Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has been appointed Northern Ireland’s new First Minister. Mrs Foster has taken over from the retiring Peter Robinson. The Fermanagh and South Tyrone representative is
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A public inquiry into alleged child abuse will turn its attention today to a residential home run by evangelical Anglican missionaries in Ireland. The Irish Church Missions was established to
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The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) has published the findings of its Review of Eating Disorder Services in Northern Ireland. During the review, RQIA held a series of focus
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New research at Ulster University has uncovered a pressing need for suicide prevention work to specifically target people in Northern Ireland who have difficult life experiences. In the first study
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Fewer young people entering the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland has been highlighted as the primary achievement of the Youth Justice Review in a new report published by Criminal
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Northern Ireland Health Minister Simon Hamilton has launched a public consultation on reform of Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care system. The Minister said: “On 4 November I outlined wide-ranging,
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The deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness has paid tribute to the work of the CHARIS Cancer Care Centre in Cookstown when visited the facility on Tuesday. Commenting after his tour
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Nurses in Northern Ireland are to vote on potential industrial action amid an on-going pay dispute with Stormont. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the ballot of its members
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As Christmas approaches, Northern Ireland’s Public Health Agency (PHA) is encouraging people to look after their mental health and that of their loved ones over the holiday period. Christmas is
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Northern Ireland’s ban on same-sex marriage breaches human rights legislation and marginalises gay people as “biological oddities”, a court has been told. Two couples, Grainne Close and Shannon Sickles and
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