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• Funeral to take place of 'inspirational' Glengormley man killed on Westlink

  17-12-2019 23:38 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The funeral of a Glengormley man who died following a road traffic collision on the Westlink at the weekend will take place on Saturday.
  
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• Alban Maginness: Friday the 13th horror story will give both Sinn Fein and the DUP a fright in event of a snap January election

  17-12-2019 23:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  In the early hours of Friday, December 13, the political tide turned on the DUP and Sinn Fein. The election results for both parties represented a punishment beating from a frustrated and impatient electorate. Although overdue, this is a most welcome development which has the potential to change the politics of this region in the medium term.
  
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• Parties outline priorities as four of Northern Ireland's new MPs take places on green benches

  17-12-2019 21:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland's newest MPs got down to business in earnest yesterday as the new Parliamentary session got under way at Westminster.
  
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• IRA postbox bomb nearly killed my son, says friend of royal family

  17-12-2019 21:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The aristocrat Lady Anne Glenconner, who was a close friend of the Queen's sister Princess Margaret, has revealed that one of her children had a close call with an IRA bomb in the Seventies.
  
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• Boris Johnson moves to build bridges over Brexit divisions

  17-12-2019 21:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson has held out an olive branch to his defeated political opponents with an offer to find common ground to heal the divisions of Brexit.
  
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• Jeffrey Donaldson replaces Nigel Dodds as DUP's Westminster leader

  17-12-2019 20:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has been elected as the DUP's new Westminster leader replacing the outgoing Nigel Dodds.
  
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• Parents of Nora Quoirin believe 'criminal element' involved in her death

  17-12-2019 20:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The parents of Nora Quoirin have said they believe a "criminal element" was involved in her disappearance and death.
  
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• Pension Protection Fund steps in to shield H&W scheme from £85m debt

  17-12-2019 20:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A deficit of £85m in the pension scheme of shipyard Harland & Wolff in east Belfast is now being monitored by a public body which will make payments to staff.
  
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• Leona O'Neill: My mum's just been diagnosed with cancer... but patients like her still come first for our striking NHS heroes

  17-12-2019 20:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  My mother, a sprightly, energetic, vibrant woman in her 70s, was diagnosed with cancer in the midst of the health workers strike.
  
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• Giants Causeway beats Buckingham Palace for TripAdvisor bookings

  17-12-2019 20:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Giant's Causeway has been named as the third most booked visitor destination in the UK during 2019 by TripAdvisor.
  
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• Sinn Fein's Daniel Baker set to be next Lord Mayor of Belfast

  17-12-2019 19:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein councillor Daniel Baker will be installed as the new Lord Mayor of Belfast at a ceremony on Wednesday.
  
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• Irish citizenship campaigner should not have to go to court to assert right – Coveney

  17-12-2019 18:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Tanaiste has said an Irish citizenship campaigner should not have to go to court to assert her right.
  
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• Citizenship campaigner should not have to go to court to assert right – Coveney

  17-12-2019 18:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Tanaiste has said an Irish citizenship campaigner should not have to go to court to assert her right.
  
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• Health strike: How industrial action will impact services across Northern Ireland as Sinn Fein claim Secretary of State refused to meet parties

  17-12-2019 18:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Nurses and paramedics are due to begin strike action at midnight as the health crisis in Northern Ireland deepens.
  
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• Health strike: How industrial action will impact services across Northern Ireland as Secretary of State 'refuses' to meet parties

  17-12-2019 18:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Nurses and paramedics are due to begin strike action at midnight as the health crisis in Northern Ireland deepens.
  
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• Health strike: How industrial action will impact services across Northern Ireland as last minute talks held

  17-12-2019 18:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Nurses and paramedics are due to begin strike action at midnight as the health crisis in Northern Ireland deepens.
  
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• Health strike: How industrial action will impact services across Northern Ireland

  17-12-2019 18:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Nurses and paramedics are due to begin strike action at midnight as the health crisis in Northern Ireland deepens.
  
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• Third of Northern Ireland adults feel cultural identity not respected: report

  17-12-2019 18:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A leading sociologist described as “alarming” that almost a third of people in Northern Ireland don’t believe their cultural identity is respected by wider society.
  
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• Northern Ireland set to be battered with heavy winds

  17-12-2019 17:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland is set to be battered with heavy winds from Wednesday afternoon and into Thursday morning.
  
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• Ruth Maguire family call for safety measures after mum's tragic Carlingford death during hen party

  17-12-2019 17:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The family of Ruth Maguire who drowned after going into Carlingford Lough has called for a handrail or other safety measures to be installed at the harbour in the village.
  
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• Arlene Foster 'slipped up' in commenting on parliamentary probe, says Ian Paisley

  17-12-2019 17:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  DUP MP Ian Paisley has said he believes party leader Arlene Foster "slipped up" in stating a parliamentary investigation was being carried out into claims made about his family holiday in the Maldives.
  
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• Compensation payments to abuse victims next spring

  17-12-2019 16:26 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Compensation payments to victims of historical abuse in Northern Ireland will begin next spring, the head of the Civil Service said.
  
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• Double murder charge man crossed border for new life, court told

  17-12-2019 15:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man allegedly involved in a double killing in Belfast 12 years ago immediately crossed the border to start a new life in the Republic of Ireland, the High Court heard on Tuesday.
  
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• Derrylin fatal fire accused Daniel Sebastian Allen to stand trial in new year

  17-12-2019 15:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man accused of causing the Co Fermanagh fatal house fire in February last year, in which four people including a toddler died, is to stand trial for their murder in Belfast in the new year.
  
