of Ireland.

Legacy issues not a priority for people north or south of the border

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 01:06:00 +0000

If Brandon Lewis calls a border poll, it won’t be Northern Ireland's first

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 01:05:00 +0000

Rory Winters looks at the 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and compares the political climate then to that in 2020.

Results of a future border poll on a knife edge

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:05:00 +0000

Taking the future of our shared island seriously: a growing conversation

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:04:00 +0000

QUB's Professor Colin Harvey takes a look at the big constitutional questions facing the island of Ireland.

What are the mechanics behind a border poll being called?

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:03:00 +0000

Rohan Naik looks at the process by which a referendum on Northern Ireland's constitutional position could occur.

"I’d suggest that we don’t limit ourselves to a snapshot referendum with two choices available"

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:02:00 +0000

Close to 100% of social housing need in north Belfast concentrated in predominantly Catholic neighbourhoods

Wed, 19 Feb 2020 05:55:00 +0000

Rory Winters looks at the disparity in social housing need between Catholic and Protestant areas in North Belfast.

Lack of answers on RQIA review into Dr Watt's former patients who have died

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 08:20:00 +0000

Rory Winters investigates the fallout from the Belfast Trust's neurology patient recall.

"Unionists appear to have difficulty with a shared society, never mind debating a united Ireland"

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:55:00 +0000

On the day when the New Decade, New Approach agreement was reached, Denzil McDaniel – the former editor of The Impartial Reporter newspaper – gave the annual Louis Leonard lecture, speaking about his concerns regarding the media’s role in a divided society.

Current oversight of Northern Ireland's mental health services risks a “dereliction of duty”

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:01:00 +0000

Rory Winters investigates how the level of scrutiny provided over mental health services impacts some of Northern Ireland's most vulnerable people.

New inquest ordered into death of Derry girl who died from hyponatraemia

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 01:00:00 +0000

What is the impact of the Withdrawal Agreement on Northern Ireland?

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:22:00 +0100

Latest analysis by Paul Gosling for The Detail

The girl on the bridge: How do we deal with mental health crisis in Northern Ireland?

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:02:00 +0100

A river runs through: All that divides the adjoining towns of Pettigo and Tullyhommon is the River Termon. Brexit could change that....

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:01:00 +0100

Export health certificates issued in Northern Ireland could rise from 49 per day to 5,200

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:01:00 +0100

Warning over export health certificate demand in event of a no-deal Brexit.

What might replace the Barnett Formula?

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 09:52:00 +0100

Criticism over delayed vulnerable prisoner review

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 08:00:00 +0100

A Stormont review into vulnerable prisoners is not expected to be finished until next year – over three and a half years after an “immediate review” was first announced.

Countdown to Brexit in the Northern Ireland constituency most in favour of leaving the EU

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:01:00 +0100

Why did almost two-thirds of voters in North Antrim support Brexit? Rory Winters investigates.

Brexit and the Irish language

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 06:00:00 +0100

Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin outlines what Brexit means for the Irish language.

Explaining Unexplained Wealth Orders in Northern Ireland

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 07:30:00 +0100

How the Withdrawal Agreement can be reopened

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:49:00 +0100

Restaurants and takeaways feel heat of immigration enforcement

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:05:00 +0100

More immigration raids were carried out in the restaurant and takeaway trade in the last three years than in any other business sector in Northern Ireland, The Detail can reveal.

Teeing off The Open: the data behind the championship in Portrush

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:43:00 +0100

Rory Winters examines the key numbers behind The Open.

Wide-ranging counter terrorism powers used more than 18,000 times at NI ports & airports since 2013

Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:30:00 +0100

Luke Butterly scrutinises the ad hoc use of passport/identity checks within the Common Travel Area.

Experts call for more investment to reduce housing stress in Northern Ireland

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:05:00 +0100

Pressure is growing for more social homes to be built in Northern Ireland as new analysis predicts it could take another 22 and a half years to tackle the current waiting list.

'Stormont's new social homes programme nowhere near meeting demand'

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:04:00 +0100

Paul Gosling examines the demand for social homes in Northern Ireland.

The Detail investigates: The crisis facing Northern Ireland's social housing sector

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:05:00 +0100

The first of a two-day special report exploring the challenges currently facing the social housing sector.

Faulty boilers, smoke alarms, burst pipes, mould, rats, bugs and vandalism - Northern Ireland Housing Executive's repair workload

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:04:00 +0100

Social housing tenants across Northern Ireland lodged more than 209,000 requests for repairs and other jobs at their homes over a six-month period that cost £21.7m to fix.

The Detail's Barry McCaffrey and PPR's Elfie Seymour made Bertha Fellows

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:30:00 +0100

The Detail's Barry McCaffrey and Participation & Practice of Rights' activist Elfie Seymour have been made Bertha Fellows.

Welfare reform – what’s been done to avoid the cliff edge?

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:23:00 +0100

Brexit: Three years on and still no certainty

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:04:00 +0100

Brexit uncertainty shows no sign of ending soon irrespective of whether Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt is the new prime minister. Paul Gosling reports.

What does post-Brexit membership of the World Trade Organisation mean for Northern Ireland?

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 08:30:00 +0100

Paul Gosling looks at the potential implications for Northern Ireland of the UK's membership of the WTO as an independent member post-Brexit.

An independent Environmental Protection Agency for Northern Ireland – an idea whose time has arrived?

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:59:00 +0100

The Brexit Club: North and South

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:01:00 +0100

Joining Ruth Sanderson on The Brexit Club podcast are Éamon Ó Cuív, TD for Galway West, and historian Dr Éamon Phoenix.

Spend it like Stormont: an investigation into public spending in Northern Ireland

Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:02:00 +0100

A MAJOR documentary project examining how public money is spent will be screened by BBC Northern Ireland tonight.

Spend it like Stormont – a focus on public finances

Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:01:00 +0100

It’s time to review the Confidence and Supply agreement

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 08:19:00 +0100

Brexit's catch 22: Sink or swim for Northern Ireland's fishermen

Tue, 28 May 2019 00:05:00 +0100

The EU accounts for more than a third of Northern Ireland's fish sales so why then are local skippers in favour of Brexit? Barry McCaffrey investigates.

EU elections: Countdown to the Brexit battle

Tue, 21 May 2019 09:57:00 +0100

Six pro-Remain and five pro-Brexit candidates will be battling for three seats in the EU elections.

The Brexit Euros

Tue, 21 May 2019 09:39:00 +0100

Northern Ireland is different from Great Britain. The European elections provide perfect evidence of this explains Paul Gosling.

How the Stormont Lock is meant to work

Fri, 17 May 2019 08:45:00 +0100

"The UK outside the EU places Northern Ireland in a less favourable location to attract EU or American investment"

Tue, 14 May 2019 08:30:00 +0100

John Simpson on why leaving the EU is bad news for the Northern Ireland economy.

Sustainability more important than Petition of Concern for main Stormont parties

Fri, 03 May 2019 10:29:00 +0100

We stand with Lyra

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:04:00 +0100

The right to be British, Irish or both

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:28:00 +0100

CAJ’s Daniel Holder explores birthright provisions in the Good Friday Agreement to be British or Irish or both.

Child poverty: Stormont and Dáil governments fail to deliver for 300,000 children

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:04:00 +0100

One in five children live below the poverty line

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:03:00 +0100

Living in Limerick and north Belfast

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:02:00 +0100

Call for more support to educate Northern Ireland’s most vulnerable children

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:05:00 +0100

Over 670 children have spent time during this school year in centres across Northern Ireland which provide an education for young people with the most serious social, emotional and behavioural issues.

'Compromise and Brexit still seem to be incompatible concepts'

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:54:00 +0100

As another date for the UK's exit from the EU slips commentator Paul Gosling looks to the next Brexit deadline of October 31, 2019.

Rise in use of unregulated B&Bs, hotels and hostels for 'looked after' teens

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 08:00:00 +0100

Dozens of teenagers in the care of the state are being placed in unregulated accommodation in Northern Ireland, The Detail can reveal.

LucidTalk joins The Detail Network

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 09:45:00 +0100

Brexit immigration bill represents a radical overhaul of the UK immigration system

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:30:00 +0100

CAJ's Una Boyd scrutinises The Immigration and Social Security Co-Ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill and its implications for citizens living in Northern Ireland.

How much of the confidence and supply money has been spent?

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:21:00 +0000

Concern about cross-border pet travel arrangements as Brexit deadline looms

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:50:00 +0000

VETERINARY professionals have expressed concern over the future of pet travel throughout the island of Ireland.

How much direct rule has crept in since Stormont collapsed?

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 09:50:00 +0000

"The ongoing stalemate at Stormont plus Brexit creates a difficult time for inward, and indigenous, investment."

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:16:00 +0000

Latest Brexit analysis from Paul Gosling.

British-Irish relations after Brexit?

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:06:00 +0000

Academic Adrian Guelke, who specialises in the politics of deeply divided societies, analyses the impact of Brexit on British-Irish relations.

The backstop is about more than trade

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:51:00 +0000

The Brexit Club: Nuts and bolts

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:00:00 +0000

The Brexit Club podcast featuring Ivor Ferguson, Ulster Farmers' Union president and Stephen Kelly, chief executive of Manufacturing NI

All the Good Friday institutions can have a Brexit role

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 08:00:00 +0000

Global interest, British indifference

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:00:00 +0000

Commentator Paul Gosling analyses the global interest in Northern Ireland sparked by Brexit and compares that to attitudes in Britain.

Northern Ireland unlikely to suffer Brexit rise in race hate attacks says senior police chief

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:00:00 +0000

The number of racist attacks reported in Northern Ireland remains significantly lower than other UK regions - despite authorities fearing a fresh Brexit spike in hate crimes against migrant communities.

Brexit: The complex new boundaries between different groups of citizens in Northern Ireland

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:00:00 +0000

What will be the impact of Brexit on the entitlement-boundaries between people born or living in Northern Ireland depending on their citizenship status?

Dublin’s no-deal plan: no hard border or just no plan?

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:33:00 +0000

What would a no deal look like?

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:21:00 +0000

Commentator Paul Gosling analyses suggestions being put forward in the event of Theresa May's deal failing to win the support of MPs in the House of Commons in January.

From grass to glass: The journey of milk

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:01:00 +0000

The Detail followed the cross-border journey of milk across the island of Ireland.

When adoption breaks down: A call for more support for adoptive children and families

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 07:00:00 +0000

Twenty-six children were involved in an adoption that broke down in Northern Ireland and another 16 children were involved in planned adoptions that failed over a four-year period, new figures obtained by The Detail reveal.

When adoption breaks down: One couple's experience

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 07:00:00 +0000

A couple share their experience after a planned adoption broke down within months of taking two children into their care. Read their story here.

The Brexit Club: The Brussels sprout

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:20:00 +0000

The second podcast from The Brexit Club

Xanax linked to rising number of deaths in Northern Ireland

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:05:00 +0000

AN anti-anxiety drug, not available on the NHS, is posing a new risk in Northern Ireland, where it has been linked to a rising number of deaths over a three-year period.

New powers for independent watchdogs to protect human rights and equality post Brexit

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 08:00:00 +0000

The British government is to give special new powers to two independent watchdogs to protect human rights and equality legislation in Northern Ireland following the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union next March.

The Detail Network: A new project bringing together journalists and digital innovators

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 14:35:00 +0000

The Detail launches an innovative new venture – The Detail Network.

Members of The Detail Network

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:34:00 +0000

A brief overview of the membership of The Detail Network.

The Detail Network

Sun, 02 Dec 2018 11:16:21 +0000

State aid rules – Northern Ireland’s next Brexit issue?

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:18:00 +0000

The highs and lows of currency fluctuations for cross border workers

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:31:00 +0000

Brexit anxiety had already damaged the value of sterling against the euro, even before the referendum, explains Paul Gosling.

Brexit strains add to Dublin housing crisis

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:34:00 +0000

Commentator Paul Gosling analyses the impact on Dublin's housing supply as a result of Brexit.

"Rather than owning a compromise which they have shaped the DUP prefers to look like its victim"

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:09:00 +0000

Matthew O’Toole gives his view on the DUP's role in the Brexit process following the publication of the draft agreement on the UK withdrawal from the EU.

Is a little known legal process set to play a key role in legacy cases?

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:22:00 +0000

An obscure legal practice could soon play an important role in how Northern Ireland's legal system deals with dozens of historic Troubles' killings.

Trial of facts: how the process works

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:21:00 +0000

Loughinisland film which sparked arrest of journalists wins award

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 20:32:00 +0000

The documentary No Stone Unturned - by Fine Point Films - has been honoured at the Royal Television Society Awards.

The Brexit Club: a new podcast by The Detail

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:51:00 +0000

As we inch ever closer to March 29, 2019 when the UK is due to exit the EU, The Detail is today launching a new podcast series which will attempt to walk you through the complexities of the Brexit process as events unfold.

High Court judge “profoundly concerned” at delay in inquest for Co Down teenager

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:25:00 +0000

The mother of a 15-year-old schoolboy who died almost 24 years ago has spoken about the impact on her family of a major delay in the second inquest ordered by the Attorney General into the death of her son.

Are you being served? NIO tight-lipped on Secretary of State's time in Northern Ireland

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 07:00:00 +0000

How many days has the Northern Ireland Secretary of State spent in the jurisdiction since her appointment in January?

Republic of Ireland set to be the biggest loser if no deal struck on European healthcare schemes

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:26:00 +0000

MORE than 4,000 applications were approved over three years for patients in the Republic of Ireland seeking treatment in the UK under two EU healthcare schemes – the future of which have yet to be agreed in the wake of the Brexit vote.

'European healthcare scheme gave me back my life'

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:25:00 +0000

THE prospect of waiting at least two years for a life-changing operation which would help her walk again devastated mother-of-four Noeleen Finnegan.

Then Noeleen’s GP in County Monaghan told her she could apply to have the procedure done in Northern Ireland – or any other European country - under her rights as a European citizen.

Asylum seekers denied access to financial help for the funerals of their babies

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:30:00 +0000

Calls for financial support for grieving asylum seekers living in Northern Ireland

Call for re-opening of residential healthcare facility at Maghaberry Prison

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:30:00 +0000

ONE of Northern Ireland’s most senior forensic psychiatrists has called for a residential prison healthcare wing to be re-opened after a study found mentally unwell prisoners were physically isolated from other inmates while waiting to be transferred to a specialist hospital.

New appeal for mother of murdered Baby Carrie to come forward

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 07:01:00 +0000

Can the crime be solved 16 years on?

Timeline of the murder investigation

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 07:00:00 +0000

Record of the police press activity during the first two years of the investigation into the death of Baby Carrie.

Is court oversight of the backstop a sovereignty issue?

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:04:00 +0100

The lack of incoming migrant workers will damage our economy more than it will hurt Great Britain

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0100

Half of Northern Ireland Housing Executive homes at risk of decommissioning amid funding crisis

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:00:00 +0100

The Northern Ireland Housing Executive may be forced to allow half of its 86,500 homes to fall into a state of disrepair from 2020 if it cannot secure additional funding, The Detail can reveal.

Nursing regulator rules out further action against staff after hyponatraemia-related death

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:15:00 +0100

THE Nursing and Midwifery Council has ruled out any further action against nurses whose care was the subject of criticism following a public inquiry into hyponatraemia-related deaths.

Hundreds of children not assessed by social workers in time

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:00:00 +0100

Northern Ireland's homeless death figures: "brutally shocking"

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 19:00:00 +0100

Over an 11 month period 148 registered homeless people in Northern Ireland had their applications for social housing closed because they died.

Unionist betrayal, nationalist alienation: ghosts from the past that stalk the Brexit talks

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:30:00 +0100

What’s special about the law on special advisers in Northern Ireland

Fri, 05 Oct 2018 09:58:00 +0100

Call for independent inquiry after 206 prisoner deaths in 12 years

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:06:00 +0100

Recommendations follow Prisoner Ombudsman probes into deaths

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:05:00 +0100

The UK: a country ill at ease with itself and its neighbours

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:30:00 +0100

Government attention, not an independent chair, has been the norm in Stormont talks

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:14:00 +0100

The threat to Northern Ireland's trade

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:00:00 +0100

Detention of EU citizens in Northern Ireland hits record high in year of Brexit vote

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:05:00 +0100

Two ways to keep voting for Brussels after Brexit

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:01:00 +0100

Bleated reassurance UK Government will act in the best interests of the people of Northern Ireland

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0100

No Stone Unturned

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 13:24:00 +0100

Inquiry aims to improve poor outcomes in North Belfast

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 00:02:00 +0100

Cloudy forecast for businesses' investment plans as Brexit uncertainty bites

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:00:00 +0100

How the Local Government Commissioner for Standards works

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:01:00 +0100

Becoming a third country: A major challenge for the UK?

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:07:00 +0100

Brexit sparks demand for immigration advice in Northern Ireland

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:05:00 +0100

From blind Brexit to drifting Brexit for Northern Ireland

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:01:00 +0100

Who gains from Brexit?

Wed, 08 Aug 2018 05:27:00 +0100

Republic's Minister for Children rules out publication of report on young offenders' detention centre

Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:05:00 +0100

Summer raises temperature on Brexit

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 05:30:00 +0100

Belfast Trust examining ‘implications’ of hearing service failings in Republic

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 02:34:00 +0100

“Urgent work” needed to protect rights in Northern Ireland after Brexit

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:01:00 +0100

Brexit analysis: a view from Brussels as Westminster faces decision time

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 05:00:00 +0100

Analysis: Brexit has split the UK cabinet - but is it also dividing communities?

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:52:00 +0100

Policing in Northern Ireland: how the past threatens the future

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 09:00:00 +0100

Fire crews tackled more than 1,800 bonfires in five years

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 05:00:00 +0100

Legal challenge after Irish medium school left in limbo

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 06:00:00 +0100

Brexit & rights in Northern Ireland - an issue of trust

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:01:00 +0100

The Detail launches major new project on Brexit

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 04:35:00 +0100

Number of EU workers in Northern Ireland fell by 26% since Brexit vote

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:30:00 +0100

Agrifood firms struggling to recruit EU workers since Brexit vote

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:25:00 +0100

Brexit and the border: Life in Ireland’s northwest

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:20:00 +0100

Analysis: 'Brexit will be a long-running soap opera'

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:15:00 +0100

Brexit and the history of Ireland’s border – a special audio report

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:10:00 +0100

“You should be coming together, instead Brexit seems to divide”

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:05:00 +0100

Uncertain future for Citizens Advice Northern Ireland's regional office due to funding crisis

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:05:00 +0100

Stormont's new civil service progamme for government - not exactly unfinished democratic business

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:01:00 +0100

Fresh questions over party political funding in Northern Ireland

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:05:00 +0100

Courts must "step in" when politics fails, says renowned South African judge

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 08:00:00 +0100

The Belfast school ‘peace fence’: 10 years on

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 00:01:00 +0100

Political delays on dealing with the Troubles force legal move to protect evidence

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:05:00 +0100

Almost 35,000 assaults on NHS hospital staff over the past five years

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:05:00 +0100

Abortion is already legal in Northern Ireland - and other complications

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:01:00 +0100

Steven McCaffery named 'Editor of the Year' at major awards

Wed, 23 May 2018 08:33:00 +0100

15,500 school days lost to suspensions in Northern Ireland in just one year

Wed, 23 May 2018 00:02:00 +0100

'Maximum facilitation' still means a sea border

Fri, 18 May 2018 00:01:00 +0100

The Changing Mosaic: Northern Ireland’s New Communities

Thu, 17 May 2018 10:30:00 +0100

Why Windrush and Brexit mean ID cards, north and south

Fri, 04 May 2018 00:01:00 +0100

Full employment - helping us see the hippo in the room

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:01:00 +0100

The cruel peace: killings in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:05:00 +0100

How the Paramilitary Crime Task Force is suited to its task

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:01:00 +0100

Two cheers from Dublin for a customs partnership

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:01:00 +0100

Dramatic decline in Meals on Wheels services in Northern Ireland

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:16:00 +0100

The Department of Health responds to our Meals on Wheels questions

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:15:00 +0100

Key legacy of Good Friday Agreement: lives saved

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:27:00 +0100

New figures reveal scale of unsolved killings from the Troubles

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:30:00 +0100

Exclusive interview: Hillary Clinton ‘It’s easy to get cynical. It’s easy to give up’

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 07:30:00 +0100

Hillary Clinton: Brexit ‘motivated by misconceptions and myths’

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:43:00 +0100

Increase in rapes reported in Northern Ireland

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0100

Building Peace: 20 years on from The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement

Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:05:00 +0100

Policing in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement

Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:05:00 +0100

The legacy of the Troubles and the law

Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:05:00 +0100

Shifts in the republican movement and the 1998 turning point

Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:05:00 +0100

Reflections on Loyalism since 1998

Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:05:00 +0100

The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and Brexit

Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:05:00 +0100

The Freedom of Information Act has enough exemptions for Stormont

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:01:00 +0000

We need to talk about death in Northern Ireland

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:08:00 +0000

Death and dying: The postcode lottery

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:07:00 +0000

Death and dying: The cost

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:06:00 +0000

Death and dying: The benefit gap

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:05:00 +0000

Death and dying: How I live with dying

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:04:00 +0000

Death and dying: The need for care

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:03:00 +0000

Death and dying: The funeral industry

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:02:00 +0000

Death and dying: Where to get more information

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:01:00 +0000

The naked truth about Stormont's lawless budget

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:01:00 +0000

London property magnate confirms donor support for DUP's Ian Paisley Junior

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:33:00 +0000

A brief history of devolved administrations trying to get their hands on broadcasting powers

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:01:00 +0000

Hyponatraemia judge “troubled” over whistleblower investigation

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:05:00 +0000

Can a Private Member's Bill at Westminster get around the Stormont deadlock?

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:01:00 +0000

Why is the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference controversial?

Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:01:00 +0000

Changes to Northern Ireland political donation secrecy laws face further delays

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:05:00 +0000

Why aren't we threatened with water charging any more?

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:01:00 +0000

Unionist leaders risk steering Northern Ireland into uncharted waters

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:36:00 +0000

A nation of welcomes? New figures challenge the Republic of Ireland’s record on asylum and immigration

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:06:00 +0000

Republic of Ireland’s record of granting asylum below EU average

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:05:00 +0000

New figures prompt calls for greater transparency on immigration enforcement in Republic of Ireland

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:04:00 +0000

Immigration enforcement: David's story

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:03:00 +0000

In search of asylum: Khaled's journey

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:03:00 +0000

Immigration enforcement: One family's story

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:01:00 +0000

In search of asylum: Ibrahima's journey

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:01:00 +0000

Hoax calls to NI Ambulance Service "putting lives at risk"

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:05:00 +0000

Shipman judge calls for lessons to finally be learned from Hyponatraemia Inquiry

Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:05:00 +0000

Hyponatraemia judge forced to use legal powers to secure whistleblower documentation

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:39:00 +0000

If closing Kilroot won't make the lights go out, could Brexit?

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:01:00 +0000

Analysis: O’Hara findings a damning indictment of our health service

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:07:00 +0000

Bereaved family call for independent scrutiny of hospital deaths ahead of public inquiry report

Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:05:00 +0000

Analysis: The question of 'a cover-up' at the forefront of bereaved families' minds

Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:05:00 +0000

How Westminster boundary reviews work

Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:01:00 +0000

Is the British-Irish Council a Brexit solution?

Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:01:00 +0000

The next dates for the Stormont talks diary

Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:01:00 +0000

Whistleblower claims linked to hospital deaths inquiry spark call for police probe

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:06:00 +0000

Families granted asylum by Irish government also feeling brunt of housing crisis

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:05:00 +0000

How to keep voting in Europe after Brexit

Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:01:00 +0000

The Detail awarded €400,000 for new project monitoring Brexit’s impact on the island of Ireland

Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:35:00 +0000

'Dementia carers' training helped us realise we weren't alone'

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:05:00 +0000

Concern as dementia funding in Northern Ireland to be used on "other departmental priorities"

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:05:00 +0000

Delivery of the Brexit blueprint must be closely monitored

Fri, 08 Dec 2017 14:02:00 +0000

Should Belfast build a casino?

Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:01:00 +0000

Loss of 43% of police stations on Irish border raises questions for any EU/UK frontier

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:05:00 +0000

The sea border that's there already

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:01:00 +0000

What happens to donated blood in Northern Ireland?

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:05:00 +0000

Will anyone in the DUP break rank over Brexit?

Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:05:00 +0000

Whatever happened to high unemployment in Northern Ireland?

Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:01:00 +0000

UK government changes donor secrecy laws hours after watchdog criticisms

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:01:00 +0000

Government fears "essential" extradition powers to combat crime will be lost after Brexit

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:05:00 +0000

Criticism as the UK Government fails to end secrecy over Northern Ireland political donations

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:05:00 +0000

Should recalling paramilitary prisoners on licence be controversial?

Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:01:00 +0000

Who can solve the deep problems in the peace process?

Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:00:00 +0000

Emotions around memorials in Northern Ireland run deep

Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:05:00 +0000

Could devolving the minimum wage help address in-work poverty in Northern Ireland?

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:01:00 +0000

8,158 deaths in Northern Ireland: "We need a suicide prevention strategy as a matter of urgency"

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 10:32:00 +0000

Housing intimidation in Northern Ireland: More than 2,000 incidents but only 32 convictions

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 08:49:00 +0000

Housing intimidation: is the system being abused?

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 08:15:00 +0000

More than 1,000 people now living with HIV in Northern Ireland

Fri, 03 Nov 2017 13:45:00 +0000

Despite Stormont deadlock, new data on parades shows progress is possible

Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:05:00 +0100

When powers come back from Europe, where will they go?

Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Why Stormont may come back in stages

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Changes to political donations law in Northern Ireland may fall short

Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Calls for action against incitement to hatred in Northern Ireland

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:58:00 +0100

Collapse of the Policing Board - lack of devolution or just lack of interest?

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Confusion over status of drug abuse strategy for Northern Ireland jails

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:05:00 +0100

New prison drug data raises questions on both sides of the Irish border

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Maghaberry prison most afflicted by drug misuse

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Postcode care lottery for people living with Huntington's Disease

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:05:00 +0100

The people living with Huntington's Disease - "every time he gets that bit worse, it gets that bit harder"

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:05:00 +0100

What the Department of Health and HSCB said about services for patients with HD

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Tackling paramilitarism - one part of Fresh Start that's still fresh

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:01:00 +0100

The method behind the Red Hand Commando madness

Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Why Stormont pay will not and should not be cut

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Film on Women’s Coalition recalls the fight for peace

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:21:00 +0100

The DUP-Tory deal is evolving into a Stormont stand-in

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Report recommends new era of openness for family courts

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0100

A European Neighbourhood Policy for Ireland?

Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Sex offender programme linked to reoffending is withdrawn from Northern Ireland prisons

Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Questions surround £6,000 fine linked to Northern Ireland political donation

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Statements on retrospective publication of NI political donors

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Leo Varadkar sets out his least worst Brexit

Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Is the Common Travel Area under threat?

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Health and Social Care Trusts' responses to SAI queries

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Healthcare investigations face serious delays

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Brexit reaches 'silly season', but no one is laughing

Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:05:00 +0100

How much trouble can Scotland and Wales make over the DUP-Tory deal?

Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Brokenshire's budgets starting to look like direct rule

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Whatever happened to the idea of a Stormont deadline?

Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Does law change on NI political donor secrecy go far enough?

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 18:10:00 +0100

Are city deals the DUP's lifeboat?

Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Stormont politicians cost £74m in five years - but what have they achieved?

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 00:10:00 +0100

Concern as patients face long waiting lists for dementia tests in Northern Ireland

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Do patients in the Republic of Ireland face a postcode lottery for dementia tests?

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 00:05:00 +0100

The DUP and London's basic Brexit difference

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Brexit report overturns data on Northern Ireland trade with the EU

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:05:00 +0100

How the SDLP helped prop up a Labour government for years

Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Food for thought

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Mother and baby homes: the case for a public inquiry

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:04:00 +0100

The personal testimonies

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:03:00 +0100

The lost lives: The 43 children who died from malnutrition in one year

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:02:00 +0100

"Why did my brother die and I survived?"

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0100

The response of Down and Connor Diocese

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Can a public inquiry take place?

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0100

What our public records tell us about mother and baby homes and the treatment of 'illegitimate' children

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Reuniting families

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Brexit, Theresa May, and the Ulster Plantation

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:00:00 +0100

Stormont's next challenge - an Irish general election

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Praise for The Detail at major awards event

Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:46:00 +0100

Questions over finances of Stormont's parties fuel calls for transparency

Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Brexit technology firm used by DUP in Northern Ireland elections

Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:05:00 +0100

So near and yet so far on the Petition of Concern problem

Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:01:00 +0100

What is being done to help people with dementia in Northern Ireland?

Tue, 30 May 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Health trusts fail to meet dementia diagnosis target

Tue, 30 May 2017 00:05:00 +0100

New guidance for GPs on diagnosing and treating dementia

Tue, 30 May 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Concern as government delays multi-million pound dementia fund

Tue, 30 May 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Political donations in Northern Ireland aren't as secret as they seem

Fri, 26 May 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Why is it so hard to agree the number of interfaces?

Mon, 22 May 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Flaws exposed in plan to remove Northern Ireland’s peace walls

Mon, 22 May 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Brexit talks - a sequence or a staring contest?

Fri, 19 May 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Further questions over DUP’s £435,000 Brexit donor

Thu, 18 May 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Bereaved family “re-traumatised” by delay in healthcare investigation

Fri, 12 May 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Could Northern Ireland really have its own immigration system?

Fri, 12 May 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Are we on the long run to a Troubles amnesty?

Fri, 05 May 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Breastfeeding was not attempted in hospital for almost half of Northern Ireland babies

Tue, 02 May 2017 00:04:00 +0100

Mums at Larne Breastfeeding Group say support is essential

Tue, 02 May 2017 00:03:00 +0100

"I just assumed I would breastfeed in the same way I assumed I would be emotionally and mentally well"

Tue, 02 May 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Gap in children at risk figures north and south raises questions

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:10:00 +0100

Disparity in levels of children’s social service staff across Ireland

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:09:00 +0100

Children at Risk: The numbers

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:08:00 +0100

Child and family services: Staffing resources

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:07:00 +0100

Learning from the past

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:06:00 +0100

UN concerns for rights and protection of children

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:06:00 +0100

The story of three-year-old Billy

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:05:00 +0100

The story of Sean and his sister Samantha

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:03:00 +0100

Has moving the deadline crossed a red line?

Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Stormont file shows DUP minister was warned over Líofa cut

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Ireland and Brexit - between a rock and a good place

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Could EU single market membership help Northern Ireland after Brexit?

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Stormont files reveal fears over health, crime and investment after Brexit

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:05:00 +0100

The 'Northern Irish' identity is no new dawn

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Divisions in Northern Ireland

Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Northern Ireland: living apart together

Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Population shifts in key NI cities mark major change

Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Data mapping highlights Northern Ireland’s divisions ahead of Brexit

Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Was joint authority really threatened at St Andrews?

Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:01:00 +0100

Belfast law firm to challenge Irish government over inquiries into suspicious deaths

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:05:00 +0100

Emails reveal DUP sought to delay release of Brexit expenses

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:05:00 +0100

What is stop and search?

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:05:00 +0100

PSNI urged to reconsider use of stop and search on under-18s

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:05:00 +0100

The big story behind Brexit and indirect tax

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:01:00 +0000

Alcohol addiction is not a clean business - but there is happiness in recovery

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Government urged to call time on underage drinking

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:00:00 +0000

How a new executive could look - if there is one

Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:01:00 +0000

DUP puts Sinn Féin in driving seat, but road ahead is unclear

Sat, 04 Mar 2017 15:03:00 +0000

Direct rule - other models are available

Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:01:00 +0000

One thing that never changes about health in Northern Ireland

Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:01:00 +0000

It's not quite right to say we didn't get a bill of rights

Fri, 17 Feb 2017 00:01:00 +0000

One in four MLAs failed to account for election campaign spending

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:04:00 +0000

Party statements on political donations in full:

Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:05:00 +0000

Expenditure & donations- Northern Ireland Assembly Election May 2016

Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:05:00 +0000

Is Sinn Fein taking its demands to the next level?

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:01:00 +0000

Health trust criticised over investigation into deceased pensioner’s broken bones

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:05:00 +0000

DUP community halls scheme not equality tested ahead of cash awards

Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:17:00 +0000

Now even our legacy issues have legacy issues

Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:01:00 +0000

Files link Arlene Foster to Irish language row and show DUP failed to equality test Líofa cut

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:05:00 +0000

What if there's no direct rule - and no budget?

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:01:00 +0000

Stormont: a parliament of missed opportunities

Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:05:00 +0000

Everything that's held up an Irish language act so far

Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:01:00 +0000

Stormont-linked energy group flagged-up plans to curb costly RHI scheme

Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:31:00 +0000

U-turn on health cuts, after delays sink £1m fund

Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:30:00 +0000

Could suspension bridge Stormont's differences?

Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:01:00 +0000

For Arlene Foster, is stepping down too much of a step back?

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:01:00 +0000

UK documents raise new allegations on the state’s role in the Troubles

Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Call for ‘Hillsborough-style’ inquiry into prison deaths in Northern Ireland

Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:05:00 +0000

“When I hear about another death in Maghaberry, my stomach just turns”

Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Concerns raised over scale of prison deaths across the island of Ireland

Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Temporary release inmates account for nearly a third of all prison deaths in the Republic of Ireland

Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:05:00 +0000

EU citizenship - more symbolic than real, but still a Brexit puzzle for Northern Ireland

Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Further DUP links to beneficiaries of Stormont’s flawed Renewable Heat Incentive

Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:06:00 +0000

Northern Ireland prison reform - officially as successful as police reform, with just one difference

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:01:00 +0000

The Supreme Court's Brexit hearings loom over Downing Street, and Stormont

Sat, 03 Dec 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Stormont threat to transport lifeline for rural communities

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 00:05:00 +0000

How councils lost the regeneration game

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Community transport: the numbers

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Some other balls Fresh Start kicked into the long grass

Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Coroner speaks out about prescription drug deaths

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Stormont’s Social Investment Fund should have set-off alarm bells long before now

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:37:00 +0000

As well as tax and trade, Trump puts defence back on Ireland's agenda

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Ministers urged to take action to prevent future stillbirths

Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Prison staff retention rate sparks lockdown concerns

Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:10:00 +0000

Stormont's surprising vulnerability to inflation

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Waking up to waste: How Northern Ireland's waste problem could leave a toxic legacy

Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:05:00 +0000

'Seeing my GP regularly gives me peace of mind' - Martin, living with dementia

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Over 2,000 dementia patients not reviewed by their GP for 15 months

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:01:00 +0000

All the ways Theresa May could meet with Stormont - if she actually wanted to

Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:01:00 +0100

United Nations criticises long-term solitary confinement of prisoners in the Republic of Ireland

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Record number of people diagnosed with HIV in Northern Ireland

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:05:00 +0100

What is the Department of Health doing about HIV?

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Living with HIV: "It's a taboo subject for many people"

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:05:00 +0100

HIV consultant answers our questions

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:05:00 +0100

A quick history of - and a question about - the Social Investment Fund

Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Stormont's DUP farming ministry drafted documents that anticipated a 'Remain' decision in the EU referendum

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Major overhaul of family courts could achieve better outcomes for children

Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Lord Justice Gillen answers our questions

Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Our remarkably consistent agreement on agreeing how to deal with the past

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Delay to child fluid death inquiry report is “mental torment” for bereaved parents

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:31:00 +0100

Stormont's petition of concern used 115 times in five years

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Petition of concern: Party responses

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Stormont officials highlighted the potential risks of Brexit a year before the EU referendum

Mon, 26 Sep 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Is Stormont blurring the line between party and civil service press officers?

Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Could the whole of Northern Ireland really be an enterprise zone?

Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:01:00 +0100

£500,000 fund for Northern Ireland's historic buildings

Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:02:00 +0100

Damning report highlights how prisoner blinded himself by "gouging" his eyes

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Freedom of Information at Stormont - theory and practice

Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Major concerns over long-term solitary confinement in Northern Ireland prisons

Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Would a British Bill of Rights breach the Good Friday Agreement?

Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Brysongate - scandal in court or just a row at a golf club?

Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Has London really guaranteed our EU funding?

Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:01:00 +0100

New data reveals PSNI and Gardaí face a 'hard border' when pursuing criminals

Mon, 15 Aug 2016 00:04:00 +0100

Smuggling - a hard border problem

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Suicide deaths in Northern Ireland highest on record

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Health Minister Michelle O’Neill responds to Detail Data’s questions

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Why we'll want free trade until the cows come home

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Brexit set to face legal challenge in Northern Ireland

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:05:00 +0100

What a new British government means for Stormont's budget

Fri, 22 Jul 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Enda Kenny, Irish unity & Brexit: getting past the phoney debate

Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:14:00 +0100

The Detail extends its work and appoints new reporters

Mon, 11 Jul 2016 14:30:00 +0100

Could an inside-out Jersey by our reverse Greenland?

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Bobby Sands, Brexit, and Iraq: the politics of unintended consequences

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Access denied: Shortfalls revealed in disability provision at venues across Northern Ireland

Mon, 04 Jul 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Data points to possible “class divide” among Northern Ireland unionists over Brexit

Sat, 02 Jul 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Stormont's decision-makers in the aftermath of EU referendum

Sat, 02 Jul 2016 00:05:00 +0100

How Europe's free market principles have affected devolution

Fri, 01 Jul 2016 00:01:00 +0100

The Detail wins string of awards for "consistently outstanding" journalism

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:45:00 +0100

Brexit brings fresh division to Northern Ireland's fragile politics

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:09:00 +0100

Is Northern Ireland ready for a general election?

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Payment pending: Councils failing to hit invoice payment targets

Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Leaving the EU would carry risks for Northern Ireland unionists

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Over 2,000 road crashes outside schools spark calls for 20mph speed limit

Mon, 20 Jun 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Loughinisland, state collusion, and what Downing Street has known for decades

Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:06:00 +0100

How sentencing review in Northern Ireland came to a full stop

Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Loughinisland, Kingsmill, Ulster Resistance, Stakeknife - how will government react to reminders of the violent past?

Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:00:00 +0100

From Eire Nua to Eire Two-a

Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:01:00 +0100

“Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil”: Ombudsman says collusion a significant feature of Loughinisland murders

Thu, 09 Jun 2016 11:30:00 +0100

How NI health care bodies say they deal with complaints

Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Public service watchdog concerned at high level of healthcare complaints

Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Who cares for our carers?

Mon, 06 Jun 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Carers' case studies

Mon, 06 Jun 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Sinn Féin uses new language to describe its vision for Irish unity

Sat, 04 Jun 2016 22:00:00 +0100

Award for abortion research highlights questions facing Stormont

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 12:30:00 +0100

Stormont's borrowing shackles

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Hyponatraemia Inquiry timeline

Tue, 31 May 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Former Minister calls for publication of child fluid death inquiry report

Tue, 31 May 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Stormont's budget is out of sync - and there's another little problem...

Fri, 27 May 2016 00:01:00 +0100

The civil servants helping to run Stormont's new administration

Thu, 26 May 2016 13:00:00 +0100

Stormont's new era will give us real government or a real crisis

Wed, 25 May 2016 13:40:00 +0100

Lord Chief Justice warns of further delays to Troubles' inquests

Mon, 23 May 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Why Stormont needs indicators for no left or right turns

Fri, 20 May 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Stormont power-sharing faces its toughest test yet - but that might be a good thing

Thu, 19 May 2016 18:40:00 +0100

Stormont's mixed messages on major EU-US trade agreement

Thu, 19 May 2016 00:10:00 +0100

What Stormont departments had to say on TTIP

Thu, 19 May 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Keeping tabs on TTIP

Thu, 19 May 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Over a thousand ambulance call outs to Northern Ireland's prisons

Fri, 13 May 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Yes and no ministers - the Stormont executive under opposition scenarios

Fri, 13 May 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Choreographed election lets Stormont off the hook

Mon, 09 May 2016 00:04:00 +0100

Why minority governments in Ireland are normal

Fri, 06 May 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Big questions left unanswered in stage-managed Assembly election campaign

Tue, 03 May 2016 11:55:00 +0100

Sinn Féin still chasing a breakthrough moment

Sun, 01 May 2016 11:15:00 +0100

Government challenged to take action over scale of paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:05:00 +0100

What if the DUP took education?

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Peter who? Has the DUP really forgotten its former leader?

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:06:00 +0100

Stormont fails to deliver nearly half of its Government commitments

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Call for specialist eating disorder unit in NI as millions spent sending patients elsewhere

Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Northern Ireland’s elections: the thousands of votes that don’t count

Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:00:00 +0100

The Detail announces new journalism vacancies and plans for joint projects with The Irish Times

Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:05:00 +0100

A Scandinavian saga on what Brexit would do to the border

Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Police officer involved in fatal shooting should be named says family

Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Stormont's strange silence on its new way of appointing governments

Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Inside Northern Ireland's family courts

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 01:05:00 +0100

A father's story

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:05:00 +0100

How Detail Data's investigation brought to light errors in official courts service statistics

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:05:00 +0100

A child's story

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:05:00 +0100

The children behind the statistics

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:05:00 +0100

Is Stormont a bit behind on private rent?

Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Why we're still in two minds about Together: Building a United Community

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:01:00 +0100

Majority of families not legally represented at inquests

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:19:00 +0100

Sprucefield and the planning field - a simple guide

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Documents highlight Stormont tensions over major US trade deal

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:30:00 +0000

Do we still need an Alliance justice minister?

Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:01:00 +0000

How much the EU funds NI agriculture: Should we stay or should we go?

Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Brexit - how much damage to the agreement, exactly?

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Does Sinn Féin's focus on the Dáil challenge Northern Ireland's media and politics?

Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:00:00 +0000

Will Dáil election results decommission civil war politics?

Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:00:00 +0000

Stormont's help to business - will there be a Fresh Start?

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Maghaberry Prison stabilised but still "fragile"

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Maghaberry Prison fire report challenged

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:44:00 +0000

Dáil election campaign not going to script for government parties

Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:00:00 +0000

Stormont expenses - from self-regulation to powerless regulation

Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:01:00 +0000

The cost of getting elected: new questions emerge over political donations in Northern Ireland

Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Multiple Sclerosis: the wait to be seen

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:05:00 +0000

The first full week of the Dáil election: a story of crime and political punishment

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:25:00 +0000

Central Belfast's student building boom - it's only the start

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:01:00 +0000

The under-used and under-appreciated power of the rates

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Dáil election has big implications for Northern Ireland

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Why can't Northern Ireland's liquor licensing laws be reformed?

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Patient safety charity criticises use of confidentiality clauses in Northern Ireland

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:05:00 +0000

GCSEs are a pointless obstruction. Let's just get rid of them.

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Will 2016 be a defining year for unionism and republicanism?

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:20:00 +0000

The all-powerful, democratic flood defence quango that almost nobody knows exists

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Reviews into death and serious injury of babies on Northern Ireland’s child protection register

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:05:00 +0000

Head of prison service questioned need for independent Maghaberry fire probe

Fri, 08 Jan 2016 06:00:00 +0000

Northern Ireland's very limiting new election spending limits

Fri, 08 Jan 2016 00:01:00 +0000

Coroners’ investigator roles open to former security force members

Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:05:00 +0000

The uber-confusing taxi rules of Northern Ireland

Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:01:00 +0000

Abortion: Susan McKay's view

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:05:00 +0000

Abortion exported: the women travelling for terminations

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:05:00 +0000

“Support is needed for women like me who have taken this heartbreaking decision”

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:05:00 +0000

Questions being levelled at Invest NI lead back to Stormont

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 00:05:00 +0000

Northern Ireland's female political firsts

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 00:01:00 +0000

New data highlights missing prisoners and inmates held beyond their sentence

Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:05:00 +0000

UPDATE: South Belfast gets largest share of Invest NI funding

Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:44:00 +0000

UPDATE: Patient samples damaged again at Royal Victoria Hospital

Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:05:00 +0000

How Northern Ireland's main parties appoint their leaders

Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:01:00 +0000

Invest NI: The main beneficiaries

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:05:00 +0000

The 10 companies that were offered £143million of Invest NI support

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:05:00 +0000

Invest NI: Three years of offers under the microscope

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:05:00 +0000

A snapshot of the Northern Ireland economy

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:05:00 +0000

Is Fresh Start the end for some departments - and some parties?

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:01:00 +0000

One fifth of Stormont Assembly members are ‘unelected’ or appointed by parties

Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:05:00 +0000

The gaps in Belfast's cycling network

Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:00:00 +0000

Is Colum Eastwood the new Mike Nesbitt?

Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:01:00 +0000

Peter Robinson leaves unionism at a crossroads

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:30:00 +0000

The end of Stormont symmetry

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:01:00 +0000

Enforcing the issue: Limited action despite fires and unapproved alterations to historic buildings

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:05:00 +0000

Building on the past: Is government doing enough to protect historic sites?

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:05:00 +0000

From cradle to grave: The buildings that share our lives

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:05:00 +0000

The surprisingly short history of marriage recognition

Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:01:00 +0000

Stormont Talks: another staging post on a slow political journey

Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:56:00 +0000

Inspectors warned of “serious disorder or loss of life” risk at Maghaberry Prison

Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:01:00 +0000

PSNI wants to ‘hand over’ Troubles murder files if Stormont talks reach deal

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:05:00 +0000

While Stormont talks about welfare reform, don't forget about Stormont reform

Fri, 30 Oct 2015 00:01:00 +0000

Corporation tax powers will be devolved - but will they ever be used?

Fri, 23 Oct 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Why there'll soon be nothing special about special advisers

Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Former councils spend more than £300,000 on ‘farewell events’

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:05:00 +0100

A funny thing happened to democracy on the way to the forum

Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:01:00 +0100

New figures reveal 500 people seeking asylum in Northern Ireland

Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Asylum seekers tell their stories

Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Bereaved families speak out over inquest delays

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:00:00 +0100

Document reveals 12 year backlog in legacy inquests

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:00:00 +0100

The surprisingly public case of private medicine

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Imaging NI - Part 4: Billboard campaign focuses on political failure at Stormont

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Vulnerable adults reimbursed after financial abuse investigation

Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Weighing up paramilitarism

Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Experts produce draft legislation on legacy of the Troubles

Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Can Stormont survive its 'GUBU' moment?

Fri, 11 Sep 2015 05:05:00 +0100

Northern Ireland: requires some assembly

Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Northern Ireland political talks should fulfil obligations to tackle poverty, racism and homophobia

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Home is where the hurt is

Sun, 06 Sep 2015 15:00:00 +0100

Jane's story

Sun, 06 Sep 2015 14:00:00 +0100

The mistake of saving Stormont from itself

Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Violence is only part of the crisis facing the peace process

Tue, 01 Sep 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Schrödinger's Provo: assessing the existence of the IRA

Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:01:00 +0100

What does reporting to the UN achieve?

Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Charity regulation: only rattling the tin-rattlers?

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:01:00 +0100

“He died three times at the scene of the accident and they gave him absolutely no hope of surviving the impact”

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:02:00 +0100

Two years of death and serious injury on Northern Ireland’s roads

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:02:00 +0100

Living with loss

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:02:00 +0100

The milk crisis: a quick skim

Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Peace processing: an American history

Fri, 31 Jul 2015 00:01:00 +0100

The Belfast Harbour treasure chest

Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Parading legislation

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Fauxsterity

Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:01:00 +0100

A brief history of underspending

Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Top honours at NI Media Awards

Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:22:00 +0100

Unlawful speech

Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:27:06 +0100

Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland forcing hundreds from their homes each year

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Further awards for The Detail's journalism

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:04:00 +0100

Seven years of ministerial gifts revealed

Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:05:00 +0100

What gifts have Ministers received?

Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:04:00 +0100

No victimhood required

Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Stormont ministers consider new racial equality strategy - but will it be introduced?

Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Phantom budgets

Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:05:00 +0100

The Detail named best regional news site at major awards event

Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:00:00 +0100

Is the Stormont administration poll-axed?

Wed, 10 Jun 2015 08:13:00 +0100

The least vulnerable

Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Places apart: Exposing huge disparities in Northern Ireland’s 11 new councils

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:06:00 +0100

Mid & East Antrim Borough Council

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Derry City & Strabane District Council

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Fermanagh & Omagh District Council

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Antrim & Newtownabbey Borough Council

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Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council

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Ards & North Down Borough Council

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Belfast City Council

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Newry, Mourne & Down District Council

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Mid Ulster District Council

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"There is no need for a Stormont crisis. Get the deal done."

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 04:51:00 +0100

The welfare addiction

Fri, 29 May 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Self-harming increase in Juvenile Justice Centre

Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 +0100

The impact of childhood crime

Thu, 28 May 2015 23:55:00 +0100

Stormont isn’t just on the wrong side of history on gay marriage – it’s worse than that

Sat, 23 May 2015 18:14:00 +0100

Statement: Stormont authorities comment on delays in equality strategies

Sat, 23 May 2015 07:22:00 +0100

Ashers bakery case "neither a targeting nor persecution of Christians"

Fri, 22 May 2015 01:41:00 +0100

Stormont's nuclear option

Fri, 22 May 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Hundreds of patient samples lost from Northern Ireland hospitals

Thu, 21 May 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Sinn Fein's election

Thu, 14 May 2015 12:01:00 +0100

Northern Ireland needs a bill of rights for its 'community of minorities'

Thu, 14 May 2015 00:05:00 +0100

Northern Ireland’s Union flag protests find an echo in South Africa

Mon, 11 May 2015 11:22:00 +0100

Historic UK election leaves more questions than answers for Stormont

Fri, 08 May 2015 13:47:00 +0100

The election in Northern Ireland: an exercise in whistling in the dark

Tue, 05 May 2015 10:37:00 +0100

Walking alone is no longer an option

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Mapping four years of carjackings in Northern Ireland

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Children's Commissioner calls for end to academic selection

Wed, 29 Apr 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Imaging NI - Part 3: Dealing with the past and tackling division in education - NI's next big test

Wed, 29 Apr 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Imaging NI - Part 2: Northern Ireland's ‘culture war’? Don't believe the hype...

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:01:00 +0100

Imaging NI - Part 1: Infographics on the big issues politicians won't address

Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:01:00 +0100

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Consultant struck off register has decision quashed by High Court

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:01:00 +0100

A SENIOR dentist at the centre of a major health scandal involving the recall of over 100 patients has had the decision to strike him off the dental register quashed by the High Court.

More than 60 stillbirths referred to Northern Ireland’s coroner

Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:01:00 +0100

SIXTY-one stillbirths have been referred to Northern Ireland Coroners’ Service after a legal challenge allowed inquests to examine why some babies die before taking their first breath.

Detail News 27/03/15

Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Patients facing cancer diagnosis delay

Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:01:00 +0000

Patients waiting for a potential diagnosis of cancer may have to be called back to hospital following the failure of equipment used to examine biopsies at the Royal Victoria Hospital, The Detail can reveal

Above The Law: paramilitary 'punishment' attacks in Northern Ireland

Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:05:00 +0000

By Kathryn Torney There have been more than 6,000 paramiltary ‘punishment’ attacks on men, women and children across NI since the start of the Troubles. We look at the data.

Timeline of attacks

Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:05:00 +0000

'Punishment' attacks timeline. Graphic by Chris Scott.

Detail News 20/03/15

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Are lessons being learned over hospital deaths?

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:01:00 +0000

Following a major report by The Detail on gaps in the investigations of hospital deaths, journalist *Denzil McDaniel* reflects on the dangers of a system that polices itself.

Do unionist electoral pacts weaken the Union?

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:05:00 +0000

UNIONISM’S prime objective should be to make Northern Ireland work.

But if DUP-UUP election pacts isolate half the population, are they a sensible tactic?

Deaths in our hospitals: who investigates?

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:05:00 +0000

Almost 7,000 people die in hospital in Northern Ireland every year, but major questions have emerged during an investigation by The Detail which examined whether the scrutiny of these deaths is sufficiently robust

"My family feel let down"

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:04:00 +0000

BEREAVED family say they have been left "frustrated and disillusioned" by flaws in the system for investigating hospital deaths here.

Shipman judge critical of NI system for investigating deaths

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:04:00 +0000

THE senior judge who led the Inquiry into the notorious killer Dr Harold Shipman says Department of Health plans for investigating hospital deaths in Northern Ireland would not flag up where "bad practice has been concealed".

Justice Committee deadlocked on Attorney General power

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:01:00 +0000

NORTHERN Ireland’s Justice Committee has failed to reach an agreement on whether or not the Attorney General should be granted more power to investigate hospital deaths here.

Deaths reported ‘late’ to coroner doubled last year

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:01:00 +0000

THE number of hospital deaths reported 'late' to the coroner in Northern Ireland has doubled in the last year, The Detail can reveal.

Detail News 13/03/15

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Who is letting down unionists 'west of the Bann'?

Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:05:00 +0000

Who is letting down unionists 'west of the Bann'?

Following politics @StormontCircles

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:05:00 +0000

Following politics @StormontCircles

Detail News 26/02/15

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Journalists joining Detail Data team

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:50:00 +0000

Two journalists joining Detail Data team

Detail News 19/02/15

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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15,000 victims of rape and sexual assault receiving support in NI

Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:05:00 +0000

By Kathryn Torney MEN, women and children across Northern Ireland have been sexually abused - ranging from babies to people in their 90s. We look at data held by counselling charity Nexus and visit NI's sexual assault referral centre.

Ballymurphy conviction overturned

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 04:00:00 +0000

A man convicted of rioting in Ballymurphy in 1971 where soldiers shot dead his brother and nine other people, has had his conviction overturned.

Inquest ordered into high profile hospital death of 16 years ago

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:01:00 +0000

A CONTROVERSIAL hospital death that sparked a lengthy court battle has been reopened following a decision by the Attorney General to order an inquest.

How much fuel laundering waste is dumped in Northern Ireland and where?

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:01:00 +0000

By Niall McCracken OVER 2,500 tonnes of fuel laundering waste has been dumped in Northern Ireland's countryside over the last two and a half years.

Detail News 06/02/15

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Prison watchdog criticises lack of progress following jail deaths

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:01:00 +0000

Eyes in the sky: drone use in Northern Ireland

Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:01:00 +0000

WIDE-RANGING information on how police have been using controversial surveillance drone technology in Northern Ireland can be revealed by The Detail today for the first time.

Drones in NI: What you need to know

Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Paris - the city at the centre of a widening debate

Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:05:00 +0000

Paris - after the horror, a wider debate

Detail News 16/01/15

Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Genetic profile of 123,000 people on NI's DNA database

Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:00:00 +0000

By Kathryn Torney NORTHERN Ireland’s DNA database stores the genetic profile of over 123,000 people, The Detail can reveal.

Detail News 09/01/15

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:01:00 +0000

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Stormont goes 'Back to the Future' - again

Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:00:00 +0000

Stormont goes 'Back to the Future' - again

Detail News 18/12/14

Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Stormont power-sharing and political reputations on the line

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:05:00 +0000

Stormont power-sharing and political reputations on the line

Detail News 12/12/14

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Will Stormont deliver success or failure?

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:05:00 +0000

Will Stormont deliver success or failure?

European Court criticises UK government over handling of Northern Ireland prison death

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 04:00:00 +0000

The European Court of Human Rights has criticised the UK Government over “excessive delay” in investigating the death of a man in Northern Ireland’s Maghaberry prison more than 17 years ago.

Leaked Stormont document raises concerns among Troubles victims

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:05:00 +0000

VICTIMS of the Troubles fear Stormont is considering a major overhaul of how the injured and bereaved are cared for, after a leaked document was obtained by The Detail.

Detail News 05/12/14

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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The shadow of the flag

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:05:00 +0000

Researcher Paul Nolan write for The Detail on the impact of the flag protest in Northern Ireland

Stormont talks - a perfect storm of political agendas?

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:05:00 +0000

Stormont talks - a perfect storm of political agendas?

Detail News 27/11/14

Thu, 27 Nov 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Who is kicking our tyres?

Thu, 27 Nov 2014 00:01:00 +0000

Who is kicking our tyres?

Some positive talking is going on in Belfast, just not at Stormont

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:05:00 +0000

Some positive talking is going on in Belfast, just not at Stormont

DUP criticises major US investor over Fair Employment remarks

Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:01:00 +0000

DUP clashes with major US investor over Fair Employment remarks

Detail News 21/11/14

Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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New data shows Northern Ireland is a world leader in prescription drug use

Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:01:00 +0000

NORTHERN Ireland has one of the world's highest prescription rates for antidepressant medicines according to new research, but fresh questions have emerged over what may be driving the trend.

Detail News 13/11/14

Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Jewellery, metal hips, gold teeth – why were families not told of cremation recycling scheme?

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:00:00 +0000

ALMOST two tonnes of metal has been collected from the ashes of cremated bodies in Northern Ireland over the last four years as part of a recycling scheme, but bereaved families were not told, The Detail can reveal.

What crimes have been reported close to where you live or work?

Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:05:00 +0000

By Kathryn Torney Over 3,050 violent or sexual crimes were reported to the police across Northern Ireland in just one month of this year - equivalent to 102 incidents per day.

Detail News 07/11/14

Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Is Stormont ready for an 'open' relationship?

Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:05:00 +0000

Is Stormont ready for an 'open' relationship?

UK Government cannot "wash its hands" of legacy of the Troubles

Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:01:00 +0000

THE Westminster government cannot devolve the responsibility and the cost of investigating the Troubles to Stormont, a leading European official has said.

The drive to raise reading standards

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:05:00 +0000

Barnardo's NI on the drive to raise reading standards in Northern Ireland's schools.

Detail News 30/10/14

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Maíria Cahill confirms she was in dissident republican political group but opposed violence

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Detail News 24/10/14

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Family challenge prison service over son's death

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:01:00 +0100

PRISON authorities were warned by police about the fragile mental state of a young inmate only hours before a suicide bid that later claimed his life.

Detail News 17/10/14

Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Belfast talks need a deal on 'the past', but do London and Dublin want it?

Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:05:00 +0100

Belfast talks need a deal on 'the past', but do London and Dublin want it?

Detail News 10/10/14

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Thousands of pupils fail key literacy and numeracy targets

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 00:05:00 +0100

By Kathryn Torney THE percentage of children achieving key literacy and numeracy targets in Northern Ireland's post-primary schools varies widely with less than a third of pupils achieving expected levels in some non-grammars, The Detail can reveal today.

Services cut for over 3,000 Troubles victims as Stormont crisis deepens

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:01:00 +0100

THE government organisation that supports victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland has written to more than 3,000 people wounded and traumatised by violence to say they will lose support because of government cuts.

Big Lottery Fund awards £500,000 grant to Detail Data project

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:05:00 +0100

The Big Lottery Fund in Northern Ireland announced today that it has awarded a £500,000 grant to The Detail’s new data journalism project.

Detail News 02/10/14

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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If Stormont is facing a fiscal cliff, problems in the peace process are pushing it there

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:05:00 +0100

YOU can’t have escaped the row over welfare reform that risks pushing Stormont over the edge.

Attorney General concerned at Northern Trust's reporting of deaths

Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:01:00 +0100

NORTHERN Ireland’s Attorney General has expressed “very great concern” that a number of deaths being investigated at the Northern Health Trust were only referred to the coroner after intervention from his office.

Detail News 26/09/14

Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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School closures and population shifts could be blurring the border in Co Fermanagh

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:05:00 +0100

Are social changes blurring the border in Co Fermanagh?

Government destroyed Stalker Sampson files weeks before 'Shoot to Kill' inquest was due to open

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:01:00 +0100

Government destroyed Stalker Sampson files weeks before 'Shoot to Kill' inquest was due to open

Detail News 18/09/14

Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Stormont faces major challenge tackling drink and drug driving

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:01:00 +0100

THERE have been more than 6,500 arrests in Northern Ireland for driving while under the influence of drink or drugs during the last two years.

Detail News 12/09/14

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Ian Paisley has passed away and is taking a part of the old DUP with him

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:01:00 +0100

Ian Paisley has passed away & is taking a part of the old DUP with him.

PSNI questioned over equality testing in approval of police crested bibles

Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:55:00 +0100

PSNI crested bibles

Detail News 04/09/14

Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Children missing from care

Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:01:00 +0100

THE Detail can reveal that 69 children living care went missing for more than 24 hours on 132 occasions in the last year.

Increase in detention of vulnerable young people

Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:01:00 +0100

THERE has been a dramatic increase in the number of times children living in care have been detained in Northern Ireland's Juvenile Justice Centre, The Detail can reveal.

Detail News 29/08/14

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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The peace process is going round in ever decreasing circles

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:01:00 +0100

The peace process is going round in ever decreasing circles

Detail News 22/08/14

Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Dying for a drink: alcohol kills three times as many people as road deaths in NI

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:05:00 +0100

By Lauren Penman OVER 2,630 people died from an alcohol-related death in Northern Ireland in the last 10 years.

Detail News 15/08/14

Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Attorney General directs inquest into hospital death

Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:01:00 +0100

NORTHERN Ireland's Attorney General, John Larkin QC, has directed that an inquest must be held into the death of a West Belfast man warning that “any further delay could have an adverse effect on public safety”.

Bereaved family campaign for hospital death inquest

Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:01:00 +0100

A FAMILY campaigning for an inquest into their father’s death claim an investigation that highlighted concerns about his medication plan was kept from them for months.

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Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0100

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Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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The Detail’s “painstaking, weighty investigative journalism” honoured at NI media awards

Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:05:00 +0100

The Detail’s “painstaking, weighty investigative journalism” honoured at NI media awards

Detail News 27/06/14

Fri, 27 Jun 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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NI Ambulance Service chief executive Liam McIvor responds to our findings

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:00:00 +0100

By Kathryn Torney. NI Ambulance Service chief executive Liam McIvor responds to our findings.

Ambulance response targets hit by 'rising demand and cuts in spending’

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:00:00 +0100

By Kathryn Torney INCREASING demand and spending cuts are impacting on ambulance response times in Northern Ireland, with new figures also revealing 34 incidents where patients whose lives were at immediate risk waited for at least an hour.

Where will `Good Relations’ sit in Stormont’s shared future?

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:05:00 +0100

Where will `Good Relations’ sit in Stormont’s shared future?

Questions raised over Health Minister's cancer drug stance

Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:01:00 +0100

Questions raised over Health Minister's cancer drug stance

Detail News 20/06/14

Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Disparity in dementia diagnosis across Northern Ireland

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:01:00 +0100

THE Detail can today show where people have been diagnosed with dementia throughout Northern Ireland - but the research has identified gaps where many may be going untreated.

Health trusts to look again at future of care homes

Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:00:00 +0100

HEALTH trusts are being asked to revisit their admissions policy for older people going into residential care homes across Northern Ireland.

The Detail commended in top awards

Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:01:00 +0100

THE Detail's journalism has been commended at the highly prestigious Online Media Awards.

NI peace process has power to inspire, says former US diplomat

Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:01:00 +0100

NI peace process has power to inspire, says former US diplomat

New talks planned for Northern Ireland on flags, parades and the past

Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:05:00 +0100

New talks planned for Northern Ireland on flags, parades and the past

Shared education plans in pipeline despite DUP/Sinn Féin tensions in government

Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:01:00 +0100

STORMONT leaders are scheduled to announce a series of initiatives aimed at promoting 'shared education' across Northern Ireland, including confirmation of a £25 million investment package.

The shift from integrated to shared

Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:01:00 +0100

IT has been three and a half years since First Minister Peter Robinson described Northern Ireland’s education system as a “benign form of apartheid which is fundamentally damaging to our society”.

Police Ombudsman takes legal action against PSNI

Tue, 03 Jun 2014 01:00:00 +0100

NORTHERN Ireland’s Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire is to launch a legal action against Chief Constable Matt Baggott over the failure to provide information on major investigations including killings from the Troubles.

Hospital deaths to come under greater scrutiny

Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:01:00 +0100

DOCTORS in Northern Ireland's hospitals will be asked to check how their colleagues are recording deaths under new proposals being implemented by the Department of Health, The Detail can reveal.

While many in NI looked the other way, Sinn Féin has set down roots in the Republic

Sun, 25 May 2014 00:05:00 +0100

While many in NI looked the other way, Sinn Féin has set down roots in the Republic

UKIP's rise, Scottish independence and Northern Ireland

Fri, 23 May 2014 00:05:00 +0100

UKIP's rise, Scottish independence and Northern Ireland

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Fri, 23 May 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Fri, 16 May 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Prison death anonymity orders upheld

Thu, 15 May 2014 00:01:00 +0100

A court has upheld the decision to grant anonymity to prison officers who gave evidence during the inquest of an inmate who died in Maghaberry prison more than 17 years ago.

Coroner launches unprecedented attack over delays in 'Shoot to Kill' inquests

Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:00 +0100

Coroner launches unprecedented attack over delays in 'Shoot to Kill' inquests

Documents reveal DUP lobbying over North Belfast housing and "allegations of gerrymandering"

Tue, 13 May 2014 00:01:00 +0100

Documents reveal DUP lobbying over North Belfast housing and "allegations of gerrymandering"

Detail News 09/05/14

Fri, 09 May 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Republicans gauge impact of Adams' arrest on key strategic election

Mon, 05 May 2014 00:05:00 +0100

Republicans gauge impact of Adams' arrest on key strategic election

The peace process has been allowed to drift into troubled water - what will happen next?

Sun, 04 May 2014 00:05:00 +0100

The peace process has been allowed to drift into troubled water - what will happen next?

Detail News 02/05/14

Fri, 02 May 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Has politics delivered a year of failure for the victims of the Troubles?

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:05:00 +0100

Has politics delivered a year of failure for the victims of the Troubles?

Government rejects probe into army shooting of civilians in Ballymurphy

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:01:00 +0100

THE British Government has rejected calls for an independent probe into the deaths of 11 civllians shot by British troops in Ballymurphy in August 1971, The Detail can reveal.

Detail News 25/04/14

Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Nelson McCausland's DSD department to be investigated by Equality Commission

Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:01:00 +0100

Nelson McCausland's DSD department to be investigated by Equality Commission

Detail News 11/04/14

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Concerns raised about health service incident reports

Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:01:00 +0100

NORTHERN Ireland’s top health officials have been questioned over the reliability of a key reporting mechanism to ensure patient safety in hospitals, The Detail can reveal.

Justice reporting award presented to The Detail's Barry

Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:05:00 +0100

THE Detail’s Barry McCaffrey has been presented with a prestigious award for his reporting on the justice system in Northern Ireland.

Detail News 04/04/14

Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:01:00 +0100

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Northern Ireland politics and the `Rule of 7'

Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:05:00 +0100

MARKETING experts will tell you that potential customers have to hear something seven times before the message sinks in - and the famous `Rule of 7' has its place in politics too.

Attorney General seeks access to hospital death records

Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:01:00 +0100

HOSPITALS could be forced to surrender confidential documents and computer records on deaths under new powers being sought by Northern Ireland’s Attorney General.

Fresh calls for reform after 56 hospital deaths reported late to coroner

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:01:00 +0100

A former coroner has called for the introduction of a Medical Examiner to scrutinise all non reportable hospital deaths to ensure that cases which need further investigation are referred to the coroner

“Serious error of judgment” in not reporting Northern Trust death to coroner

Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:01:00 +0000

THE family of a man whose death is one of 11 under investigation at the Northern Health Trust say they feel “let down by a process which is not fit for purpose.”

Prisoners and their families - both serving time

Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:05:00 +0000

By Kathryn Torney Last week, The Detail revealed that there were 25,000 child visits to Northern Ireland’s prisons during 2013. Today, we report from Maghaberry Prison on a scheme which aims to improve prisoners’ relationships with their families.

Breaking new ground with parenting project in jail

Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:05:00 +0000

By Kathryn Torney A 44 bed unit has been set aside on a dedicated landing in Maghaberry Prison’s Quoile House for male prisoners accepted onto the Families Matter scheme. The men who sign up have to have a good disciplinary record be drug free.

Detail News 28/03/14

Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Secretary of State requests use of secret courts for first time in Northern Ireland civil cases

Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:00:00 +0000

The Secretary of State is to make a request allowing the use secret court cases in Northern Ireland civil cases for the first time

Budget breakdown for all Northern Ireland schools

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:05:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY A full breakdown of the budget allocated to all Northern Ireland schools for this incoming academic year can be revealed by The Detail today.

Education Minister John O'Dowd answers our questions

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:05:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY We asked John O'Dowd some key questions about the new funding scheme - including what checks are made on schools' spending. This was his response.

Detail News 21/03/14

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Children of prisoners: the forgotten victims of crime

Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:05:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY ALMOST 5,000 children visited Northern Ireland’s prisons during 2013, according to new figures released to The Detail.

Monthly breakdown of visits

Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:04:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY A monthly breakdown of the adult and child visits to each prison site in Northern Ireland during 2013.

The late Tony Benn: remembered in Belfast

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:01:00 +0000

The late Tony Benn: remembered in Belfast

Detail News 14/03/14

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Minister facing questions over top prison appointment

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:01:00 +0000

JUSTICE Minister David Ford is facing questions over the appointment of a previously suspended prison governor to a key role in Maghaberry, Northern Ireland’s high security jail.

Detail News 07/03/14

Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Catholics more likely to be jailed and to be disciplined behind bars

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:08:00 +0000

More than fifteen years after the Good Friday Agreement, Catholics form the majority of the prison population and are more likely to be punished when behind bars.

Prison reform and the shackles of the past

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:07:00 +0000

THE head of the Northern Ireland Prison Service has said it is moving away from a “one size fits all security regime” and is more reflective of post conflict society in Northern Ireland.

Prison strip searching is being reduced – but is modernisation coming quickly enough?

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:06:00 +0000

NORTHERN Ireland’s prison system is seeking to cut down on controversial practices such as strip searching, but critics claim reform is too slow.

“Prisons are about more than bricks and mortar”

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:05:00 +0000

A controversial unit for assessing prisoners coming to the end of their sentence is due to re-open in North Belfast in April this year, The Detail can reveal.

Politician’s “amnesia” on victims outside Northern Ireland

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:04:00 +0000

POLITICIANS suffer from “amnesia” when it comes to victims of the Troubles outside Northern Ireland, a leading victims group has said.

‘If it happened to us, it could happen to you’ – a family seeking truth from government

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:04:00 +0000

Successive Irish governments denied they had anything to hide over the infamous 1970 Arms Trial - But why then were two Irish army officers whose evidence clashed with the official version of events harassed for years?

The RUC - A forgotten story?

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:03:00 +0000

At the end of last year the Verbal Arts Centre launched the `Crows on the Wire` project, which centred on the transition of the RUC to PSNI.

The need for a meaningful and formal truth-telling process

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:02:00 +0000

EAMONN BAKER, training director at Towards Understanding and Healing in Derry, writes for The Legacy.

Detail News 28/02/14

Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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The Troubles are over but organised crime is on the rise

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:06:00 +0000

Mainstream paramilitaries have now effectively gone out of the ‘war’ business but what is the criminal legacy that has been left behind for Northern Ireland society to deal with?

Patrick Corrigan: Troubles victims must not be held hostage to flags and parades

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:05:00 +0000

Patrick Corrigan is the Northern Ireland Programme Director of Amnesty International UK. In the face of multiple elections, he asks if political parties here can agree compromises on emotive issues like flags and parades and if not where does this leave

Ian Knox: an inspiration to draw on

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:05:00 +0000

For 25 years years he has shown that the artist’s pen can be mightier than the sword by challenging paramilitary and state violence while remorselessly mocking the hypocrisy and corruption of politicians.

