The ex-MP, 63, has pleaded not guilty to 18 alleged offences.

Defence barrister Kieran Vaughan called the ex-MP as a witness in the trial at Newry Crown Court.

The first day of a public inquiry into the solicitor’s death heard he founded a law firm with Peter Madden in 1979 to help others.

The family of stabbing victim, Stephen Ogilvie, thanked the emergency services and people who stepped in to stop the attack, as they called for calm.

Donaldson, 63, has pleaded not guilty to 18 alleged offences while Eleanor Donaldson is facing a trial of the facts.

A 30-year-old Sudanese man arrested in connection with the knife attack has been charged with attempted murder.

The jury at Newry Crown Court have been hearing further police interviews with the Donaldsons following their arrest in 2024.

Graphic video footage is circulating online appearing to show the violent incident unfold on Kinnaird Avenue in the north of the city.

Margaret Johnston received significant burn injuries when petrol bombs were thrown at the Ulsterbus she was travelling in on Saturday afternoon, February 5th, 1972.

Michael Olise’s hat-trick earned the hosts victory.

There has been continuing disagreement over the stone designed to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland which passed in 2021.

Newry Crown Court also heard about a message sent by Jeffrey Donaldson to a church minister who had been providing pastoral support to the couple stating he just wanted to “find a way to say how sorry I am”.

The woman, known as complainant B, is the older of two alleged victims who have accused the former DUP leader of sexual abuse.

Around 12,000 referral letters to patients have gone missing from Northern Ireland’s new patient record system.

The complainant told Newry Crown Court of hearing the former DUP leader’s ‘heavy breathing’ during the alleged sexual assault.

The 63-year-old former MP has pleaded not guilty to 18 alleged offences.

Complainant A also rejected suggestions by a barrister that she is “making this up as you go along” in relation to the allegations.

The incident was initially blamed on pilot error before this was overturned in 2011.

The pub is set to open in Dundonald in Co Down next month.

FIFA were asked to explain their World Cup ticket pricing by legal chiefs in the United States.

The draw with Wales in March was his 104th match in charge.

Seamus Maguire is thought to have been killed and secretly buried by republican paramilitaries between 1973 and 1976.

A stone’s throw from where the famous Titanic was built, they met organisers and performers who will entertain thousands of people this August.

Pam Cameron said the video posted by the youth branch of Sinn Féin is a ‘misrepresentation of the facts’.

Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said Sinn Féin was targeting the DUP’s ministers at Stormont.

The 18-year-old’s death in April 1988 remains one of Northern Ireland’s most high-profile unsolved murders.

Micheál Martin said his party had historically made ‘very significant achievements’ in housing.

Declan Morgan, chief commissioner of the ICRIR, said he is ‘deeply sorry that this has happened on my watch’.

Sinn Féin president Mary-Lou McDonald said the party will ‘not be goaded into kneejerk reactions’.

Tuesday's front pages focus on a range of stories, from an increase in money laundering to the Taoiseach saying Ireland should look at nuclear power. 

It then emerged that it had been erected without planning permission, although Belfast City Council had not previously taken any action.

Police said the arrest came as a result of the forensic examination of two mobile phones seized from a vehicle stopped in the Markethill area of Co Armagh in January.

The Conservative leader said she did not sign off on the video which was sent out by ‘very young people’.

The Northern Ireland Troubles Bill was designed to repeal and replace the controversial Legacy Act introduced by the previous Conservative government.

Colum Eastwood criticised the use of footage from Bloody Sunday in a video posted online by the Conservative leader.

Gavin Robinson was speaking after a dissident republican attack on a police station in Co Antrim.

Patrick Deery was pronounced dead at the scene.

The collision occurred at Nutts Corner on Sunday morning.

The legislation would repeal and replace the controversial Legacy Act introduced by the previous Conservative government

Homes in the area have been evacuated and a cordon is in place in Dunmurry.

The incident occurred outside a PSNI facility in Dunmurry, on the outskirts of Belfast.

McDowell was northern editor of the Sunday World for 25 years.

The Sinn Féin vice president described unity as the ‘big idea’ of her generation.