Air Ambulance Charity’s Fury Over Lottery Grant Refusals
A charity campaigning to provide Ulster’s first air ambulance is launching a public consultation to highlight its anger over being refused lottery funding.
Read MoreA charity campaigning to provide Ulster’s first air ambulance is launching a public consultation to highlight its anger over being refused lottery funding.
Read MorePolice and social workers investigating teenage suicides have visited homes in County Armagh after material was published on the internet.
Read MorePeople in Northern Ireland are the most likely in the UK to give money to charity, a new survey has revealed. Despite relatively low incomes, households which made donations were handing over £42 a month on average, the Government study found
Read MoreInternet providers have been urged to block sites that support and encourage suicide. Researchers at the University of Ulster made the call as part of a study into suicide trends in Derry over a five-year period.
Read MoreThe charity Women’s Aid has welcomed a new police campaign aimed at encouraging people to report domestic violence. It will run initially in north and east Belfast, Craigavon, Foyle and Lisburn for two weeks.
Read MoreAn Ulster jail has been rocked by a lethal drug alert, forcing prison chiefs to introduce an immediate drugs amnesty, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal today.
Read MoreAn independent chairman has been appointed to investigate how a convicted sex offender kept his job as a childcare lecturer.
Read MoreRecent suicide tragedies in Ireland raise many questions about issues related to suicide prevention and the promotion of positive mental health, according to the Irish Association of Suicidology.
Read MoreRTÉ News has learned that Dr Niall McElwee had been working alongside the gardaí in recent months to advise parents of the dangers for children at risk from drug abuse. This is despite a report about his arrest in the Netherlands sent to garda management by a midlands-based sergeant three years ago.
Read MoreThe Department of Health was criticised today after figures revealed that cash spent on outside consultants, including public relations experts, has trebled in the past five years – to an estimated £3.1m in a year.
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