Under-performing teachers should get sack in interests of pupils: report
Schools must be prepared to sack under-performing teachers in order to cut the number of pupils failing to meet basic reading and writing targets, a Stormont committee has said. A new report by the...
View ArticleOsborne to set out spending plans
Chancellor George Osborne will draw up the battle lines for the next general election as he sets out his final spending plans before the country goes to the polls in 2015. The Spending Review for...
View ArticleSeparate education systems in Northern Ireland are unsustainable, claim...
Business leaders have called for Stormont to heed the findings of today’s poll and ensure more focus is placed on integrated education. Related Articles They claim Northern Ireland cannot afford to...
View ArticleGermany questions GCHQ monitoring
Germany has directly challenged British ministers over GCHQ's reported programme of the mass monitoring of global phone and internet traffic. Justice minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has to...
View ArticleTrust withheld information from inquest, children’s death probe told
Many more child deaths may have been caused by hyponatraemia but never disclosed by the authorities, the chairman of a public inquiry has warned. John O’Hara QC was speaking as it emerged that a...
View Article£560,000 Eglinton Community Hall expansion boost
A new £560,000 sports, arts and cultural facility has been unveiled at Eglinton Community Hall in Londonderry. The hall has been expanded with £243,090 of funding from Derry’s urban regeneration...
View ArticleDonal McKeown: Still lessons to be learned by school integrationists
Statistics and questionnaires are both helpful and dubious sources of information. You can use them to deliver almost any preferred answer. And the LucidTalk poll (on behalf of the Integrated...
View ArticleHamill murder has echoes of Lawrence case
MARTIN Luther King once remarked that the colour of a man's skin should be of no more significance than the colour of his eyes. Unfortunately, as we have seen in the case of the racist murder of...
View ArticleSinn Fein and University of Ulster clash over who’s to blame for stunting...
A top academic has launched an outspoken attack on Sinn Fein after the party claimed the University of Ulster is holding up the expansion of its Magee campus. The UU’s Provost of Magee and Coleraine,...
View ArticleMoors murderer Ian Brady: I’m not insane
Moors murderer Ian Brady denied he was insane yesterday as he recalled cooking steaks with Ronnie Kray and mingling with some of Britain's most notorious criminals during his half-century of...
View ArticleWhere are the SDLP accounts then, Dolores?
SDLP MLA Dolores Kelly, speaking in the planning debate in the Assembly, called for transparency in party donations, so we could see the big businesses that paid into Sinn Fein and DUP coffers (as if...
View ArticleWoman wins legal bid over the failure to try date rape accused
A Belfast woman who claims she was the victim of a date rape which left her pregnant has cleared the first stage in her legal challenge to a decision not to bring a prosecution. She was granted leave...
View ArticleNo-one is above the law, Mr Kelly
WELL done the person who filmed Gerry Kelly obstructing the police in the execution of their duty (News, June 25). He deliberately put himself in front of the police vehicle – no doubt hoping that the...
View ArticleAlarm at noisy wake-up call
I AM wondering if I can be the only one who is disturbed by early-morning flights into (and out of) the Harbour Airport. There seems to be an occasional flight around 7am – rather hard to pin down,...
View ArticleDUP pair are 'salesmen' for the Maze site
IT'S disappointing to see Jeffrey Donaldson MP and Edwin Poots MLA being reduced to salesmen for the IRA/Sinn Fein project at the Maze, inclusive of an IRA hunger strike shrine. It's a shrine – no...
View ArticleEditor's viewpoint: Shared education will bridge divide in Northern Ireland
It is evident, yet again, that most people in Northern Ireland want to see progress towards a single education system. That is the clarion call to the politicians from the latest poll which is...
View ArticleMan who attacked ex-partner walks free
A man who brandished a six-inch blade at his ex-partner while threatening her and her family has walked free from court after his 18-month jail term was suspended for two years. Belfast Crown Court...
View ArticleMLAs back restrictions on planning appeals through courts
New restrictions are set to be imposed on anyone seeking to challenge planning decisions through the courts. MLAs have voted to push through an amendment which would limit the ability of anyone...
View ArticleMan facing court over blaze deaths
A man accused of killing three generations of the same family is due to stand trial. Carl Mills, 29, is accused of a lethal arson attack on a house in which a grandmother, teenage mother and baby were...
View ArticleCourt win for lifer in row over release
A life sentence prisoner has won his High Court battle over being denied a further temporary release for allegedly returning to jail drunk. Convicted robber James Clyde Reilly's challenge was conceded...
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