Northern Ireland Peace Process
Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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The Queen’s has continued with her historic visit to Ireland despite the discovery of bomb on a bus bound for Dublin.
By Sasjkia Otto Three people including an elderly woman were taken to hospital after a car bomb exploded outside a police station in Northern Ireland last night. Dissident republicans are thought to be responsible for the attack, but nobody has claimed responsibility. The bomb went off in Newtownhamilton around 11.25 after Belfast hospital received a… Read more »
