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• Rampant Germans leave Northern Ireland men in a real spin

  19-11-2019 23:53 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  An injury stricken Northern Ireland side were made to suffer for poking the German bear in a freezing Frankfurt on Tuesday night.
  
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• Northern Ireland to leave EU along with the rest of UK, Boris Johnson tells debate

  19-11-2019 23:31 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson on Tuesday night claimed "it's there in black and white" in his Brexit deal that Northern Ireland will leave the EU with the rest of the UK.
  
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• Suzanne Breen: General Election campaign isn't in the gutter... it's in the sewer

  19-11-2019 23:22 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The history of the Troubles is littered with callousness, but there is something particularly horrific about a gunman entering a hospital.
  
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• General Election: DUP's Dodds condemns Finucane banners and challenges SF to follow example

  19-11-2019 23:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Nigel Dodds has said the DUP will be seen as the voice of Northern Ireland if it has the most MPs after the election.
  
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• Adrian Rutherford: As Frankfurt prepared for Christmas, Northern Ireland rightly had their sights set on March

  19-11-2019 23:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  In Romerberg, in the heart of Frankfurt’s old town, they were getting ready for Christmas.
  
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• For the love of cod... new theory for Strangford Lough's mysterious hum

  19-11-2019 23:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  There something fishy about a mysterious humming sound that has been heard around Strangford Lough, which has left locals baffled.
  
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• I won't back Foster bid to overturn new abortion law: Aiken

  19-11-2019 23:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Ulster Unionist leader Steve Aiken has said he will not back any DUP attempt to repeal the new legal framework around abortion.
  
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• Declan Bogue: Players set for sting in GAA fixtures tale

  19-11-2019 22:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  If one of the functions of the media is to facilitate debate, then an email sent out within a bumper document delivered by the Club Players' Association (CPA) at the Pendulum Suite of the Carlton Hotel in Blachardstown on Tuesday morning was simply jaw-dropping.
  
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• Alban Maginness: Anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down is a reminder of the importance of a strong Europe

  19-11-2019 22:36 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Berlin, like Belfast, was a divided city for decades. Whereas we divided Belfast ourselves, through sectarian hate and conflict, Berlin's division was imposed upon it by outsiders. Its division was agreed among the victorious Allies, who decided to maintain a presence in the city and to give each great power a sector.
  
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• General Election: Corbyn dismisses Johnson’s pledge to get Brexit done as ‘nonsense’

  19-11-2019 21:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has dismissed Boris Johnson’s pledge to “get Brexit done” by the end of January as “nonsense”.
  
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• Van Morrison: I'd like to cut back on tours and be more selective

  19-11-2019 21:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sir Van Morrison has revealed he is getting ready to ease his workload by "cutting back and being more selective".
  
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• On display at last... Northern Ireland artist Paul Bell's Biblical painting which he began 25 years ago

  19-11-2019 21:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  It famously took Michelangelo four years of painstaking and back-breaking work to paint the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, but a Ballymena artist has made the Italian master's most celebrated achievement look like a rushed job.
  
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• Chief Constable Simon Byrne issues further appeal in Kevin Lunney abduction probe

  19-11-2019 20:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The PSNI Chief Constable has issued a further appeal for information in the investigation into the abduction and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) executive Kevin Lunney.
  
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• Tributes paid to Derry teenager after tragic death from blood disorder

  19-11-2019 17:54 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Tributes have flooded in for a Londonderry teenager who passed away after a long battle with a severe blood disorder.
  
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• General Election: Alliance hits out over 'fake news' posters linking party to IRA

  19-11-2019 17:25 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Alliance Party has hit out at posters that have appeared linking the party to the IRA.
  
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• Woman accused of stabbing man 33 times weeps in court

  19-11-2019 17:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Co Down woman charged with trying to kill a man who was stabbed and slashed more than 30 times wept as she appeared in court on Tuesday.
  
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• Belfast man faces 58 child pornography charges

  19-11-2019 17:15 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 57-year-old Belfast man is to go on trial accused of making and distributing indecent images of children.
  
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• Man who refused to move for police told them he was 'El Chapo', court hears

  19-11-2019 16:58 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man who refused to move off a Belfast street for a police Land Rover told officers he was "El Chapo", a court heard on Tuesday.
  
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• Mum accused of 'campaign of cruelty' against children to stand trial

  19-11-2019 16:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A mother is to stand trial for allegedly subjecting her children to a campaign of cruelty, a judge has ordered.
  
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• Non-Christian couple in legal challenge over Northern Ireland school religious teaching

  19-11-2019 16:03 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A non-Christian couple are taking legal action over their five-year-old daughter receiving religious teaching at her school in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Jennifer Dornan murder trial jury discharged over legal issue

  19-11-2019 16:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The jury presiding over a murder trial arising from the death of a west Belfast mother-of-three was discharged by a senior judge on Tuesday.
  
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• Fermanagh teenager's lung cut open during horrific machete attack

  19-11-2019 15:38 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The man who launched a horrific machete attack on a 13-year-old girl in Co Fermanagh cut the teenager so deep that her lung was sliced open, her family have revealed.
  
