A brown bear in Kent receiving life-saving brain surgery and the “Hardest Geezer” running the entire length of Africa were among the most eye-catching uplifting moments of 2024. Here, the PA news ...

Irish officials were worried that a US decision to designate the Real IRA (RIRA) as a foreign terrorist organisation might help recruitment for the paramilitary group. Just years after the signing of ...

Nigel Farage has urged Kemi Badenoch to apologise or face “action” after she accused Reform UK of “fakery” over its membership numbers. The Reform UK leader will spend the weekend weighing up what ...

A union leader has called for 2025 to be a “year of delivery” for workers after 14 years of “Tory chaos”. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said in his new year message that working people desperately ...

Tony Blair once suggested that nationalists in Northern Ireland could support England in the World Cup after Ireland was knocked out, according to reports on a 2002 meeting. The former prime minister ...

Viral TikTokers known as the Spud Bros vowed to make jacket potatoes “sexy again” as the food became a global phenomenon in 2024.

Thousands of motorists have been caught drug-driving at least four times, sparking calls for ministers to consider introducing rehabilitation courses for offenders. A total of 33,020 British drivers ...

Four out of five drivers are frustrated that a Government-backed code of practice for private parking companies is still not in force five years after becoming law, a new survey suggests. Some 84% of ...

Details of a threat to poison English water supplies have emerged in newly unsealed documents from the Irish national archives.

US President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue.

It took more than two years for Ireland to accept the gift of a painting of Daniel O’Connell from a bank, after concerns that the Irish parliament was only receiving a copy of the original portrait. O ...