Amnesty International is set to defy the Vatican and risk the wrath of Catholics around the world over its decision to back abortion for rape victims.

A Nobel Peace Prize-winning aid agency will be demonstrating a Third World field clinic to the public at a cultural festival in Dublin this month.

A US Marine captain has been court-martialled for sexually assaulting two corporals and a sergeant during a drunken rampage in a luxury Ulster hotel, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.

Northern Ireland Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey, has said that the new Mental Health and Learning Disability Board will be the driving force in delivering the Bamford reforms.

Northern Ireland Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has announced the appointment of Alison McCullough as the new Chairperson of the Regional Speech and Language Therapy Task Force.

More community-managed paedophiles and sex offenders are living in south Belfast than anywhere else in Northern Ireland, it has emerged. Almost 100 monitored sex offenders are residing in the area, according to a police report.

The Government’s Health Information and Quality Authority has published new draft quality standards for nursing and residential care homes for the elderly. The guidelines have been drawn up in response to a series of scandals surrounding how older people are cared for.

The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), has published draft national quality standards for nursing homes and other residential care centres for older people.

A Londonderry doctor has said up to 20,000 people could be living in County Donegal but fraudulently claiming free health care in Northern Ireland.

Up to 80% of children in west Belfast’s most deprived areas are living in poverty, an academic has claimed. Eilish Rooney from the University of Ulster said poor Catholics and Protestants were missing out on Northern Ireland’s peace payoff.