It has now emerged that the inquiry lawyers’ inability to access secret intelligence documents relating state agencies’ roles ...

Northern Ireland is becoming a “model for far right activity to be emulated elsewhere”, a human rights charity has warned ...

An excess of slurry leaching into our waterways has been blamed for toxic blue-green algal blooms which have choked Lough Neagh, the River Bann, Lough Erne and other key habitats over the summer. But ...

SAND has been extracted from Lough Neagh for more than a century. Workers initially used shovels to remove sand for use in building projects. But over the decades, extraction has become a major ...

Racist attacks in Northern Ireland have increased dramatically since the end of the Troubles. In 1996, the year that police began to compile statistics, there were 41 race hate incidents - but over ...

The PSNI will stop sharing data on migrant victims of crime with UK immigration enforcement in all but “very specific and exceptional circumstances”, after admitting that its previous approach “could ...

There were eight times more prosecutions of republican paramilitary displays than loyalist ones over the past decade, according to figures obtained by The Detail. Between 2015 and 2025, there were 94 ...

More than a third of those arrested during the violent disorder in Ballymena and surrounding towns had previously been reported to the PSNI for domestic abuse. The figures were released to The Detail ...

COUNCILS and a Stormont department are still arguing over who is responsible for investigating potential fraud in a farm planning scandal - more than 18 months after it was uncovered. The Detail ...

PET welfare complaints have risen to their highest level in five years, The Detail can reveal. The number of complaints across Northern Ireland’s 11 council areas rose from 5,894 in 2019 to 7,143 in ...

FOR a year, The Detail has been investigating serious concerns about the management of one of Northern Ireland’s most precious resources - Lough Neagh. The 392 km2 lough is the largest freshwater lake ...

TENS of thousands of migrant victims and witnesses of crime, including those subjected to racist attacks and domestic abuse, were reported by the PSNI to the UK immigration authorities over a ...