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• No border poll before Brexit resolved says Coveney as Sinn Fein urge vote within five years

  19-11-2019 15:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Tanaiste Simon Coveney has rejected Sinn Fein's call for a vote on Irish unity to be held within the next five years.
  
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• UUP's Aiken won't back abortion repeal bid as Creasy accuses DUP of 'dehumanising' her in policy paper

  19-11-2019 15:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Ulster Unionist leader Steve Aiken has said he has an issue with proposed new legal framework around abortion, stating that the current time limit on the procedure in the UK is too late.
  
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• Action needed to prevent Northern Ireland public services crisis getting worse, says new Think Tank Pivotal

  19-11-2019 14:53 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The director of a new think tank aiming to improve life in Northern Ireland has said action needs to be taken to prevent the current public services crisis from getting worse.
  
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• Gerry Adams was interned illegally during Troubles, supreme court told

  19-11-2019 14:30
  
  Wrong minister approved order, court hears during appeal to overturn convictions for escaping Maze prison in 70sThe former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was interned illegally at the height of Northern Ireland’s Troubles because the wrong minister approved his detention order, the supreme court in London has been told.In an attempt to overturn two criminal convictions for escaping from the Maze prison in 1973 and 1974, lawyers for the 71-year-old are challenging the way he was origin
  
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• Ballynahinch ATM raid: Three arrested after digger used in bid to take machine

  19-11-2019 14:27 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Three men have been arrested in connection with the attempted theft of an ATM machine from a filling station in Ballynahinch on Monday.
  
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• Killjoy council to fine Belfast hotel £2,500 over Christmas banners

  19-11-2019 14:22 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Killjoy council officials have threatened to fine a Belfast hotel £2,500 over its Christmas decorations.
  
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• Line of Duty: Kelly Macdonald joins AC-12 for sixth season

  19-11-2019 14:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Kelly Macdonald is the newest recruit for the next series of Line Of Duty with producers saying her character will be the “most enigmatic adversary AC-12 have ever faced”.
  
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• Woman arrested over 1999 murder of a Co Londonderry teenager

  19-11-2019 13:53 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A woman has been arrested over the murder of a teenager in Co Londonderry 20 years ago.
  
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• Finucane banners: DUP challenge Sinn Fein to condemn IRA attacks on Foster and Dodds

  19-11-2019 13:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  DUP leader Arlene Foster has called on Sinn Fein to specifically condemn the IRA's attempts to kill her father and deputy party leader Nigel Dodds during the Troubles.
  
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• City of Derry Airport Loganair Manchester flights suspended

  19-11-2019 12:31 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Loganair has suspended flights between Londonderry and Manchester less than six months after introducing the route.
  
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• Alliance councillor Kate Nicholl welcomes baby boy

  19-11-2019 10:39 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Alliance Belfast councillor Kate Nicholl has welcomed a baby boy with her husband Fergal Sherry.
  
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• Driver left 'badly shaken' after being dragged from car in Belfast hijacking

  19-11-2019 10:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A driver has been left badly shaken after been dragged out of his car during a hijacking in north Belfast.
  
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• Belfast man caught with 'spy glasses' near semi-naked boy in seaside town convicted

  19-11-2019 09:29 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A judge has praised a vigilant member of the public who spotted a man sneakily pressing buttons while holding a pair of covert 'spy glasses' to try to record an image of a semi-naked three-year-old boy who was getting changed beside the seaside.
  
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• Northern Ireland man accused of raping teen in Spanish hotel room

  19-11-2019 09:23 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  In the first prosecution of its kind in Northern Ireland, a man has gone in trial in Londonderry charged with raping a teenage girl in a Spanish hotel.
  
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• Woman (22) charged with attempted murder after Co Down assault

  19-11-2019 09:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 22-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder after a serious assault in Ballynahinch.
  
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• Rescued greyhound Norman who had ears hacked off dies leaving owner heartbroken

  19-11-2019 09:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Norman the greyhound won a place in hearts far and wide when his horrific ordeal made headlines.
  
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• Was Strangford Lough’s mystery hum caused by a dying seal?

  19-11-2019 08:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The cause of a strange humming sound heard around Strangford Lough, which has left locals baffled, is still being debated.
  
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• Northern Ireland student hero who helped to evacuate residents in Bolton blaze relives night of drama

  19-11-2019 08:41 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Northern Ireland student who evacuated residents caught up in a major fire in Bolton has spoken of her shock at the sudden blaze.
  
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• Constituency profile: Plain sailing for Sinn Fein’s Molloy in Mid Ulster

  19-11-2019 08:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  On the surface, calm political waters on the western shores of Lough Neagh make for plain sailing as Sinn Fein defend a majority of almost 13,000.
  
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• Gerry Adams to appeal against prison escape convictions at UK Supreme Court

  19-11-2019 03:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Gerry Adams is set to challenge two historic prison escape convictions at the UK’s highest court.
  
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