An anti-overdose drug is to be made more widely available without a prescription. Professionals, including nurses, paramedics, police officers and probation workers, will be able to provide supplies of naloxone
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A review of efforts to safeguard Arthur Labinjo-Hughes has said it is difficult to understand why police did not step in after being sent a photograph of bruising suggesting he
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Stormont First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said she accepts she should have kept WhatsApp exchanges for the Covid-19 Inquiry rather than wiping her phone. The inquiry previously heard that a
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A “pretty” teacher told a court she felt lonely and “liked” attention after a break-up but denied having sex with teenagers. Rebecca Joynes said she struggled during the Covid restrictions
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Campaigners have welcomed the removal of “outrageous” references to homeless people smelling as part of new legislation but said rough sleepers remain at risk of being criminalised for having nowhere
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About 400 prison staff have been trained to use an anti-opioid medicine amid a spate of deaths which are believed to be drug-related, a minister has said. Justice minister Edward
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The Stormont Executive “lost the respect and commitment” of the Northern Ireland public to follow lockdown restrictions, health minister Robin Swann has said. Mr Swann (pictured) described the period after
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A health minister has apologised after a new report concluded that poor care in maternity services is “frequently tolerated as normal”. The parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma is calling for
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Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer (CMO) sent a message stating that Stormont ministers who could not agree on lockdown measures as Covid infections rose in 2020 should “hang their heads
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A Hunger Games-obsessed ex-prisoner has been locked up indefinitely for the “senseless” killing of an elderly mobility scooter rider five days after his release. Lee Byer (pictured) was psychotic when
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