Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn said both the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and Common Travel Area would be upheld.

The bodies of Mark and Louise O’Connor and their son, Evan, were found at the family’s home in Dromgowna, outside Tallanstown village on Monday.

Newcastle boss Eddie Howe has leapt to Nick Woltemade’s defence after Bayern Munich executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge claimed Stuttgart had found “an idiot” to pay £69million for him.

Glam rock star Marc Bolan has been honoured with a blue plaque outside the London home where he wrote and recorded some of his biggest hits, English Heritage has announced. The singer and guitarist, ...

A school has reportedly apologised to parents after a teacher allegedly told children St George’s flags were viewed by some people as a “racist symbol”.

The director of an online knife retailer which sold a machete to the Southport attacker had no “curiosity” about who he was selling to, he has accepted at the public inquiry. Axel Rudakubana bought ...

Witness Stand backed his Goodwood effort up when second, conceding 3lb, to the progressive More Thunder in the Hungerford Stakes, form that has had several considerable boosts since. “He’s going to be ...

A global bottle manufacturer was fined £600,000 after a worker was burned by molten glass and hot water spilling into the cab of the loading vehicle he was operating. The accident took place at the ...

ITV has agreed a new four-year deal to broadcast free-to-air coverage of UK horse racing from 2027 until the end of 2030. The new agreement takes ITV’s position as racing’s terrestrial partner beyond ...

Maintaining high interest rates for too long could hit jobs and drag inflation below target levels, a deputy governor of the Bank of England has warned. Sarah Breeden, the Bank’s deputy governor for ...

Dermot Weld’s Purview gained an overdue first success of the season in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Navigation Stakes at Cork. The Juddmonte-owned three-year-old looked to have a very bright season ...

England managing director Rob Key has warned players must be “smart” and “not get caught doing stupid things” on the upcoming Ashes tour. Ben Stokes’ 16-strong squad head to Australia in November with ...