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Members of the band Kneecap arrive at Woolwich Crown Court in London on September 26, 2025. (AP/Joanna Chan)
September 26, 2025, 2:49 pm
UK court drops terrorism charge against Kneecap rapper on technicality
Liam O’Hanna, who was charged after wearing Hezbollah flag and shouting ‘up Hamas, up Hezbollah!,’ says after ruling it was ‘always about Gaza,’ brands UK ‘guilty of terrorism’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Michael Black of Belfast Hebrew Congregation shows off the synagogue's memorial wall in April 2025. (Rosario Del Valle/ JTA)
June 1, 2025, 4:54 am
Northern Ireland’s lone synagogue staves off decline by engaging Christian neighbors
Challenged by rising antisemitism fueled by the war in Gaza, an aging population, and the departure of a spiritual leader, the congregation is reaching outward to bolster numbers
By Rosario Del Valle
Newly appointed Northern Ireland's First minister, from Sinn Fein, party Michelle O'Neil speaks during the Northern Ireland Assembly, at the Parliament Building, in Stormont, February 3, 2024. (Photo by Kelvin BOYES / NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY / AFP)
February 4, 2024, 12:22 pm
Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill makes history as 1st nationalist to lead Northern Ireland
Party leader gets role of first minister as government resumes work after unionists’ 2-year boycott; will share power with deputy Emma Little-Pengelly of Democratic Unionist Party
By brian melley
Yasser Arafat claps his hands over his head as some delegates give him a standing ovation during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, November 14, 1974. The two delegates from Ireland, sitting in front row at left, remain seated. (AP Photo)
December 16, 2023, 3:19 pm
With Ireland’s Sinn Féin on the rise, support for Israel hits new low post-Oct. 7
Once fellow fighters against British colonialism, Ireland and the Jewish state are seeing relations sink even after the Hamas atrocities – and they could yet worsen
By Robert Philpot
US President Joe Biden is greeted by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, and US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Jane Hartley, center, he steps off Air Force One at Belfast International Airport in Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 11, 2023. Biden is visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland in part to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. At right is United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland Joe Kennedy III. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
April 12, 2023, 9:33 am
Biden arrives in Northern Ireland to help mark decades of relative peace
US president says trip priority is to ‘keep the peace’; will deliver congratulations, encourage work on universally beneficial economic policies; will visit ancestral hometowns
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Colleen Long and Jill Lawless
Former British prime minister Tony Blair speaks during an interview in central London on March 17, 2023. (Daniel Leal/AFP)
March 18, 2023, 4:24 pm
Tony Blair: Palestinians should draw lessons from Northern Ireland peace deal
‘They shifted strategy and look at the result,’ former British PM says of pro-Irish side’s decision to lay down arms as part of Good Friday Agreement, ahead of upcoming anniversary
By Jitendra Joshi
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Hilltop Honey in Newtown, Powys, Wales, May 20, 2022. (Ben Birchall/Pool via AP)
May 21, 2022, 9:12 am
UK’s Johnson vows to resolve Northern Ireland’s Brexit-related kosher food shortage
Speaking at a Belfast synagogue, British PM says no need for ‘laborious checks’; Northern Ireland remained in EU single market despite UK exit from bloc, complicating shipments
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) attend a Knesset plenum session on January 31, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 14, 2022, 4:52 pm
Bennett, Lapid looking to Northern Ireland conflict for lessons on gluing coalition
PM and FM said to be pushing coalition faction chiefs to attend seminar on strategic negotiations in Belfast with view to keeping diverse government together
By ToI Staff
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attends the ceremonial opening of the sixth Senedd, in Cardiff, Wales, October 14, 2021. (Jacob King / AFP)
October 20, 2021, 6:25 pm
UK queen cancels trip abroad, ‘reluctantly accepting medical advice to rest’
95-year-old Elizabeth II will not travel to Northern Ireland for health reasons unrelated to COVID-19, Buckingham Palace says
By AFP
Illustrative: UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis gives a speech as he attends a Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at Central Hall Westminster, on January 27, 2015. (AP/Chris Jackson)
July 10, 2021, 5:19 pm
UK chief rabbi: Chilled meat ban could make Jewish life in N. Ireland ‘unviable’
Jewish community sounds alarm over access to kosher food, with upcoming Brexit deal prohibiting import of chilled meat from Britain
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: The aftermath of vandalism at the Jewish section of a municipal cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 16, 2021. (Courtesy of Steven Corr, via JTA)
April 19, 2021, 2:29 pm
Jewish headstones smashed in Northern Ireland cemetery
10 graves desecrated in Belfast; police investigating as a hate crime
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Fireworks thrown by rioters explode on police vehicles in Belfast, April 8, 2021. (Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
April 17, 2021, 10:55 am
As in 1970s, Northern Ireland’s Jews look to weather violence in Belfast
Feuding protesters are split into British loyalists and those who want a united Ireland; decades back, unrest eventually reached the Jewish community
By Olivia Fletcher
Nationalist youths gesture toward a police line blocking a road near the Peace Wall in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
April 10, 2021, 5:08 am
Amid fresh violence in Northern Ireland: Five things to know
Tensions flaring up this week in Belfast recall three decades of sectarian conflict in restive UK province
By AFP
Nationalist youths gesture toward a police line blocking a road near the Peace Wall in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
April 10, 2021, 4:04 am
Rioters battle police in Belfast as Brexit stokes tensions in Northern Ireland
Law enforcement uses water cannons to disperse protesters; pro-Ireland demonstrators and UK supporters square off, recalling past sectarian conflict
By Joe STENSON
In this undated family photo made available Friday April 19, 2019, issued by Northern Ireland Police, showing journalist Lyra McKee who was shot and killed when guns were fired during clashes with police Thursday night April 18, 2019, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. (Family photo/PSNI via AP)
April 20, 2019, 7:23 pm
Northern Ireland police arrest 2 in killing of journalist
Teenagers aged 18 and 19 detained under anti-terrorism legislation for suspected murder of Lyra McKee
By Gregory Katz and Naomi Koppel
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