Shauna Corr

1 month ago | irishnews.com | Shauna Corr

Sextortion scammers are using AI to target teenage boys, the Irish News has learned. Artificial Intelligence is used to create fake naked images of the teenagers with the scammers then threatening to release the images to the targets’ friends unless money is handed over. The scammers have also adapted a new strategy of making small money demands in the hope that the teenager pays out - often £100 - without telling anyone.

1 month ago | irishnews.com | Shauna Corr

A cycling campaign group has urged Translink to leave the morning bike ban on trains up to the discretion of conductors. Currently there is just one carriage on NI Railway services where cyclists can stow their bike - but it contains a notice saying bikes are not allowed aboard before 9.30am on weekdays. Until recently, this rule has gone largely unenforced with some morning commuter services much quieter than others.

1 month ago | irishnews.com | Shauna Corr

Young unionists have branded a new campaign for Irish dual-language signage at Queen’s University Belfast a “cultural passion project”, saying any money available should go to providing free period products across campus. They hit out at organisers saying “there had been no effort to engage with unionist societies” and that the “initiative has effectively been sprung on us” in a statement posted on social media on Wednesday. The Irish language and Queen’s University have a chequered past.

2 months ago | irishnews.com | Shauna Corr

THREE Colombian musicians more in tune with helping gang members and prisoners transform their lives back home, made waves on Rathlin with a unique workshop teaching islanders to make music from waste collected around their own shores. If proof was ever needed about the power of music to bring people together while helping them see the beauty in what they throw away, the scenes at the island’s only bar, McCuig’s, truly delivered.

2 months ago | irishnews.com | Shauna Corr

Eight major sewage projects designed to support the development of much-needed housing and prevent untreated pollution pouring into Belfast Lough from its “completely out of capacity system” have been scrapped by NI Water. The announcement on Thursday by Northern Ireland’s publicly funded water company has prompted the redeployment of 150 engineers and scientists who were working on the projects to other parts of the UK and Ireland.