Even after covering Stormont for the best part of two decades, there are moments when the nature and scale of its bun...
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The release of thousands of text and WhatsApp messages from some of Stormont’s most senior ministers and civil servan...
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Stormont’s Department of Health has said that puberty blockers for children will remain lawful in Northern Ireland un...
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From this September, all pregnant women will be offered the vaccination
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The Irish Sea border has been a key election debate within unionism - but now a nationalist party is calling for an "...
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What looms ahead of Northern Ireland’s health system is potential carnage — but what was once the most staid of polit...
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An Irish psychiatrist has released a game-changing book offering a guide to healthier living while addressing current...
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Elections aren’t just defined by what politicians decide; events seemingly unconnected to who runs the country can in...
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For three weeks, the Covid Inquiry has sat in Belfast to examine Stormont’s response to the pandemic.
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More than 1,000 internal text messages between the DUP's most senior figures have been published by the Covid Inquiry...
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If anyone in the DUP was getting nostalgic for the days of Arlene Foster's leadership, today might have dispelled the...
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Health Minister Robin Swann has said he only realised the true scale of the Covid pandemic days before lockdown when ...
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"There are concerns congestion at some hospital sites, potentially contributing to delayed or missed hospital appoint...
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The Covid Inquiry’s investigation of how Stormont handled the pandemic is now just days away from leaving Belfast, an...
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"As someone who has worked on the Royal hospital site for 14 years, I have seen and heard these frustrations for year...
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The Northern Ireland Office advised the Secretary of State to tell the public that Northern Ireland’s first Covid pat...
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A deeply emotional Edwin Poots has said the Executive was "cruel" to ban the public from visiting graveyards during C...
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A senior Sinn Féin figure has admitted that she knew before attending veteran republican Bobby Storey's funeral that ...
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After just four hearings of the Covid Inquiry in Belfast, already layer after layer of Stormont’s deep secrecy has be...
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One of Northern Ireland’s most senior medical figures accused the Department of Health (DoH) of “completely misleadin...
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Stormont only started updating its arrangements for handling a major emergency when that emergency arrived, the forme...
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Northern Ireland's chief medical officer referred to Executive ministers as "dysfunctional b******s", it has emerged,...
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In less than two months, anyone with a legitimate reason to be at a hospital can by law park there for free — but no ...
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It’s a measure of what we now accept as normal that two Stormont departments — Education and Communities — were liter...
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The sudden death of a young woman at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) last weekend has sparked another inquiry.
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Another inquiry has been launched into the sudden death of a second teenage girl in the Accident and Emergency depart...
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A week ago the Assembly met for its first substantive session in two years. The speeches were mostly filled with opti...
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Few people yet comprehend the scale of the mass strike which is going to cripple Northern Ireland’s public and privat...
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Racing between critically unwell patients in a queue of ambulances lined up outside the emergency department, Dr Lisa...
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Hospitals are now expecting a surge of flu and respiratory illnesses during the Winter months
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Half a century after a mass strike toppled devolved government in Northern Ireland, a mass strike might restore devol...
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A red tray with a label that reads ‘Minister’s Data’ sits on the edge of Stephen Donnelly’s desk in his Department of...
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Health Minister Stephen Donnelly is setting up a new taskforce to examine how productive each Irish hospital is at tr...
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A senior civil servant is to be hauled before two Oireachtas committees to account for his claim that he didn’t see a...
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A senior civil servant responded to a crucial email from the HSE’s chief executive – warning of a major crisis with t...
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THE health service is to get a bailout of €960 million for this year as part of €4 billion in supplementary estimates...
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Pressure is mounting on civil servants or the Secretary of State to urgently act over a failure to make a technical c...
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A technical change to legislation which could stop people needlessly going blind and losing teeth could be made by ci...
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Derry-born Donna Martin describes herself as always being empathetic.
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