northern ireland

A Derry Girls movie is on the way, as show writer Lisa McGee says she already has the idea for the film, the Irish Mirror reported. The show, which is on Netflix, will reportedly follow up Season 3 with a movie. McGee said ideas for the film began to form while waiting for the go-ahead […]

Perhaps the most surprising team of the 2020 UEAF Euro qualifiers, Northern Ireland, can all but seal their first-ever place in the European Championships group stage — if only they can pull off a victory against a team that they have not defeated since 1983, when Germany was still known as West Germany. But Northern […]

A company that runs tours of Croatia, which is one of the countries where Game of Thrones filmed, is offering a free tour of that country and its Game of Thrones locations to a lucky fan. All they have to do is correctly guess the ending of the series. The contest is being offered by […]

Who says royals can’t have fun? The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge got behind the bar today at the Empire Music Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where People reported they each took turn playing bartender. Kate showed off her impressive pouring skills by pulling the perfect pint of Harp Lager — a staple for bars […]

Police in Northern Ireland have now arrested four suspects in a recent and rare Londonderry car bombing, and they are trying to determine whether a republican dissident group called the New IRA is behind the event that luckily destroyed only property, and there were no injuries. The Daily Beast says that even though the area […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May has said on Monday that Brexit is still “achievable” despite the Irish backstop to derail the deal. May attended a parliamentary session before heading to Brussels for the summit on Wednesday and remained optimistic about Brexit. She said that she wouldn’t accept or agree to anything that could “split the […]

Negotiations over a “hard border” in Northern Ireland has become a “real problem” in the United Kingdom’s continued Brexit discussions with the European Union, the BBC News reported Monday. The EU reportedly wants to prevent a hard border in Northern Ireland that would include physical checks. British prime minister Theresa May has added, though, that […]

Fans who think that watching Game of Thrones on HBO is not enough will soon get to be a bit closer to the action when the subscription network launches tourist attractions near the show’s home base in Northern Ireland. Many of the show’s locations are in Northern Ireland, and so those obsessed with GOT will […]

Days after counter protester Heather Heyer died in the Charlottesville race riots and a car crashed into and injured 19 others, the Confederate flag flew proud in Ireland. The waving red-and-white bunting had nothing to do with the Charlottesville riots, the KKK rally in Virginia, or the deadly car crash though. Irish fans of the […]

Jamie Dornan’s extensively sensual role in the film adaptation of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy seems to follow him wherever he goes as a recent photo of him posing along a Northern Ireland coastline after a golf competition has fans going gaga on social media. According to a Hollywood Life report, the FSoG […]

It’s only a matter of months now before Game of Thrones returns to our screens for its seventh and penultimate season. However, if you just can’t wait for the new season, you can now head to Northern Ireland to explore some of Westeros’ most famous locations with the new Game of Thrones passport from Discover […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hTyUMZMx3g Tony Blair, member of the British Labour party and former prime minister of the United Kingdom, wrote an op-ed for Friday’s New York Times that discussed “Brexit,” the nickname for “British exit” that has been used to describe Thursday’s referendum in the UK through which the British public voted to leave the European Union […]

The country of Wales on Thursday voted to leave the European Union. Northern Ireland voted to stay in. But the two countries will be fighting desperately to stay in Europe Saturday as they face each other in a 2016 UEFA European Championship Round of 16 match that will stream live. The winner will advance to […]

Millions of Game Of Thrones fans around the world are eagerly awaiting the finale of Season 6, but what they don’t know is this week’s Brexit vote could spell the end of HBO’s hugely popular show. A British referendum vote this week will decide whether the country stays in the European Union (EU) and if […]

Northern Ireland hope to continue their storybook run at the 2016 UEFA European Championships with what would be a startling upset of Germany, the reigning World Champions in a match that will stream live Tuesday, with the winner, if there is one, potentially finishing atop Group C. And surprisingly, the scrappy Northern Ireland side is […]

The British Army has been told to prepare for a terror attack from Irish dissidents after the MI5 security agency raised the UK threat level fearing an attack from the New IRA or another splinter dissident group. Britain raised its terror threat level from “moderate” to “substantial” as MI5 issued warnings to British Army cadets […]

A Northern Ireland woman was found guilty of having an abortion and subsequently received a three-month suspended jail sentence. As abortions are illegal in Northern Ireland, and she was unable to travel to where they are legal, the woman, who was not named, performed an abortion on herself at home. She was subsequently indicted under […]

An individual strolling through a country park received the fright of his life after happening upon a stash of explosives and bomb making materials, hidden by suspected terrorists. Police have labeled the find as a “significant terrorist hide,” and warn residents to be extra vigilant as they are out and about. The explosive stash was […]

