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INTERVIEW: As post-Sally Rooney Irish lit is booming, the 32-year-old writer talks to Ellie Harrison about her tale of a group of Belfast women stumbling through life and loss as they wave their twenties goodbye

Journalist and publisher who was editor of Smash Hits and Empire magazines and known for his lively, irreverent style

A three-day conference at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast will bring together experts on the poet.

The romance is beautifully drawn in this tale of two couples whose lives overlap at a Northern Irish manor house, a century apart

The Belfast rap trio were due to perform at the festival on July 11

The Belfast rap trio have scheduled a date an O2 Academy in July, the band said.

In its simplest form, the protracted tensions in Northern Ireland have at their foundation two separate sectarian identities deeply divided over how, and by whom, they are governed — Protestant/Unionist populations wishing to maintain British rule and Catholic/Nationalists desiring a united Ireland.

Stormont Opposition Leader Matthew O’Toole was speaking after the arrest of two protesters on suspicion of criminal damage.

The Strand in east Belfast is set to reopen in summer 2026 following a major redevelopment.