A huge public march, time to coincide with the G8 Summit of world leaders, will be held in Belfast the weekend before the President Obama arrives.

Walls separating Protestant and Catholic communities in parts of Northern Ireland are to come down within the next 10 years, ministers pledged on Thursday.

President Obama has announced he will visit Belfast, during his three-day trip to the United Kingdom and Germany surrounding the Group of Eight (G8) Summit, being held in County Fermanagh in June.

Background: Sean Muldoon is the co-owner and general manager of the Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog in Lower Manhattan. Originally from Belfast, he has lived here for two and a half years.

The Titanic Center in Belfast has welcomed a record visitor of numbers during its first year in operation.

Up to 10,000 loyalists took park in a Belfast parade on Saturday marking the centenary of the formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).

BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Gerard McGlade stops his taxi opposite an Ulster Volunteer Force mural depicting gun-toting, black-clad fighters and begins rattling off statistics – 80,000 injured, 35,000 jailed, 3,795 dead.

The Belfast city council welcomed relatives of those who were aboard the famous Titanic, to mark the 101st aniversary of the sinking of the ship on Monday. Around 100 showed up to the newly revealed memorial site on city hall grounds.

April 15 marks the 101st anniversary of the sinking of the Belfast-built RMS Titanic. The incident killed 1,502 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Belfast City Council plans to mark the anniversary with a simple ceremony. 

Kieran Rooney, a Belfast-born Irish emigrant to Argentina, has shown quick witted enterprise by offering a pilgrimage around the home place of the new Pope that is specially designed for Irish travellers.

Dissident Republicans have been blamed for the murder of a pizza delivery man in Belfast on Saturday night.

A violin that was found in the wreckage of the Titanic will go on display in Belfast this weekend for the city's 400th anniversary.

A menu of the last lunch served on board the Titanic will go on display in the new Titanic visitors center in Belfast this week.

Belfast and Dublin were confirmed on Thursday as stages in the 2014 annual Giro d’Italia cycling race.

After its inaugural sold-out success in 2012, the alcohol-free celebration of all things Irish, Sober St. Patrick’s Day, will again take place after the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 16.

American Chris Knight, who purchased a majority share in the ownership of the Belfast hockey team Giants late last year, has come under criticism since his name was found on a US sex offenders registry.

The Belfast Telegraph now reports that Knight believes his name was added to list erroneously and that he is in the process of having it removed.

If you’re a lover of live music you’ll want to go along to the annual Belfast Nashville Songwriters’ Festival and Convention 20th – 24th February. It’s a celebration of the art of songwriting and with more than one hundred artists performing over five days, Belfast will come alive to the sound of singer-songwriters from all over Northern Ireland and different parts of the world. From Country to Rock, Americana to Traditional Folk, there’s something on offer for all musical tastes. The Convention explores the business side of music in sixteen workshops at the event.

Irish middleweight contender Andy Lee (28W-2L, 20KOs) will return to the ring against the durable Anthony Fitzgerald (13W-3L, 1 KO) at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena, in the Betfair’s ‘Unfinished Business’ boxing event.

Hollywood actor Stephen Rea has carried his former wife Dolours Price’s coffin at her Belfast funeral.

Nobel Prize for literature winner Seamus Heaney has said there will never be a united Ireland and that Loyalists should be allowed to fly their flag over Belfast City Hall.