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• Derry priest suggest marriage and female priest as solution to falling clergy numbers

  19-10-2017 23:31 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A priest in Londonderry has said allowing females priests and marriage in the Catholic church could be a solution to a worldwide clergy shortage.
  
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• Ulster SFC draw: Holders Tyrone to face Monaghan in their Ulster opener

  19-10-2017 22:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Ulster SFC Preliminary round - Donegal v Cavan; quarter-finals - Fermanagh v Armagh; Tyrone v Monaghan; Down v Antrim; Derry v Donegal or Cavan.
  
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• Arsenal take 1-0 win in Belgrade Europa clash

  19-10-2017 21:31 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Olivier Giroud scored a stunning winner as a much-changed Arsenal side saw off 10-man Red Star Belgrade in their Europa League clash.
  
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• Waterfront and Ulster Hall workers to be balloted on strike action

  19-10-2017 20:58 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Workers at venues Belfast Waterfront and the Ulster Hall are to be balloted on strike action.
  
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• County Armagh mother's plea over taking medication

  19-10-2017 20:02 via bbc.co.uk
  A woman whose son died from an asthma attack is campaigning to get people to take their medication.
  
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• Speeding drivers face the 'Kids' Court' at Lisburn school

  19-10-2017 19:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Motorists get the option of avoiding a fine by attending a special court with children in charge.
  
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• Yellow rain warning in place for Northern Ireland with flooding expected

  19-10-2017 18:47 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Met Office has issued a yellow rain warning for Northern Ireland which will be in place until just before midnight on Thursday.
  
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• Justice Dept bids to overturn ruling it failed to provide murder probe resources

  19-10-2017 18:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Stormont department has launched a bid to overturn a ruling that it unlawfully failed to provide enough resources for the Police Ombudsman to examine alleged flaws in an RUC probe into a loyalist murder 35 years ago.
  
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• Airbnb providers cash in on tourist boom

  19-10-2017 17:48 via bbc.co.uk
  An upswing in Northern Ireland tourism has created a new breed of online accommodation providers.
  
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• Residents interrupt burglar as they return home

  19-10-2017 17:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Occupants of a house in Belfast disturbed an intruder who was burgling their house on Wednesday.
  
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• Almost 30 suspected members of UDA under police investigation, court hears

  19-10-2017 17:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Nearly 30 suspected members of a loyalist paramilitary unit involved in drugs, punishment beatings and loan sharking are under police investigation, a court has heard.
  
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• Man attacked from behind and hospitalised in Belfast

  19-10-2017 16:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man is in hospital after being seriously assaulted in north Belfast on Saturday.
  
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• Northern Ireland football boss Michael O'Neill handed drink-driving ban and fine

  19-10-2017 15:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Northern Ireland football boss Michael O'Neill pleads guilty to drink-driving in Edinburgh after being found to have been three times the limit in the early hours of 10 September.
  
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• Titanic locker keys that belonged to survivor to fetch £60k at auction

  19-10-2017 15:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A set of rusty keys for a locker on the Titanic that belonged to a cabin steward who survived the disaster are being sold by his family.
  
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• Police appeal for missing Newtownabbey man (22)

  19-10-2017 14:39 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The family of missing Newtownabbey man Matthew Morrison are becoming increasingly concerned about his welfare.
  
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• Frampton tells Nolan: 'I missed my weight by a pound, you missed it by 10 stone'

  19-10-2017 14:31 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  BBC presenter Stephen Nolan has started the 'Biggest Diet in the Country' after his official weigh-in on his Wednesday night live television programme.
  
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• Pictured: New Belfast rapid transit glider vehicle unveiled

  19-10-2017 13:47 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The new Belfast Rapid Transit Glider vehicle has been unveiled at the Busworld Europe exhibition in Belgium.
  
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• Investigators investigated

  19-10-2017 13:24 via bbc.co.uk
  The chief constable and two senior officers deny allegations of misconduct in public office and criminality.
  
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• Chief Constable Hamilton 'confident there was no misconduct'

  19-10-2017 13:10 via bbc.co.uk
  The chief constable says he is confident he will be vindicated in a Police Ombudsman investigation.
  
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• 'Priests should be allowed to marry' says Derry clergyman

  19-10-2017 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Fr Paddy O'Kane says celibacy had allowed him to devote his life to others but had come at a personal cost.
  
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• Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill pleads guilty to drink driving

  19-10-2017 12:49 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland football manager Michael O'Neill has pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to drink-driving just outside the city on September 10 this year.
  
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• Boy (14) left fighting for his life after being struck by car

  19-10-2017 10:44 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Co Antrim schoolboy airlifted to hospital after being hit by a car in Newtownabbey yesterday was in a critical condition last night.
  
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• Christine Lampard: I'm always hounded about not having children

  19-10-2017 10:33 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland presenter Christine Lampard has revealed she is constantly asked when she is going to have a baby following her marriage to retired footballer Frank Lampard.
  
