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• Ulster U21 hurling Final: Derry beat Down 3-17 to 1-9 to clinch title

  26-07-2017 23:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Derry win their first Ulster U21 Hurling Championship title since 2008 as they beat Down 3-17 to 1-9 at Corrigan Park.
  
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• TD Murphy hints at post-Brexit united Ireland

  26-07-2017 23:15 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  An Irish TD has spoken about a possible post-Brexit future in which Northern Ireland becomes unified with the Republic.
  
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• Controversial Belfast documentary returns to local screens

  26-07-2017 20:53
  When it came out in 1999, renowned filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's documentary "Belfast, Maine," was greeted with great anticipation by the residents of Belfast, eager to see how their quiet seaside town would be portrayed in the film. Wiseman, who for decades has resided in the summers in nearby Northport, spent several years in the late 1990s filming everything from workers in the Stinson sardine cannery to students in Belfast Area High School.
  
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• Belfast granted $15,000 for broadband study

  26-07-2017 20:53
  The city of Belfast was recently selected by the ConnectME Authority as a recipient of a Community Broadband Planning Grant in the amount of $15,000. The city will use the funds to create a Community Technology Plan.
  
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• Geraldine Finucane given permission to take public inquiry bid to Supreme Court

  26-07-2017 19:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The widow of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane has been granted permission to take her bid for a public inquiry into his death to the UK's highest court.
  
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• Corry on trial over IRA Army base bombing in Germany

  26-07-2017 19:41 via bbc.co.uk
  James Corry is accused of attempted murder in a 1996 attack on a British Army base in Osnabrueck.
  
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• Woman attacked by three other females at 11th Night bonfire in Co Down

  26-07-2017 19:28 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The PSNI have appealed for information about an incident at an Eleventh Night bonfire where a woman was attacked by three other females.
  
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• Defeat 'could end Frampton's career'

  26-07-2017 19:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Belfast boxer Carl Frampton says a second successive defeat on Saturday night could end his boxing career.
  
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• Carl Frampton says a second successive defeat on Saturday could end his career

  26-07-2017 19:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Belfast boxer Carl Frampton says a second successive defeat on Saturday night could end his boxing career.
  
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• Belfast Giants sign Canadian defenceman Cole Jarrett

  26-07-2017 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Belfast Giants add Canadian defenceman Cole Jarrett to their roster for the 2017/18 Elite League season.
  
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• Warning that chlorine chicken could threaten 'thousands of jobs' in Northern Ireland

  26-07-2017 18:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  One of Northern Ireland's largest trade unions Unite has warned that the liberalisation of trade rules post-Brexit "has the potential to threaten thousands of jobs" in the agri-food sector.
  
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• Carl Frampton: Belfast man says defeat on Saturday 'could be career-ending'

  26-07-2017 18:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Carl Frampton says he may be left without a boxing future if he loses Saturday's WBC featherweight title eliminator.
  
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• Ondine, new restaurant in Belfast, to feature locally-sourced menu items

  26-07-2017 18:38
  Evan Mallett, acclaimed chef and owner of the Black Trumpet restaurant in Portsmouth, N.H., will open his latest restaurant, Ondine Oyster & Wine Bar, in Belfast this Friday. Ondine, named after a mythological elemental water spirit, will feature menu items that showcase an array of locally, sustainably-sourced ingredients, including seafood, meats and produce from Midcoast Maine's many farms.
  
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• Billy McConville's funeral takes place in Belfast

  26-07-2017 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Mourners at the funeral Jean McConville's son, Billy, speak of his strength and compassion.
  
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• Marine Ciarán Maxwell 'made pipe bombs to attack police'

  26-07-2017 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  A court hearing to decide Ciarán Maxwell's sentence hears he had a Mujahideen explosives handbook.
  
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• Frampton: My career potentially is over if I don't win Saturday's fight against Andres Gutierrez

  26-07-2017 16:58 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Carl Frampton has said Saturday night's fight is a "must win" for him and that his "career potentially is over" if he were to lose.
  
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• Work to repair burst water main begins

  26-07-2017 16:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Irish Water have begun work repair a burst main that has left thousands in counties Louth and Meath without water.
  
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• Trail of blood led police to man accused of breaking into neighbouring pensioner's home to steal £2k, High Court hears

  26-07-2017 15:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A trail of blood led police to the man accused of breaking into a neighbouring pensioner's home to steal £2,000, the High Court heard on Wednesday,
  
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• Man accused of arson attacks on police officers' cars in Northern Ireland refused bail

  26-07-2017 15:38 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man accused of arson attacks on three police officers' cars as part of a campaign of intimidation by drugs dealers must remain in custody, a High Court judge ruled on Wednesday.
  
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• Car crashes into west Belfast home

  26-07-2017 14:30 via bbc.co.uk
  A police spokesperson said mobile phones were left behind at the scene of the crash.
  
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• Win Our Wedding competition leaves brides in lurch

  26-07-2017 14:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Five Irish couples who 'won dream weddings' are distraught as the 20,000-euro prize money is withdrawn.
  
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• Residents in 'shock' after 'narrowly escaping injury' when car crashed into Belfast home

  26-07-2017 13:59 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police have said west Belfast residents narrowly escaped injury when a car crashed through their front garden wall and smashed into the front of their home.
  
