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• Gerry Adams calls on Irish government to publish Brexit 'negotiating position'

  30-03-2017 22:21 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has called on the Irish government to publish its negotiating position for Brexit.
  
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• Garda chief accepts force may have acted dishonestly

  30-03-2017 21:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nóirín O'Sullivan was appearing before an Irish parliamentary justice committee.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon writes letter to Theresa May formally requesting second Scottish independence referendum

  30-03-2017 20:53 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Nicola Sturgeon has written a letter to Theresa May formally requesting a second Scottish independence referendum.
  
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• Honoring both Bird & Bulldozer

  30-03-2017 20:35
  This year, the Belfast Poetry Festival is expanding its offerings with a spring symposium title Bird & Bulldozer: Writing from Habitat. The event, free and open to the public is set for Friday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Gammans Room of Belfast Free Library, 106 High St. This poetry reading and open panel discussion will consider timely issues of belonging, ecology and writing from a sense of place.
  
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• Ex-Ulster rugby star Simon Danielli convicted of assaulting wife's alleged lover

  30-03-2017 20:12 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The reputation of a former rugby World Cup star Simon Danielli was in left in tatters on Thursday after he was convicted of assaulting his wife's alleged lover.
  
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• Derry shooting: Man arrested after Central Drive gun attack

  30-03-2017 20:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police have arrested a 19-year-old man following a shooting in the Central Drive area of Londonderry.
  
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• Schivo NI: 40 jobs to go at Derry aerospace company

  30-03-2017 19:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An aerospace firm, which makes parts for aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus, is to close with the loss of 40 jobs.
  
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• Snowdonia helicopter crash: UK-based Irish business family on way to Dublin confirmation when aircraft crashed

  30-03-2017 18:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Five members of a UK-based family with strong Irish links died when the helicopter they were using to attend a confirmation service in Dublin crashed into Rhinog mountain in the Snowdonia national park in north Wales.
  
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• Snowdonia helicopter crash: UK-based Irish business family on way to Dublin christening when aircraft crashed

  30-03-2017 18:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Five members of a UK-based Irish business family died when the helicopter they were using to attend a Dublin christening crashed into the Rhinog mountain in the Snowdonia national park in north Wales.
  
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• Fall and rise of Ormeau

  30-03-2017 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Businesses along Belfast's Ormeau Road are hoping sale of two sites will give the road an economic boost
  
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• Derry City to pay tribute to McBride

  30-03-2017 17:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Derry City return to action for the first time since the sudden death of team captain Ryan McBride
  
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• Senior staff shortage threatens A&E unit

  30-03-2017 17:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Emergency services at Daisy Hill Hospital may have to be temporarily suspended, officials say.
  
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• Rescue 116: Funeral of captain Mark Duffy takes place

  30-03-2017 17:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Capt Mark Duffy, who died in a helicopter crash, had "a desire in all things to help and be of service".
  
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• Daisy Hill Hospital staff shortages making emergency department 'untenable'

  30-03-2017 17:21 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The emergency department at Newry's Daisy Hill Hospital is "untenable" because of a chronic shortage of consultants, a union said.
  
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• 'Severe threat' from crime gang forces PSNI officers out of homes

  30-03-2017 16:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Three police officers have fled their homes due to "severe threat" from a crime gang operating in mid Ulster, the High Court has heard.
  
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• Corporation tax may not be devolved by April 2018 due to Stormont collapse admit government officials

  30-03-2017 16:03 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The April 2018 date to devolve corporation tax to Northern Ireland “may slip” because of the collapse of the power-sharing institutions government officials have conceded, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.
  
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• Poll: Belfast taxi drivers want bus lane use to be permanent - do you agree?

  30-03-2017 15:56 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Taxi drivers have launched a bid to allow them to use Belfast bus lanes on a permanent basis.
  
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• April means poetry on the Midcoast

  30-03-2017 15:55
  Since 1996, April has been designated National Poetry Month, and Midcoast Maine takes it to heart. From Rockland to Belfast and beyond, poetry writing, reading and publishing are robust in these parts a and it's a good time of year to emerge, poetically and otherwise.
  
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• Boy, 13, and mother killed in 'horrifying' stab attack

  30-03-2017 15:21 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 13-year-old schoolboy and his mother have died after being stabbed in a "horrifying" attack at their home.
  
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• Murder victim Danielle McLaughlin's funeral held in Donegal

  30-03-2017 14:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The funeral of the Irish woman raped and murdered in Goa last month has taken place in her native Buncrana.
  
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• James McClean pitches in for kids

  30-03-2017 13:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Republic of Ireland footballer James McClean has surprised a team of children with Down's syndrome following a social media appeal.
  
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• Footballer James McClean surprises a team of children with Down's syndrome

  30-03-2017 13:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Republic of Ireland footballer James McClean has surprised a team of children with Down's syndrome following a social media appeal.
  
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• Bombardier's Belfast operation returns to profit in 2016

  30-03-2017 13:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bombardier's Belfast operations returned to profit in 2016, according to its latest accounts.
  
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• Northern Ireland Emergency Department could close over staff shortages

  30-03-2017 13:47 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Northern Ireland hospital has warned that it could be forced to temporarily close its emergency department because of staff shortages.
  
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• Ex-investment banker fined £37,198 after 'boasting' about deals on WhatsApp

  30-03-2017 13:26 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A former investment banker has been slapped with a near £40,000 fine after boasting about deals from private clients to friends on WhatsApp.
  
