📢 CALL FOR PITCHES The Detail is inviting pitches for investigations and analysis focusing on: - Rights under the Good Friday Agreement and the post-Brexit landscape - Addressing the past - legacy, accountability and justice First deadline Friday 30th January. thedetail.tv/articles/cal...

📢 CALL FOR PITCHES The Detail is inviting pitches for investigations and analysis focusing on: - Rights under the Good Friday Agreement and the post-Brexit landscape - Addressing the past - legacy, accountability and justice First deadline Friday 30th January. thedetail.tv/articles/cal...

New: At least 71% of those who had Child Benefit suspended were in fact legitimate beneficiaries who had not emigrated. That figure may rise, as 23% of cases remain open. Only 5% been found to be fraudulent so far. Senior HMRC officials were questioned by MPs about the scandal this morning

UK tax authorities believed that withdrawing child benefit payments from parents without prior consultation as part of an anti-fraud drive carried a “tolerable” risk, with only a “remote” chance of inflicting harm, according to internal documents www.thedetail.tv/articles/hmr...

'Deeply troubling': 63% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown thedetail.tv/articles/dee...

NI Water’s pollution performance far below official figures, documents reveal

NI Water’s pollution performance far below official figures, documents reveal

NI Water’s pollution performance far below official figures, documents reveal @tommygreene.bsky.social thedetail.tv/articles/ni-...

AI girlfriends ‘reinforce dangerous ideas about how women should behave’ - Women’s Aid - ✍️ Caoimhe Clements thedetail.tv/articles/ai-...

Palestine Action: PSNI faces questions on policing of support for proscribed groups

Since Palestine Action was banned, the PSNI has targeted more than a dozen people for showing support - an offence under the Terrorism Act - but has taken no similar action against displays of support for paramilitaries thedetail.tv/articles/pal...

The Treasury Committee has accused HMRC of being ‘cavalier’ with finances of child benefit claimants, following an investigation by The Detail and the Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Calls for inquiry as faulty Home Office data leaves thousands without Child Benefit www.thedetail.tv/articles/cal...

Advisers told ministers banning Palestine Action could make it more popular www.thedetail.tv/articles/min...

HMRC rolled out anti-fraud system despite pilot showing almost 80% error rate in Northern Ireland thedetail.tv/articles/hmr...

HMRC rolled out anti-fraud system despite pilot showing almost 80% error rate in Northern Ireland thedetail.tv/articles/hmr...

Join us for a discussion of 'A Bunch of Questions With No Answers', a record of the endless demands for clarification and accountability about the genocide in Palestine. Panel: Journalist Allison Morris and filmmakers Trevor Birney Rabie Mustapha www.blackboxbelfast.com/event/belfas...

HMRC U-turn after families wrongly stripped of Child Benefit thedetail.tv/articles/hmr...

HMRC ‘urgently reviewing’ flawed benefit crackdown as families impacted across the UK www.thedetail.tv/articles/hmr...

Did you get a letter from HMRC saying your child benefit is being stopped after going on short trip abroad? Email me at [email protected] www.thedetail.tv/articles/hmr...

HMRC crackdown wrongly targets Northern Irish families using Dublin Airport www.thedetail.tv/articles/hmr...

'I’d be in floods of tears': Why Northern Ireland still has no mother-and-baby unit By @carlottad.bsky.social & @martaabba.bsky.social thedetail.tv/articles/i-d...

Stormont officials privately warn of 'permacrisis' of racist unrest thedetail.tv/articles/sto...

Northern Ireland at risk of race riot ‘permacrisis’, government files warn

Northern Ireland at risk of race riot ‘permacrisis’, government files warn thedetail.tv/articles/sto...

Campaigners hold a monthly vigil to protest the use of Belfast International Airport by the US military. Over 60 military flights landed at Belfast between October 2023 and December 2024, including to Israel. WATCH: vimeo.com/1119366838?f...

Andrew Comiskey (32), from Armagh and a member of campaign group Cairde Palestine, said public money should not be supporting companies contributing to the war. thedetail.tv/articles/cam...

Watchdog kept in dark as PSNI spied on journalists thedetail.tv/articles/wat...

Ballymena: More than a third of those arrested for race hate disorder had previously been reported to the PSNI for domestic abuse www.thedetail.tv/articles/one...

Almost half NI race rioters reported for domestic abuse thedetail.tv/articles/alm...

Luke Butterly: Violence in Ballymena part of long history - with 24,000 race hate incidents in Northern Ireland since 1996 thedetail.tv/articles/luk...

Invest NI emails cast doubt on claims of no arms links to Israel ‘We risk tying ourselves in knots’ thedetail.tv/articles/we-...

PSNI told by national policing unit to withhold any information on tech used to hack journalist Barry McCaffrey's phone thedetail.tv/articles/psn...

PSNI told by national policing unit to withhold any information on tech used to hack journalist Barry McCaffrey's phone thedetail.tv/articles/psn...

The Center for Investigative Journalism (@tcij.org) is offering a unique safety & security training program specifically tailored for investigative journalists. Will cover digital threats, physical surveillance, and more. Free. Belfast. 23+24 June. Contact [email protected] for info

In the past five years, there have been more than 2,200 applications for dual language street signs across Northern Ireland. The majority – more than 90 per cent – are for Irish-English signs www.thedetail.tv/articles/it-...

Chris Quinn: Shaping a just future for our children www.thedetail.tv/articles/chr...

Our investigation into how the PSNI reported migrant victims of crime to immigration authorities has been shortlisted at the Amnesty International Media Awards 2025. Here's the article: www.thedetail.tv/articles/psn...

'If we don’t record the problem, how can we solve it?' PSNI criticised over lack of paramilitary hate crime data www.thedetail.tv/articles/psn...

People from Muslim and ethnic minority backgrounds in Northern Ireland are still living in fear more than six months on from racist rioting. “The news has moved on, but the community hasn't." thedetail.tv/articles/peo...

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‘She can't cope in there’: Teenager with severe learning difficulties has to stay in jail due to lack of care home places www.thedetail.tv/articles/she...

Luke Butterly: Removing intimidation points won’t fix our housing crisis @thedetailtv.bsky.social www.thedetail.tv/articles/luke-butterly-removing-intimidation-points-won-t-fix-our-housing-crisis

‘You have to keep asking, asking, asking’: Survivors of mother and baby homes still battling to access their records www.thedetail.tv/articles/you...

Barry McCaffrey: Was taking an Investigatory Powers Tribunal case worth it? www.thedetail.tv/articles/bar...

Journalists call for public inquiry after landmark tribunal rules against PSNI and Metropolitan Police www.thedetail.tv/articles/jou...

The Detail is looking for freelance writers! For guidelines on what we're looking for, see the Pitch Us section www.thedetail.tv/about Please get in touch with deputy editor Claire Simpson [email protected] with your best ideas #freelancewriters #freelancerequest

The Detail is looking for freelance writers! For guidelines on what we're looking for, see the Pitch Us section www.thedetail.tv/about Please get in touch with deputy editor Claire Simpson [email protected] with your best ideas #freelancewriters #freelancerequest

Denzil McDaniel: Republic’s election results show little thirst for change "The results in the Republic’s general election show that southern voters can be stuck in their ways, albeit nowhere close to the polarisation of their northern counterparts." www.thedetail.tv/articles/den...

The Detail is delighted to have been longlisted for the Tenacious Journalist Awards. Many congratulations to all 20 applicants @clairemsimpson.bsky.social www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/twenty-...