Parades, peace talks and the lessons learned

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:04:00 +0000

senior loyalist warns that the trust which has been built up over the last 15 years is in danger of being eroded by a breakdown in relations resulting from the issues of flags and dissidents

Creating an archive of personal accounts of the conflict

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:03:00 +0000

Accounts of the conflict

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Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Secrets in the files: how one country opened the book on its divisive past

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:06:00 +0000

As politicians here remain divided on how victims’ families should be allowed access to information on the deaths of their loved-ones, The Detail investigates how one model is attempting to bring closure to the citizens of the former East Germany.

The spying victim and the painful truth

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:05:00 +0000

Lutz Trenker was jailed by the East German dictatorship in May 1984 for consorting with the enemies of the communist state. In 1990 when Lutz gained access to his Stasi files he discovered that the person who informed on him was his other brother Henning.

Growing up in East Germany during the cold war

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:04:00 +0000

MIA Lerm Hayes is a professor of Art History at the University of Ulster. Her family moved from East to West Germany in 1975 and she has lived in Northern Ireland for ten years. She recalls what life was like growing up in the East German capital during

The search for the truth, the whole truth

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:04:00 +0000

A new specially designed computer system is being used to help piece together shredded secret documents which were seized from the Eastern German secret police before in January 1990.

Nicola Browne: "The doors of government departments remain firmly shut"

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:01:00 +0000

The organisation Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) was established in 2006 by the renowned trade unionist and human rights leader Inez McCormack.

Detail News 14/02/14

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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“Unprecedented” clinical negligence costs double in a year

Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:01:00 +0000

The amount of money spent on clinical negligence cases has doubled during the last two years reaching what the Department of Health has called “unprecedented levels”.

Suicide kills as many as the Troubles

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:06:00 +0000

ALMOST as many people have died from suicide in Northern Ireland since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement as were killed during the entire Troubles.

Football disaster inquiry model could be used to investigate past

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:05:00 +0000

CONTROVERSIAL killings from the Troubles could be resolved by using the same inquiry that helped families bereaved in the Hillsborough football disaster, according to an architect of the model.

'The Lives of Others' - is a new generation reliving our history?

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:04:00 +0000

Bernadette McAliskey: "Bill of Rights should be bedrock of peace”

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:03:00 +0000

The inevitable failure of the Hass talks, and the unravelling and entanglement of the web of deceit which necessitated them owes much to the absence of a Bill of Rights as the cornerstone of ‘the new dispensation’ for N. Ireland

Detail News 07/02/14

Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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The Irish government and the Troubles – are they inextricably linked?

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:06:00 +0000

THERE are four groups of people: Irish military families from Dublin, border Protestants targeted by the IRA, the victims of loyalist bombs planted in the Irish Republic, and Belfast republicans who helped form the Provos. They have never met and they hav

Border lands

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:05:00 +0000

JOHN McClure’s farm is on the Fermanagh border. In March 1972 his family's life changed forever.

Political battle lines

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:04:00 +0000

THE Irish government is avoiding a “hidden history” that ties it to the birth of the Provisional IRA, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has said.

Dramatic increase in newcomer pupils attending NI's schools

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:03:00 +0000

THE 2011 census revealed that 32,400 people living in Northern Ireland belonged to ethnic minority groups - an upward trend which has developed since the end of large scale violence. This equates to 1.8% of our total population.

Authorities accused of turning back on threatened police officers

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:02:00 +0000

Northern Ireland has seen a dramatic change in policing over the last decade following the formation of the PSNI and the decision of mainstream republicans to endorse support for policing.

Peter Osborne: "Join the debate on our future"

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:01:00 +0000

The Community Relations Council is delighted to support The Detail initiative to highlight a number of aspects of our troubled history, seeking to spark debate about what happened and how to move forward.

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Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Detailing the legacy of the Troubles

Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:05:00 +0000

A MAJOR project examining the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles is to be launched by The Detail, it can be revealed today.

Top policing job criteria could change

Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:01:00 +0000

The Justice Minister is set to change long-standing criteria for the position of Northern Ireland's top policing job that will open the position up to senior offices here who were previously ineligible, The Detail can reveal.

Detail News 24/01/14

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Members of the public to join health watchdog inspection teams

Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:01:00 +0000

Northern Ireland's health watchdog is recruiting members of the public to join the inspection teams charged with regulating hospitals and care homes here.

The Detail appoints new editorial team

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:30:00 +0000

The Detail appoints new editorial team

Detail News 17/01/14

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Non-grammar schools - grouped by free school meals category and ranked by GCSE achievement

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:00:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY These tables provide a breakdown of the GCSE results achieved by each non-grammar. The schools are grouped by free school meals category and ranked by GCSE achievement.

Grammar schools ranked by A-Level achievement

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:00:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY This table provides a breakdown of the GCSE and A-Level results achieved by each grammar school, ranked by A-Level achievement.

2013 GCSE AND A-LEVEL RESULTS FOR ALL SCHOOLS

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:00:00 +0000

By Kathryn Torney Forty percent of Northern Ireland’s post-primary schools have failed to meet a key exam result target set for schools in England, The Detail can reveal.

Body representing health service accused of being at centre of cover-up

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 00:01:00 +0000

The family of nine-year-old Raychel Ferguson, whose death was examined by the child fluid death inquiry, have accused the Directorate of Legal Services (DLS) of being involved in a "cover up" and said its conduct was "appalling"

Detail News 10/01/14

Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Northern Ireland politics is changing - but mum's the word

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:01:00 +0000

Politicians and journalists are obsessed with numbers, especially when it comes to poring over opinion polls or election results - but the big story of the census is rarely mentioned.

Detail News 03/01/14

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:01:00 +0000

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Detail News 20/12/13

Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Healthcare reform loses out to legal payments bill

Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:01:00 +0000

Plans for fundamental change to how healthcare is delivered here have suffered a massive funding blow because of the need for the Department of Health to compensate for millions of pounds paid out in clinical negligence cases this year.

Flag report says loyalism feels abandoned by unionist parties

Sun, 15 Dec 2013 08:15:00 +0000

Church leaders express concern that growing disconnection with mainstream unionism could lead to an increase in militant loyalism.

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Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Detail News 29/11/13

Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Child fluid death families- "Inquiry must leave legacy"

Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:01:00 +0000

TWO bereaved families have spoken about the emotional impact the child fluid death inquiry has had on their lives and say that the final report must have a lasting legacy in hospitals here.

DUP knows Haass talks are important - but so are elections

Sun, 24 Nov 2013 10:05:00 +0000

DUP knows Haass talks are important - but so are elections

Detail News 22/11/13

Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Landmark court decision gives go-ahead to stillbirth inquest

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Siobhan Desmond story

'Deal' reached on Stormont's stalled £80m poverty fund

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:00:00 +0000

A DEAL to begin releasing Stormont's deadlocked £80 million poverty fund has been brokered between the DUP and Sinn Féin – but political rivals have said questions remain over the controversy.

Providing safe houses for those in danger

Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:05:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY During the 2012/13 financial year, 855 households across Northern Ireland applied for social housing because they were homeless or threatened with homelessness as a result of domestic violence.

The PSNI responds to our questions

Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:05:00 +0000

The PSNI responds to our questions.

Murder, rape, kidnap and assault: A year of domestic abuse in Northern Ireland

Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:05:00 +0000

By Kathryn Torney We have carried out an in depth analysis of the 27,190 incidents of domestic violence recorded by the PSNI during the 2012/13 financial year. These include murder, violent assault, abduction of children, incidents with multiple victims.

Can Stormont avoid the `mother of all logjams’?

Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:01:00 +0000

DELAY has been a recurring feature of the Northern Ireland government led by the DUP and Sinn Féin. But the parties are now staring into the biggest backlog of work they have arguably ever faced.

Detail News 15/11/13

Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Can Stormont avoid the `mother of all logjams’?

Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:01:00 +0000

DELAY has been a recurring feature of the Northern Ireland government led by the DUP and Sinn Féin. But the parties are now staring into the biggest backlog of work they have arguably ever faced.

Prosecutors criticise PSNI’s use of ‘speedy justice’

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:05:00 +0000

A POLICE power allowing on the spot decisions over innocence or guilt in minor offences – which has already involved tens of thousands of people including young children - has been heavily criticised in a Public Prosecution Service (PPS) report.

Chief Executive deeply sorry for pain and suffering caused to families

Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:05:00 +0000

The Chief Executive of the Belfast Trust has said its regrets the “pain and suffering” experienced by the families of the children whose deaths are being investigated by the child fluid death inquiry, going back almost 18 years.

Northern Ireland "has nothing to fear from its past"

Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:01:00 +0000

NORTHERN Ireland should not fear a truth process into its violent past, two leading figures in the search for peace has said.

Detail News 08/11/13

Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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CMO "not briefed" before public comments on fluid deaths

Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:01:00 +0000

NORTHERN Ireland’s most senior doctor at the time of the child fluid deaths today said she “deeply, deeply” regretted remarks made in interviews on the subject in which she spoke of the children concerned having an “abnormal reaction”.

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Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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“I would like to hear you answer the question”: Inquiry chair to doctor

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:00:00 +0000

THE former Deputy Chief Medical Officer has been cautioned by the chairman of the Hyponatraemia Inquiry for answering questions in a way which could be perceived as being unhelpful to the inquiry.

Four times as many RoI students avail of cross border education

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:01:00 +0000

OVER four times as many post primary pupils in the Republic of Ireland avail of cross border education in comparison to their counterparts in Northern Ireland, The Detail can reveal.

Locking up vulnerable children: a last resort?

Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:01:00 +0000

SOME of Northern Ireland’s most vulnerable children have been detained in custody on almost 500 occasions during the last two years, despite a recommendation from the Department of Justice that this should “always be a last resort”.

Detail News 25/10/13

Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Judicial review go-ahead over prison death anonymity orders

Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:01:00 +0100

THE mother of a man who died in Maghaberry prison more than 17 years ago has won the right to challenge the decision of the coroner to grant anonymity to the prison officers who gave evidence at her sons inquest earlier this year.

Bid to raise Stormont's £80 million poverty fund row in the Assembly is refused

Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:00:00 +0100

EFFORTS to raise the controversy over Stormont’s frozen £80 million poverty fund on the floor of the Northern Ireland Assembly were refused today.

Social Investment Fund - no cash for the poor, but nearly £400,000 'to consultants'

Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:30:00 +0100

STORMONT leaders who have failed to deliver any of an £80 million poverty fund to the poor, have paid nearly £400,000 to consultants, it has emerged.

Deprivation and religion in Northern Ireland

Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:06:00 +0100

FIFTEEN years after the Good Friday Agreement figures show that Catholics continue to experience wider levels of deprivation than Protestants.

Social Investment Fund: helping deprived communities or delivering uncertainty?

Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:05:00 +0100

AN £80 million fund to help deprived communities has been delayed for so long at Stormont it is putting frontline projects at risk, grassroots groups have claimed.

Is Stormont's £80m poverty fund deadlocked over cash going to Catholics or Protestants?

Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:04:00 +0100

A CONTROVERSIAL £80 million fund set up by the DUP and Sinn Féin to tackle poverty has been deadlocked over whether more money should go to Protestants or Catholics, The Detail has learned.

Detail News 18/10/13

Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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The winners and losers under school funding reform proposals

Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:05:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY OVER 62% of Northern Ireland’s schools would lose money from their annual budgets if controversial Department of Education plans to reform the common funding scheme are given the go ahead.

Fluid deaths: Trusts apologise to families of three more children

Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:01:00 +0100

HEALTH trust lawyers have this morning apologised to the families of three of the children whose deaths are being investigated by the child fluid death inquiry, going back almost 18 years.

How an unpaid £5 fine can still land you in jail

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Thousands of people in Northern Ireland have been jailed for failing to pay fines for crimes which include begging, failing to wear a seatbelt, dangerous cycling, dropping litter and not having a TV licence.

Detail News 11/10/13

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Dental Council still unable to give Dentistry School a clean bill of health two years on

Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:01:00 +0100

THE recovery of Belfast’s School of Dentistry remains in a “fragile and vulnerable position” according to a new inspection report by the dental regulator.

Detail News 04/10/13

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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What are the welfare reform plans?

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:05:00 +0100

A brief outline of the welfare reform plans

"Northern Ireland's most deprived areas face the largest losses"

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:05:00 +0100

Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill, from the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University, explain why Northern Ireland will be hit harder by welfare reform than any other part of the UK.

Welfare reform - Stormont faces another maze

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:05:00 +0100

ROWS over flags and parades have poisoned the atmosphere in Northern Ireland for a year – but the impact of welfare cuts is the real political dynamite that could derail the Assembly if it is not handled with care.

Northern Ireland is UK region hardest hit by welfare reform

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:05:00 +0100

NORTHERN Ireland will be the region of the UK to suffer the greatest financial loss under planned welfare reform, according to a new report launched in Belfast today.

Dirty protests still taking place at Maghaberry

Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:00:00 +0100

SO-CALLED dirty protests have been taking place at Maghaberry Prison as recently as August this year, The Detail can reveal, but republicans are apparently not involved.

Nine years on, Hydebank Wood is deemed a failure for women

Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:00:00 +0100

THERE are “significant concerns” about the level of care provided to Northern Ireland’s most vulnerable prisoner populations – with calls for women to be moved yet again to a suitable secure facility.

"Our young people are drilled, tested, assessed and examined within an inch of their lives"

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:05:00 +0100

QUOTAS should be set for NI's grammar schools to ensure that they select more pupils entitled to free school meals and with special educational needs to better reflect the communities which they serve, according to University of Ulster academics.

Senior PSNI figure at centre of financial allegations

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:00:00 +0100

PSNI Investigation

A northern vote for the next President of Ireland?

Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:00:00 +0100

IT COULD be called the `Mary McAleese question’ – how can you be elected president of a State, yet be barred from voting for yourself?

"Inappropriate" financial practices at autism support schemes

Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:01:00 +0100

ONE of Northern Ireland's leading providers of support services to children and adults with autism here is under scrutiny following serious concerns about how it manages the finances of its service users.

Detail News 20/09/13

Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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American VIP visit mooted

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:00:00 +0100

US VIP visit mooted

Belfast Trust now apologises to all child fluid death families

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:00 +0100

THE Belfast Trust has apologised to the families of the children whose deaths are being examined by the Hyponatraemia inquiry. Speaking at the inquiry hearing today, legal representation for the trust said it apologised for any shortcomings in care.

Inquiry chairman "bewildered" and "troubled" by evidence

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:00 +0100

THE chairman of the Hyponatraemia Inquiry today said he was “bewildered” and “troubled” by the fact that child deaths being investigated by the inquiry were not discussed at a major review that took place just weeks after the death of Raychel Ferguson.

Ex-hospital boss denies responsibility for "misleading" of coroner and public

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:30:00 +0100

A FORMER high-profile health chief was today challenged over her leadership of one of Northern Ireland’s biggest hospitals as a public inquiry heard her deny knowledge of a series of events surrounding the death of a child there.

Haass promises “no restrictions” on dealing with Northern Ireland’s legacy

Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:00:00 +0100

Northern Ireland talks chairman Richard Haass says his negotiations on dealing with the legacy of the Troubles will not be restricted by concerns already raised publicly by the British government.

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Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Inquiry hears another consultant deny deaths were discussed

Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:30:00 +0100

THE chair of an inquiry today challenged the evidence of a succession of senior clinicians about what they discussed at a major review into hospital fluid safety as another consultant insisted that only one death had been referred to.

UN expert says dismantling of Housing Executive could lead to political abuse

Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:30:00 +0100

UN expert warns transferring planning powers could increase sectarianism and discrimination

Doctor “can’t explain” why he said group studied Lucy’s death

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:00:00 +0100

ONE of Northern Ireland’s most influential medical figures today denied that the death of Lucy Crawford had featured in a major review into the use of fluids here and said he could not explain why he’d said in a TV interview that it had.

Detail News 06/09/13

Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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The new model of care: struggling supported living dementia scheme £800k in debt

Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:01:00 +0100

A MULTI-MILLION pound purpose-built supported living scheme for people with dementia is still struggling to fill places over two-and-a-half years after opening.

A “rampant” culture of litigation defensiveness discussed

Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:00:00 +0100

THE chair of an inquiry into child fluids death today spoke of a “rampant” culture of litigation defensiveness in healthcare here.

The Detail's Kathryn wins another national award

Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:00:00 +0100

Kathryn wins Statistical Excellence in Journalism prize

Fluid review doctor "didn't know about Erne death"

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:00:00 +0100

A HOSPITAL consultant who played a key role in compiling new guidelines on fluid management after the death of a young patient, today insisted he’d had no knowledge of another child’s death until it had become public knowledge years later.

Risk manager denies withholding critical report

Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:00:00 +0100

THE woman tasked with gathering statements from hospital staff about the death of a child from fluid overload in their care today denied having any involvement in a decision to withhold an expert report.

How Stormont works – or not

Mon, 02 Sep 2013 11:00:00 +0100

How Stormont works - or not

PSNI criticised for abandoning key performance improvement targets

Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:01:00 +0100

PSNI criticised for abandoning key performance improvement targets

"Finally justice for my daughter"

Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:45:00 +0100

The mother of nine-year-old Raychel Ferguson says she has achieved justice for her daughter. In a statement read out at this mornings Hyponatraemia Inquiry, the trust involved in Raychel's care admitted liability and apologised “unreservedly”.

Twelve years on trust admits liability for fluid death of Raychel

Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:30:00 +0100

MORE than 12 years after Raychel Ferguson died as a result of being overloaded with fluid at Altnagelvin Hospital, the trust involved has finally admitted liability.

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Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Are London and Dublin getting away in the smoke?

Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:30:00 +0100

A RIOT in the centre of Belfast, tensions within unionism and splits in the power-sharing government have sparked speculation over the future direction of politics in Northern Ireland - but the British and Irish governments have been absent.

Nurse - and lawyers - challenged about fluid death statements to the coroner

Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:00:00 +0100

A RETIRED nurse was today challenged about evidence she gave to the Coroner’s Court about the death of a child in her care, and told it appeared she had not spoken “so openly and frankly” there as she had at an internal hospital review.

10 years of organ donation in Northern Ireland

Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:05:00 +0100

By Kathryn Torney. We report on a decade of organ transplants in NI and who the potential organ donors of the future are currently living here.

Fluid deaths inquiry raises questions about trust "burying" evidence

Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:00:00 +0100

THE inquiry into the deaths of children through fluid mismanagement here has reopened, raising questions about how one of the trusts involved has continued to deal with the issue, including why a critical report was kept back from the coroner.

Vulnerable prisoner support scheme a "box-ticking exercise"

Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

Over 350 prisoners have self-harmed during the last three and a half years while subject to procedures designed to help and support vulnerable inmates here.

"We've had enough sympathy, now we want action"

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

Families of young people with special needs in Northern Ireland are calling for urgent reform of what they say is a failing system. Children with a range of conditions such as autism, behavioural and learning difficulties and severe physical disabilities

Detail News 23/08/13

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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How reliable a picture are we getting on housing equality?

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

How reliable a picture are we getting on housing equality?

Marie Stopes clinic has first inspection by regulator

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

The first inspection has taken place at the controversial Marie Stopes private abortion clinic in Belfast, The Detail has learnt.

As the peace process struggles, why is Derry different?

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

THE peace process is in crisis, power-sharing isn't working, the Assembly is doomed, it's been a deeply depressing summer: just some of the things you won't have heard in Derry over recent days.

Detail News 16/08/13

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Getting complaints heard in the health service: still an uphill struggle

Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

A NEW report has criticised Northern Ireland’s leading patient advocacy group for not adequately supporting its service users, The Detail can reveal.

A late-night injunction on decades-old murder papers: why are the PSNI and NIO keeping them under wraps?

Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:00:00 +0100

KRW High Court injunction

Detail News 09/08/13

Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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How our school leavers fare - by school and by postcode

Thu, 08 Aug 2013 00:05:00 +0100

By Kathryn Torney. As thousands of pupils await news of their A-Level results next week, The Detail can reveal the wide variation in the qualifications achieved and next steps taken by Northern Ireland’s school leavers.

Health trusts record 30,000 assaults over four years

Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

NORTHERN Ireland's health trusts recorded over 30,000 incidents of physical assault on staff, patients and members of the public at Northern Ireland’s care settings over the past four years.

New call for answers over the scandal of Northern Ireland's "hooded men"

Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:05:00 +0100

Irish government asked to investigate whether British withheld true account of interrogation from European Court

The US has stepped in to protect the peace process

Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:05:00 +0100

The US has stepped in to protect the peace process

Detail News 02/08/13

Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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US Vice President in new role to bolster troubled Northern Ireland peace process

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:00:00 +0100

UNITED States Vice President Joe Biden has taken on a new role supporting the Northern Ireland peace process in response to the administration’s concerns over growing tensions, a top US diplomat has revealed.

No rift with Stormont over shared education, says US diplomat

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:00:00 +0100

A VISIT by US President Barack Obama to an integrated primary school with Prime Minister David Cameron was not a snub to Stormont’s backing for shared education, the US government has said.

The devastating five year death toll on Northern Ireland's farms

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 10:00:00 +0100

FALLS, slurry fumes, animal attacks and equipment accidents have claimed the lives of 40 people on Northern Ireland’s farms in the last five and a half years. We map the data.

Troubled care facility: now replacement service is raising concerns

Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

A DISABILITY charity, brought into run a Belfast care facility after a series of damning inspections saw the previous service provider pull out of Northern Ireland, has now itself been criticised.

What is the future for victims’ groups here?

Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

NORTHERN Ireland’s two largest support groups for survivors of the Troubles claim they are being ignored and sidelined by government in a bid to make the victims’ issue go away.

“There are moments when people listen to the victims”

Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

Twenty years after the ceasefires why has the victims’ issue still not been resolved and why do many of those who were injured or lost loved-ones in the conflict now feel that their voices are no longer being listened to?

Detail News 26/07/13

Fri, 26 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Devolution argument raises its head again over earnings

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

East Antrim MLA Oliver McMullan (Sinn Féin) has renewed called for the Crown Estate’s surplus of £1.2 million to be “returned to Assembly control” after its yearly earnings were released last month.

Staff to receive back payments from First Trust

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

FIRST Trust bank has notified staff of its intention to back date pay increments and bonuses following a court case earlier this year.

Detail News 19/07/13

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Detail News 12/07/13

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

With him on one side, and him on the other.

The edge of the (European) Union

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:00:00 +0100

The Detail asked Northern Ireland’s three Members of European Parliament (MEPs) Martina Anderson (Sinn Féin), Diane Dodds (DUP) and Jim Nicholson (UUP) to evaluate the Republic’s EU presidency, how decisions made during the Irish presidency will affect No

When IT goes bad: health service struggles to get new system up and running

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

A multimillion pound IT system designed to improve the effectiveness of business functions across all health and social care organisations here has been criticised for having a “lack of stability” and encountering “significant problems”.

Police failed to warn Good Samaritans of booby trap bomb

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

Police failed to warn Good Samaritans of booby trap bomb

DUP pulling no punches to defend its name

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

ON the hottest day of the year Stormont parties went toe-to-toe over what is arguably the most incendiary issue they face: money.

Detail News 05/07/13

Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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New report finds Housing Executive still double paying contractors

Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

New report finds Housing Executive still double paying contractors

Did Cameron and Obama bottle or botch the schools' debate?

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0100

AFTER escaping the flag crisis, and ahead of the looming marching season, it is incredible that we've somehow managed to squeeze in a divisive row about education - but it has probably left us back where we started.

Series of critical reports leave future of Historical Enquiries Team in doubt

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:00:00 +0100

A series of critical reports into the independence of the Historical Enquiries Team has left serious questions marks over the future of the police investigation unit which was supposed to bring closure to families who had suffered Troubles-related deaths.

