The once-mighty NIO is clearly incapable of drilling a basic briefing into new arrivals. Has it even warned Anderson her ...

Tomorrow, the pipe band season gets under way with the County Antrim Full Band Indoor Championships, which will be held in ...

I was at the fourth Shared Island Forum in Dublin Castle earlier this month when the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, gave one of ...

Three Co Tyrone men have been ordered to carry out community service for defrauding the Ulster Scots Agency ... He feels his name has been dragged through social media for a decision made collecti ...

Irish and Ulster Scots are regulated under the European Charter ... They should be authenticated with a full name, address and a daytime telephone number. Pen names are not allowed.

I was recently asked to help name a new NI pub – but settling on a snappy option is difficult "One option is to think of a significant thing that belonged in the area and come up with names like ...

The Ulster-Scots Agency is also receiving a one-off funding adjustment of £137,500, most of which is from Stormont and the rest from the Irish government. The NSMC was set up under the 1998 Good ...

Cultural vandalism is forever rearing its ugly head. I saw a small but annoying example of it recently. Too often the term is used to describe a type of theft once associated with rich invading ...

Nothing says “petty Belfast culture war” quite like weaponising a street sign. Personally, I don’t care if the signs are in Irish, Ulster Scots or Klingon, but I get a shock when the Irish News ...

Huddleston's poetry, songs and correspondence are written in English essentially, with a rich sprinkling of local dialect, which he called 'Ulster Irish' but is now generally considered within the ...