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• Elite League: Braehead Clan 3-4 Belfast Giants - BBC Sport

  28-10-2017 23:00
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  Elite League: Braehead Clan 3-4 Belfast Giants
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  Belfast Giants fought back from 3-0 down to clinch an overtime victory against Braehead Clan in Scotland. It looked bleak for the visitors when first-period goals from Ville Hamalainen, Brendan Brooks and Matt Haywood put the Scots in control. Mark ...
  Belfast Giants add defenceman Adam Jones to their squad ahead of weekend double-headerBelfast Live
  Two Games two points for Clan after second OT loss to Belfast GiantsRenfrewshire
  
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• Katie Taylor wins first professional world title with points victory over Anahi Sanchez

  28-10-2017 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Ireland's Katie Taylor wins her first professional world title with a superb display to outpoint Argentina's Anahi Sanchez in Cardiff.
  
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• Ulster Club quarter-finals: Slaughtneil and Derrygonnelly progress

  28-10-2017 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Ulster club champions Slaughtneil beat Omagh in the quarter-finals while Derrygonnelly overcome Armagh Harps at Brewster Park.
  
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• Belfast's Halloween Monster Mash 2017: Everything you need to know - Belfast Live

  28-10-2017 21:59
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  Belfast's Halloween Monster Mash 2017: Everything you need to know
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  Belfast's annual spooktacular Halloween Monster Mash event is just around the corner and it promises to be a great event for the whole family. This year's theme is 'Day of the Dead' and little ghouls and scary skeletons of all ages can come along in ...and more »
  
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• Ulster humbled by rampant Leinster in 10-25 trouncing at Kingspan

  28-10-2017 21:34 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Ulster slipped to their first home defeat of the season as they fell 25-10 to interprovincial rivals Leinster at Kingspan Stadium in the Guinness PRO14.
  
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• Pro14: Ulster 10-25 Leinster

  28-10-2017 21:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Ulster fall to their first home Pro14 defeat in a year as Leinster deservedly seal an emphatic 25-10 victory in Belfast.
  
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• Irish Premiership: Coleraine beat Glentoran to stay five clear

  28-10-2017 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Coleraine's superb run continues with a 3-0 win over Glentoran which keeps them five points clear at the top of the Irish Premiership.
  
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• Murder probe after Dublin shooting

  28-10-2017 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  The incident happened at Moatview Avenue in the Coolock area on Saturday.
  
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• BUPA suspends referrals to Belfast Trust hospitals - BBC News

  28-10-2017 17:02
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  BUPA suspends referrals to Belfast Trust hospitals
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  One of the UK's biggest private health insurance companies has suspended all referrals to Belfast Trust hospitals. BUPA say the suspension is in place due to the lack of appropriate medical negligence insurance at the hospitals. People with BUPA health ...
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• BUPA suspends referrals to Belfast Trust hospitals

  28-10-2017 17:02 via bbc.co.uk
  BUPA says suspension is due to the lack of appropriate medical negligence insurance at the hospitals.
  
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• A Painter's Theater of Destitution

  28-10-2017 14:37
  A dozen or so years ago, I gave a slide lecture and reading highlighting examples of ekphrastic poetry - poems about artworks - at the Belfast, Maine, Public Library. I started with W.H. Auden's "MusA©e des Beaux Arts," his famous riff on Breughel's "The Fall of Icarus," and went on to Randall Jarrell's "Knight, Death, and the Devil," W.D. Snodgrass's "Matisse: 'The Red Studio,'" Adrienne Rich's "Mourning Picture," and some of William Carpenter's poems inspired by Edward Hopper images.
  
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• 100-year-old man is robbed in Strabane

  28-10-2017 14:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Three men forced their way into a property in the Railway Street area of Strabane.
  
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• Belfast Milltown Cemetery gates set on fire by youths

  28-10-2017 14:14 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  West Belfast Sinn Féin MP Paul Maskey has condemned the 'disgusting behaviour' that saw the gates of Miltown Cemetery set alight.
  
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• Haunted house

  28-10-2017 13:42 via bbc.co.uk
  A mass grave, a Dark Hedges tunnel and a ghost house feature in the NI weekly papers.
  