Controversial 'face down restraint' used in Northern Ireland's mental health facilities

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

THE Health and Social Care Board has defended the use of ‘face down restraint’ by staff working in Northern Ireland’s mental health facilities.

Inquiry criticises "culture of keeping quiet about mistakes"

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

Northern Ireland's top health officials are to be called before an inquiry into child deaths in hospitals here to address concerns about a "dominant culture of keeping quiet about mistakes which were made."

Ombudsman finds prison assault claim was "false"

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:01:00 +0100

NORTHERN Ireland’s prisoner ombudsman has found that an incident concerning the alleged serious assault of two prison officers by an inmate was “falsely recorded”.

Supply and demand for places: check out your local schools

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:01:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY GAINING entry to some of Northern Ireland’s perceived elite grammar schools is not as tough as some might expect, according to new figures obtained by The Detail.

Does the system care enough for kids in care?

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:01:00 +0100

CHILDREN in care have been long recognised among any population's most vulnerable - but a report out today shows the system persistently struggling to give such children here the "parenting" into adulthood they so desperately need.

Making it from care to the outside world: one young woman's story

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:01:00 +0100

"THE stigma attached to living in care needs to be addressed. We do have the same potential as other children and can go places."

The continued woes of NI’s economy: bank lending down “a third” since 2010

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:01:00 +0100

BANK lending in Northern Ireland, “the oil which lubricates the economy” has significantly fallen in the last three years, The Detail can reveal.

Mark Harbinson in court charged with breaching sex offender order

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:01:00 +0100

Mark Harbinson in court charged with breaching sex offender order

Coroner takes the stand - and hears "inconvenient" information was kept from him

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:00:00 +0100

NORTHERN Ireland's most senior coroner was today himself in the witness box - and was told that hospital management had “controlled the information” that reached him about the deaths of children in their care.

Infection neonatal unit still hasn't had "formal hygiene inspection" by regulator

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0100

THERE has never been a formal hygiene inspection carried out by the health regulator at the neonatal ward where it was announced last week that three babies had the bloodstream infection MSSA.

The Disappeared – families still looking for their lost boys

Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:00:00 +0100

It is hoped a new book will help secure information to find the last seven of the `Disappeared'.

Clarification promised on Board's four years' of missing documents

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:01:00 +0100

A LAWYER representing the former Western Health and Social Services Board has promised clarification about documents spanning a four year period which the inquiry never received.

Chairman has “major concern” that doctors didn’t know to report to coroner

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:01:00 +0100

THE chairman of the inquiry into child fluid deaths here has said that he has a “major concern” that doctors “didn't know their responsibility” to report to the Coroner following the death of toddler Lucy Crawford.

Revealed: preoccupations of the PSNI during policing of G8

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:30:00 +0100

It cost £50m to protect the leaders of the G8 but confidential security updates of the PSNI policing operation reveals how police monitored Twitter accounts, including journalists’, to check for negative comments.

A return to Stormont for US diplomat Haass - or Reiss?

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:30:00 +0100

Richard Haas

Boston and Nashville: The perils of a policy of force

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:30:00 +0100

Boston and Nashville: The perils of a policy of force

Review into child fluid death gave “false comfort”

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:01:00 +0100

THE chairman of the inquiry into child fluid deaths here has said the initial review into toddler Lucy Crawford’s death “significantly underplayed what was wrong” and as a result gave “false comfort”.

The peace process is irreversible - even if progress is painfully slow

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

A top US political adviser who played a key role in launching the peace process has said it could take a further generation for it to truly take root and heal divisions in Northern Ireland.

Protesting, policing and monitoring the G8

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

THE G8 summit hasn’t even started in Enniskillen and across the Irish Sea, London police have already clashed with and arrested 57 anti-G8 demonstrators after the house they were squatting in was raided on Tuesday.

Jury still out on G8 policing costs and the benefits to NI

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

The British government says it will pay the bulk of G8 policing costs, but some in Northern Ireland remain concerned.

Background on the G8

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

Background on the G8

Withholding information from grieving parents "embarrassing" for hospital, says inquiry chairman

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

THE chairman of the inquiry into child fluid deaths here has said that a hospital could have withheld crucial information from the parents of Lucy Crawford because it was “embarrassing that it hadn’t bothered fulfilling” recommendations in a report about

Detail News 14/06/13

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Our society needs `post-traumatic growth’

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:05:00 +0100

Experts from overseas will arrive in Northern Ireland this weekend with one question at the top of their agenda: how can we deal with the legacy of the Troubles?

Medical director says trust was legally advised not to contact bereaved family

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

THE former medical director of the Sperrin Lakeland Trust has said that the legal advice given to the trust was not to reach out to the family of toddler Lucy Crawford after her death.

Medical director “annoyed and surprised” about unknown changes in fluid use

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

THE former medical director of the Sperrin Lakeland Trust has said that he was “annoyed and surprised” that fundamental changes in the Royal Victoria Hospital’s use of a fluid linked to the death of three children was not communicated at an earlier stage.

Inquiry hears of “glaring omission” in child death review

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

A former medical director who ordered a review into the death of a 17-month-old girl has said it was a “glaring omission” that her parents were not interviewed as part of the investigation into the toddler’s death.

The Detail named Northern Ireland's top media website

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:00:00 +0100

The Detail named Media Website of the Year

Northern Ireland's Euro MPs: their positions

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:00:00 +0100

Northern Ireland's Euro MPs: their positions

Supergrasses escape 22 year sentences despite lying seven times in court

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0100

Supergrasses escape 22 year sentence despite lieing seven times in court

Equality for whom: how is the Equality Commission delivering?

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:00:00 +0100

Equality for whom: how is the Equality Commission delivering?

Detail News 07/06/13

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0100

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Chairman “does not believe” trust lack of explanation over solution stock

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

THE chairman of the inquiry investigating the deaths of five children as a result of fluid overload has said that he “simply does not believe” that nobody from the Belfast trust cannot explain why stocks of the fluid central to criticisms dramatically dec

Consultant claims he can’t recall conversation around cause of child’s death

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

A DOCTOR who cared for 17 month old Lucy Crawford says he cannot remember a conversation with another consultant, indicating an early awareness about what could have caused the toddlers condition to deteriorate.

Consultant’s report after child death “hopelessly incomplete” says inquiry chairman

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

THE chairman of the inquiry investigating child fluid deaths has labelled a consultant paediatrician’s reporting on the cause of death of a 17-monthold child as “hopelessly incomplete”.

Child death inquiry chairman questions doctors’ conflicting accounts

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100

THE chairman of the inquiry into child fluid deaths here has questioned the conflicting accounts of doctors working at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in the aftermath of 17-month-old Lucy Crawford’s death.

Prison officers to be retrained in vulnerable inmate procedures

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:01:00 +0100

SENIOR officers at Maghaberry Prison are being retrained in procedures to manage vulnerable prisoners here.

Medic believed he knew cause of child's death

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:01:00 +0100

AN anaesthetist who treated a seriously ill child has told a public inquiry he believed he knew what ultimately caused her death, but did not take sufficient steps to make certain it was reported and acted upon because he believed others would do so.

Coroner warns PSNI delays threatens his ability to hold proper inquiries

Fri, 31 May 2013 18:00:00 +0100

Coroner warns PSNI delays threatens his ability to hold proper inquiries

Detail News 31/05/13

Fri, 31 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Hyponatraemia chairman warns health trusts over future evidence at inquiry

Thu, 30 May 2013 22:00:00 +0100

THE Chairman of the public inquiry into the care and deaths of five children in hospitals here has said there is now clear evidence that the Belfast Health Trust deliberately withheld key information from him.

“How will sacking me help victims?” asks Sinn Féin Special Adviser

Thu, 30 May 2013 17:00:00 +0100

A former IRA bomber who risks losing his job as an adviser to deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness because of tough new legislation says the move will call the political process into question.

Lack of explanation to parents "not good enough"

Thu, 30 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

A SENIOR clinician who worked at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children has admitted to the Hyponatraemia inquiry that the fact that her parents were not given an explanation in the aftermath was “not good enough”.

Coroner refers prison death to Public Prosecution Service

Tue, 28 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

NORTHERN Ireland's most Senior Coroner John Leckey has asked the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate if a criminal offence was committed after an inmate died in Maghaberry Prison 17 years ago.

Inquiry hears of unexplained changes in fluid stock at children's hospital

Tue, 28 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

HERE are unexplained changes in the ordering pattern and management of a fluid linked to the death of three Northern Ireland children, the Hyponatraemia Inquiry has heard.

Detail News 24/05/13

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Stormont’s shared future strategy: what if it works?

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

Integrated education

Policing Board to consider changes in Chief Constable criteria

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN

Attorney General to appeal stillbirth inquest decision

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100

Attorney General to appeal stillbirth inquest decision

Northern Ireland's (Truth) & Reconciliation Process?

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:00 +0100

STORMONT'S latest debate on the past provided ample evidence as to why a truth and reconciliation process isn't going to happen any time soon - but can Sinn Féin's latest idea get traction?

Should truth be separated from reconciliation?

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:00 +0100

BY STEVEN MCCAFFERY

Prison death family: "The truth has finally come out"

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:00:00 +0100

THE family of a man who died of a heart attack after being restrained by prison wardens over 17 years ago has spoken for the first time about their long struggle for justice.

Loyalists trying to avoid history’s traditional route

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:00:00 +0100

OVER two days The Detail's Steven McCaffery attended separate debates on Northern Ireland's future - one involving politicians at Stormont, the other including loyalists at a resource centre for the unemployed.

Detail News 17/05/13

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Jury finds prisoner died after officers used excessive force

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:00 +0100

James McDonnell

Police called to give evidence in witness bugging case

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100

Senior PSNI officers who authorised the secret bugging of a key witness in a murder appeal case will now be questioned in court over their role in the operation.

Grammar school principal rejects inspectors' "inadequate" rating

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY A CO Armagh grammar school has been placed in formal intervention by the Department of Education.

One woman's fight for water against gold in Peru

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:00:00 +0100

One woman's fight for water against gold in Peru

Policing social media versus free speech

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

THE number of people convicted annually of crimes involving social media and other forms of public electronic communications in Northern Ireland has trebled since 2009, The Detail can reveal today.

Maybe Stormont shouldn’t say "so what?" to UKIP rise

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:05:00 +0100

FRESH from its success in England, the UK Independence Party says it is planning to field 30-40 candidates in Northern Ireland’s local government elections next year - but its real significance is its influence on Britain's Conservatives.

Detail News 10/05/13

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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We've had the flags crisis, now it's 'Back to the Future'

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:05:00 +0100

STORMONT'S political leaders have often been accused of turning the clock back - but this time it is at least in a good cause - the delivery of a shared future strategy.

CJI raises concerns over police still filling civilian roles in PSNI

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

CJI raises concerns over police still taking civilian roles in PSNI

Judge asks: "Is it possible to die before one has been born?"

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100

A CO Derry woman has vowed to continue with her legal battle to secure an inquest into the death of her stillborn son despite a setback in Belfast’s High Court today.

Northern Ireland's shocking hospital records of self-harm

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:05:00 +0100

THE mental anguish facing thousands of people across Northern Ireland can be seen in new figures obtained by The Detail which show that our hospital emergency departments dealt with 2,830 episodes of self-harm.

Self-harm: what the Public Health Agency says we can’t be told

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:05:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Self-harm cases: what the Public Health Agency says we can’t be told.

CJI inspection of corporate governance of Public Prosecution Service

Fri, 03 May 2013 04:01:00 +0100

CJI inspection of corporate governance of Public Prosecution Service

Forensic flaws question whether criminal justice agencies are fit for purpose

Fri, 03 May 2013 04:01:00 +0100

Flaws in forensic evidence are again at the centre of another major criminal trial. But the handling of the Massereene murder hunt and subsequent trials appear to raise serious concerns about the abilities of the PSNI, PPS and forensic science to deliver

Shivers acquitted of Massereene murders after DNA evidence called into question

Fri, 03 May 2013 04:01:00 +0100

A man previously convicted of murdering two soldiers has been acquitted at a retrial after a judge cited a series of crucial forensic errors in the prosecution case.

Detail News 03/05/13

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Concerns about NI’s treatment of immigrant detainees to be raised with UN

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

SERIOUS concerns have been raised about the human rights record of Northern Ireland’s main holding centre for immigrant detainees.

Is the flag row running out of political steam?

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:05:00 +0100

THE final legal steps are being taken to set Belfast's new political boundaries - but it will also draw a line under the campaign to permanently restore the city hall's Union flag.

Mother claims brain damaged son failed by prison service

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

Near death in custody report

Stormont: with what shall we mend it?

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:01:00 +0100

EVERYONE is familiar with the children’s rhyme “There’s a hole in my bucket". Steven McCaffery reports on how this relates to the latest Stormont talks on building a shared future.

PSNI accused of attempting to intimidate new witness in murder appeal

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:01:00 +0100

PSNI accused of attempting to intimidate new witness in murder appeal

Unionists, the Maze prison and Bobby Sands

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:05:00 +0100

UNIONISTS opposed to building a peace centre at the former Maze prison fear it will be used to remember ten republican inmates who starved themselves to death for political status.

Detail News 26/04/13

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Long wait for urgent paediatric allergy appointments

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:01:00 +0100

Despite a major drive by the Belfast Health Trust to reduce huge waiting lists for allergy and immunology treatment at the Royal Victoria Hospital, new figures obtained by The Detail show there are still 66 people - including 19 children - waiting to be

Judge orders Downing Street to hand over Finucane documents

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:01:00 +0100

Judge orders Downing Street to handover Finucane documents

Detail News 19/04/13

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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OFMDFM heads Information Commissioner's complaints list

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:01:00 +0100

A FIFTH of all complaints to the Information Commissioner regarding government departments in Northern Ireland over the last two years related to the Office of First and Deputy First Minister.

Stormont Special Advisers Bill faces fresh hurdles

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:01:00 +0100

LEGISLATION aimed at effectively banning ex-prisoners from becoming special advisers to Stormont ministers is facing fresh political difficulties.

Declassified documents reveal army lobbied Attorney General not to prosecute soldiers

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:01:00 +0100

Declassified documents reveal army allowed to influence Attorney General not to prosecute soldiers

Some in Ulster still say no to Margaret Thatcher

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:01:00 +0100

REACTION to the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been dominated by her battles with the left, and with Irish republicanism - but unionist outrage at her signing of the Anglo Irish Agreement has been largely overlooked.

Detail News 12/04/13

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:01:00 +0100

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Another rejection but parents maintain vaccine is linked to their son's death

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:05:00 +0100

THE parents of a Co Down teenager who died just days after receiving a vaccination as part of a government ‘catch up campaign’ have vowed to continue their fight to prove that the injection caused his death.

Racism, the Good Friday Agreement and Northern Ireland’s ‘new minority’

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:05:00 +0100

Steven McCaffery reports on the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and the experience of Northern Ireland's ethnic minorities.

What's being done for prisoners with mental health issues in NI?

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:05:00 +0100

NEW figures show that more people than ever before are being transferred out of prison for mental health treatment but crucial information about the nature of those illnesses - and the ramifications for the wider prison population - is not collated.

Don’t legislate for collusion?

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:05:00 +0100

Don’t legislate for collusion?

Making sense of the prison healthcare spend

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100

THERE has been over £22m spent on prison healthcare here over the last three years. However, it has taken the South Eastern Trust over two months and two separate FOI requests, to release a full breakdown of the costings.

How quickly did the fire service respond to emergencies where you live?

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:01:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY AN investigation by The Detail has uncovered a disturbing variation in fire and rescue service response times across Northern Ireland.

Why did the Fire Service provide incomplete data?

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:01:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY AN account of our quest to secure the missing response times data...

Detail News 29/03/13

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Perjuring health workers should be prosecuted - parents

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:30:00 +0000

THE mother of a child who died after being overloaded with hospital fluid today (Tuesday) called for witnesses who have lied at the inquiry into her death to be charged with perjury

Audit Office questions £9.8m tender process in Lyric rebuild

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

Audit Office questions £9.8m tender process in Lyric rebuild

Detail News 22/03/13

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Shivers charged with lesser offence as murder trial nears close

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:00:00 +0000

New lesser charge against Massereene accused

Legal challenge threatens £110m development of DCAL sponsored sports stadiums

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

Legal challenge threatens £110m development of DCAL sponsored sports stadiums

Mortgage distress: The deals the banks are quietly settling for

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN

Ulster Bank admits 48 hour delay in paying staff wages

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:30:00 +0000

Ulster Bank admits 48 hour delay in paying staff wages

Detail News 15/03/13

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Up to 4 people's DNA found on Massereene murder evidence

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:30:00 +0000

Up to 4 people's DNA found on Massereene murder evidence

The Spirit of Enniskillen Trust has closed

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:30:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY THE Spirit of Enniskillen Trust – which was set up following the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 – has closed. The Detail has learned that a decision was taken by trustees yesterday (March 14th) to shut down the award winning charity.

Budget for Northern Ireland's business start-up programme slashed

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:05:00 +0000

regional start initiative

Question marks over integrity of forensic exhibits in Massereene murder trial

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

police experts concede actions may have potentially contaminated key evidence

Detail News 08/03/13

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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LH2 - Sinn Féin’s new place in Irish politics

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

/Sinn Féin is calling for a poll on Irish unity, though opponents claim there is no appetite for such radical reform.

Detail News 01/03/13

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Home Office minister to publish National Crime Agency 'Plan B' for Northern Ireland

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:01:00 +0000

Home Office minister to publish National Crime Agency 'Plan B' for Northern Ireland despite nationalist concerns over accountability

Detail News 22/02/13

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Minister claims legal privilege means he can't say whether he ignored advice defending own department

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:01:00 +0000

A Stormont minister is claiming legal privilege prevents him telling a scrutiny committee whether or not he ignored legal advice which could have overturned a £150,000 Fair Employment Tribunal ruling against his own department.

Hospital medical staff raise serious concerns about children’s cardiac service proposals

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:01:00 +0000

Clinicians say children’s heart service being “sacrificed”

Why is Irish being banned from tourism signs here?

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:00:00 +0000

A BAN on the Irish language being used in tourism signs appears to be heading for the courts amid allegations that the authority responsible, the NI Tourist Board is providing no rational explanation for it, The Detail/Meon Eile has learnt.

Detail News 15/02/13

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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24 years after Finucane killing, the damage limitation continues

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:05:00 +0000

TODAY marks 24 years since solicitor Pat Finucane was shot dead in a killing which has become a defining symbol of the state’s complicity in the Troubles.

What Downing Street knew

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:05:00 +0000

John Major’s Private Secretary, Charles Powell told the prime minister in 1991 that a collapse of the Nelson trial “would be a very good outcome” for the government.

Grieve bats Troubles inquests back to coroner

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:05:00 +0000

Northern Ireland’s senior coroner John Leckey will tomorrow (Monday) formally abandon a decision to suspend 21 Troubles related inquests which he had previously stopped over concerns of national security.

Detail News 08/02/13

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Speedy justice: who benefits?

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:05:00 +0000

SUBSTANTIAL new police powers to decide on the spot who can avoid a criminal record and going to court for minor offences have been rolled out here virtually unnoticed and major disparities in how it's being applied are already showing up.

How "discretion" has been used for crime here

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:05:00 +0000

SEXUAL assaults, fraud and drug-related incidents are among some of the offences that discretionary disposals have been used for over the past three years.

Detail News 01/02/13

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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PONI to reinvestigate how Denis Donaldson was outed as an informer

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:00:00 +0000

Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire is to launch a fresh investigation into events surrounding the murder of MI5 agent Denis Donaldson after the emergence of new information, the Detail can reveal.

PONI to reinvestigate how Denis Donaldson was outed as an informer

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire is to launch a fresh investigation into events surrounding the murder of MI5 agent Denis Donaldson after the emergence of new information.

Committee accused of allowing ethnic minority leaders to be mocked at Stormont

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:05:00 +0000

Stormont Committee accused of failing to act after ethnic minority leaders were allegedly mocked while giving evidence to the assembly

It's good to talk - Alliance opens debate on a 'shared future'

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:05:00 +0000

THE search for a strategy to deliver a 'shared future' for Northern Ireland is now getting the Celebrity Big Brother treatment. David Ford, frustrated at the flawed efforts of his Stormont Castle housemates, has published his own plan.

Unlucky '13: The Northern Ireland Executive faces a testing year

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:05:00 +0000

Stormont's Justice Minister David Ford has launched his own blueprint for tackling sectarianism in Northern Ireland - but his decision to break ranks with government colleagues highlights renewed tensions in the administration.

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Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Signposts for the future

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:05:00 +0000

THE new Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (SBNI) was established and took on responsibility for case management reviews in September 2012.

The "invisible" dangers: neglect and siloed, pressurised services

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:05:00 +0000

WHILE the pitiful circumstances of some children's lives in Northern Ireland are laid bare in today's report, there is also a very strong focus on serious concerns raised in the CMR reports about how professionals handled the children's cases.

The harm faced by children today: Northern Ireland's worst cases

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:05:00 +0000

A NEW report published today examines 24 disturbing cases of abuse and neglect in Northern Ireland which resulted in children dying or being seriously injured.

Pseudomonas outbreak one year on: police begin investigation into babies' deaths

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:01:00 +0000

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN

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Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Court repossessions three times higher in Northern Ireland than the Republic

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:05:00 +0000

FIGURES obtained by The Detail reveal that nearly three times as many property owners in Northern Ireland faced repossession through the courts than those in the Republic of Ireland between 2008 and 2011.

The rate of repossessions where you live

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:05:00 +0000

IN data requested from the Northern Ireland Courts Service, we obtained a geographical breakdown of the number of Final Possession Orders across Northern Ireland from 2005-11.

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Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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"Supporting but not supplanting" Northern Ireland's politicians on flags: Tánaiste

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0000

"Supporting but not supplanting" Northern Ireland's politicians on flags: Tánaiste

Dublin and the North: supporting, but not supplanting local politicians

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0000

Dublin and the North: supporting, but not supplanting local politicians

Benefit fraud in Northern Ireland: what the data shows

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:05:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY THE Detail can today reveal the full cost of benefit fraud in Northern Ireland - including striking disparities in punishments for people found guilty of illegal claims in our courts.

NIHE: are we ‘Facing the Future’ or Reliving the Past?

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:45:00 +0000

NIHE: Are We ‘Facing the Future’ or Reliving the Past?

End of an era as McCausland announces dismantling of NIHE

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:15:00 +0000

Housing Executive set to be replaced by 'super' associations

Are London and Dublin flagging?

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:01:00 +0000

As the crisis over the flying of the Union flag at Belfast City Hall enters its second month, questions are again being raised about the continued absence of the British and Irish governments in seeking a solution. The Detail's Steven McCaffery reports.

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Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:01:00 +0000

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Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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Police Ombudsman opening new investigation into Loughinisland

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:30:00 +0000

The new Police Ombudsman, Michael Maguire, has capitulated to pressure from relatives of the six men murdered in the Loughinisland massacre, and agreed to hold a new investigation into the police's handling of the atrocity.

NI Prisons: The case for a public inquiry

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Professor Phil Scraton is Professor of Criminology at Queen’s University in Belfast. He co-authored a report into women’s imprisonment within the male young offenders centre at Hydebank Wood in 2007. He is the primary author of the Hillsborough Independ

Surge in self-harming at Hydebank Wood

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:05:00 +0000

MORE than 40 medical emergency alerts, including five further suicide attempts and numerous instances of self-harm, have been recorded at Hydebank Wood prison since the suicide of two inmates in May of last year.

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Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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What stopped a public inquiry into Finucane murder?

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:01:00 +0000

MI5 failed to warn solicitor about three previous threats to his life

Special Branch role in the murder of Pat Finucane

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:01:00 +0000

Judge Cory found that Special Branch repeatedly failed to warn nationalists that they were being targeted by loyalist paramilitaries.

