NUALA McLaughlin was just 43 years old when she succumbed to coronavirus after a courageous four-week battle at the South West Acute Hospital.

THE family of a young east Belfast woman who died almost a year after she fell and was left paralysed have told how they will remember her as "our star".

A PRIEST in Co Donegal has appealed to people to stop attending funerals and gathering outside churches during Requiem Masses.

A grammar school has written to parents discouraging them from seeking places unless their children are "capable" of achieving good GCSE and A-levels.

A BOOK claiming to be "an authoritative account" of schoolboy Noah Donohoe's disappearance has been branded "insulting" and "self-serving".

A multi-cultural centre which has been used as a food bank to distribute packages to vulnerable people during the Covid pandemic says it will "not be deterred" from its work after being badly damaged by fire.

FORMER SDLP councillor Mairia Cahill has resolved her legal action over a law which required local government election candidates to publish their home address.

A WOMAN convicted of trying to murder a police officer in north Belfast is to have her prison sentence increased by five years, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.

A BELFAST man yesterday admitted conspiring with a murder victim to import £180,000 of cocaine.

NEW admissions criteria being drawn up by grammar schools must not further entrench gaps in educational opportunity, it has been urged.

Former first minister Peter Robinson has said that Northern Ireland was not initially intended to be a permanent state.

THE Church of Ireland has apologised for its role in stigmatising unmarried women and children across the island over decades.

A north Belfast republican has secured High Court permission to challenge a decision by police to stop and question him at an airport.

THE funeral will take place in Co Tyrone today of a priest who served in parishes across the Archdiocese of Armagh.

PATRICK Kielty has told how he felt the early release from prison of his father's killers was "a price worth paying" if it helped achieve peace.

A UDA member has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison over a "significant'' drug dealing operation.

Belfast Trust has launched a Covid-19 virtual hospital in a bid to provide discharged patients with a "safety net".

MORE than 50 alleged victims have been identified in a case against a Belfast man accused of a vast campaign of child sexual abuse, a court has heard.

NORTHERN Ireland has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related deaths since the pandemic began, new figures reveal.

Relatives of a recently deceased west Belfast woman are said to have been left "shook up" after police visited the house where she was being waked as part of the Covid-19 clampdown.