Every available train, coach and bus will be in operation during The 148th Open to accommodate the tens of thousands of additional passengers who will flock to Portrush to watch the world’s top golfers compete for the Claret Jug, Translink has said.

A man is recovering in hospital after he was rescued from a river in Northern Ireland

The government is to bring forward new proposals for the statutory definition of a victim, the DUP has said.

UUP chief Whip and former Royal Navy Commander Steve Aiken says reports of Russian disinformation aimed at stoking up hatred in Northern Ireland come as “no surprise”.

Payments to those injured during the Troubles should be tiered depending on how badly hurt they are, the victims’ commissioner has said.

As someone who was involved in the negotiations of the Belfast Agreement and who served as a minister in the first and second Stormont executives, I find it immensely disheartening that Northern Ireland has now been without a functioning government for two and half years.