Brigadier Kerr's evidence called into question

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:01:00 +0000

Judge questions whether army chief Gordon Kerr had told the truth during Brian Nelson's trial

The Northern Ireland Census: Religion and identity mapped

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:30:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The Detail has compiled interactive maps to visualise some of the key results from the 2011 Northern Ireland Census.

So what's the political future?

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:00:00 +0000

While political unionism in Northern Ireland is in thrall to a row over the flying of the Union flag at Belfast City Hall, new census figures reveal the Protestant proportion of the population has dropped below the symbolic 50% mark for the first time.

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Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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Alliance: A decade of escalating abuse

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:10:00 +0000

Alliance: A decade of escalating abuse

Opaque and dangerously unaccountable: the verdict on MI5 five years on

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:01:00 +0000

The unaccountable influence of MI5 on covert policing in Northern Ireland coupled with the NIO’s deliberate attempt to circumvent proper scrutiny of the actions of the security services has created a `disaster waiting to happen’, a new report says.

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Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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New media guidance for reporting on child abuse and neglect

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:05:00 +0000

GROUNDBREAKING media guidance for reporting on child abuse and neglect in Northern Ireland is being launched in Belfast today.

Non-grammars' 2012 exam results

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:00:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The 2012 GCSE results for Northern Ireland's non-grammar schools.

Grammar schools' exam results

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:00:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The 2012 GCSE and A-Level results for Northern Ireland's grammar schools.

GCSE AND A-LEVEL RESULTS FOR ALL NI'S SCHOOLS

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:00:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The results achieved by every grammar and secondary school in Northern Ireland in this summer’s GCSE and A-Level exams can be revealed today.

Claims against prison service include one alleged "sexual" incident

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

SIXTEEN claims have been brought against the Northern Ireland Prison Service by female inmates since 2004, including one alleging an incident of “a sexual nature”, according to figures obtained by The Detail earlier this year.

Victimised after witnessing prison officer kissing female inmate

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

THE latest Prisoner Ombudsman report into the death of Frances McKeown explores allegations that she was bullied in the months leading up to her death after seeing a male prison officer kissing a female inmate – and was then blamed for reporting it.

Another failure by a system "not fit for purpose"

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

THE husband of a woman who took her own life in Hydebank Wood has raised serious questions about whether the Northern Ireland prison system has the ability to deal with inmates with complex mental health issues.

Bind us together, Lord: can the DUP woo the Catholic community?

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:30:00 +0000

Peter Robinson's big legacy project: Catholic votes

"Abandoned pledges and broken promises"

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:05:00 +0000

Integrated Education Fund chief executive Tina Merron gives her view on the religious make up of Northern Ireland's schools.

HOW INTEGRATED ARE SCHOOLS WHERE YOU LIVE?

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:05:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Almost half of Northern Ireland’s schoolchildren are being taught in schools where 95% or more of the pupils are of the same religion.

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Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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Housing Executive rocked by damning criticism of report commissioned by itself

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

Report reveals damning indictment of NIHE management

“I don’t want this to happen to another mother's child”

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:05:00 +0000

EIGHTEEN months after her son died in Hydebank as a result of bullying which went unchallenged by prison management, Sylvia Carson is still waiting for some form of apology.

A catalogue of neglect – but no-one is held to account for the death of Samuel Carson

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

THE Prison Service failings which preceded the suicide of Samuel Carson in Hydebank Wood were among the worst the Prisoner Ombudsman says she has ever seen - but no-one has been disciplined.

Gaps in care of vulnerable Maghaberry prisoners

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:05:00 +0000

GAPS still exist in the care of vulnerable prisoners at Maghaberry Prison according to a new report from the Criminal Justice Inspectorate.

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Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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Parading: An Ulster-Scots solution?

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:05:00 +0000

Radical proposals to see parades in Northern Ireland managed within the same tough framework used in Scotland have emerged as politicians seek to avoid yet another violent marching season.

The government offices lying empty while the taxpayer foots the bill

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

An investigation by the Audit Office has found that £700,000 was spent to keep two unused government buildings in mothballs

PSNI rebuffs coroner over Special Branch's handling of Stalker report

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

PSNI refuse coroners request for information on Special Branch role

Four More Years Of What?

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

So - after two years of campaigning and $6 billion in campaign spending, the U.S. federal government remains essentially unchanged.

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Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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What does anonymity ruling mean for undercover police?

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

PSNI undercover officers protocol

Review sheds new light on vulnerable adult abuse allegations

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

NEW information has emerged regarding allegations of abuse of vulnerable adults at a care home in the Western Trust during July and August 2012.

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Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER WHERE YOU LIVE?

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:05:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY More than 100,900 people across Northern Ireland were diagnosed with cancer between 2001 and 2010 and 38,139 people died from the disease.

Cancer cases diagnosed 2001 - 2010

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:05:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Cancer by postcode: how many people were diagnosed with cancer where you live?

The stone in Orangemen's shoes: restricted parades

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0000

ONLY five per cent of Loyal Order parades in Northern Ireland have any restrictions placed on them - but according to a leading Orangeman these have come to crystalise everything that many loyalists and unionists feel is wrong with the political landscape

Lifting the siege? How the Orange Order dropped its ban on talks – and what it really means

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0000

The Order’s effective ban on talks – once an article of faith for Orangemen – has been quietly dropped. In the second part of a special series on parades, The Detail’s Steven McCaffery reports on how the Orange Order made its seismic shift

No Inquest for Psuedomonas baby death

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0000

NORTHERN Ireland's chief coroner has ruled that there will not be an inquest into the death of the last baby to die of pseudomonas at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Ward in January this year, The Detail can reveal.

Recommendations remain outstanding

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0000

IMPORTANT measures to improve the care of newborn babies in Northern Ireland have not yet been put in place, despite deadlines set by the review team investigating the Pseudomonas outbreak.

Hung jury in Jordan case raises new questions about juries in Troubles killing inquests

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0000

Legal academic questions whether inquests are the proper forum to deal with Troubles deaths?

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Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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DEL responds over failure to secure EU funding for FG Wilson workers

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:00:00 +0100

Following the publication of the Detail’s story revealing how the two government departments have failed to apply for EGF funding for FG Wilson workers, a DEL spokeswoman responded to our press inquiry.

The financial lifeline denied to FG Wilson workers

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0100

UP TO 760 workers made redundant by FG Wilson last month could benefit from a €500m EU aid package yet two Stormont departments appear to have backtracked on applying to the fund.

School of Dentistry in "fragile state"

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:00:00 +0100

THE Belfast School of Dentistry, voted the best in the UK only four years ago, remains unstable and categorised “high-risk”, the dental governing body has found nearly two years after a scandal broke over standards there. A follow-up inspection by The G

Coroner told former Special Branch officers in charge of redacting `shoot to kill' files

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:15:00 +0100

victims' families have reacted angrily to confirmation that former Special Branch officers have been placed in charge of preparing top secret materials which will be seen by the coroner.

Confidentiality clauses still used in clinical negligence cases

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN

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Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Clinical negligence - the cost

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN

RUC man who shot unarmed PIRA man told doctor job had been "great until ceasefire"

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:10:00 +0100

Officer who fired the fatal shots in Jordan shooting admits he was also part of shoot-to-kill cover-up in 1982

Lobbying over Special Advisers bill sparks row

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:00:00 +0100

Legislation to ban former prisoners from becoming Stormont special advisers has hit controversy after the MLA behind the bill asked up to 200 people to lobby the committee currently scrutinising his proposal.

Breaking the cycle of parades violence?

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:05:00 +0100

BY STEVEN MCCAFFERY

Our battle to obtain the documents

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:05:00 +0100

It took seven months and the intervention of the Information Commissioner before the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister released documents relating the their controversial appointment process.

How Northern Ireland's most senior civil servant got the job: the gaps in our knowledge

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:05:00 +0100

THE Office of the First and Deputy First Minister is refusing to respond to questions relating to the controversial appointment process used for the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service - including why it took seven months to release papers into the

Detailed extracts from the documents

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:05:00 +0100

Detailed extracts from the documents

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Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Marie Stopes Belfast centre will provide abortions "within NI legal framework"

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:00:00 +0100

Marie Stopes clinic to open in Belfast next week

Marie Stopes: Our questions and answers

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:00:00 +0100

The questions we posed to Marie Stopes

Whistleblower raises concerns about Co Antrim children's home

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:00:00 +0100

A NORTHERN Ireland children’s home is at the centre of a police and health service investigation after child protection concerns were raised by a whistleblower.

Going to plan? How Invest NI's strategy is really working out

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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In Defence of Politics

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0100

It seems fashionable to knock our politicians – our MLAs and MPs are lazy, incompetent, corrupt, petty-minded and self-serving...

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Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Rehiring in the police: the full story

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0100

NEARLY one in 5 of those who took the Patten severance package from the RUC were later re-employed by the PSNI as civilian workers, an investigation has found.

Detail News 28/09/12

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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The flawed patient transfer system which went uncorrected

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0100

We speak to the family of George Hunter, a former resident at Strangford Court- a private nursing home in Downpatrick. Inadequacies in the homes self styled “hospital passport” system for keeping ‘up to date’ information on its resident’s medications rec

Stormont promised to streamline procurement - but waste is still running at £100m

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0100

The only item Stormont departments could agree to jointly purchase was photocopy paper

More than 1,000 rented houses sub-standard in Northern Ireland

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0100

More than 1,000 notices have been given to houses of multiple occupation in Northern Ireland for falling below official standards. As housing chiefs consider providing more people with accommodation in the form of rooms in shared houses, figures from the

Detail News 21/09/12

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Detail News 14/09/12

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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McCausland was warned about legal risk of community funding plan eight months ago

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:05:00 +0100

McCausland warned of potential legal challenge eight months ago

The DUP's full role in Red Sky row revealed

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0100

the Detail can now reveal the extraordinary lengths to which First Minister Peter Robinson and the DUP were prepared to go to protect disgraced contractors Red Sky

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Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Are society's most vulnerable more at risk?

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY NIALL McCRACKEN AND NIAMH McMURRAY New figures obtained by The Detail show that the number of referrals to health trusts about potential risks to vulnerable adults and children here have increased dramatically in recent years.

Housing Executive officials ignored own warnings about contractors' overcharging

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0100

NIHE confirms that 25 members of the staff have faced disciplinary proceedings over their role in Red Sky affair

Legal protocol on stillbirths to be re-examined

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:05:00 +0100

THE law on how stillbirths are dealt with in Northern Ireland is set to be deliberated in the High Court, opening up the prospect that these baby deaths could be scrutinised in a Coroner’s Court for the first time.

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Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Department took years to address "unlawful" school bus contracts

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:01:00 +0100

"10 years for department to address illegal bus operation"

"Lifers" not prepared for release as numbers rise

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:01:00 +0100

THE number of life sentence prisoners being released in Northern Ireland could reach a record high,as there are fears that the system to re-integrate them back into society is in disarray.

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Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Who owns Northern Ireland's 153,000 legally held guns?

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Almost 60,000 members of the public in Northern Ireland own over 146,000 firearms with the remaining 7,018 legally held guns belonging to serving police and prison officers.

Department of Health statement on MES findings

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:01:00 +0100

The following is a statement issued to us by the Department on the buildings at the centre of the MES report.

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Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Northern Ireland's ailing hospital buildings revealed

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:01:00 +0100

FIFTEEN buildings within Northern Ireland’s health estate present a "particularly high risk" to the lives of patients, staff and the public, a survey carried out for the Department of Health has established.

Does good government create wealth?

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:00:00 +0100

Matthew Symington on 'Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty'.

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Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Solitary confinement has doubled in Hydebank Prison. The Detail asks why?

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Figures obtained by The Detail reveal a huge surge in the use of solitary confinement against young prisoners at Hydebank since 2008 while in contrast its use as a punishment has been dramatically scaled back at Northern Ireland’s main adult prison at Mag

The teenager for whom solitary is the norm

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

A was just 14 years of age when he was charged with attempted robbery and threats to kill in June 2009. However A’s father has now spoken for the first time to complain that his son is being turned into a “caged animal” inside Hydebank prison having been

Use of solitary "not cavalier": new prisons director

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Northern Ireland Prison Service director Sue McAllister has pledged to investigate new figures which show an alrming rise in the use of solitary confinment punishment against inmates at Hydebank Prison.

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Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Children's MRI Scanner still in limbo

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:00:00 +0100

Plans to establish a MRI scanner at the Children’s Hospital to speed up and improve diagnoses of young patients are still bogged down in internal health system process more than four months after the trust assured that the issue was moving, The Detail can

Delay upon delay: Can Northern Ireland ever deal with its most difficult cases?

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Decades of delays in establishing inquests into state killings remains a “serious and extensive problem” which questions whether coroner’s inquests are “structurally capable” of providing grieving families with an effective investigation into the deaths

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Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Parents' rights to information on disabled children’s care “neutered”

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

The father of a severely disabled child has said a fundamental right of parents here in safeguarding their children’s safety has been removed with a new amendment to the legislation that regulates the management and conduct of children's homes in Northern

Housing Executive sold public land to favoured developers in secret deals

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

A Northern Ireland Audit Office report due to be published today raises serious questions as to how the Housing Executive allowed public land to be sold-off to “favoured” private developers at tens of millions of pounds below the market value.

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Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Extracts from the documents released under Freedom of Information

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Extracts from the documents

Executive Ministers criticised for poor attendance at domestic and sexual violence group

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Over 700 families have to be re-housed in Northern Ireland every year as a result of domestic violence. Six people are killed. At least 11,000 children live with domestic violence on a daily basis and the PSNI deals with more than 100 domestic violence as

Baby heart failure investigation criticised by Ombudsman

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:30:00 +0100

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN

HET acting illegally in approach to security force member connected killings

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:00:00 +0100

A police unit set up to investigate Troubles-related killings is in breach of international law by operating a policy of preferential treatment to members of the security forces over civilian victims, a government inspectorate has warned.

PSNI officer refused compensation for bomb injuries

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0100

UUP leader demands change in legislation to allow injured officer to receive industrial injury benefit

Ambulance turnaround times increasing under new A&E regime

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:15:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The average turnaround time for ambulances transporting people with potentially life-threatening conditions to our hospitals has increased by 12% since the closure of Belfast City Hospital’s A&E department, The Detail can reveal.

Dispute over right of way is road to ruination

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Robert and Deirdre Shaw owe £150,000 in legal fees over a land dispute centred on the laneway at the side of their home. Soon they could be bankrupt and homeless.

Government departments refuse to pass on information on employees convicted of fraud

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Roads Service have rejected auditors belief that a potential £3.65m could be saved if 7,000 Blue badges were cancelled to prevent them being sold on the black market

Is this the future of public housing in Northern Ireland?

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:00:00 +0100

NIHE could be split into five separate associations and lose direct control of allocation of homes if 90,000 tenants are asked to vote on its future, according to one of the UK’s leading housing experts.

New pseudomonas investigation: trust now interviewing staff about Baby 3 medical records

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:00:00 +0100

The Medical Director of the Belfast Trust has contacted the family of Baby 3 to inform them that an investigation is ongoing into issues around their baby’s medical notes, including interviews with staff members. Following the publication of an interview

Father of Baby 3: still awaiting the truth

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

THE father of the third baby to die of pseudomonas at the Royal Victoria Maternity Hospital in January has spoken for the first time to say they have been let down by authorities.

Exam results in Northern Ireland: does religion matter?

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY New figures which break down pupils’ exam achievements by their religion show a wide variation in performance in some council areas of Northern Ireland.

McCausland challenged over special housing preference for loyalist areas

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

He was criticised for blocking plans to build 200 homes for homeless nationalists but has now been accused of placing the Housing Executive under undue pressure to build 85 homes in loyalist areas without any clear evidence of homelessness - The Detail

What really went on inside DSD when DUP demanded religious breakdown of Housing Executive staff

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

His own departmental officials and trade union leaders urged him not to do it so why did DSD Minister Nelson McCausland insist on publishing the religious breakdown of Housing Executive staff working in North Belfast?

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Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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What happened next

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

What happened next

Chronicle of a judge stepping aside from a case

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Judge steps aside

Taking a risk in unstable times

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:30:00 +0100

Taking a risk in unstable times

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Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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FoI documents contradict NIO denials over Hutchinson appointment

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

A justice watchdog has challenged the NIO to “set the record straight” and admit that it mishandled the appointment of Al Hutchinson to the position of Police Ombudsman in 2007.

Family of "baby 3" want death investigated under corporate manslaughter legislation

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

The solicitor for the family of “Baby 3” has written to the PSNI asking them to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of their baby under Corporate Manslaughter legislation. While there has only been one successful conviction here under the

Universities in times of crisis and renewal

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Universities in times of crisis and renewal

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Cuts suffered by "Baby 3" missing from the record - and the infection inquiry

Thu, 31 May 2012 11:00:00 +0100

THE solicitor for the family of the third baby to die of pseudomonas at the Royal Victoria Maternity Hospital in January, has told The Detail of their pain and disappointment following the publication of phase two of the Troop Review.

What the principals said

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY What school principals think of the pupil attendance figures.

Is there poor pupil attendance at your local schools?

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY More than 21,000 pupils at schools in Northern Ireland had a serious problem with their attendance during the last academic year, The Detail can reveal.

Fit to teach in university?

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

By Anon Deplume Telling someone what to do is not teaching. “You must show them.” I remember being commended as a child for showing a classmate how to subtract using a few of those tiny plastic counting cubes. Our teacher, suggesting a future career i

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Fri, 25 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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The employment cases which show further dysfunction within PONI

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY CHRIS MOORE THE Police Ombudsman’s office has spent nearly £94,000 defending employment cases taken against them by members of their own staff.

Huge waiting lists for serious immune deficiencies and urgent allergy problems

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN

PAC questions why no disciplinary proceedings against former head of Civil Service

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Disciplinary measures should have been considered against a former head of Northern Ireland’s Civil Service for what has been branded as one of the “starkest examples of incompetence and mismanagement” of public funding.

The Police Ombudsman: value for money?

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Police Ombudsman doesn't know conviction rate

Why the Police Ombudsman won’t tell you the outcome of your complaint

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY CHRIS MOORE THE Police Ombudsman here is prevented from informing complainants about the outcome of their investigations because of data protection concerns, The Detail has learnt. And whilst it’s not be top of the agenda, there's a feeling in the Po

Detail News 18/05/12

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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PPS criticised for failing to provide families with answers

Thu, 17 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

CJI report into PPS

"Under-performing staff should be identified, supported, re-trained or if all else fails, dismissed.”

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:01:00 +0100

Sir Robert Salisbury chaired Northern Ireland’s Literacy and Numeracy Taskforce. In an article written for The Detail, he gives his view on the attempt to improve reading standards and calls for urgent action.

Irish soccer team to wear black armbands to commemorate Loughinisland atrocity

Wed, 16 May 2012 07:05:00 +0100

Irish soccer team to wear black arm band to commemorate Loughinisland attrocity

Long hospital waits putting mental health patients' lives at risk

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

A DISTURBING study of mental health patient and carers’ experiences at Northern Ireland’s accident and emergency departments raises serious questions about the treatment and support given to people presenting with self-harm or suicidal thoughts.

Government investment in literacy support for struggling children axed

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Northern Ireland Assembly fails reading and writing classes

Hydebank enquiry to focus on handling of alleged inappropriate behaviour

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:00:00 +0100

Prison governor suspended because alleged incidents not properly investigated

The growth of secret ’evidence’ and the case of Marian Price

Sun, 13 May 2012 21:24:00 +0100

By Daniel Holder There were two significant reminders last week about the creeping use of secret ‘evidence.’ The first was the continued imprisonment of Marian McGlinchey (née Price) despite her three co-accused walking free when a judge threw out charg

Detail News 11/05/12

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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The clash between freedom of speech and personal reputation

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Paul Tweed

The Detail News 04/0512

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Jury says SAS justified in shooting IRA man on ground

Thu, 03 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY BARRY MCCAFFREY An SAS soldier who shot an IRA man dead as he lay mortally wounded on the ground was justified in firing the fatal shots because he believed his life was still in danger, an inquest jury has ruled.

OFMDFM confirm newspaper advertising cuts

Wed, 02 May 2012 21:24:00 +0100

The Detail’s revelation that OFMDFM plans to cut government classified advertising to local newspapers has been officially confirmed for the first time by Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness. In April the Detail revealed the contents of a confidential go

More low wage workers and pensioners living in poverty

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Rowntree report

Fire chiefs take heat for "irregular" overtime claims

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Auditors have discovered that Northern Ireland Fire&Rescue Service has been operating for decades without any proper guidelines to oversee overtime payments

Bishops shielding paedophiles are moral and criminal issues

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Ian Elliott Story

Paedophile priest paid by church for 17 years

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Fr Daniel Curran was first convicted and jailed for child sex abuse in 1995 – a year after his best friend Fr Brendan Smyth was sent to prison. Curran was last convicted and jailed for four years on February 29 this year on similar charges. In the 17 y

Hain, the Attorney General and Information Control

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0100

Hain, the Attorney General and Information Control

The Detail News 27/04/12

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Timeline of Taylor's capture

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:00:00 +0100

Timeline of Taylor's capture

The crimes

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:00:00 +0100

The crimes

The Irish soldier who brought Charles Taylor to court

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:00:00 +0100

CHARLES Taylor today (Thursday) became the first former head of state convicted by an international court since the Nuremburg military tribunal of Nazis after World War II - and it was an Irish general who got him there.

Neonatal ward hygiene issues unresolved in lead up to baby death

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

By Niall McCracken The solicitor for the family of the third baby to die at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Ward in January, has written to the head of the team investigating the circumstances surrounding the pseudomonas outbreak asking her to address a nu

Family want explanation from review team

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

The case for a bill of rights

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:00:00 +0100

The new beginning that never was: Where now for the NI Bill of rights?

HOW MUCH DO PARENTS OWE IN MAINTENANCE TO CHILDREN LIVING IN YOUR AREA?

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Parents living in Northern Ireland owe over £87m in child maintenance to the government agency tasked with collecting and distributing the payments, The Detail can reveal.

Detailed figures broken down by council area

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Detailed figures on child maintenance arrears for each Northern Ireland council area.

The battle to get the figures

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY It took almost three months of emails, meetings and phone calls to obtain a detailed breakdown of Northern Ireland’s child maintenance arrears.

The Detail News 20/04/12

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Coroner considers no inquest into maternal death

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0100

By Oisin Kearney The Senior Coroner is considering abandoning plans for an inquest into the death of a pregnant woman and her baby at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald. Coroner John Leckey made the comment at a Preliminary Hearing of an inquest into the de

Invest NI reverses decision after legal dispute

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:24:00 +0100

Invest NI settle on multi-million pound contract dispute

Blowing the whistle on health service secrecy

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

A HEALTH service whistleblower's group has set up in Northern Ireland at a time when concerns about safety in our health and social care system are rarely out of the news.

Inquiry experts fail to reach agreement

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Inquiry experts still disagree

The Detail News 13/04/12

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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The Detail News 06/04/12

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Pseudomonas outbreak: grieving family still has questions

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:00:00 +0100

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN THE family of the third baby who died after the pseudomonas outbreak at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital (RJMH) in January 2012 have spoken for the first time to say they have concerns about gaps in the hospital records provided to

The last baby to die

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:00:00 +0100

The pseudomonas outbreak claimed the lives of four premature babies in December and January and a central function of the Troop review into the outbreak is to set down measures to ensure it never happens again. We examine the timeline of events.

Contested clearway on our most ticketed road

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Belfast's Lisburn Road was the most ticketed street or road in all of Northern Ireland - exemplifying the tensions between traffic management and providing access to local businesses.

