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• Mum fears she will never see the £107,000 she invested in long-delayed George Best Hotel

  30-12-2019 23:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A single mother-of-three living in Carrickfergus who says she invested her life savings in the George Best Hotel in Belfast believes the firm behind the project will never pay her back what she is owed.
  
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• Malachi O'Doherty: Boris Johnson may 'Get Brexit Done' but the disaffection and resentment refuses to leave

  30-12-2019 21:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The peace process started on the assumption that Northern Ireland was a strange and different place. Other parts of the UK and, indeed, the wider world did not agonise about identity the way we did. The character of the nation in which you lived was determined by the prevailing culture and the votes of the electorate.
  
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• Murder victim Frances Murray 'came alive around children', friend tells funeral

  30-12-2019 20:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Several hundred mourners packed into Sacred Heart Church on Oldpark Road for the funeral of north Belfast murder victim Frances Murray.
  
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• Andrew Dunbar funeral: Mourners told Game of Thrones extra was 'warm fire that heated our souls every day'

  30-12-2019 18:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Mourners at the funeral of popular Northern Ireland Game of Thrones extra Andrew Dunbar have been urged to “be open” and “take care of themselves” following the actor’s sudden death.
  
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• Emergency services at scene of suspected gas explosion in Portadown

  30-12-2019 17:59 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Emergency services are dealing with a suspected gas explosion in Portadown.
  
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• Convicted rapist jailed for Belfast heroin find

  30-12-2019 15:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A convicted rapist has been jailed for being caught with heroin in Belfast.
  
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• Man's head 'stamped on five times' in attack at Belfast 'party house,' court told

  30-12-2019 15:02 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man's head was allegedly stamped on up to five times at a so-called "party house" in west Belfast, a court has heard.
  
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• Warrenpoint kids' play park 'gem' damaged in arson attack

  30-12-2019 14:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A children's play park, described as a "gem" of the community has been seriously damaged in a fire.
  
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• Talks to restore Stormont power sharing to resume

  30-12-2019 12:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Talks aimed at restoring power sharing at Stormont are due to resume on Thursday.
  
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• Can't have scenario allowing DUP to walk away again, says Sinn Fein as power-sharing talks to resume

  30-12-2019 12:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Talks aimed at restoring power sharing at Stormont are due to resume on Thursday.
  
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• Anti-abuse campaigner says he would ‘do it all again’

  30-12-2019 12:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  One of Northern Ireland’s highest profile campaigners for abuse victims says he would do it all again, as compensation looks likely to be paid out in coming weeks.
  
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• Pair charged over vicious Belfast Poleglass attack which left man with head and face injuries

  30-12-2019 10:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Two men have been charged after a serious assault in west Belfast over the weekend.
  
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• Teenager found guilty of lying about Cyprus gang rape by Israeli tourists

  30-12-2019 09:12 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A British teenager has been found guilty of lying about being gang raped in Cyprus.
  
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• Two in custody after vicious Belfast attack leaves victim with 'horrific' injuries

  30-12-2019 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A west Belfast community has been left in shock following a brutal assault in the early hours of Sunday morning, a councillor has said.
  
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• State papers: Thatcher's 'threat' to pull out troops in row with RUC chief after Ballygawley bus bomb

  30-12-2019 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Margaret Thatcher warned Northern Ireland's police chief that she would no longer send "her boys over in waves to be killed" in a rancorous row over who was to blame for the slaughter of eight soldiers in an IRA bomb.
  
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• State papers: Northern Ireland mountain could be hiding US nuclear arsenal, Dublin advised

  30-12-2019 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Nuclear weapons could be sited at underground facilities inside a mountain in Northern Ireland, the Republic's intelligence chief advised his government, newly declassified files reveal.
  
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• Smoke alarm warning issued after man dies in Belfast house blaze

  30-12-2019 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Tributes have been paid to a man in his 50s who died as a result of a house fire in Clarawood Park in east Belfast.
  
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• Cancer sufferer Noel Cullen's joy at receiving signed shirt from Rangers star Davis

  30-12-2019 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Belfast-born Noel Cullen got the "surprise of his life" when he opened a special 65th birthday present from his Rangers hero Steven Davis.
  
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• BBC's Karen Patterson on witnessing IRA atrocity, how she and husband Martin clicked and life after Good Morning Ulster

  30-12-2019 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Karen Patterson has been a familiar face on our television screens and voice on our radio airwaves for over 20 years. Northern Ireland has been waking up to the sound of the 48-year-old Co Down broadcaster's voice on Radio Ulster's flagship Good Morning Ulster show for the past 10 years.
  
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• The Open at Portrush: 'Overwhelmed' Rory McIlroy reveals how he fought back tears

  30-12-2019 03:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland golf star Rory McIlroy has revealed how he fought to hold back tears during his unsuccessful bid to win the Open at Royal Portrush earlier this year.
  
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