The five main teaching unions in the north have voted to strike if the Department of Education does not address grievances over workload.

Belfast’s Paddy Gallagher took on Dublin’s Paul Ryan in an middleweight contest in Croke Park on Saturday evening. The fight was a messy one, not one of clean shots nor slick footwork; the pair grappled throughout. The Belfast man did land the biggest punch of the bout in the fifth with a huge right hand. Ryan was lucky to make it back to his corner at the end of the round and unfortunately Gallagher couldn’t build upon this momentum and inflict further damage in the sixth. It didn’t seem to matter though as the judges awarded him the win.

The principal of the north's largest Irish-medium school has called for more teachers to be trained in specialist subjects in order for the school to be able to provide more A-Levels, saying that the school are paying out of their own pocket to train teachers to plug gaps in their workforce.

Katie Taylor had her first amateur bout aged 15 taking on Belfast fighter Alanna Nihell, then known as Alanna Audley. The fight was the first women's fight sanctioned by the Irish boxing authorities. Fighting in front a maximum capacity crowd of 2,000 people the pair received a standing ovation, little did they know that they had changed Irish Boxing forever. 

A LOCAL councillor says someone could be seriously injured after anti-social behaviour in the Lower Falls at the weekend.