Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles meet staff at Belfast City Hall in Northern Ireland

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles kicked off their two-day visit to Northern Ireland today with a trip to Belfast City Hall and the famous Harland & Wolff shipyard – where he followed in his late father’s footsteps.  The Prince of Wales, 72, and Duchess of Cornwall, 73, were welcomed to the City Hall by Lord … Read more

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles meet staff at Belfast City Hall in Northern Ireland

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles kicked off their two-day visit to Northern Ireland today with a trip to Belfast City Hall and the famous Harland & Wolff shipyard.  The Prince of Wales, 72, and Duchess of Cornwall, 73, were welcomed to the City Hall by Lord Mayor Frank McCoubrey, with Charles offering his signature namaste … Read more

Police launch urgent appeal for two missing Belfast brothers, aged five and eight

Police launch urgent appeal for two missing brothers, five and eight, who have not been seen since they got into a black Ford on Friday in Belfast Patrick Hovarth, five, and his older brother Fabricio, eight, are both missing The two siblings were last sighted in the Limestone road area of Belfast They were seen … Read more

Police launch urgent appeal for two missing Belfast brothers, aged five and eight

Police launch urgent appeal for two missing brothers, five and eight, who have not been seen since they got into a black Ford on Friday in Belfast Patrick Hovarth, five, and his older brother Fabricio, eight, are both missing The two siblings were last sighted in the Limestone road area of Belfast They were seen … Read more

Man who was shot and paralysed in Belfast in 1979 is reunited with ‘angel’ nurse who cared for him

A man who was shot and paralysed in Belfast during the Troubles 40 years ago, has been reunited with the nurse who cared for him as he spent a year recovering in hospital.  Peter Heathwood was left wheelchair-bound after two gunmen broke into his home and opened fire in 1979 – having mistaken him for his lodger, … Read more

Man who was shot and paralysed in Belfast in 1979 is reunited with ‘angel’ nurse who cared for him

A man who was shot and paralysed in Belfast during the Troubles 40 years ago, has been reunited with the nurse who cared for him as he spent a year recovering in hospital.  Peter Heathwood was left wheelchair-bound after two gunmen broke into his home and opened fire in 1979 – having mistaken him for his lodger, … Read more

Sacked Johnny Mercer ‘will go to Belfast on Monday to support two soldiers facing a murder trial’

Sacked veterans minister Johnny Mercer ‘will go to Belfast on Monday to support two Troubles soldiers facing a murder trial for killing an IRA chief’ Johnny Mercer expected to support Soldiers A and C who face a murder trial He earlier accused Government of ‘abandoning’ those who served in Troubles His visit could inflame tensions … Read more

Sacked Johnny Mercer ‘will go to Belfast on Monday to support two soldiers facing a murder trial’

Sacked veterans minister Johnny Mercer ‘will go to Belfast on Monday to support two Troubles soldiers facing a murder trial for killing an IRA chief’ Johnny Mercer expected to support Soldiers A and C who face a murder trial He earlier accused Government of ‘abandoning’ those who served in Troubles His visit could inflame tensions … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: Belfast riots, Tory cynicism and Boris Johnson’s border betrayal 

No, it is not the return of The Troubles, nor anything like it. But still, it brings back dreadful memories to see the rioting that for weeks has plagued Northern Ireland and has now spread to the ‘Peace Wall’ in West Belfast: the point which marks a physical separation of largely (Protestant) Loyalist communities from … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: Belfast riots, Tory cynicism and Boris Johnson’s border betrayal 

No, it is not the return of The Troubles, nor anything like it. But still, it brings back dreadful memories to see the rioting that for weeks has plagued Northern Ireland and has now spread to the ‘Peace Wall’ in West Belfast: the point which marks a physical separation of largely (Protestant) Loyalist communities from … Read more