People were drinking openly. The smell of weed hung in the air. It did not feel like protest. It felt like a Saturday night ...

Roads have been flooded and a landslip has disrupted trains as the UK was hit by tens of thousands of lightning strikes ...

Two-time Irish Olympian Danielle Hill has revealed she was confronted by masked men at Larne Leisure Centre, where families fleeing violence in Ballymena had ...

This week, Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland became the latest town within these troubled isles to be ripped apart ...

MASKED yobs hurled petrol bombs and fireworks at cops for a fifth night in Northern Ireland, in what has been dubbed a “week ...

Petrol bombs have been thrown in a fifth night of violence in Northern Ireland - with the disorder now moving from Ballymena ...

Police used water cannon to tackle rioters during a fifth night of violence in Northern Ireland. Officers came under attack in Portadown last night. Petrol bombs, fireworks, masonry, bricks and ...

Violence on the streets, dozens of police officers injured, attacks on individual homes and parts of a leisure centre ...

Analysis of census data shows that Ballymena has experienced rapid demographic change in recent years, while the Sky News ...

"The central perversity of treating these people as anything other than racist thugs is only more transparent in Ballymena ...

Police have come under attack for a fifth consecutive night in Northern Ireland, in what has been dubbed a ‘week of shame’ ...

Police have come under attack for a fifth consecutive night in Northern Ireland, in what has been dubbed a "week of shame" ...