A schoolgirl was 'dragged into a garage while she was walking down a street in Ballymena by three men and raped', a court heard today as details emerged of the assault which sparked rioting ...

Riots broke out in Northern Ireland in mid-June following an alleged sexual assault by two Romanian-speaking youths – ...

The PSNI has welcomed the prison sentence handed out to the first person to be convicted of rioting in Ballymena, as it confirmed that a total of 53 suspects have been arrested.

Jamie Lee McCracken, 34, of no fixed abode, received the sentence at Ballymena Magistrates' Court on Thursday, July 31 ...

Images of another suspect in connection with disorder in Ballymena in June have been released by the PSNI. A number of previous images of those involved in the disorder on June 9 have been released ...

Co Derry building firm Heron Bros has officially handed over a new £55 million campus in Ballymena for the Northern Regional ...

Northern Ireland riots latest: Violence is ‘only a petrol bomb away’ from a death, warns human rights chief - Violence has broken out in Ballymena for the past three nights after angry mobs ...

Ali Watkins reported from Ballymena, Belfast and Portadown in Northern Ireland. She has written a book, “The Next One Is for You,” about the decades-long sectarian conflict known as the Troubles.

Emergency services work outside a house in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, as people protest over an alleged sexual assault in the Co Antrim town, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, and police used water ...

Public disorder broke out in Northern Ireland for the third successive night on Wednesday with videos and pictures on social media purportedly showing a fire in a leisure center in the town of ...

Between 2023 and 2024, there were approximately 4,090 sexual offences recorded by the Police in Northern Ireland. Of those, 1,181 were rape offences.

A drumbeat of anti-immigrant episodes has taken place over the past five weeks in Northern Ireland. But the images have also brought to mind darker moments in the history of the territory.