A WEST Belfast teenager is part of a group of 12 young people who created a life-size, fully functioning version of Star Wars favourite droid R2D2 in just five days.
AS a last ditch attempt to save his government and his own position as head of it, Rishi Sunak pulled three rabbits out of the hat. First, the Rwanda Bill (sorry, the Safety of Rwanda Act) was rammed through Westminster with the prospect of flights exporting asylum seekers to begin in July. At last, ex-Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s dream will come true.
WITH 58 minutes on the clock at a sun-kissed Parnell Park on Saturday, Dublin led Antrim by six points. The Saffrons had been hanging in there having trailed by 10 at one point, whittled it down to four and then seemed to be coming again having found themselves nine behind.
HELEN McEntee, the South’s Justice Minister, chanced her arm last week. She said that 80 per cent of immigrants presenting themselves for registration in Dublin had arrived there via the North, even though there were no reliable figures to support her claim.
IN the dying hours of the inquest into the killing of Paul Thompson, the legal representatives of the Northern Ireland Office and the Secretary of State worked to the last minute to prevent Eugene Thompson, Paul’s only surviving relative, from getting a 'gist' of withheld papers which may have been relevant to the murder.
