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Belfast is the home of the Belfast Telegraph, Irish News, and The News Letter, the oldest English-language daily newspaper in the world still in publication. [ 198 ] [ 199 ] The city is the headquarters of BBC Northern Ireland , and ITV station UTV .
This is a list of notable bombings related to the Northern Ireland "Troubles" and their aftermath. It includes bombings that took place in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Great Britain since 1968. There were at least 10,000 bomb attacks during the conflict (1968–1998). [1]
30–50,000 houses damaged. The Belfast Blitz consisted of four German air raids on strategic targets in the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland, in April and May 1941 during World War II, causing high casualties. The first was on the night of 7–8 April 1941, a small attack which probably took place only to test Belfast's defences.
RTÉ News (2019–present) BBC Northern Ireland (2001–2019) Northern Ireland Editor (2021–present) ... Kearney was born in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is ...
BBC Northern Ireland is one of the four BBC national regions, together with the BBC English Regions, BBC Scotland and BBC Cymru Wales. Based at Broadcasting House, Belfast, it provides television, radio, online and interactive television content. BBC Northern Ireland currently employs 700 people, largely in Belfast.
The News Letter is one of Northern Ireland 's main daily newspapers, published from Monday to Saturday. It is the world's oldest English-language general daily newspaper still in publication, having first been printed in 1737. [3][4] The newspaper's editorial stance and readership, while originally republican at the time of its inception, [5 ...
2021 Northern Ireland riots. United Kingdom. A series of riots in loyalist areas of Northern Ireland began in Waterside, Derry, [ b ] on 30 March 2021. After four nights of rioting in Derry, [ 4 ][ 5 ] disturbances spread to south Belfast on 2 April, where a loyalist protest developed into a riot involving iron bars, bricks, masonry and petrol ...
As in other parts of Ireland, Irish was the main language in the region of present-day Northern Ireland for most of its recorded history [citation needed].The historic influence of the Irish language in Northern Ireland can be seen in many place names, for example the name of Belfast first appears in the year 668, and the Lagan even earlier ("Logia", Ptolemy's Geography 2,2,8).