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• Minister reveals he urged McGuinness to apologise for IRA acts before he died

  30-03-2017 12:56 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Methodist minister whose father was murdered by the IRA more than 30 years ago wrote to Martin McGuinness at the end of January seeking an apology.
  
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• DUP insist they were right to ask for delay on Brexit referendum spending 'as others misrepresented facts'

  30-03-2017 12:47 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The DUP has said it was right to ask the Electoral Commission to delay publication of its spending on the EU referendum campaign because - as the party feared - its rivals "misrepresented facts" during the Assembly election campaign.
  
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• Footballer's surprise visit

  30-03-2017 11:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Republic of Ireland footballer plays match in Derry after manager's appeal on social media.
  
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• Foragers, landowners at odds in proposed wild picker law

  30-03-2017 11:20
  Opponents and supporters of a proposed law that would put restrictions on foraging on private land agree on one thing: An important part of the Maine way of life is at risk. But that is where the agreements seem to stop on the bill that is likely to be scheduled for a work session in the Maine State Legislature sometime this week.
  
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• The Journey: New trailer released for Paisley and McGuinness movie

  30-03-2017 11:06 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Promoters behind the new Paisley and McGuinness film, The Journey have released a new trailer.
  
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• DUP 'tried to prevent Brexit referendum expenses publication' before Assembly election

  30-03-2017 10:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The DUP tried to block publication of its expenditure on the EU referendum campaign before this month's snap Assembly election, it has been revealed.
  
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• Kieran McManus murder: Mum in new appeal over son shot in Belfast in 2013

  30-03-2017 10:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The heartbroken mother of a young man shot dead outside a west Belfast pizza outlet has appealed for anyone with any information about his killers to give it to police.
  
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• Sainsbury’s opening two new Argos stores in Northern Ireland revamp

  30-03-2017 09:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Argos is to open new stores, with another two relocating, as owner Sainsbury's gets to grip with its latest acquisition, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal. But the company, which has 700 employees here, is shutting its Portadown branch in July and relocating staff to shops in Craigavon and Armagh.
  
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• Marco Pierre White restaurant opening in Northern Ireland

  30-03-2017 09:43 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A hotel is set to create 47 new jobs - and will include a new restaurant from one of the UK's best-known celebrity chefs.
  
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• Widower Dermot Breen had his own Ulster Way of dealing with his wife's death from cancer

  30-03-2017 09:14 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A heartbroken widower whose wife died from ovarian cancer has told how he coped with her passing by embarking on a tortuous long distance walk.
  
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• Revealed: Northern Ireland most spotted bird

  30-03-2017 09:11 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  They are a spectacular sight in the skies, wheeling and reeling in unison as they prepare for nightfall.
  
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• Goa murder victim Danielle McLaughlin's mum 'relieved' to get body back for funeral

  30-03-2017 09:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The mother of Danielle McLaughlin, the Co Donegal woman murdered in Goa, has said she is relieved to have her daughter's body back home.
  
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• Teen found in Belfast alleyway may have fallen from balcony

  30-03-2017 09:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A teenager is fighting for his life in hospital after being found with serious injuries in an alleyway in east Belfast.
  
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• Revamp 'will rip heart out of Belfast's Cathedral Quarter'

  30-03-2017 09:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Belfast traders have said a proposed regeneration of the Cathedral Quarter could "rip the heart out" of the area and its nearby commercial district.
  
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• Council probes east Belfast 'fun day' that coincided with funeral of Martin McGuinness

  30-03-2017 09:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Belfast City Council has launched an investigation into a 'celebration' event that coincided with the funeral of Martin McGuinness last Thursday in the east of the city.
  
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• Council probes east Belfast 'celebration event' on day of Martin McGuinness funeral

  30-03-2017 09:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Belfast City Council has launched an investigation into a 'celebration' event that coincided with the funeral of Martin McGuinness last Thursday in the east of the city.
  
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• Antrim girl donates 3D prints of 'world first' kidney op to London Science Museum

  30-03-2017 09:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A little girl from Northern Ireland who had the world's first kidney transplant using 3D printing has donated the lifesaving 3D models to the Science Museum in London.
  
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• Private helicopter with five on board goes missing over Irish Sea en route from Milton Keynes to Dublin

  30-03-2017 08:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A massive air, land and sea search was launched yesterday for a private helicopter with five people on board that went missing over the Irish Sea.
  
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• Brexit could wipe out towns along Irish border, MP told

  30-03-2017 08:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Brexit could "wipe out" towns and villages along the Irish border, a parliamentary committee has heard.
  
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• As Theresa May hands out raft of new powers to Northern Ireland Executive, politicians lament Stormont deadlock

  30-03-2017 08:34 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  It is ‘farcical’ that Northern Ireland won’t be able to take up a raft of new powers being transferred to devolved administrations across the UK after Brexit because the Stormont institutions are in deadlock, TUV leader Jim Allister has said.
  
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• Derry City boss says McBride, Farren and Buncrana tragedies have left club shattered

  30-03-2017 08:23 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Kenny Shiels is speaking about Ryan McBride. There is emotion in his voice and sadness in his eyes. Ryan was Kenny's captain at Derry City. The 27-year-old died 11 days ago. It was and will forever be, a heartbreaking loss for his family. For the club and manager Shiels, it was devastating too. Another tragedy for both to deal with.
  
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