A young Chinese woman who has been living in Ireland for almost eight years, is facing deportation — all because of a shopping day-trip to Belfast.

SHELL To Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has been arrested again after failing to pay fines she received for offences relating to protests against Shell’s Corrib gas pipeline.

THE Catholic Church has described as disturbing parts of the Government’s plan to build a super-prison at Thornton Hall.

A 29-year-old woman wanted over the murder of her boyfriend in Belfast today consented to being handed over to British authorities under the first European Arrest Warrant served between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.