The United Kingdom will vote sometime prior to the end of 2017 in a referendum that will decide whether it and Gibraltar remain part of the European Union. Obviously, the potential “Brexit” will affect the residents of both the United Kingdom and Gibraltar, the country’s only overseas territory on the European mainland. What is not […]

Memories of The Troubles have been made fresh again, following an attempt to kill police in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, on Saturday. It is thought that the plot was the work of dissident Irish republicans, according to The Belfast Telegraph. The police were called to Lurgan after a call was placed to the charity Samaritans, saying […]

A family-owned Christian bakery in Northern Ireland has today been found guilty of discrimination for declining to decorate a cake with a pro-gay marriage message. On this side of the Atlantic, several Christian-owned bakeries and florists have also gotten themselves into similar legal controversies because of their support for traditional marriage and opposition to same-sex […]

Concerns are rising within the community in South Armagh, Northern Ireland, after a local man was seriously wounded by a pipe bomb near his family home, The Belfast Telegraph reports. Mr McCabe – whose father is reportedly a Sinn Fein member – suffered injuries to his face, chest and body, and required emergency surgery. The […]

A government agency in the U.K. is threatening to haul a Christian-owned bakery in Northern Ireland into court over its refusal to make a cake promoting gay marriage. The independent Equality Commission now claims that Ashers Baking Co. engaged in political as well as religious and sexual orientation discrimination. The agency wants the company to […]

The Christian-owned bakery that refused to make a cake promoting gay marriage has released a video explaining its position. As The Inquisitr previously reported, the Ashers Baking Company chain in Northern Ireland now faces a potential lawsuit from the country’s Equality Commission for alleged sexual orientation discrimination. The controversy started when a customer who reportedly […]

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II visited the Game of Thrones set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday morning. But the 88-year-old monarch bummed out the entire world — or at least the part of of it obsessed with the machinations in the fractious, fictional kingdom of Westeros — when she declined a golden opportunity to take her […]

Luke Evans is playing Prince Vlad, best known as Dracula in the new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 116-year-old novel. The production is being filmed in different locations of Northern Ireland due to the landscape’s similarity with Transylvania, where the novel takes place. Apparently Luke Evans was very impressed with their location, called Limavady, saying it […]

The new version of Dracula with Luke Evans is getting ready to start shooting in Northern Ireland next week. Luke has been sharing some pictures from Belfast on Twitter, where the production is based. He plays the main role of Dracula or in this case Prince Vlad as the daddy of all vampires was known […]

As the Belfast riots continued for the third night on Sunday, Northern Ireland authorities reported that seven more police officers had been injured in the attacks which included gas and pipe bombs, bricks, and other thrown missiles. With a total of at least 39 police officers injured in the last three days of rioting, Northern […]

The new Dracula movie which will begin filming in Northern Ireland is having a casting call. The film is not your typical Dracula film, which shows the prince of darkness sucking the blood from unsuspecting females while they sleep, this time we will see how Prince Vlad (Dracula) became a vampire using vampire mythology combined […]

Zach McGowan has joined Luke Evans and Dominic Cooper in Universal’s Dracula. Deadline reports that the star has joined Evans and Cooper and is set to play the character called Shkelgim, a gypsy chief. The film will be helmed by Gary Shore and tells the origins of the character who would become the daddy of […]

Syria is the top priority as the Group of Eight (G-8) Summit opens on Monday in Northern Ireland. US President Barack Obama is leading efforts to convince Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Syria’s most loyal ally, to bring Bashar Al-Assad to the negotiating table. Tensions are high between the Russian and American leaders after the Obama administration […]

U2’s lead singer Bono, is recruiting some big guns to protest poverty in anticipation of next week’s upcoming G-8 Summit taking place in Northern Island. There are also some non -veterans joining the cause including ballad singer Ed Sheeran and Macklemore. Bono heads his charity organization ONE which takes up social causes all over the […]

Northern Ireland police used water cannons to ward off protesters in Belfast on Saturday as violent demonstrations over new laws concerning flying the British flag stretched into a third straight day. The Northern Ireland Police Service said it was investigating reports of multiple shots fired at police lines. A 38-year-old man has been arrested on […]

Belfast, NORTHERN IRELAND – Hillary Clinton’s visit to Belfast on Friday was overshadowed by riots. Hundreds of protestors took to the streets after the former First Lady expressed solidarity with a female Northern Ireland MP who received death threats because her party voted to limit the flying of the union flag at Belfast city hall. […]

A convicted sex offender was offended when he saw his picture and criminal history posted on Facebook. The page on which his information was posted was titled “Keeping Our Kids Safe From Predators” and was purposed monitor pedophiles and to notify locals of sex offenders in Northern Ireland communities. But the sex offender, known only […]