The Irish News

The Irish News

A NEW, ENERGETIC, AND CONTEMPORARY DAILY NEWSPAPER, The Irish News has established itself as one of the top newspapers in both Britain and Ireland. It stands out as the highest-performing regional daily morning paper among all Irish publications, both in the north and south. The Irish News is setting the standard in today's local newspaper landscape.

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  • 1 day ago | irishnews.com | Craig Meighan

    A Scotland-wide summit to tackle “deadly” seagulls must be held amid warnings someone could be killed, the Scottish Parliament has heard. Former Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross, who called a debate on the issue at Holyrood, warned that Scots risk losing their lives over the “growing problem” of “nuisance” gulls. Fellow Tory Rachael Hamilton said a nationwide summit must be held to tackle the issue as she warned that Scots are being left “scared, attacked and traumatised”.

  • 1 day ago | irishnews.com | Katrine Bussey |Craig Meighan

    First Minister John Swinney has said it would be “reasonable” for a former principal of the cash-strapped University of Dundee to return a £150,000 payment he received when he stepped down. Professor Iain Gillespie told MSPs on Thursday it was not in his “thought process” to hand back the cash, although he accepted the “buck stops with me” for the university’s difficulties.

  • 2 days ago | irishnews.com | Cormac Moore

    June 26 1975CAPITAL punishment should be brought back in Northern Ireland to stamp out the increasing wave of murders, it was claimed yesterday. Mr Thomas Passmore, Grand Master of the Orange Order in Belfast, said of Tuesday’s murder of 25-year-old Protestant Alan Ralph as he sat in his car: “The inhuman monster which murdered Mr Ralph must be dealt with by the law. No amount of talk will have any influence on such a person”.

  • 2 days ago | irishnews.com | Craig Meighan

    A campaigner has lauded the First Minister’s apology over the “cultural genocide” of Gypsy Travellers in Scotland as a “significant milestone” for her community. Roseanna McPhee welcomed the apology, which she said was the result of years of campaigning. John Swinney made the formal apology at Holyrood on Thursday over “unfair and unjust policies” that caused “trauma” in what was known as the “tinker experiment”.

  • 2 days ago | irishnews.com | Julia Frankel

    Israeli forces shot and killed a 66-year-old Palestinian woman during a raid on Tuesday night in east Jerusalem, her husband and a local Palestinian official said. Joudah Al-Obeidi, a 67-year-old resident of the neighbourhood’s Shuafat refugee camp, said his wife Zahia Al-Obeidi was standing on the roof of their home when Israeli forces stormed the camp and shot her in the head. He said she had posed no threat. “It is a crime,” he told The Associated Press.