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Pat Sheehan said republican inmates in the Maze did not want to be pawns in the Good Friday Agreement talks.

Linda Molloy’s son John was killed in a random sectarian killing in north Belfast in 1996.

Dublin Airport expects 485,000 passengers to pass through its gates between Thursday and Monday.

Connor Chapman appeared at Liverpool Crown Court by videolink from HMP Manchester.

A closely watched survey found the construction sector grew slightly in March but was weighed down by a housing slowdown.

The Communities Secretary said mistakes of successive governments had contributed to tragedies such as the Grenfell Tower fire.

Northern Ireland Office minister Steve Baker urged the DUP to end its boycott of the Stormont institutions.

The royal household will offer a historian access to the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives as part of the independent academic project.

The service for Flight Sergeant Peter Brown will now take place at St Clement Danes, the RAF Central Church, in Westminster so more people can attend.

William appeared on homelessness charity Groundswell’s Listen Up podcast, speaking to presenters Miles and Nawshin.

There were queues of ‘approximately 90 minutes’ for passport checks by French officials at the Kent port on Thursday morning.

Badreddin Abdalla Adam, 28, was shot dead by police after stabbing six people at a hotel.

Travel trade organisation Abta said ‘the Easter weekend is one of the busiest of the year for the travel industry’.

Experts at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester were able to save Stacey Broadmeadow’s life and she froze her eggs.

The 58-year-old was arrested then released on Wednesday in connection to a long-running Police Scotland investigation.

The London-listed firm said liquid gas production would also be higher in the first quarter of this year.

The firm said total net fee income increased by 4% to £102.4 million over the first three months of 2023.

The typical house price in March was £287,880, which was about 2% below a peak reached last August, according to Halifax’s report.

The final day of the draw for the bowl is on April 14 and funds will go to Save the Children’s Emergency Fund.

The findings suggest that having breastmilk in the first few weeks of life may help to reduce the risk of having special educational needs.