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• Man dies after crash near Dromara

  28-10-2017 13:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The crash happened on the Banbridge Road in the early hours of Saturday morning.
  
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• Model Kate Grant challenges stereotypes with Belfast catwalk debut

  28-10-2017 12:37 via bbc.co.uk
  County Tyrone teenager Kate Grant is the first model with Down's syndrome to take part in Belfast Fashion Week.
  
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• 'Despicable thugs' target 101-year-old man in Tyrone burglary

  28-10-2017 11:59 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Burglars who targeted the home of a 101-year-old Northern Ireland man have been described as 'wasters and cowards'.
  
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• Man wounded in Newtownabbey gun attack

  28-10-2017 11:26 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a gun attack on a man in Newtownabbey.
  
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• Northern Ireland teen dies in road crash

  28-10-2017 11:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A teenager has died following a road crash in Co Down.
  
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• Restaurant review: We take a bite from Edo

  28-10-2017 10:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  What Belfast really needs is a Spanish restaurant. The city is brilliant at the good quality, mid-range, mid-price bistro and informal, casual dining thing, so you'd think a Spanish restaurant would be the perfect fit.
  
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• Titanic profits?

  28-10-2017 10:35 via bbc.co.uk
  From films and visitors centres to mugs and t-shirts, the Titanic continues to rake in the profits.
  
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• New lifeline

  28-10-2017 10:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Phone kiosks may have become almost obsolete but health campaigners are bringing them back to life.
  
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• Michael Gove apologises over ‘clumsy’ Harvey Weinstein joke

  28-10-2017 10:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Environment Secretary Michael Gove has apologised unreservedly for an on air joke about disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
  
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• Michael Gove apologises following backlash to Harvey Weinstein joke

  28-10-2017 10:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Environment Secretary Michael Gove has apologised after making a “clumsy” on-air joke referring to disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
  
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• Spain takes direct control of Catalonia

  28-10-2017 09:26 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Spain has taken formal direct control of Catalonia and fired the region's defiant separatist government.
  
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• Judge quashes PSNI's 'seriously flawed' decision to end Hooded Men probe

  28-10-2017 09:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The overturning of a police decision to end preliminary enquiries into the suspected Government-sanctioned torture of 14 men during internment has been welcomed.
  
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• Video: Kate Grant, first model with Down's syndrome at Belfast Fashionweek, gets standing ovation

  28-10-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  There was a standing ovation at Belfast Fashionweek last night as the first model with Down's syndrome in the event's history took to the catwalk.
  
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• Stormont talks break up with no sign of agreement

  28-10-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Talks aimed at brokering a deal between the DUP and Sinn Fein to restore a Stormont Executive broke up late last night without any sign of a significant breakthrough.
  
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• Fancy dress fans want Trump and Kim Jong-Un masks for Halloween frights

  28-10-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sparks could fly in Belfast this weekend as North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un and US President Donald Trump are revealed as the most popular Halloween costumes.
  
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• Driven out by hatred - east Belfast race hate attack couple moving out

  28-10-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  An east Belfast couple who were targeted in a racist attack are packing up to leave their home, saying they have had no support from the authorities since being targeted.
  
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• Body of holiday death Belfast woman brought home on wedding anniversary

  28-10-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The body of a 77-year-old Glengormley woman who died suddenly while on holiday with her husband in the Canaries has been brought home on what would have been the couple's 55th wedding anniversary.
  
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• Titanic poster sells for £7,400

  28-10-2017 08:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A rare poster advertising transatlantic trips on the ill-fated Titanic and her sister ship, the Olympic, has sold for £7,400 at auction.
  
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• Michelin guide nod for eight Northern Ireland pubs

  28-10-2017 08:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Eight Northern Ireland pubs have secured a coveted mention in the 2018 Michelin Eating Out In Pubs guide.
  
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• Northern Ireland flood victim's insurers in U-turn - days after Prince Charles vowed to help

  28-10-2017 08:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  An insurance company has had a rethink and agreed to cover the cost of damage to a flood-stricken business - after an apparent intervention by Prince Charles.
  
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• Blow for private patients as Bupa pulls out of Belfast Trust hospitals

  28-10-2017 08:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  One of the UK's biggest private health insurance companies has pulled out of Belfast Trust hospitals, it can be revealed today.
  
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