Mark Rainey Reporter
  • Belfast
  • National World

Journalist with the News Letter in Belfast.

Published In

Belfast News Letter

532 Articles
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

Peace Plus money 'predominantly British largese’​: Jim Allister

Following Monday’s launch of the Peace Plus funding for Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic, uni...

Read Full Article
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

Sinn Fein MLAs urged to retract claims made in aftermath of Ormeau Road commemoration incident

Senior Sinn Fein figures have been urged to retract “untrue” and “irresponsible” claims made in the immediate afterma...

Read Full Article
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

Northern Ireland Policing Board a ‘shadow’ of original: Jim Gamble

​The current policing board is “a shadow” of the original body that helped push the PSNI forward, a former senior pol...

Read Full Article
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

Belfast pushes the boat out for return of the popular Maritime Festival

​Belfast has celebrated its rich maritime heritage with a two-day festival in the heart of the city’s Titanic Quarter.

Read Full Article
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

Northern Ireland volunteers on stand-by to help in quake-hit Morocco

Search and rescue volunteers from Northern Ireland are on stand-by with their dogs to assist the rescue efforts in ea...

Read Full Article
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

TUV: Republicans' 'highly conditional' support for policing damaging the PSNI

​A perception that republican support for policing is “highly conditional” is a key reason why the PSNI is in crisis,...

Read Full Article
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

Police Federation's unanimous 'no confidence' vote in deputy chief constable Mark Hamilton

Rank and file police officers’s representatives have passed a vote of ‘no confidence’ in the man now in charge of the...

Read Full Article
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

PSNI needs interim leader to take control of current 'crisis situation': DUP leader

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) needs an interim leader to “take control” of the “crisis situation”, ac...

Read Full Article
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

PSNI leaders are “not at war” with each other as the service struggles to recover from a series o...

Addressing the NI Affairs Committee at Westminster (NIAC), ​Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd also rejected sugges...

Read Full Article
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

PSNI needs financial support from government to recover from data breach: Lockhart

​Additional resources must be allocated to the PSNI as the service deals with the aftermath of an unprecedented data ...

Read Full Article
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

Simon Byrne will receive three months' pay in lieu of notice as he exits PSNI

​Former PSNI chief constable Simon Byrne will not be paid for the remainder of his contract, it has been revealed.

Read Full Article
9 months ago
newsletter.co.uk

Simon Byrne exit from Chief Constable role ‘must be first step’ of policing overhaul

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has welcomed the resignation of the PSNI’s chief constable as the “first step” in rebuilding co...

Read Full Article