News
POLICE are increasingly being forced to tackle crimes at pubs and nightclubs with almost 4,000 offences reported in a single year. More than 11,200 crimes were recorded by the PSNI in the past three years in and around nightspots.
Most-read stories on the Irish News website in 2015
News
FROM the light hearted to the tragic, these are the stories you clicked on most often across the Irish News website in the past year.
Danny Hughes dares to dream of an eventful 2016
Sport
WILL 2016 be a year to remember?
Priest suspended for using hoverboard during Mass
World news
THE priest was filmed on the hoverboard at Christmas Eve Mass.
Liveblog
-
A 24 year old man has been charged with attempted murder and is due at Ballymena Magistrates Court tomorrow morning.
-
State papers: deployment of Irish troops would make fatalities a `near certainty'
-
State papers: Concerns about Ian Paisley
-
Christopher Meli: two teens arrested
-
State Papers: Taoiseach's office distanced itself from Stardust payouts
-
NIAS Purdysburn Station flooded – crews relocated to RVH & Forster Green and will maintain services in South Belfast
-
State papers: Derry/Londonderry controversy
-
State papers: Northern bishops voice anger over alienation of Catholics
The latest
Irish Army feared calls for troops to cross border
Republic of Ireland news
IRISH army chiefs feared the British and nationalists would call for Irish troops to be sent over the border in response to near civil war in Northern Ireland.
Taoiseach's office distanced itself from Stardust blaze payouts
Diplomat urged abandoning use of Irish in messages to foreign leaders
Garda Killer Michael McHugh 'was expected to serve full 40 years'
Soviet satellite threatened north in 1988
Northern Bishops warn of ‘nationalist alienation’
Timeline shows north's isolation on same-sex marriage
Northern Ireland news
A TIMELINE spanning 28 years shows that north is surrounded by countries that recognise same-sex marriage
Republic's first same-sex marriage is celebrated
Gay marriage stance makes north a 'backward-looking blot on the map'
Judgment reserved in gay marriage ban legal challenge
Garda Killer Michael McHugh 'was expected to serve full 40 years'
Republic of Ireland news
GARDA KILLER Michael McHugh, who was released at the start of the month after serving 30 years of a 40-year prison sentence, was branded a reckless but highly intelligent criminal in Government documents.
Taoiseach's office distanced itself from Stardust blaze payouts
Diplomat urged abandoning use of Irish in messages to foreign leaders
Irish Army feared calls for troops to cross border
Diplomat urged abandoning use of Irish in messages to foreign leaders
Republic of Ireland news
A TOP diplomat urged the Government to abandon the use of Irish on messages to foreign leaders, state papers have revealed.
Taoiseach's office distanced itself from Stardust blaze payouts
Irish Army feared calls for troops to cross border
Garda Killer Michael McHugh 'was expected to serve full 40 years'
Taoiseach's office distanced itself from Stardust blaze payouts
Republic of Ireland news
STATE PAPERS have revealed that the Taoiseach's department wanted to wash its hands of compensation claims for victims of the Stardust disaster over fears it would be chaotic and controversial.
Diplomat urged abandoning use of Irish in messages to foreign leaders
Garda Killer Michael McHugh 'was expected to serve full 40 years'
Irish Army feared calls for troops to cross border
Gay Byrne 'recovering well' after suffering heart attack
Republic of Ireland news
RTÉ broadcaster Gay Byrne has suffered a heart attack.