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DENISE GOUGH will open the Seamus Heaney Lecture 2024 at the Institute of Irish Studies in Liverpool next week. The Wexford-born actor has been back on the boards in London of late as she reprised her Olivier Award-winning role as Emma in Duncan Macmillan’s play People, Places and Things. Gough, who was joined by Sinéad Cusack in the production at the Trafalgar Theatre over … [Read more...] about Denise Gough to recite Heaney poem at annual Irish event in Liverpool

THE future of a vast lake in Northern Ireland which has been plagued by blue-green algae has been raised in Westminster. Lough Neagh is the largest lough in Ireland and the UK, but it is heavily polluted and concerns for its future were first raised last summer with the appearance of toxic blue-green algae in the water. The blooms, which pose a risk to humans and animals, … [Read more...] about Algae issues and the future of Lough Neagh raised in Westminster

A DRUG dealer in Derry has been jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty to drugs offences. Lesley Ann Dunn was found in possession of Class A and B drugs and a large quantity of cash when PSNI officers raided her home in Coleraine in November last year. “On Wednesday,  November 29, 2023, police searched a property in the Gransden Court area of Coleraine,” the PSNI’s … [Read more...] about Drug-dealing Derry woman jailed after being caught with cocaine and cannabis

IMAGES of 99 people who gardaí want to speak to in connection with their investigation into the riots in Dublin last year have been released today. The police force is urging the public to help identify these ‘persons of interest’ through the image database, which was posted on the their website this morning. Images of 99 'persons of interest' have been posted on the garda … [Read more...] about Gardaí issue images of 99 ‘persons of interest’ in connection with Dublin riots

TWO men have been arrested after a patrol car was rammed in a police pursuit in the early hours of the morning. Police spotted a speeding car on the Westlink in west Belfast at around 2.30am yesterday morning (November 18). The driver failed to stop when signalled to by officers, but instead driving off at an increased speed, at one stage while on the wrong side of the … [Read more...] about Two arrests after patrol car rammed in early morning police chase