Bereaved families have criticised the “haphazard” rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, including concerns over who was classed a key worker and access for rural communities. At the UK Covid-19 inquiry
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More than 5,000 children in Northern Ireland are set to spend this Christmas living in temporary accommodation. It has emerged that in November there were 5,378 children in temporary accommodation,
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A prolific sex offender from Northern Ireland, who posed as a teenage boy on Snapchat and Instagram to trap his child victims, has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.
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Hydebank Wood Secure College and Women’s Prison has become the first unit in Northern Ireland to secure outcomes at the “highest achievable level”, two independent reports have found. However the
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Stormont’s former health minister Robin Swann has admitted he did not provide sufficient direction in preparing for a surge in the number of critical cases during the early months of
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A former Sinn Fein press officer has been jailed for nine months after pleading guilty to a series of child sex offences. Michael McMonagle, 43, from Limewood Street in Londonderry,
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Tributes have been paid to Anna Lo, the first politician from an ethnic minority background elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, after her death at the age of 74. Alliance
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A Northern Ireland man at the centre of a global web of catfishing, blackmail and sexual abuse is believed by police to have targeted about 3,500 children. From the bedroom
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The chairwoman of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has expressed concern at the possibility that statistics around ethnic background are not compiled in the Northern Ireland health service. The issue arose
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Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer has said he wishes they could have done more for staff working during the pandemic. Sir Michael McBride (pictured) said the pandemic “took a heavy
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