A priest has strongly condemned parental irresponsibility during a funeral homily for Belfast man Harry Holland, who was stabbed to death with a screwdriver last week.

A TIGHTKNIT Belfast community was in shock last night after the discovery of a body, chopped up and stuffed into two wheelie bins.

A tight-knit Belfast community was in shock tonight after the horrific discovery of a dismembered body.

Construction of yet another Belfast city centre hotel was getting under way today.

Belfast Education and Library Board was celebrating today after paying off its £9 million debt to the British Government a year early.

The Ulster Unionist Party's Jim Rodgers has been elected to a second term as Lord Mayor of Belfast with the support of the SDLP.

A man murdered in a house in east Belfast was named today.

A man found dead in a house may have been killed after a row among drinking partners.

Relatives of the late George Best are deciding on details after plans to build a statue in his memory were approved.

Plans to erect a permanent memorial to George Best in the grounds of Belfast City Hall are set to receive unanimous support tonight.

The grave of soccer legend George Best is fast becoming a place of pilgrimage for die-hard fans of the late Northern Ireland and Manchester United star.

Belfast City Council has passed a resolution condemning Fr Alec Reid's controversial remarks about unionists and Nazis.

Politicians from across the sectarian divide in the North have condemned the murder of former UDA ‘brigadier’ Jim Gray in east Belfast last night.

TOP loyalist Jim Gray was shot dead in Belfast last night.

Politicians from across the community in Belfast have condemned this morning’s attack that left a young man in a critical condition on hospital.

The Orange Order has voted to sever its links with the Ulster Unionist Party.

Loyalist paramilitaries planted a bomb at the home of an east Belfast man they mistakenly believed was a prison officer, it was claimed today.

Ulster Unionists were preparing today to vote on whether David Trimble should remain as their leader.

Fresh talks have been launched to avoid a bitter split in David Trimble’s Ulster Unionist Party, it emerged today.

RIVAL wings of the Ulster Unionist Party were yesterday heading towards another bitter showdown.

Talks aimed at healing deep divisions within David Trimble’s Ulster Unionist Party were suspended today after rival factions prepared for another showdown.

Judgment was reserved today in the High Court case of three Ulster Unionist MPs who are appealing against their suspension from the party.

David Trimble urged his three rebel Ulster Unionist MPs to “draw back from the brink” today as an internal row threatened to tear the party apart.

A man is critically ill in hospital today after he was shot in what was thought to be part of an escalating loyalist paramilitary feud.

Police in the North have arrested East Belfast UDA member, Jim Grey.

An Ulster Unionist tonight claimed east Belfast was becoming “the Wild West” after a second gun attack linked to feuding among rival loyalist factions left a teenager wounded.

A veteran Ulster unionist member of the Northern Assembly is to retire at the next Stormont election.

A senior loyalist has been shot in the face in east Belfast.

BELFAST’S first republican lord mayor sparked angry unionist outbursts yesterday when he installed the Irish Tricolour in his office at the city hall.

The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Sinn Fein’s Alex Maskey, has infuriated unionists by announcing he's to place an Irish tri-colour in his office at city hall later today.

THIRTEEN police officers were injured after sectarian rioting erupted in a bitterly divided Belfast neighbourhood, it emerged yesterday.

Several people were tonight injured during the latest bout of sectarian rioting in strife-torn north Belfast.

The Lord Mayor of Belfast today called for water cannon to be deployed in the north of the city following another weekend of vicious sectarian rioting.

Exactly ninety years ago Thomas Andrews left his home in a leafy suburb of Belfast for the last time to board his proud creation - the Titanic.

This bank holiday weekend is the 90th anniversary of the Titanic's launch from Belfast.

Belfast Lord Mayor Jim Rodgers has claimed a number of files have been stolen during a raid on Special Branch offices in Castlereagh last night.

Police in the North are investigating a republican threat to protestant workers.

A republican threat to Protestant workers in west Belfast was today being investigated by the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Alarming levels of paramilitary influence in the running of Belfast will spread, it was claimed tonight.

An 18-year-old soldier remained critically ill in hospital today after a blast bomb attack in north Belfast.

At least two police officers were injured when serious loyalist rioting broke out in north Belfast.

An RUC officer was injured today in an explosion as Catholic children made their way to school in the face of a third day of loyalist protest in north Belfast.

Unionist and nationalist representatives were tonight under pressure to help end the violence which erupted in north Belfast over Catholic children being allowed to go to school.

The RUC Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan says last night’s violence in