A brown bear in Kent receiving life-saving brain surgery and the “Hardest Geezer” running the entire length of Africa were among the most eye-catching uplifting moments of 2024. Here, the PA news ...

A union leader has called for 2025 to be a “year of delivery” for workers after 14 years of “Tory chaos”. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said in his new year message that working people desperately ...

Irish officials were worried that a US decision to designate the Real IRA (RIRA) as a foreign terrorist organisation might help recruitment for the paramilitary group. Just years after the signing of ...

A decades-long dispute over the ownership of the cannons included many twists, including concerns that they could be targetted by the ...

Thousands of motorists have been caught drug-driving at least four times, sparking calls for ministers to consider introducing rehabilitation courses for offenders. A total of 33,020 British drivers ...

Details of a threat to poison English water supplies have emerged in newly unsealed documents from the Irish national archives.

Viral TikTokers known as the Spud Bros vowed to make jacket potatoes “sexy again” as the food became a global phenomenon in 2024.

Concerns were raised about Robert Lowry, who presided over scores of non-jury trials of Republicans during the Troubles, newly released files reveal.

Four out of five drivers are frustrated that a Government-backed code of practice for private parking companies is still not in force five years after becoming law, a new survey suggests. Some 84% of ...

Newly released files from the National Archives in Dublin show a protracted process in which plans to display that original portrait in the Irish parliament buildings were changed, sparking some ...

Tony Blair once suggested that nationalists in Northern Ireland could support England in the World Cup after Ireland was knocked out, according to reports on a 2002 meeting. The former prime minister ...