Investigations & Analysis - Northern Ireland from The Detail

Justice & Crime

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

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

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

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Legacy

Finucane Inquiry opens amid promises of full state cooperation

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

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

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Lough Neagh

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

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

Tommy Greene: Who decides the future of Lough Neagh?

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Government Accountability

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

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

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

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Politics

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

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

NI proxy voting system should be removed according to expert

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Data

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

Campaigners urge Stormont action after UN genocide findings in Gaza

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

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Education

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

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

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

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Health

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

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

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

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Brexit

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

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

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

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The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement

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

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

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

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