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Jeffrey Donaldson: Former MP being investigated over alleged Westminster rape.

The Metropolitan Police in London are investigating Jeffrey Donaldson over a rape allegation It is alleged to have happened in the former MP's Westminster office. Dona

Portadown District’s offers to secure Drumcree parade deal revealed in court

Offers made by Portadown District to allow Orangemen to walk the Garvaghy Road have been revealed in court – including a 4AM march, accompanied by a residents’ protest.

Give My Head Peace: Comedies axed as BBC makes deep cuts

Perforated Ulster, Give My Head Peace, and The Long and the Short of it, all produced by the Hole in the Wall gang are being axed by the BBC. The Blame Game has also bee

Ammi Burke: Solicitor's legal showdown with her former employer

The Burkes are back, but this time it's not Enoch grabbing the headlines, it's his sister Ammi. In 2019, Ammi Burke was dismissed from her role at one of Ireland’s most

Jeffrey Donaldson’s victims in their own words

The PSNI has released the audio statements of Jeffrey Donaldson’s victims, Victim A and Victim B. Their voices have been artificially generated to protect the victims’ i

Jeffrey Donaldson given 15 years - but will be out in seven

Jeffrey Donaldson received a 15 year sentence in prison for his crimes. He was given 11 years for rape against Victim B and four years for all offences against Victim A,

Missing for 34 years: Patsy O’Sullivan and the secret family no one knew about

It was in April 1992 when Patrick 'Patsy' O'Sullivan called into his brother Jerry's home like it was any other day, but it’s a day that will forever remain etched in Jer

Drumcree: Garvaghy Residents’ challenge dismissed, dispute rumbles on despite parade ban

The parading crisis in Portadown seems over on the ground, but it is very much alive in the courts, on the airwaves, and in politics. The Northern Ireland Secretary of

The St Andrews Agreement 20 years on: Paisley signs up to power-sharing

The St Andrews Agreement was signed twenty years ago on 13 October 2006. Officially. it just amended the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement, but it did bring about some pro

BONUS: From green fields to factory farms: How ‘catastrophic’ industrial agriculture policy is trashing environment

Northern Ireland’s Agriculture and Environment Minister Andrew Muir interviewed by Belfast Telegraph Northern Ireland Editor Sam McBride, discussing how what he says has

Encrochat: Spy hack on gangster phones still decimating NI drug dealers’ ranks

In recent weeks, the 2020 French hack into the secret gangster phone network Encrochat has continued to see Northern Ireland drug dealers sent to Maghaberry. Multiple pr

Drumcree: Suzanne Breen on how the impact Garvaghy dispute is having on politics

The stand-off between the Drumcree Orange men and the Garvaghy residents continues. In Belfast on Monday – a court reserved judgment on the residents’ renewed applicatio

Donaldson still in Maghaberry hospital as old home goes up for sale

He was once known as the Right Honourable Sir Jeffrey Donaldson but is now known as inmate number E5032. Donaldson once proudly walked the corridors of Westminster, ate

‘They’ve got Marty’: the unsolved murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan

A fearless investigative reporter who exposed the criminal underworld behind Northern Ireland’s paramilitaries, O’Hagan had made dangerous enemies on both sides, but no o

Drumcree: No deal over Garvaghy march, £3m spent so far, O'Neill defiant

The standoff between the Orangemen on Drumcree and the residents of the Garvaghy Road continues in Portadown. Negotiations involving the Secretary of State Chris Bryant

The mistake that left ‘Slab' Murphy with a big bill and a massive problem

In 1990, Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy lost his seminal libel case against the Sunday Times. But formerly secret files reveal the south Armagh republican was actually expected t

Drumcree: nationalist and unionist camps completely divided over Garvaghy march

There is a stalemate in Portadown and deep division in Stormont. On the Orange side, the issue is the rights of a small number of people to march their traditional route

Siobhán Fenton: Former insider on Sinn Féin' ideological conundrums

When journalist Siobhan Fenton was headhunted by Sinn Féin in 2020 she was an outsider. Entering the party press office in Dublin, she was from Belfast, and didn’t supp

Drumcree: Orange Order to march Garvaghy road again after 28 years

The Parades Commission has given go ahead for Drumcree Orange march down the Garvaghy Road - but with stringent conditions. Permission has been granted for no more than

'Donaldson should get 10 years', court hears

The former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson should serve at least 10 years in prison, a court in Newry has heard. The remarks were made during a submission hearing for disg