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• Man dies following crash in Crumlin

  17-12-2019 14:54 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man has died after a crash on Ballyutoag Road in Crumlin, Co Antrim, on Tuesday morning.
  
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• Abuse compensation system to open in March, Northern Ireland Civil Service head confirms

  17-12-2019 14:52 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service has said the application for abuse payments for those victims and survivors of historical abuse will begin in March.
  
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• Man accused of murdering Cecil 'Foggy' Ellis confessed to killing, court told

  17-12-2019 14:43 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man accused of murdering his uncle allegedly confessed to the killing, a court has heard
  
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• No 'block' on Northern Ireland patient transfers to GB, say health officials

  17-12-2019 14:15 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) has rejected a claim doctors are "blocked" from transferring patients to GB for treatment to avoid waiting in Northern Ireland for the procedure providing they meet the correct criteria.
  
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• Belfast cabbie cleared of raping teen passenger

  17-12-2019 14:06 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A taxi driver from north Belfast has been cleared of raping a passenger after it emerged the Crown was offering "no further evidence" against him.
  
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• Reusable cup refills banned on Translink cross-border services

  17-12-2019 13:27 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Translink has been urged to drop a ban on reusable coffee cup refills on board cross-border rail services.
  
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• Former Linfield doctor Andy Massey to leave Liverpool for FIFA role in the new year

  17-12-2019 13:12 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Andy Massey's remarkable rise through the sporting world is set to continue.
  
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• Sinn Fein MLAs Megan Fearon and Mairtin O Muilleoir quit Assembly

  17-12-2019 12:49 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein MLAs Megan Fearon and Mairtin O Muilleoir have announced they are quitting the Northern Ireland Assembly.
  
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• 'It is a dream': Glentoran star Demi Vance signs for Rangers and sets top target

  17-12-2019 11:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Glentoran's Demi Vance has set her targets high after signing for childhood club Rangers.
  
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• Northern Ireland health workers' industrial action to 'significantly disrupt' services, says trust boss

  17-12-2019 11:03 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Industrial action being taken by healthcare workers in Northern Ireland has the potential to "significantly disrupt" services, the chief executive of the Northern Trust has said.
  
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• Northern Ireland traffic alerts: Westlink crash causing delays

  17-12-2019 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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• Northern Ireland traffic alerts: Dunmurry road closed due to three vehicle crash

  17-12-2019 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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• Northern Ireland care worker at disability unit struck off for attacks on friend and teenage girl

  17-12-2019 07:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A care worker assaulted a teenage girl just weeks after a warning was put on his registration for attacking a childhood friend with a wheel brace.
  
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• 'Despicable' child killer Liam Whoriskey has shown no remorse, say police

  17-12-2019 07:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  On the night little Kayden McGuinness died, his mum kissed him three times and told him she loved him as she put him to bed, police said yesterday.
  
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• Belfast's Black Santa goes contactless

  17-12-2019 07:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The annual Black Santa sit-out began on the steps of St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast yesterday with a focus on supporting mental health, the homeless and refugees.
  
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• Belfast couple left shaken after abduction by masked gang

  17-12-2019 07:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man and a woman were abducted from their Belfast home by a masked gang armed with a knife and handgun on Sunday.
  
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• Waiter Whoriskey, jailed for killing little Kayden McGuinness (3), to appeal conviction

  17-12-2019 07:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 25-year-old waiter jailed yesterday for 15 years for battering his fiancee's three-year-old son to death is to appeal against his conviction.
  
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• Think twice about a Christmas puppy, warns PSNI

  17-12-2019 07:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A campaign has been launched to crack down on illegal puppy farming in Northern Ireland.
  
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• TD urges Dublin to plan for united Ireland as 'England doesn't give fiddlers about Northern Ireland

  17-12-2019 07:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A senior Fianna Fail TD has said the Irish government needs to come up with a detailed plan for a united Ireland after claiming England "couldn't give a fiddlers" about Northern Ireland.
  
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• Talks bid to avert crippling health walk-outs in Northern Ireland

  17-12-2019 07:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Secretary of State has met with senior civil servants to try and bring an end to crippling industrial action by NHS staff, it is understood.
  
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• How to avoid Xmas dinner disaster... the experts' guide to preventing turkey troubles

  17-12-2019 07:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  One in four people in Northern Ireland have had a Christmas dinner disaster, statistics from an all-Ireland food safety organisation show.
  
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• Slieve Dhu nursing home fined £12,000 for safety breach which led to pensioner's death

  17-12-2019 06:59 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Co Down nursing home that admitted a health and safety breach which led to an 82-year-old resident's death was fined £12,000 yesterday.
  
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• Two men to face court over murder of Cecil Ellis in Portadown

  17-12-2019 01:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Two men have been charged with the murder of Cecil Robert R Ellis in Portadown.
  
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• Boris Johnson to legislate to block any further delay to Brexit

  17-12-2019 01:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson is to legislate to prevent MPs extending the Brexit transition period beyond the end of 2020, Government sources have said.
  
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• Pensioner James Wilkinson avoids jail for 'appalling' driving which resulted in death of his wife in Antrim

  17-12-2019 00:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A pensioner who killed his wife in a car accident walked free from court yesterday after his three year jail sentence was suspended for three years.
  
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• Pensioner avoids jail for 'appalling' driving which resulted in death of his wife

  17-12-2019 00:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A pensioner who killed his wife in a car accident walked free from court yesterday after his three year jail sentence was suspended for three years.
  
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