Donovan on why he feels a deep kinship with Van Morrison: ‘Belfast and Glasgow, there’s a grittiness to our cities’

Strictly star Amy discovers ancestor’s heroic wartime actions rescuing stricken sailors off coast of Larne

DUP demands meeting with PSNI over Scarva counter-protest amid accusations of ‘heavy-handedness’

Meerkat’s meltdown: UVF boss throws strop after threatened immigrant turns tables on him

Stephen Nolan’s Peelers shows that we ask humans to do superhuman things to keep us safe

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Niall Horan: ‘It’s mad how I get to live this crazy life – and I didn’t have to do my school exams’

‘It’s like it was yesterday’: 30 years after IRA murder of Garda Jerry McCabe, family say aftermath has been ‘form of torture’

NI author Ruth McKee on publishing debut novel: ‘Being involved in the literary world certainly did not guarantee publication’

‘The worst performance for a long time’ - Heimir Hallgrimsson unhappy with first-half but hails turnaround

Paula McIntyre’s summer food recipes: Hot and crispy meets cool and crunchy for perfect meals on warmer days

‘Made by monks, drunk by punks’: How Buckfast went from a wine born out of piety to a ‘rite of passage’ in NI

‘It’s a reason to get out of bed in the morning’: Men’s Shed hailed as providing a lifeline for members

Take Five: ‘A dander along the Portstewart Strand, with that fresh sea air, always cleared my head’

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