TICKETS PER STREET: BUSHMILLS - DUNMURRY

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The parking tickets issued in every street: Bushmills - Dunmurry

TICKETS PER STREET: MAGHERA - WARRENPOINT

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The parking tickets issued in every street: Maghera - Warrenpoint

TICKETS PER STREET: ENNISKILLEN - LURGAN

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The parking tickets issued in every street: Enniskillen - Lurgan

STREETS/ ROADS/ CAR PARKS WITH MOST TICKETS

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The streets/roads/car parks in Northern Ireland with the most parking tickets issued in 2011.

WHERE EVERY PARKING TICKET WAS ISSUED IN 2011

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY More than 125,800 parking tickets were issued in towns and cities across Northern Ireland in 2011. The Detail has compiled an interactive map which shows the number of tickets issued in each town and the most ticketed street/car park.

TICKETS PER STREET: AHOGHILL - BANGOR

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The parking tickets issued in every street: Ahoghill - Bangor

TICKETS ISSUED IN EACH TOWN

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Table showing the parking tickets issued in each Northern Ireland town in 2011.

TICKETS PER STREET: BELFAST

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The parking tickets issued in every street in Belfast.

TOP 10 REASONS PARKING TICKETS WERE ISSUED

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The top 10 reasons parking tickets were issued in Northern Ireland in 2011.

A century of climate change in NI

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

A century of climate change in NI

A heatwave in spring: Northern Ireland and climate change

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

Climate change

How Stormont cuts could decide what newspaper you read

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:01:00 +0100

How Stormont cuts could decide what newspaper you read

The Detail News 30/03/12

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0100

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Cuts to injuries unit even deeper than feared

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:00:00 +0100

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN Hospital campaigners have dubbed a decision by the Southern Health Trust over a reduction of hours at South Tyrone’s minor injury unit a “smoke screen”.

Concern about plan to cut hours of busy minor injuries unit

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0100

By Niall McCracken A decision to reduce the number of hours at the minor injuries unit at South Tyrone Hospital could see an overspill of over a thousand patients a year to already under pressure A&E wards in the Southern Health Trust area. Last Septemb

State of the art dementia centre almost empty

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0100

A STATE of the art supported living centre for people with dementia still lies practically empty a year-and-a-half after it first opened its doors.

The Detail News 23/03/12

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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The Detail News 16/03/12

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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The Detail: one year on

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:00:00 +0000

The Detail: one year on

The longest waits

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY In rare cases among the tens of thousands of 999 calls, some people had to wait over an hour for an ambulance or rapid response vehicle to arrive. We list some of the longest recorded waits....

Ambulance Service is "working with limited resources"

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said that response times are influenced by the key constraints of availability of funding and managing and dealing with population density.

HOW QUICKLY DID HELP ARRIVE WHERE YOU LIVE?

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Where you live in Northern Ireland makes a massive difference to ambulance response times in life threatening situations, it can be revealed today. We analysed 215,349 emergency calls made to the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service.

The Detail News 09/03/12

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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The human rights abuses of NI's elderly

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0000

A new report looking at the quality of care provided to Northern Ireland’s elderly population has raised serious concerns about the use of restraint and the handling of medication by GPs. The report entitled “In Defense of Dignity” was commissioned by

Time for the truth on Omagh: Laurence Rush solicitor

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0000

Laurence Rush

Towards a new kind of public discourse

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0000

Brendan McAllister: Towards a new kind of public discourse

The Detail News 02/03/12

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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MLAs blocked from "urgent" health meeting

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:05:00 +0000

THE chair of Stormont's Health Committee has accused the Department of Health of preventing MLAs from attending an "urgent meeting" into hygiene failures at the Royal Jubilee neo-natal unit.

Mother calls for inquiry chairman to resign

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:24:00 +0000

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN THE inquiry into Hyponatraemia-Related Deaths is set to face even more delays, The Detail can reveal. A statement issued by Inquiry Chairman, John O’Hara QC, issued last night (Tuesday) to representatives of the five chil

Policing deal in Northern Ireland "is not secure"

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:01:00 +0000

As the 14th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement draws near, a new report has warned that the policing deal in Northern Ireland is not secure.

‘Go For It’ has gone

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:01:00 +0000

‘Go For It’ Gone ?

The Detail News 24/02/12

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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What can the Police Ombudsman investigate?

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000

ROSIE says she felt her options were shut down after she contacted the Police Ombudsman’s to complain about the raid on her home [LINK HERE] and she feels she was misled. As she sets out in the video above, she says she was told that the Police Ombudsma

Getting accountability after a police raid

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000

BY CHRIS MOORE A CO Antrim mother wants to know why six armed police officers charged her house last October with weapons drawn. BY CHRIS MOORE A CO Antrim mother wants to know why six armed police officers charged her house last October with weapons d

The Value of Values in Higher Education

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:01:00 +0000

An insider's view of student evaluation

Complaints against professionals in fluid death cases dragging on for years

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:24:00 +0000

Doctors Hypo Inquiry

The Detail News 17/02/12

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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Regulator has yet to inspect any of NI's acute hospital neonatal units

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:59:00 +0000

NORTHERN Ireland’s hygiene and infection regulator has never inspected any of Northern Ireland’s neonatal units. The Regulation & Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) conducts an ongoing programme of infection prevention/hygiene inspection across NI

Trust refusal to answer FOI because issue "still live"

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:59:00 +0000

THE Detail has received email documentation that shows the Belfast Trust’s refusal to respond to Freedom of Information requests concerning the outbreak of Pseudomonas at the Royal’s neonatal unit because the situation is “still live".

Immunology taps failing hygiene Inspections

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:59:00 +0000

MORE than a week after Health Minister Edwin Poots announced an investigation into the Pseudomonas outbreak, internal hygiene reports obtained by The Detail reveal that a separate ward at the Royal Victoria Hospital had already failed key hygiene targets

New inquest ordered into Co Down teenager's death

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:59:00 +0000

THE safety of the government’s childhood vaccination programme is set to come under the spotlight after the Attorney General ordered that a second inquest must be held into the death of a 15-year-old schoolboy from Co Down.

The Detail News 10/02/12

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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The 77 schools with less than 35% of their pupils achieving five or more GCSE grades A* to C, including English and Maths

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The 77 schools with less than 35% of their pupils achieving five or more GCSE grades A* to C, including English and Maths.

Grammar schools' GCSE and A-Level results

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The GCSE and A-Level results for every Northern Ireland grammar school.

Exam results show a third of our schools are "failing"

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY More than a third of Northern Ireland’s post-primary schools would be rated as “failing” under exam performance criterion set by the coalition government for schools in England, The Detail can reveal.

Non-grammar schools' GCSE results

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The GCSE results for every non-grammar school in Northern Ireland.

GCSE and A-Level result data for every post-primary school

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The GCSE and A-Level result data for every post-primary school in Northern Ireland.

New key witness evidence in child death inquiry

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:24:00 +0000

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN One of the key witnesses in the inquiry into the deaths of children from suspected fluid overload in hospitals here has acknowledged his responsibility in managing the fluids that contributed to the death of four-year-old Adam Strain.

The Detail News 03/02/12

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:24:00 +0000

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Now betting shop atrocity failings come to light

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

sean graham's bookmakers

The Detail News 27/01/12

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:30:00 +0000

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Waiting ...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0000

An insight into information management in Northern Ireland

The people the system isn't catching

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000

BUREAUCRACY and institutional defensiveness can still impede practical help in some cases of life-or-death mental illness, according to two families The Detail has spoken to.

Are more mental health patients dying from suicide?

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000

MORE than 220 people known to mental health services died in suspected suicides in Northern Ireland over a two-year period, The Detail can reveal today.

Summaries of serious adverse incident reports

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000

Summaries of serious adverse incident reports

Keeping track and providing hope

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000

“WHAT suicidal patients need more than anything is hope.” These are the words of a consultant psychiatrist who spoke to The Detail during our research on suicide rates among mentally ill patients.

Regulator has NEVER inspected neonatal infection ward

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:24:00 +0000

THE Detail can reveal that the regulator tasked with conducting external infection and hygiene inspections at hospital wards across Northern Ireland has never inspected the neonatal unit at Belfast’s Royal Jubilee Maternity hospital.

The Detail News 20/01/12

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:01:00 +0000

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Community impact statements: What impact?

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0000

A 'communication failing’ identified in the Donagh village sex abuse scandal may result in new legislation or procedures to allow communities to have a say in court about the impact serious crime has had on them.

The Detail News 13/01/12

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:59:00 +0000

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Delays and backlogs feared during "Interim Ombudsman" phase

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000

THE temporary replacement for Northern Ireland’s Police Ombudsman may not have the legal powers to recommend prosecution against police officers when she takes over at the end of this month, the Detail has learned.

The Detail News 06/01/12

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:59:00 +0000

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The state and Northern Ireland’s past

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:24:00 +0000

They’ve admitted collusion happened in Northern Ireland; they’ve apologised for Bloody-Sunday and the murder of Pat Finucane. But how up-front is the British government really being when it comes to who, how, where and when of the State personnel willingl

The trials of FSNI

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:01:00 +0000

FSNI is no stranger to controversy with the quality of its processes having been repeatedly called into question over the last decade. Contamination of evidence, pressure from the police to provide results, mix-ups, forged signatures and failure to keep e

The letters which reveals forensic science in turmoil and denial

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:01:00 +0000

FSNI story

The Detail News 16/12/11

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:55:00 +0000

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Thousands imprisoned every year for minor crimes

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0000

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Thousands of people in Northern Ireland have been sent to jail for not paying fines for minor crimes including not having a light on their bicycle, dropping litter and fishing without a licence.

Families pay a heavy cost for fine jail terms

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Olwen Lyner, chief executive of the Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (Niacro) gives her view on imprisonment for fine defaulting:

Steven Colwell killing: where’s the accountability?

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:01:00 +0000

A PSNI officer who shot dead an unarmed civilian nearly six years ago was allowed to remain on duty despite the Police Ombudsman describing his actions as “critically flawed” and asking the Chief Constable to consider whether he was fit to remain in possession of a firearm and engage with the public.

Why did it take the Police Ombudsman six years to report on a PSNI killing?

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:00:00 +0000

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Hygiene failures: same hospital, different ward

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:00:00 +0000

The Chief Executive of Northern Ireland’s independent health regulator has publicly defended the actions of the RQIA following a series of reports by The Detail about its failure to address failing hygiene standards at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Last m

Family fight to ensure Steven is not another statistic

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:00:00 +0000

Steven Colwell's family question whether he could have been arrested and insist that police did not need to open fire on the unarmed 23 year-old

Truth Commission for Northern Ireland “would protect the rights of all”

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:15:00 +0000

EU Council

The Detail News 09/12/11

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:55:00 +0000

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The ethical deficit of our MLAs' pensions pot

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:24:00 +0000

BY BARRY MCCAFFREY AND CIARAN BARTLETT MILLIONS of pounds of taxpayers' money has been ploughed into ensuring they have a well funded pension scheme - but why are MLAs investing in companies accused of tax evasion, price fixing, enforced evictions and cr

MLAs face more questions over latest pensions investments

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:24:00 +0000

Stormont MLAs have been challenged to defend their pension fund’s decision to invest in the nuclear weapons industry. The call comes as an independent panel meets at Stormont today to review MLA salaries and their pensions.

The Detail News 02/12/11

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:55:00 +0000

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Holding the Church to account

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:30:00 +0000

Holding the Church to account

Facing up to abuse in the Catholic Church

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:30:00 +0000

Chris Moore reports on the uphill struggle of one victim of sex abuse who simply wants acknowlegement of the crime inflicted on him in a Catholic school.

The DETI millions and the biotech venture which never happened

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:01:00 +0000

It was meant to build a state-of-the-art centre of excellence for Northern Ireland’s emerging bio-tech industry but why did millions of pounds in government funding end up being squandered on finder’s fees, double billing and unauthorised payments to fami

DETI Minister refuses to reply to audit report for another seven weeks

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

DETI & Invest NI refuse

First Trust admits overcharging 8,800 customers

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

First Trust Story

The Detail News 25/11/11

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

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Ombudsman says it can't investigate police killings

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

BY BARRY MCCAFFREY Victims' families have reacted angrily this afternoon after being dramatically informed by the Police Ombudsman that it can no longer investigate the killings of anyone shot dead by a police officer during the Troubles. The Police Ombu

Failing ward under spotlight once again

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:24:00 +0000

THE ward at the centre of an outbreak of Clostridium Difficile at the Royal Victoria Hospital is the same one whose persistent issues with hygiene were highlighted by The Detail five weeks ago.

Did OFMDFM squander economic boost from MoD gift of bases?

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:01:00 +0000

It was supposed to be the ultimate financial gift when the British government handed over six security bases to be redeveloped to boost Northern Ireland’s flagging economy, but have a series of OFMDFM management mistakes led to taxpayers being left to cle

The Detail News 18/11/11

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:30:00 +0000

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Delaying the bad news?

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

As many eyes were focused on the long awaited Programme for Government announcement at Stormont, the final report of a taskforce set up to examine poor literacy and numeracy levels in our schools was launched.

Mother fears inquiry collapse

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

THE Detail today can reveal the contents of an emotional charged letter written to the head of the postponed public inquiry into child deaths in Northern Irelands hospitals.

Government anti-bullying drive fails to make an impact

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

TENS of thousands of children continue to be targeted by bullies in schools across Northern Ireland despite a nine year campaign by the Department of Education to tackle the problem.

The Detail News 11/11/11

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

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SDLP- Choosing the Leader. Again

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

Choosing the Leader. Again

No money for dementia strategy

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

It was flagged as urgent; to be taken up immediately by the Health Minister and Executive after the elections in May, but now the Minister for Health, Social Services & Public Safety has announced that there isn’t enough money to fund a dementia strategy.

The Detail News 4/11/11

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

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What's involved in self-representing at a tribunal?

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:01:00 +0000

THE Detail has investigated the practicalities of self-representing in an employment tribunal.

A hidden world of settlements and gagging orders

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:01:00 +0000

An overwhelming number of tribunal claims against our public bodies end in settlements sworn to secrecy, an investigation by The Detail reveals.

"Secret justice" and "Justice delayed" in the dock

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:01:00 +0000

A COURT case gets under way today which has the potential to transform how evidence about informants is dealt with by the courts.

The perils of taking your boss to tribunal

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:01:00 +0000

An overwhelming about of employees fail when they bring a claim against their employer. Employees are left unrepresented as legal aid is unavailable, whilst their bosses will hire the best Lawyers to take them on.

Dragging its feet on dementia

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:01:00 +0000

Almost six months after the election, the long-promised dementia strategy has yet to appear.

The Detail News 28/10/11

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

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"Secret justice" and "justice delayed" in the dock

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Belfast solicitor challenges state use of secret justice

Dragging its feet on dementia

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

It was flagged as urgent; to be taken up immediately by the Health Minister and Executive after the elections in May, but almost six months on, there has been no movement on Northern Ireland’s dementia strategy.

Millions of public money lost by fraud and error - auditor

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:02:00 +0100

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McGuinness makes final push for the presidency

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Wwith less than seven days to go until the presidential election in the Republic it still remains unclear who will ultimately take up residency at the Aras

The Detail News 21/10/11

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

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Policing by inspection

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

DETAILS of inspection reports produced by RQIA raise further questions over why the agency has never exercised its powers of sanction. RQIA's favoured tactic appears to have been increasing the number of inspections each time.

Survivor of abuse discards his anonymity

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Survivor of abuse discards his anonymity

Ward still struggling with hygiene after RQIA intervention

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

IT TOOK eight months for the RQIA to respond to Gerry Bond's complaints about ward hygiene after his grandson almost died of an infection and it led to one of its most damning reports, but two years on the ward concerned is still barely making the mark.

Regulation in care homes: what does it take to act?

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

IT’S SUPPOSED to be at the heart of patient safety in our health and social care system, but an investigation by The Detail into policing of care homes by thr RQIA raises serious questions about the effectivene

Child inquiry postponed

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:00:00 +0100

The inquiry into the deaths of a number of children from suspected fluid overload in hospitals has been postponed until next year, The Detail can reveal.

Finucane decision will leave doubts and concerns over case: Cory

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Judge Corey story

The Detail News 14/10/11

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

With him on one side, and him on the other

The ethical deficit of our MLAs' pensions pot

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Millions has been spent on our MLAs' pensions, but The Detail can reveal that it's being invested in firms accused of tax evasion, price-fixing and enforced evicions in some of the poorest parts of the world..

Why did Cameron renege on Pat Finucane deal?

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:00:00 +0100

British Prime Minister David Cameron unexpectedly announced there would be no inquiry or compromise with the Finucane family. But why did the Prime Minister renege on the agreement? why did Mr Cameron choose to snatch political defeat from the jaws of vic

The Ghost of Pat Finucane still stalks the British

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:00:00 +0100

No 10 was an uncomfortable destination for the Finuncane family yesterday

A breakthrough on the horizon for the Finucanes?

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:01:00 +0100

THE campaign for answers about the murder of Pat Finucane is entering a new phase as his family embark on the final push for an inquiry which would provide the complete picture of events surrounding the killing.

The questions Cory wants answered

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:01:00 +0100

In 2004 retired Canadian judge Peter Cory uncovered substantial evidence of security force collusion in the murder of Pat Finucane. That evidence included security chiefs failing to warn the solicitor of three previous threats to his life

The Detail News 7/10/11

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

With him on one side, and him on the other

Reflections on Northern Ireland’s child abuse inquiry

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:15:00 +0100

Reflections on Northern Ireland’s child abuse inquiry

What Northern Ireland is REALLY offering child abuse survivors

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:15:00 +0100

For decades they pursued justice. But the question now is: Are these survivors of abuse being cheated again?

How a husband and father-to-be saw his dreams for the future destroyed

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

RAYMOND Mackin had done all in his power to ensure his fiancée, Anne Hearty, and their unborn child, Conall, would be safe on their journey through pregnancy and childbirth.

A mother and baby die during labour – but have the lessons been learned?

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Raymond Mackin and Anne Hearty had made plans for their life together.

Fitting the crime?

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Fitting the Crime?

The Detail News 30/9/11

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

With him on one side, and him on the other

Putting violent partners in the dock

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

As the criminal justice system prepares a new approach in a bid to reverse the persistently low conviction rates for domestic violence crimes, one woman today lays bare the reality of an abusive relationship.

A victim no more

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Abigail Lyle is keen to emphasise that there is life after abuse.

The Detail News 23/9/11

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

With him on one side, and him on the other

The Detail News 16/9/11

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

With him on one side, and him on the other

The 174 health care related deaths you didn’t know about

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:00:00 +0100

174 people died in health care linked serious adverse incidents in Northern Ireland in the 14 months up to the start of July, The Detail can reveal.

Heartbreak and frustration after a hospital death

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Stephen Murtagh knows from heartbreaking personal experience what it is like when a loved one dies in hospital.

Tories on the edge

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:00:00 +0100

With Scottish Conservative hopes dashed at the general election and a Conservative pact with the UUP leading to nothing, Patrick Haugseng looks at how Conservatives are now trying to make a break outside England.

The Detail News 9/9/11

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:56:00 +0100

With him on one side, and him on the other

The price of pain relief

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Prescription drugs

Supergrass system back in the dock after 25 years in limbo

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Supergrass system back in the dock

The questions about prescribing

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The rise of Tramadol raises new questions about how opioid drugs are managed within our health service.

New report puts pressure on Hutchinson to quit or be sacked

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson is under pressure to quit as a new report reveals a damning indictment of OPONI under his leadership

Transparency key to supergrass success

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Mary O'Rawe compares the supergrass trials of the 1980s with today's legal framework

The Compassionate Society?

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Compassionate Society?

1,200 vulnerable adult abuse claims investigated

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:00:00 +0100

New statistics obtained by The Detail highlight a worrying trend in the number of referrals about potential risks to vulnerable adults.

Confidential report sheds more light on baby's death - and raises more questions

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:01:00 +0100

A confidential review into the death of a Co Fermanagh baby shortly after his birth found that medical staff knew about the pregnancy but failed to act on missed appointments by his mother who had mental health and alcohol addiction problems.

Ombudsman loses staff trust over withheld intelligence

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:01:00 +0100

The Detail can today reveal a damning new report's recommendation that the Police Ombudsman's Office be suspended from investigating Troubles murders and raises concerns over a "lowering of independence" regarding its relationship with the police.

The £8.5 million regeneration plan - the result six years on

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Houses continue to crumble and decay in one of the most deprived areas of Belfast despite plans announced over six years ago to completely redevelop the entire area in the north of the city.

Opening up the courts

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

With calls to roll cameras into our courtrooms from our own Attorney General and legal professionals across the UK, we ask if filming court proceedings really is the best way to open up our justice system and what other avenues might be available.

British army 'covered up' UDR units links to UVF

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

MoD concealed that as many as 70 members of one UDR unit had links to the UVF

The crimes of omission

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Chris Moore on Cloyne

Thin end of the wedge for the Northern Ireland Ombudsman?

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

In his first interview in years, the Northern Ireland Ombudsman, Dr. Tom Frawley, has spoken exclusively to The Detail about potential challenges to the authority of his office and the need to retain his independence.

The Public Prosecution Service

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

How are those radical changes to prosecution working out? Let's ask the same guy who's been in charge for 20 years.

Back to the hills

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:01:00 +0100

FORMER rifleman, John Moore, travelled with The Detail back to the hills of South Armagh where his first tour of Northern Ireland was cut short at the height of the hunger strikes of 1981.

From the crucible of the Hunger Strikes

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:01:00 +0100

John Moore was a 19 year-old rifleman, newly arrived in Northern Ireland, when Bobby Sands started refusing food inside the Maze prison in March 1981.

Civil Service chief cites contact at carol service as proof of meetings with regulator

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The Head of the Civil Service, Sir Bruce Robinson has responded to claims that he has not met with the Public Appointments Commissioner in almost three years

"A bit of divide and rule"

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

WITH only a few weeks left as Public Appointments Commissioner, Felicity Huston reflects on the fragmented nature of oversight at Stormont and where it leaves the public it's supposed to be helping.

A "stale, pale and males" syndrome in appointments here

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

IS the Public Appointments process self-populating? The Public Appointments Commissioner believes that tpo many "stale, pale and males" are ending up in our public bodies.

The uphill battles of a Stormont regulator

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

In her first exclusive interview about her role as Information Commissioner, Felicity Huston tells The Detail of her difficulties of working alongside the senior ranks of the civil service.

Over 5,000 children live with relatives in "kinship care"

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:00:00 +0100

THE delay in new adoption legislation means that thousands of children living in “kinship care” continue to be denied vital support and financial help.

"We should be debating children’s rights not religious morality"

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:00:00 +0100

"We should be debating children’s rights not religious morality"

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:00:00 +0100

Catherine Couvert gives her view on the adoption debate

How our politicians dealt with the issue

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:00:00 +0100

THE Department of Health began work on new adoption legislation in 2004. Seven years later and it's still in limbo. Meanwhile, over 2,500 children are living in care.

Adoption: where Stormont stalled the commission steps in

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:00:00 +0100

THE Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has mounted a legal challenge after the government stalled in changing the law to allow gay and single couples to adopt, The Detail can reveal today.

Student Fees

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Students, worried about your fees? Then worry not, because there are no fees.

"A bit of divide and rule"

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

WITH only a few weeks left as Public Appointments Commissioner, Felicity Huston reflects on the fragmented nature of oversight at Stormont and where it leaves the public it's supposed to be helping.

NICCY, the insurance policy and Government secrecy

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

OFMDFM has handed over material showing it intended to shield the Children's Commissioner from criticism over a payout in legal costs, using an insurance policy she took out with prior permission.

The "stale, pale and male" syndrome of appointments here

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

IS the Public Appointments process self-populating? The Public Appointments Commissioner believes that we need to move away from the ‘stale, pale and male’ mentality that we currently see in Government departments.

