It’s set in modern Pennsylvania, but there’s an Old Testament quality to the imagery of fire in Out of the Furnace (15A).

An international team of experts is to assess the future of children’s heart surgery on an all-island basis.

An international team of experts is to assess the future of children’s heart surgery on an All-Ireland basis.

Blocking a controversial proposal to ban abortions in private clinics allows Marie Stopes to operate under a cloak of darkness, it was claimed tonight.

Proposals to introduce a presumed consent system of organ donation in Northern Ireland have been announced.

Two DUP politicians in Northern Ireland have become the latest to receive death threats amid serious violence in the region.

Two senior Northern Irish politicians have received death threats.

Northern Ireland's Health Minister Edwin Poots said it was a huge relief no-one was hurt after a blaze forced the evacuation of five floors of a major hospital in the North.

Fifteen people have died from suspected suicide in Belfast since July.

The law is no "paper tiger" and will closely monitor the North's first private abortion clinic, the health minister Edwin Poots warned.

Stormont’s Health Minister Edwin Poots is taking legal advice on how to regulate Ireland’s first private abortion clinic.

A failure to implement proposed welfare reforms in Northern Ireland will ultimately cost lives, Stormont’s Health Minister has warned.

The extraordinary bravery of a young woman who tried to rescue her father and two brothers – one of them a top Ulster rugby player – when they were overcome by killer fumes emerged today.

Stormont politicians united today to offer words of sympathy and support for the grief-stricken Spence family.

Team mates of a young rugby star killed in a farming tragedy alongside his brother and his father in Northern Ireland have said he was a wonderful sportsman and a wonderful person.

A new law banning under 18s from using sunbeds in the North comes into force today.

Outbreaks of deadly bacteria that claimed the lives of four babies in Northern Ireland hospitals are now officially under control, the region's Health Minister has said.

A deadly infection which killed four babies in the North has been discovered in the taps at a hospital.

An independent investigation is to take place into hospital outbreaks of a deadly infection that killed four babies in the North.

Alcohol claims the lives of more than 1,300 people each year across the island of Ireland, health chiefs holding a cross-border conference on the problem confirmed.

All babies transferred to other units from two hospitals in the North where four infants died are to be screened for the killer infection, public health authorities said.

A seventh child has been diagnosed as carrying a killer infection that killed three babies in a Belfast hospital.

A killer infection that claimed the lives of three babies in a Belfast hospital has been traced to taps in the neo-natal unit, the North's health minister said.

The North's health minister Edwin Poots is due to make a new statement today on attempts by medical staff to discover the source of a killer infection which has claimed the lives of three babies at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital in Belfast.

Experts are closing in on the source of an infection that killed three babies in Belfast’s Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital, the North's Health Minister Edwin Poots said today.

The parents of 24 babies are waiting to find out if their children are free from the infection that caused the deaths of three newborns at a hospital.

Emergency medical care hours will be cut at Lagan Valley Hospital from today because of a shortage of staff, it has been revealed today.

A cap limiting the numbers of passengers flying from Belfast City Airport is to be lifted, the North's Environment minister announced.

Controversial plans to build an incinerator at Lough Neagh are to be challenged in the High Court in Belfast, it was disclosed today.

A public inquiry is to be held into controversial plans for an overhead electricity interconnector across the border, it was announced today.

Thousands of tonnes of waste illegally dumped in rural Co Fermanagh will be returned to the Republic tomorrow.

Imogen Poots has been cast as the female lead role in ‘Fright Night’.

Sinn Féin and the DUP were at loggerheads today over local government reform only hours before talks to try to resolve the issue.

Residents living near George Best Belfast City Airport reacted furiously today to a British government suggestion that a cap on passenger numbers may be lifted.

There is greater certainty and clarity in efforts to resolve the North's mammoth power-sharing talks, the Democratic Unionist Party said tonight.

Budget airline easyJet called today for a public inquiry into controversial proposals to extend the runway at George Best Belfast City Airport.

Catholic schools which retain academic selection will inevitably discriminate against some children, the North's Education Minister claimed today.

The DUP should widen the education debate to reflect the feelings of most schools who are glad to see the end of academic selection, a leading school principal claimed today.

Northern Sports Minister Edwin Poots will face tough questions at Stormont today over plans to build a £240m (€318.9m) stadium project at the former Maze paramilitary prison.

The North’s first gay rugby team is guilty of promoting a sporting apartheid, Stormont sports minister Edwin Poots claimed tonight.

AS a GAA member I must protest at the presence of Stormont minister Edwin Poots at the recent Dr McKenna Cup football match between Donegal and Down in Newry.

An Irish-language commissioner should be appointed to oversee the development of a strategy to protect the language in the North, the Culture minister was told today.

The North's Sports Minister Edwin Poots is calling for an end to the playing of the Irish national anthem ahead of GAA games in the North.

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