http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/northern_ireland/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa The latest stories from the Northern Ireland section of the BBC News web site. en-gb Wed, 22 May 2013 07:25:41 GMT Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/rss/4498287.stm for terms and conditions of reuse. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/nol/shared/img/bbc_news_120x60.gif http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/northern_ireland/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa 120 60 15 Power NI announces that electricity bills for households and small businesses are to increase by 18% from July. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22616090#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22616090 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:11:59 GMT Invest NI job performance targets could be perceived as "soft", according to a new report. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22609651#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22609651 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:18:51 GMT A 36-year-old man is shot in the legs and ankles in west Belfast's Lenadoon estate. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22620997#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22620997 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:27:56 GMT Just 10% of Lower Lough Erne will be affected by restrictions put in place during the G8 summit, an audience in County Fermanagh has been told. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22620998#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22620998 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:05:39 GMT A man from Northern Ireland is killed in a car crash in Warwickshire, England. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22618557#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22618557 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:20:28 GMT A search for a missing man at the back of a murdered former garda's house in County Cavan has ended. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22621655#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22621655 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:57:31 GMT Four men are jailed over a blackmail plot in which a couple were threatened with paramilitary attack if they did not hand over £15,000 in cash. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22609775#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22609775 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:55:42 GMT Northern Ireland's education minister writes to his counterpart in England to complain over the leaking of a letter about major exam changes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22618554#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22618554 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:39:01 GMT Forty contract jobs at the Gallahers cigarette factory in Ballymena, County Antrim are relocated to Poland and Romania. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22618560#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22618560 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:02:32 GMT A security alert that led to homes being evacuated in County Fermanagh is declared an 'elaborate hoax' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22616092#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22616092 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:11:52 GMT A 48-year-old man arrested by police investigating a Belfast murder is released, pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22616091#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22616091 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:25:26 GMT A man accused of murdering a pensioner admitted to a woman that he stabbed him, a court has been told. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22609648#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22609648 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:32:16 GMT A woman accused of conning her elderly mother out of more than £40,000 breaks down in Belfast Crown Court as she tearfully denied defrauding her mother. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22618556#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22618556 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:20:03 GMT A heart abnormality caused the death of an 11-year-old girl on a school trip from Northern Ireland to a Scottish outdoor centre, police believe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-22617841#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-22617841 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:50:09 GMT A 39-year-old man who hit his partner on the head with a stiletto heel during a drunken rage is jailed for three-and-a-half years at Londonderry Crown Court. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22607064#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22607064 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:08:39 GMT Families of Slievemore nursing unit residents say they feel a 'great sense of hope' following talks with Health Minister Edwin Poots. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-22607061#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-22607061 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:01:22 GMT A couple escape injury in an arson attack on their home in Londonderry. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-22607060#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-22607060 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:26:51 GMT The Londonderry regeneration body, Ilex, again fails to fill one of its top positions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597761#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597761 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:27:07 GMT A 26-year old man is arrested over the death of a homeless man at an apartment complex in Cork last week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22620999#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22620999 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:20:25 GMT The body of a 37-year-old man shot dead in Dublin over the weekend was found by playing children, police say. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22606372#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22606372 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:19:46 GMT More than 200 acres of grass at Dublin Airport is being cut and given to Irish farmers to help tackle the Republic's severe shortage of animal fodder. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22601090#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22601090 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:16:24 GMT Book readings celebrate the characters in James Joyce's famous novel. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22554150#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22554150 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:05:44 GMT On patrol with the police in west Belfast http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597757#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597757 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:29:15 GMT The sister of an IRA murder victim has accused the SDLP of "putting two fingers up to victims" over its bid to block a bill on special advisers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22606376#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22606376 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:32:28 GMT The Education Minister, John O'Dowd, has said primary schools will not be required to use computer-based tests for literacy and numeracy this autumn. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22609643#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22609643 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:52:14 GMT The Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt has said he is appalled by an English teaching guide dealing with the hunger strikes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22611355#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22611355 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:23:14 GMT Peter Robinson says the government will do all it can to ensure the North West 200 is a more flexible event in future after Saturday's racing was abandoned due to heavy rain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22586111#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22586111 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:51:54 GMT A County Armagh company wins a contract for more than £1m to work on six of the football pitches to be used during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22593017#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22593017 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:52:43 GMT A former lecturer from Queen's University Belfast is set to make more than £18m from the takeover of the pharmaceutical firm, Warner Chilcott. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597759#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597759 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:22:34 GMT The hotel group that owns the Galgorm Resort and Spa in County Antrim made pre-tax profits of £2.3m in 2012, up by £300,000 on 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597762#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597762 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:38:16 GMT Ultra Plant International, a County Tyrone-based manufacturer of recycling machinery, has won business worth around £500,000 in France. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597706#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597706 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:10:19 GMT Sean O'Brien could be back in contention to play for Leinster in Saturday's Pro12 final against Ulster in Dublin. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/22600466 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/22600466 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:13:20 GMT A grant of £25m for Windsor Park could unfairly extend the dominance of Linfield in local football, the High Court hears. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22616193 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22616193 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:09:31 GMT Highly-rated midfielder Stephen Lowry decides to stay at Coleraine after turning down an offer from Linfield. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22563144 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22563144 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:48:57 GMT Stephen Farry says teacher training colleges are unlikely to be financially viable. http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/northern-ireland-22611631 http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/northern-ireland-22611631 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:54:26 GMT Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove says its time for England, Wales and Northern Ireland to go their separate ways on GCSEs and A-levels. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22613932#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22613932 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:56:56 GMT The Education Minister, John O'Dowd, has said primary schools will not be required to use computer-based tests for literacy and numeracy this autumn. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22613933#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22613933 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:57:16 GMT The attempted murder of three police officers in west Belfast has not stopped routine foot patrols by police officers in the city. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597293#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597293 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:34:34 GMT The former Northern Ireland Office minister Sir Richard Needham says he is devastated after a fire destroyed his family's ancestral home in County Down. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597294#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597294 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:55:41 GMT A senior PSNI officer says talks in Cardiff over the weekend between police, politicians and community representatives should help make Northern Ireland safer this summer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597292#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22597292 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:23:34 GMT Police officers escape injury in a gun attack in County Antrim after being called out to a bogus burglary. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22556207#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22556207 Thu, 16 May 2013 17:51:22 GMT Almost 900 artefacts illegally looted in Ireland by a treasure hunter have been recovered. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22595925#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22595925 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:48 GMT How is unionism 15 years after the Good Friday Agreement? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22618561#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22618561 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:36:44 GMT The Irish connection to the firm's controversial tax arrangements http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22614672#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22614672 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:12 GMT Concern expressed over what to prepare for breakfast at summit. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22606373#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22606373 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:39:08 GMT Scientists identify the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22596561#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22596561 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:05:28 GMT Send BBC News NI your comments, tell your own stories and share your pictures. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18906478#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18906478 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:45:07 GMT