NIO interference leaves Ombudsman under pressure to quit

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Ombudsman- Sam Pollock

Stormont – An Overview

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The Northern Ireland Assembly: an end of term review

The uphill battles of a Stormont regulator

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

In her first exclusive interview about her role as Information Commissioner, Felicity Huston tells The Detail of her difficulties of working alongside the senior ranks of the civil service.

Big Freeze on investments from International Fund for Ireland

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

THE International Fund for Ireland, the agency set up 25 years ago to build prosperity and reconciliation on both sides of the border, has investments, donations due, cash in the bank amounting to at least £150 million.

Law reform for apartment owners at least two years away

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

New legislation governing apartments in Northern Ireland is at last two years away, The Detail can reveal.

Where was Special Branch in Loughinisland massacre?

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

IF the Police Ombudsman’s report into the McGurk’s Bar attrocity highlighted his reluctance to grapple with collusion, his report into Loughinisland is startling by its absence of another crucial piece of the picture: the role of Special Branch.

Short Strand v the media narrative

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Short Strand v the media narrative

Loughinisland: the Ombudsman's report - but key issues remain unaddressed

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:01:00 +0100

THE failure by police to secure convictions after the Loughinisland massacre was down to incompetence and a lack of commitment - and not collusion, the Police Ombudsman has concluded.

Where was Special Branch in Loughinisland massacre?

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:01:00 +0100

Larkin backs "open" PPS and Courts

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

JOHN Larkin says problems in the Public Prosecution Service can be best addressed by more transparency in its workings and he is favour of opening up the courts by allowing some hearings to be televised.

A "satisfactory" relationship with Government

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

A "SATISFACTORY" relationship has been established with Northern Ireland's ministers, the Attorney General says. Just over a year into his tenure, John Larkin says the independence of his office has never been compromised.

Collusion

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

What exactly is meant by the term 'collusion'? We keep you informed with The Detail's team of informers.

Inquests will be "front and centre" in dealing with the past - Attorney General

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

THE Attorney General John Larkin has confirmed that the inquest system here shall have a role "front and centre" in how Northern Ireland deals with the past.

CAJ

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

CAJ

Suicides in prison: Ombudsman and families speak out

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Hydebank Suicides

The real cost of apartment limbo

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The Northern Ireland Law Commission is exploring ways of regulating property/management agents to bring an end to bad practice that cost apartment owners millions each year in over charges.

Corporation Tax: new jobs or just hot money?

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Corporation Tax: hot money?

DFP spent 10 times budget on consultants

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:01:00 +0100

The department tasked with ensuring that millions of pounds of government contracts to private consultants is properly accounted for has itself been criticised after paying consultants 10 times more than budgeted for a project designed to improve governme

Coroner's Service preparing for more historic cases

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The Northern Ireland Court Service is preparing to deal with more cases from the past.

Homeowners stuck in the MUD

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

THOUSANDS of apartment owners in Northern Ireland are being denied access to running the management companies on their developments because the developers have failed to give them ownership of the land their homes are built on.

The Attorney General and the past

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The CAJ's Mike Ritchie considers the role the Attorney General is playing in examining some of the most controversial moments of the Troubles

Pinstripes and paperwork: three weeks in the Courts

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

What message does our court system send out to the public?

Departments

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Would Stormont work better with fewer departments? Or would that just be folding up deck-chairs on the Titanic?

Row erupts over GPs' regulation

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

BY NIALL MCCRACKEN A row has erupted between the medical community and the Northern Ireland Ombudsman, opening up fundamental questions about how GPs here are policed.

"It's not about the money, it's about an independent legal system"

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Eugene Grant QC has been a barrister in criminal practice in Northern Ireland for a number of years and is founder and secretary of the Criminal Bar Association (NI). He looks at the issue of independent advocacy in the criminal justice system.

Do we all have a role to play in Ardoyne?

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Will Moloney piece

The failure to find out why

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The Detail has investigated how stillbirths are dealt with and investigated here. We have spoken to bereaved families, the Department of Health, the Coroner’s Service and medical experts and also examined the latest statistics and reports on the issue.

Stillbirths: the deaths that don't count

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

SIOBHAN Desmond's son Axel should be nine-years-old, just about to finish primary 5 and looking forward to a long summer break from school.

Breaking the law: What's the Legal Aid row really about?

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Justice Minister David Ford is currently embroiled in a bitter legal aid row with Northern Ireland’s lawyers with threats to bring in lawyers from Britain to break the will of striking solicitors and barristers.

Public Prosecutors were previously criticised for overspending

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Public Prosecutors were previously criticised for overspending

Hospitals

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Could Belfast's hospital estate be rationalised? Or is putting 'Belfast' and 'rational' in the same sentence too much to ask?

The Department of Health answers our questions

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:24:00 +0100

The Department sent a detailed response to a series of questions on stillbirth posed by The Detail.

OFMDFM reprimanded by Information Commissioner

Sun, 29 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

THE Office of the First and Deputy First Minister could be found in contempt of court if it fails to respond to an outstanding Freedom of Information request from The Detail.

The families behind the statistics

Sun, 29 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

family case studies

Public Consultation

Sun, 29 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Are you a member of the public? Then why haven't you taken part in a public consultation exercise?

Four months on, still no response

Sun, 29 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

OUR request was lodged with OFMDFM on January 31st this year. We are yet to receive a response....

Court orders hundreds of children should be removed from parents

Sun, 29 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

CHILDREN from 220 families were “freed” for adoption in Northern Ireland without the consent of their parents/guardians during a six year period, it can be revealed today.

Unmasking the ticket touts

Sun, 29 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

After Saturdays Champions League final at Wembley were ticket touts were exceptionally active, Chris Moore recalls his own experience of ticket touts in Barcelona in 1999.

Why did the Nelson Inquiry not mention collusion?

Sun, 29 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Is the the row over the definition of collusion being used as a smokescreen to prevent society from addressing the real issue of how we deal with the truth about the Troubles?

Audit office Northern Ireland

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:03:00 +0100

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Suicide, carers and breastfeeding high on health committee agenda

Sun, 22 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The chair of the Northern Ireland Assembly's health committee, Michelle Gildernew, outlines the priorities for the Department of Health.

Silent killer lurking in our schools

Sun, 22 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

ALMOST 1,000 schools across Northern Ireland still contain potentially deadly asbestos, it can be revealed today.

Legal Aid body fails to recover overpayments to commissioners

Sun, 22 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

A government watchdog which publishes a Legal Aid `league table’ of Northern Ireland’s highest earning lawyers, has itself been criticised after it failed to hand back nearly £30,000 it had overpaid to its commissioners.

The education boards respond to our questions

Sun, 22 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The five education boards have released statistics and information on how they are containing asbestos within their schools following a Freedom of Information request from The Detail.

The human face of family courts

Sun, 22 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Northern Ireland’s law courts can be imposing and intimidating places for adults. So imagine how frightening it must be for a child caught up in a breakdown of relations between his/her parents.

Inquiry due to report on death of solicitor killed for her work

Sun, 22 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Rosemary Nelson inquiry due to report

Child inquiry seeking to find nurse who witnessed boy's death

Sun, 22 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

An inquiry into child deaths at Northern Ireland’s hospitals has appealed for help to track down a missing and potentially crucial witness.

Convicted fraudster’s photography course far from picture perfect

Sat, 21 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

A man who is under investigation by the PSNI for an alleged £80k fraud committed last September is believed to have set up shop with another scam working out of Belfast within the past number of weeks.

Judicial Reviews

Sat, 21 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Are judges really running Northern Ireland? We sentence you to a brief explanation.

Departments locked in custody battle, parents struggle in court

Sat, 21 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Family Courts text 1

Pollock appointed new policing board chief

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:01:00 +0100

Pollock appointed new policing board chief

Marian Price sent to Maghaberry for "operational reasons"

Tue, 17 May 2011 19:00:00 +0100

The Prison Service could be forced to open a separate female wing for dissident spokeswoman Marian Price after she was sent to Maghaberry Prison.

£50m of charitable funds tied up in cash strapped health trusts

Sun, 15 May 2011 23:24:00 +0100

£50m of charitable funding raised by the Northern Ireland public is tied up in restricted accounts and cannot be used by cash strapped local health trusts, The Detail can reveal.

Two years on, NI Charities Commission remains toothless

Sun, 15 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

THE chief executive of one of Northern Ireland’s leading charities has said that the public could lose faith in the charity sector if the delays with the commission are not resolved soon.

Families behind the funds

Sun, 15 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

A FERMANAGH couple are currently involved with a campaign to raise £2m for an MRI Scanner at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. Northern Ireland is the only region in the UK without a childrens MRI scanner.

Six years after inquiry set up, another death to be examined

Sun, 15 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

A PUBLIC inquiry into the death of a number of children from fluid mismanagement in hospitals here has been provided with information about a new case involving the unexpected death of a young girl at Antrim Area Hospital

Sinn Fein has kept education. What now for our schools?

Sun, 15 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Academic selection, special needs and school improvement are just some of the issues which out new Education Minister will have to deal with.

Victim Lennon can help quel the hatred

Sun, 15 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

A dark cloud of sectarian hatred hovers over Scottish football – reinforced this week with a thuggish attack by a spectator on Celtic manager Neil Lennon.

Struggling with the past in Kosovo

Sun, 15 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Belfast journalist, Ciarán Bartlett is in Pristina, Kosovo. He’s travelled there to produce a video documentary about the internal reporting of the war there twelve years ago and the political progress since then.

Mixed Housing

Sun, 15 May 2011 11:00:00 +0100

Would you like to live in a nice mixed area? Or would a hypothetically nice mixed area do?

Background to the Hyponatraemia Inquiry

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:01:00 +0100

Chairman of the Inquiry, Mr Justice O’Hara, and his team are investigating the deaths of five children who died in hospitals in Northern Ireland between 1995 and 2003.

Little change for Stormont "cabal"

Sun, 08 May 2011 23:40:00 +0100

2011 Assembly Election Results

The case which changed the face of youth justice

Sun, 08 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Criminologist Professor Phil Scraton explains how the public outcry which followed the murder of toddler James Bulger in 1993 by two 10-year-olds led to major changes in the youth justice system.

Entrepreneurs

Sun, 08 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Does Northern Ireland need more entrepreneurs? Or just fewer ways to make money that actually cost money?

Kosovo - the real thing?

Sun, 08 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Travelling to Mitrovica, a divided city in northern Kosovo, Ciarán Bartlett speaks with lcoal journalist and fixer Avni Ahmetaj about misrepresentation and the problems facing journalists, particularly foreign correspondents today.

New delay in Loughinisland report

Sun, 08 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson has confirmed that the long awaited report into Loughinisland will be delayed for another month

The view of young offenders

Sun, 08 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY The Detail has spoken to two young men in their 20s from Belfast – who asked not to be identified - about their experiences of living in care and being in custody. Our second film tells their stories.

In search of the past in Kosovo

Sun, 08 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Journalism student Ciarán Bartlett is in Pristina, Kosovo. During a break from his masters course at Coleraine, he self funded a trip to examine the troubled country's past.

Serious concerns raised as children criminalised at 10

Sun, 08 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

BY KATHRYN TORNEY Almost 100 children aged between 10 and 12-years-old were convicted of crimes in Northern Ireland over a five year period, The Detail can reveal today.

2011 Assembly Elections - Minor Parties

Tue, 03 May 2011 07:53:00 +0100

2011 Assembly Election – Minor Parties

Naming suspects: Trial by media or the right to a free press?

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

THROUGHOUT the Troubles the media in Northern Ireland abided by an unwritten `code' not to identify suspects until they appeared in court. But in recent years that `code' appears to have become blurred and ignored.

`I didn't kill Ronan Kerr' says freed murder suspect

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

A Co Tyrone man who was questioned for 14 days in connection with the killing of Constable Ronan Kerr has condemned the policeman's murder and insisted that he was not involved.

PSNI need more protection

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Jonty Brown says police officers in his days in the RUC were provided with devices on their cars that warned if explosive devices had been placed underneath. He says today's officers need the same level of protection.

The Detail brings you inside Northern Ireland's nuclear bunker

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

THE Detail brings you inside the secret bunker where 235 of Northern Ireland's VIPs would take safe haven in the event of a nuclear attack.

Child deaths: who has the right to know?

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

CASE management reviews are carried out when a child dies or is seriously injured and abuse or neglect is known or suspected to be a factor. The Detail's Kathryn Torney puts forward the case for executive summaries of the reports to be published in full.

Number of police officers disciplined for misconduct "too high"

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

HUNDREDS of PSNI officers serving across Northern Ireland have been disciplined for misconduct over the last six years, it can be revealed today.

The Baby Commissioner

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

The purpose of the Baby Commissioner is not to commission babies. That is a completely different front-line service. The purpose of the Baby Commissioner is to commission a commissioner. It's his baby.

Pollock resignation adds to accusations of malaise at Ombudsman

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

SAM Pollock’s decision to leave his position as chief executive officer of the Ombudsman’s office has rocked the administration of justice here. His strong words may yet inspire a formal inquiry.

Cracking the care conundrum

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

AROUND a quarter of the £230million-a-year of public funds spent on dementia goes towards informal care costs, with the rest divded up between health institutions. We examine what the human, as well as the financial cost really is.

Executive accused of failing dementia sufferers

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

THREE years after the Executive made a commitment to put a policy in place, Northern Ireland still hasn't got an agreed strategy for dealing with the growing problem of dementia in Northern Ireland.

2011 Assembly Election – Nationalism

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

2011 Assembly Election – Nationalism

£130m taxpayers money paid out for `off-the shelf' developments

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

£130m taxpayers money has been paid out since 2007 to buy up private developments for social housing but with DSD and housing associations now apparently at war what will happen to the scheme?

Developers in talks to sell off Obel apartments for social housing

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

IT was the flagship of the boom times for the Northern Ireland economy just a few years ago so why are developers now discussing the possibility of selling-off luxury apartments at the Obel Tower complex for social housing?

Learning to live with dementia

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

BISHOP Brian Hannon was diagnosed with Alzheimer's after a routine check up with his local GP four years ago. He believes he is living proof that dementia does not have to be a death sentence.

Family of shot man shot by PSNI officer to meet with PPS

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

BILLY Ringland was expecting a decision by the PPS not to prosecute the off-duty police officer who shot dead his son Marc as he robbed a filling station in February last. But he's insistent his family be given access to the video footage of Marc's death.

Noticeboards

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

How has online interaction affected Northern Ireland? You might say it's been a positive force, at least for a while. Others might say you're wrong - and furthermore, you're worse than Hitler.

What will the census tell us about the changes in Northern Ireland?

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

ACROSS Northern Ireland in the next few weeks the last of the census forms that will tell us much about life here will be collected. What should we expect to find out?

Ombudsman: It'll take 25 years to finish Troubles reports

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

The Detail can reveal the Police Ombudsman has secured nearly £5m to deal with Troubles-related murders.

Has ombudsman led to greater accountability in policing?

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Kathleen O'Toole and Maurice Hayes discuss whether Patten has brought about a new era in policing for Northern Ireland

Census Timeline

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

1971 and 2011 comparison

Non-jury trials "form of normality"

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

WHAT does the Secretary of State's decision to has extend the use of non-jury trials here for another two years say about the normalisation of our justice system. "Diplock" courts were officially abolished in Northern Ireland in 2007.

The medical expert's view:

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

CONSULTANT psychiatrist Dr Ian Bownes has worked with children across Northern Ireland who are displaying sexually abusive behaviour. In his view, the millions of pounds spent every year on residential treatment for these young people is worth the cost.

Will Robinson's move to the middle bring in new voters?

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

short teaser?

Treatment for young sex abuser cost £1.5m

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

SPECIALIST treatment for one young sex abuser from Northern Ireland cost £1.5m, it can be revealed today

USPCA acts on neglect tip-off

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

AFTER a tip-off the USPCA had been watching a small unofficial bird sanctuary for months. So along with officers from the PSNI and the USPCA’s vet, David Bailey, we joined USPCA staff, including chief executive Stephen Philpott, for a tour of the property

Department still reluctant to confirm swine flu deaths

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

THE Department of Health has side stepped a request to confirm the total number of deaths from the recent swine flu outbreak in Northern Ireland – just months after it was forced to issue weekly death reports to the public.

The response to our questions

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

The Department of Health answers questions from The Detail:

Analysis: Dissident Murder of Ronan Kerr

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Analysis: Dissident Murder of Ronan Kerr

"Key player" for Michael Lowry was banned from being a director

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Omagh businessman was "land agent" for Michael Lowry

Dissidents may have used grenade to kill Constable Kerr

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Dissident leadership most likely heard of murder through media reports

The McGuinness factor

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

On May 5, the unionist voters of Northern Ireland will flock to the polls to try to ensure that Sinn Fein is not returned to Stormont as the largest party,

C-Diff and MRSA figures reveal new shock superbug deaths

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

MRSA and C-Diff superbugs have officially been confirmed for the first time as being linked to more than 1,100 deaths in Northern Ireland during the last 10 years, The Detail can reveal.

Equality

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

DOES Northern Ireland's equality system make us all equal?

Documents reveal what was happening behind the scenes

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Over 1,000 pages of documentation showing how publicity was handled by the Department of Health during the swine flu season were released to The Detail under Freedom of Information legislation.

New animal welfare bill to be challenged by councils

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

The USPCA has been marginalised by a Department of Agriculture decision to pass control of animal welfare to the 26 local councils. The councils are seeking legal advice as they continue to resist the implementation of the new law.

New bill allows intervention before animals suffer

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

UNDER the 1972 Animal Welfare Act, the police and the USPCA could only intervene when animals were suffering but the new Assembly bill means intervention can now occur when an animal is in danger.

Corporation tax – why all the fuss?

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Up until recently the words “Corporation Tax” belonged firmly in the business world and even then were only used by businesses lucky enough to make profits and thus be subject to taxation.

Consultants

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Why does Stormont use so many consultants?

Public sector employs majority of construction workers here

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0100

New findings show that the construction industry is facing yet another year of decline. This is the 13th month in a row that the workloads of small and medium sized constructions firms in Northern Ireland have been negative.

Caitriona Ruane ignores warnings on scrapping P7 parent interviews

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Education Minister Caitriona Ruane ploughed ahead with a controversial plan to axe important annual interviews between principals and primary 7 parents – despite being warned against the move by senior Department of Education officials.

Revealed: The serious concerns of department officials and principals

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Documents released to the The Detail show the serious concerns raised by department officials and school principals.

`Police ignored my evidence' says Loughinisland eyewitness

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0100

An investigation by the Detail can now reveal claims that the killers’ getaway car was hidden on a policeman’s farm for a decade, despite the families having been told that the car had been destroyed two years after the attack.

Loughinisland: collusion or myth?

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0100

For 12 years the Loughinisland families mourned the loss of their loved ones in silence. They kept that silence, they say, because of police assurances that no stone would be left unturned in the hunt for the killers.

Conflicts undermine public confidence in government

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

In recent years the Northern Ireland Audit Office has found a series of government departments guilty of breaching conflict of interest guidelines in relation to the awarding of public contracts worth millions of pounds.

Questions over conflict of interest into NI Water inquiry

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

The controversy over conflict of interest issues in government was highlighted earlier this month by the Stormont Assembly’s most powerful watchdog.

Welfare reform

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Should Stormont get to work on welfare reform?

The Department of Health answers questions from The Detail

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

The Department of Health responds to questions from The Detail

A new educational order

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Once the dust of the May election settles down and the politicians have worked their way through the complications of d’Hondt, a new Minister of Education will arrive in his or her office in Rathgael House with a formidable pile sitting in their in-tray.

Northern Ireland death linked to swine flu vaccine

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

A PERSON has died in Northern Ireland after being given their swine flu vaccination.

Super dump row raises questions over conflict of interest

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

IN 1999 seven local councils in the north west formed a consortium to draw up a waste management plan for the region.

Family of man shot by police hit out at ‘smear campaign’

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Marc Ringland (29) was shot dead as he robbed a filling station shop in East Belfast last month.

'Criminal' leaks hurt family

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Marc Ringland (29) was shot dead as he robbed a filling station shop in East Belfast last month. For the first time his family speak exclusively to The Detail to voice concerns about how leaks to the media about Marc' criminal past appeared to them as an

The doughnuts taking a bite out of our town centres

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

THE British Retail Consortium has said the Finance Minister’s proposed levy on out of town retailers here is not in the wider interest of Northern Ireland.

Christopher’s story: one family’s battle for answers

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

The mother of a Co Down teenager who died days after receiving a combined Measles/Rubella vaccine tells her story.

Rob’s story: the fight for compensation

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Jackie Fletcher secured compensation for her son’s vaccine damage 18 years after he received the MMR jab.

Lawyer questions reliability of intelligence services evidence

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

ONE of Britain's leading barristers, Michael Mansfield QC has raised concerns that the intelligence agencies are using the issue of protecting national security to justify withholding intelligence from the police and the judicial system

Security services questioned over missing evidence in Carroll murder

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Surveillance evidence used to track a murder suspect has been destroyed but who did it and why?

"My swimming coach destroyed my life."

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Paedophile coach Derry O'Rourke served nine years in prison for abusing young swimmers. Karen Leach was one of his victims and battles to live with the impact of the abuse every day.

Intelligence services accused in past of withholding evidence

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Omagh bomb trial judge Mr Justice Weir described the mysterious appearance of tape on a bomb as "Houdini-like".

Who killed Belfast?

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Who killed Belfast?

Emerald Timeline

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

A chronological look at the events surrounding the announcement of the Emerald Infrastructure Development Fund.

The Emerald that failed to sparkle

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

An investigation by The Detail has traced the history of the Emerald fund from its opaque beginnings, the key figures involved and how close to $3m was spent but not on any investment in Northern Ireland.

PSNI gets limited access to army intelligence says former soldier

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

``WOULD MI5 be prepared to withhold intelligence from the PSNI? Absolutely, unequivocally, with no ambiguity - yes."

How our politicians handled the issue

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Teachers in Northern Ireland are banned from having a sexual relationship with their pupils even if they are over the age of consent. However, it's a different ball game when it comes to sport.

Fresh attempt to revive failed fund

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Just days before the annual St Patrick’s Day knees-up in Washington, a well-known Belfast solicitor has told The Detail that a group of individuals in Belfast is seeking to “reignite” the Emerald Fund project.

Uncertainty causing property paralysis in ‘Nama-land’

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

WITH Nama holding £3.5 billion of property loans in Northern Ireland, Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson has his new Dublin counterpart on speed dial. Francess McDonnell reports.

It's time to cut the blarney

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. The Irish economy is in tatters. Elections were just held, Fianna Fail party took its own shellacking and Fine Gael will lead the next government.

Teenagers left vulnerable to abuse in sport

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

THOUSANDS of children involved in sport across Northern Ireland have been left more vulnerable to abuse after local politicians failed to close a gaping loophole in the law, The Detail can reveal.

Setting the Budget

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Has coverage of the budget left you feeling Stormont is a farce? Then worry not, because Stormont's budget process works just fine. It also works backwards and inside-out, admittedly. But apart from that, it works just fine.

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The intelligence struggle in the shadows

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:24:00 +0000

The intelligence struggle in shadows continues

Award for The Detail

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:24:00 +0000

The Detail has picked up a prestigious industry award less than three months into its existence.

Awards success for The Detail journalists

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:24:00 +0000

Awards success for The Detail journalists

IRA men's families reject shoot-to-kill verdicts

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:24:00 +0000

The families of IRA men Martin McCaughey and Dessie Grew have rejected an inquest jury’s verdict that SAS soldiers had used “justifiable force” in shooting them dead.

Looking for fair play in disciplinary hearings

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:00:00 +0000

Patricia Campbell Story

Latest Diplock trial opens with surveillance and forensic evidence in the spotlight

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 +0000

THE trial of two men charged with the murder of police constable Stephen Carroll will open this morning (Monday) with evidence that undercover soldiers had been secretly bugging a car belonging to one of the accused for more than a month before the shooti