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Hack comes as breach also hits Northern Ireland’s police force

The Society of Radiographers said almost 1,000 members will vote in the coming weeks in a campaign to secure improvements to pay and conditions.

The PSNI apologised on Tuesday following a ‘significant’ data breach involving details of thousands of officers and staff.

UK’s MI5 intelligence agency recently increased threat level in Northern Ireland from ‘domestic terrorism’ to severe.

Police service apologises after serious data breach sparks security concerns

The breach reportedly involved the personal data of everyone within the PSNI, including chief constable Simon Byrne

Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd said the data breach appeared to be the result of ‘simple human error’.

When you “gaze up at the night sky”, you “can’t help but feel small” before the “grand abyss of the universe that lies beyond”, said Ethan Siegel on Big Think. While nearly all of them are “invisible to our eyes”, our “observable” universe, extending “tens of billions of light years…

Chris Heaton-Harris said action needs to be taken to bring the region’s finances ‘under control’.

The sitcom, which follows teenagers growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, averaged more than three million viewers in its third series.

The DUP leader expressed frustration at members he claimed were manufacturing attacks on the party to advance their own agendas.