Monica McWilliams

The series of nine portraits celebrates women who worked for peace across the political divide

Joseph Connelly, Lee Child, Frank McGuinness and Stuart Neville are among the guests announced for the John Hewitt International Summer School 2023.

Monica McWilliams, a co-founder of the Northern Ireland's Women's Coalition, was among those honoured by the Royal Irish Academy

Former PUP leader Dawn Purvis laughed as she remembered being asked to make tea during her early days in the party.

The vision and diplomacy of the late Fr Alec Reid, the Redemptorist priest from Clonard in Belfast, who played an influential role in bringing an end to armed conflict in Northern Ireland, is celebrated in a new drama-documentary this Easter.

A CEREMONY to award an honorary doctorate to Bertie Ahern for his role in the signing of the Good Friday Agreement has been disrupted by student protestors who accused the former Taoiseach of being the "architect" of the Republic's financial crisis.

THE Rostrevor Literary Festival returns tomorrow with a headline appearance by Hungarian/British poet and translator George Szirtes.

NOTHING would ever tempt Monica McWilliams back into politics "with a capital 'P'" but these days, at "almost 68", the well-known 'Peace Woman' is working harder than ever in small 'p' politics, as she calls it, and is just as tenacious in pursuit of justice and equality as ever she was.

UNEXPLAINED wealth orders should be extended to Northern Ireland to help in the fight against ongoing paramilitary activity, a report has said.