Sky News — The Ulster Unionist Party has said it will not back the landmark deal to devolve policing powers to Northern Ireland at a crucial Assembly vote next week. more info

Sky News — The Ulster Unionist Party has said it is not in a position to back the landmark deal to devolve policing powers to Northern Ireland. more info

DrownedInSound — Ulster act Two Door Cinema Club released their debut record, Tourist History, on Monday. We reviewed it here. We've got a clip of them performing 'This Is The Life', taken from that very album, live, in session. Read the full story on Drownedin... more info

Guardian Music — The jazz pianist Doug Murray, who has died after suffering a brain haemorrhage aged 69, was my friend and partner for 12 years. Doug was brought up in Belfast and started piano lessons aged eight, then began teaching himself jazz piano using records ... more info

Gaffer (John Lynch, left) and Podger (Cornelius Clarke) in . Set in Ulster, shot in Devon, this heavy-handed comedy, all booze, blarney and the blessed Mary, centres on four sex-starved, under-employed men in a depressed Irish village who decide to g... more info

L.A. Times - News — The Ulster Defense Assn. says it has handed over its arsenal of guns and bombs, more than a decade after the historic Good Friday Agreement. Northern Ireland's... more info

Nialler9 — Taken at the almost-secret gig the band played last night in Dublin’s Thomas House after Friday’s Ulster Hall performance. Apologies for the sound distortion. All I want for Christmas is a Flip HD. . Related Posts And So I Watch You From Afar ... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Belfast band Elspeth formed in March 2009 and it took them a mere two months to be spinned by BBC Radio 6 DJ Gideon Coe afgter which they made rode airaves again om BBC Radio One 'Introducing' with Rory McConnell, Across the Line on BBC Radio Ulste... more info

Nialler9 — One of my bands of the year, And So I Watch You From Afar are headlining the Ulster Hall in Belfast tonight but what you may not know yet is that they are also playing a secret show in the basement of Thomas House in Dublin this Sunday. It kicks ... more info

Live Daily — Veteran rockers Foreigner [ tickets ] will spend the first few months of 2010 on a tour of North America behind the band's recently released three-disc set, "Can't Slow Down." The group will hit the road for the first leg of the excursion beginnin... more info