ALMOST half of parents in Northern Ireland say their children are eating more treats since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

THE Human Rights Commission will today challenge the current law on the rehabilitation of offenders in Northern Ireland.

A nine-year-old boy and three men were killed by police gunfire in Belfast across August 14-15 1969.

Mrs Foster will stand down as DUP leader on May 28 and as First Minister at the end of June.

The part is experiencing its first-ever leadership election in its 50-year history.

Sinn Féin had asked the women to consider their positions as part of a wider reorganisation of party structures in Foyle.

A GROUP of grammar schools planning to host entrance exams this year is to delay opening applications.

Two Belfast men are facing a "huge" number of charges in connection with an investigation into a suspected multi-million pound banking fraud, a court has been told.

The 47-year-old woman was shot dead in the garden of her Derry home in 1971.

No further deaths linked to Covid-19 have been recorded by the Department of Health in its latest daily update on the pandemic.

A man was beaten with a baseball bat in his Ballymena home last night.

Holohans said it will combine staff teams and continue to trade at its sister restaurant on University Road. 

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said the Dublin government will press Stormont to introduce similar controls in Northern Ireland.

Brook Street has now reopened and residents, who were evacuated, have now returned to their homes.

MORE than £900 million funding has made little difference in narrowing the educational attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their more affluent peers.

A Co Antrim GAA club has said the theft of goalposts used in under-age games is a "slap in the teeth" as it prepares to embark on a major building project.

SDLP MLA Daniel McCrossan has written to the Stormont Environment minister Edwin Poots calling for those responsible for a large fish kill in Co Tyrone to be "identified quickly".

COMEDIAN Paddy Raff is appealing for the public's help to raise £30,000 for Special Olympics athletes.

The outcome of tomorrow's Scottish Parliament election is crucial to the debate around the future of the United Kingdom.

Ikea is to launch its delayed "Buy Back" scheme allowing customers to sell their old furniture back to the retailer.