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• Fancy a gin and tonic sausage? Well thanks to Northern Ireland butchers - you can

  26-07-2017 13:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  It's the drink that has taken centre stage over the past year and now it's reached our food too - as a Northern Ireland butchers has created a gin and tonic flavoured sausage.
  
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• UDA parade on Belfast's Ormeau Road - remove paramilitary trappings says DUP

  26-07-2017 13:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The DUP has called for the removal of flags and emblems supporting paramilitaries ahead of a controversial parade in Belfast.
  
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• The 18 lost years of a Maine man imprisoned for his addiction

  26-07-2017 13:34
  Sheldon Snell pets two dogs arriving at the Walsh Field Recreation Area in Belfast, where he's the groundskeeper, June 7, 2017. Nick St. Louis of Otis was taking Suboxone for an opiate use disorder and had that medication stopped when he was sent to Penobscot County Jail in 2008, which risked pushing his recovery backward.
  
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• Fourth lorry hits Northern Ireland bridge within a year

  26-07-2017 13:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Another lorry has hit a Northern Ireland bridge - making it the fourth incident at the same spot within the past year.
  
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• Fourth time unlucky

  26-07-2017 12:52 via bbc.co.uk
  A low bridge in County Down is hit by a vehicle for the fourth time in less than a year.
  
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• Bridge in Banbridge, County Down is hit for fourth time

  26-07-2017 12:52 via bbc.co.uk
  A low bridge in County Down is hit by a vehicle for the fourth time in less than a year.
  
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• Four attempts to dig up Princess Diana's body, claims brother Earl Spencer

  26-07-2017 12:51 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  People have been trying to steal or dig up Princess Diana's buried body, her brother Earl Spencer has revealed.
  
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• English rider Guy Martin ends road racing stint with Honda

  26-07-2017 12:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Road racer Guy Martin says he will not compete for Honda for the rest of 2017 after a frustrating season.
  
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• Man arrested over bomb found under PSNI officer's car in Londonderry

  26-07-2017 12:39 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 30-year-old man has been arrested by detectives investigating an attempted bomb attack on a serving police officer.
  
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• Peter Robinson calls for Brokenshire to act over abuse victims' report

  26-07-2017 12:31 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Peter Robinson has called on Secretary of State James Brokenshire to act on the recommendations made by the Historical Abuse Inquiry.
  
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• Watch: Incredible footage shows off Fermanagh's 'Stairway to Heaven'

  26-07-2017 12:25 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Welcome to Northern Ireland's very own Stairway to Heaven.
  
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• The Gobbins Cliff Path to be top Northern Ireland tourist attraction this summer

  26-07-2017 11:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Gobbins Cliff Path in Islandmagee, Co Antrim is set to be one of Northern Ireland's top tourist attractions this summer with a record number of visitors arriving to walk the trail.
  
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• Northern Ireland football fans warned to expect costly time in Norway

  26-07-2017 11:42 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland football fans travelling for a crunch World Cup qualifier in Norway face paying £7 for a half of the local brew.
  
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• Car crashes into Belfast home - residents 'narrowly escape injury'

  26-07-2017 11:26 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police have said west Belfast residents narrowly escaped injury when a car crashed through their front garden wall and smashed into the front of their home.
  
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• Royal Marine with links to republicanism made pipe bombs deployed in N Ireland

  26-07-2017 11:25 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Royal Marine with links to dissident republicanism made 14 pipe bombs – four of which were deployed in Northern Ireland, a court heard.
  
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• France wildfires force evacuation of tourist camp sites and homes

  26-07-2017 10:06 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Wildfires in France have caused a mass evacuation from camp sites and homes.
  
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• Concern grows for missing Northern Ireland man Bob Maher (77)

  26-07-2017 09:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Concern is growing for a missing man in Fermanagh.
  
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• Northern Ireland traffic alerts: Motorway crash causes long delays - flooding after rain

  26-07-2017 09:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Follow our feed for the latest traffic updates from across Northern Ireland.
  
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• Arlene Foster will back Irish language act, claim activists

  26-07-2017 09:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Irish language activists have claimed DUP leader Arlene Foster told them there would be "legislative provision" for Irish.
  
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• Martin McGuinness remembered at Mass on Capitol Hill

  26-07-2017 09:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The late Martin McGuinness's two sons have attended a memorial service for the former deputy First Minister in Washington.
  
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• Seamus Mallon branded 'a bitter man' by Sinn Fein senator

  26-07-2017 09:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Twitterstorm has erupted after a Sinn Fein politician ridiculed former Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon as a “bitter man” for suggesting the republican party had helped create the mess at Stormont.
  
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• Funeral held for Belfast estate agent Philip Johnston

  26-07-2017 09:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The funeral took place yesterday of a former leading estate agent.
  
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• Bonfires and uniforms

  26-07-2017 09:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Ulster rugby players and the reversal of uniform grant cuts also make Wednesday's front pages.
  
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• Arresting Knowledge Interactive Tour

  26-07-2017 09:06
  The nonprofit Artists for Literacy wraps its multi-city interactive teaching tour and docu-series focused on media overload and misinformation at the Colonial Theatre, 163 High St., Belfast. Free, open to all age 16 and older.
  
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• Pensioner sent £200 to help Belfast Crystal after fire but boss 'just couldn’t accept it'

  26-07-2017 08:59 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The 83-year-old founder of Belfast Crystal has told of his heartbreak at the arson attack that gutted the business he established more than 40 years ago.
  
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