Open Championship is will feature a talented field competing in Northern Ireland. What to know ahead of the final golf major of the year.

Largest sporting event ever held in Northern Ireland as The Open tees off this week. Our correspondent Mark Simpson reports from Portrush.

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — A hole-by-hole look at Royal Portrush Golf Club, site of the 153rd Open Championship to be played July 17-20.

"If people in England are tired of paying the bills for a corner of the UK they don’t understand, perhaps they should ask why so little has been done to make Northern Ireland economically resilient"

Northern Ireland's fire service has said it had a "challenging and extremely busy" Eleventh night as wildfires put added pressure on firefighters. The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service received 277 emergency calls - more than twice as many as on last year's Eleventh night - between 18:00 and 02:00 BST.

An effigy of a boat containing mannequins of migrants was set alight in the village of Moygashel on Thursday, in an incident condemned by political and religious leaders as racist and threatening.

Read about how nurses in Northern Ireland have responded to health minister Mike Nesbitt's Health and Social Care reset plan.

Authorities in Northern Ireland are investigating a bonfire that featured effigies of migrants in a boat and a banner reading “stop the boats’’ to determine whether it was a hate incident.

MPs slam ‘disgraceful’ rollback of Northern Ireland veterans legislation - The debate followed a public petition against repealing the legislation which attracted more than 170,000 signatures.