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• 'My love isn't second-class': the struggle for marriage equality in Northern Ireland

  19-10-2017 10:00
  At a mock wedding in a Belfast cabaret club, a groom cries tears of anger. Same-sex marriage is legal everywhere else in Britain and Ireland, so why not here? The answer lies with Theresa May’s partners, the DUP“We’re going to fight tooth and nail with them. I’m done putting on the kid gloves, I’m done pretending this is OK. What are we meant to do, wait another 20 years?” Shane Sweeney has just exchanged vows with his fiance of two years, Eoin McCabe. It coul
  
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• Bill Clinton and Theresa May hold talks on Northern Ireland deadlock

  19-10-2017 09:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Theresa May has held talks with former US president Bill Clinton on the continuing political deadlock in Northern Ireland.
  
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• I'm confident of positive outcome, says PSNI chief facing misconduct probe

  19-10-2017 09:28 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland's police chief has insisted that a probe into alleged misconduct in public office will not find any wrongdoing.
  
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• Chief Constable facing misconduct probe over PSNI vehicle contracts inquiry

  19-10-2017 09:28 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland's police chief is facing an investigation into alleged misconduct in public office.
  
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• Spain calls Cabinet meeting after Catalan leader's independence threat

  19-10-2017 09:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Spain is to hold a special Cabinet meeting at the weekend to activate measures to take control of Catalonia's semi-autonomous powers after the region's leader threatened to explicitly declare independence if no talks were offered.
  
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• Coroner warns over ladder dangers after death of man in fall

  19-10-2017 08:34 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Coroner has expressed concern over the number of fatalities caused by men falling off ladders after an inquest heard a retired Co Antrim butcher died from "catastrophic" brain injuries following an accident.
  
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• Neighbour saves man from gas explosion

  19-10-2017 08:23 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A north Belfast man was saved from a massive gas explosion in his home last night after a quick-thinking neighbour alerted him to a fire.
  
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• Northern Ireland has highest rate of sexual harassment in UK workplace, but no one's admitting blame

  19-10-2017 08:22 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland has the highest rate of sexual harassment in the workplace in the UK - but no one is admitting to any blame, according to shocking new statistics.
  
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• Judge brands A&E 'hell' at weekends as man jailed for hospital attack on officer

  19-10-2017 08:22 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Conditions for staff at Altnagelvin Hospital's accident and emergency department must be like a "circle of hell" at the weekend, a court heard yesterday.
  
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• Bring Wombat home: Disabled teenager desperate to get her missing dog back

  19-10-2017 08:22 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Dromara mum and her disabled daughter have pleaded for the safe return of the family dog who went missing over three weeks ago.
  
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• Why Michelle O’Neill's reported compromise was overruled by hardliners

  19-10-2017 08:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  It's not like we haven't been here before. In autumn 2014 it was reported that Martin McGuinness had reached a deal with Peter Robinson on welfare reform, but this was overturned by others in Sinn Fein.
  
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• Plan to publish party donations in NI does not go far enough, says electoral chief

  19-10-2017 08:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A pledge to publish details of donations to political parties here is not good enough, the head of the Electoral Commission has said.
  
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• £200k bill for Speaker and deputies

  19-10-2017 08:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Almost £200,000 has been spent on an Assembly Speaker and his two deputies despite the institutions being collapsed.
  
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• Stormont deal can be secured ahead of new deadline: DUP

  19-10-2017 08:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Senior DUP figures still hold out hope of brokering a deal with Sinn Fein - despite increasing gloom in London and Dublin on the chances of an agreement to save Stormont.
  
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• Negligent skipper whose ship ran aground on Rathlin is fined £1,000

  19-10-2017 08:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The eastern European captain of a cargo vessel that ran aground on Rathlin Island last week has been fined £1,000 after failing to keep a proper lookout and failing to safely navigate his ship, causing serious damage to it.
  
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• Northern Ireland man risks brewing up a storm with his wife over backyard beer factory

  19-10-2017 08:15 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Northern Ireland man risked the wrath of his wife after he returned home with a complete brewery and set it up in the backyard of their Australian home.
  
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• Final farewell to Ryan (10) killed in suspected attack by family's dog

  19-10-2017 08:15 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The funeral will take place tomorrow of a 10-year-old Glengormley boy who died after a suspected attack by his family's German Shepherd.
  
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• Bombardier’s vulnerability is a bad omen for post-Brexit Britain | Dawn Foster

  19-10-2017 07:00
  Airbus, not Theresa May, rescued Belfast’s workers. So much for the claims that the UK is a big global player ready for life outside EuropeFor some, Monday’s weather felt like a depiction of a post-Brexit UK: a wind-battered, dystopian hell-scape lit by an eerie red sun, leaving confused citizens feeling for all the world as though they were trapped in a faded sepia photograph.The last few weeks in Belfast offer a less hyperbolic indication of what might befall the UK after Brexit. T
  
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• Foster slams Sinn Fein's 'games' but says talks are making some progress

  19-10-2017 02:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein is "playing games" in the talks to restore Stormont, with proposals put "forward one day and withdrawn the next", DUP leader Arlene Foster has said.
  
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