Survivors of abuse at children’s homes across Northern Ireland have criticised government proposals on compensation as “derisory”. Draft legislation to establish a compensation scheme for victims will come on Monday
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The Northern Ireland Secretary has urged Conservative party colleagues to back the Prime Minister, insisting “there is no better person” for the job. Karen Bradley, a long-time ally of Theresa
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Thongs and placards were held aloft in Belfast on Thursday in solidarity with protests in the Irish Republic earlier this week over how rape trials are conducted. A recent case
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The head of Community Pharmacy Northern Ireland has criticised the Department of Health for ignoring repeated calls to save the service. Community pharmacists say they have been warned by
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A Northern Ireland schoolgirl whose mother is facing prosecution for buying her abortion pills was taken from a classroom by police officers and spoken to about the alleged crime without
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A neurology review sparked by concerns about a consultant’s work has cost around £1 million so far, Northern Ireland’s department of health said. A total of 3,544 former patients of
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Reports that a group of people dressed as Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members posed outside an Islamic prayer house are being investigated as a hate incident, police said. Images circulating
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MPs have written to Northern Ireland’s health chief to express concerns that cancer services in the region are falling behind the rest of the UK. Members of the Northern Ireland
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A former Ireland and Ulster rugby player trying to recoup his legal fees after being acquitted of rape has offered no evidence to support his claims of financial hardship, a
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Women in Northern Ireland are still using illegal abortion medication even though the procedure is freely available to them in England, a study found. Northern Ireland outlaws terminations in almost
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