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• 'As long as I'm still breathing, Ian Ogle will never be dead', says daughter at memorial

  27-01-2020 23:11 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The daughter of murdered community worker Ian Ogle received a standing ovation in east Belfast on the anniversary of her father’s death as she denounced paramilitarism.
  
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• Michel Barnier calls for 'close economic partnership' between UK and Europe after Brexit

  27-01-2020 23:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has urged the Government to create a "close economic partnership" with Brussels as he warned that Northern Ireland would be the part of the UK most impacted by Brexit.
  
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• John Laverty: Saracens' hypocrisy has robbed rugby of the moral high ground

  27-01-2020 23:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Trolls existed before social media, you know. Back in the days when they 'took to Royal Mail', I got the poison-pen treatment after daring to suggest that Tiger Woods might not be the pristine icon his acolytes were purporting him to be.
  
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• Barnier calls for 'close economic partnership' between UK and Europe after Brexit

  27-01-2020 23:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has urged the Government to create a "close economic partnership" with Brussels as he warned that Northern Ireland would be the part of the UK most impacted by Brexit.
  
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• Barnier calls for 'close economic partnership' between UK and Europe

  27-01-2020 23:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has urged the Government to create a "close economic partnership" with Brussels as he warned that Northern Ireland would be the part of the UK most impacted by Brexit.
  
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• MOT tests for cars and light vehicles in Northern Ireland suspended

  27-01-2020 22:24 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  All MoT tests for cars and light vehicles have been suspended “with immediate effect”, the Department for Infrastructure announced last night.
  
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• All MOT tests suspended in Northern Ireland due to faulty lifts

  27-01-2020 22:24 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Department of Infrastructure has has suspended all MOT testing for cars and light vehicles.
  
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• Cyclist in serious condition in hospital after colliding with car

  27-01-2020 21:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A cyclist is in serious condition in hospital following a collision with a car in Co Antrim.
  
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• £19m for education as Conor Murphy reallocates £41m funding

  27-01-2020 21:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Stormont ministers have reallocated almost £20 million to under-pressure education authorities to help them pay teachers’ wages.
  
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• New Look may open new store at Belfast's Victoria Square

  27-01-2020 21:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Fashion retailer New Look is believed to be launching a new shop at Victoria Square in Belfast.
  
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• Malachi O'Doherty: Why are we such doom-mongers fearing that the human race will be exterminated?

  27-01-2020 21:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Why are we such a pessimistic species? I thought the prevailing anxiety about the end of the world would leave us after the turn of the millennium. Then we had the prophecies of Nostradamus to tell us that the human race would run out of road about 1998.
  
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• Ceremony held in memory of RUC officers murdered in 1972

  27-01-2020 20:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Two RUC officers killed in a 1972 IRA gun attack on their vehicle in Londonderry were remembered at the War Memorial in the city on the anniversary of their deaths.
  
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• Barnier: Frictionless trade impossible after Brexit

  27-01-2020 20:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Frictionless trade after Brexit will be impossible, the EU chief Brexit negotiator has said.
  
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• Ulster Museum mummy Takabuti 'was murdered'

  27-01-2020 20:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Death was only the start for the Ulster Museum's famous Egyptian mummy.
  
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• Seamus Mallon's Protestant neighbours 'played major role in funeral'

  27-01-2020 20:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The symbols of loyalism still hanging just yards from Seamus Mallon’s front door in the mainly unionist village of Markethill sent out their own unmistakable signal yesterday.
  
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• Brexit: New checks on goods entering NI 'indispensible' says Barnier

  27-01-2020 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The EU's chief negotiator says the Brexit deal makes checks on goods entering NI "indispensible".
  
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• US prosecutor: Andrew uncooperative in Epstein investigation

  27-01-2020 18:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Duke of York has “provided zero cooperation” to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking inquiry, a US prosecutor has said.
  
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• FGM: Dublin couple jailed over genital mutilation of daughter

  27-01-2020 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The man and woman have been sentenced after the first FGM conviction in the Republic of Ireland.
  
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• New £45m Armagh college campus 'threat to otters'

  27-01-2020 17:44 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Otter activity at a Co Armagh lake could be harmed by building a new £45 million college campus on its shoreline, the High Court was told.
  
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• The Crown: Mountbatten's IRA murder to feature in series 4

  27-01-2020 17:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The IRA's murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten is set to feature in the upcoming series of Netflix's The Crown.
  
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• Northern Ireland motorists wrongly fined in on-street parking shake-up

  27-01-2020 17:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A shake-up in how on-street parking is charged in Northern Ireland has been hit with "teething problems" which has seen people wrongly fined and charged.
  
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• Police seal off two areas after woman gives birth on Dublin street

  27-01-2020 17:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police sealed off two scenes in Dublin in the early hours of Monday morning after a distressed woman gave birth on a city street corner.
  
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• Belfast wrestling earns trio of wins at home event - PenBayPilot.com

  27-01-2020 17:00
  
  Belfast wrestling earns trio of wins at home event  PenBayPilot.com
  
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• Have NI academics uncovered a 2,600-year-old murder?

  27-01-2020 15:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Takabuti, the Ulster Museum mummy, may have died from being stabbed in the back, researchers say.
  
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• Belfast's Egyptian mummy 'may have died in violent knife attack' - BBC News

  27-01-2020 14:22
  
  Belfast's Egyptian mummy 'may have died in violent knife attack'  BBC News
  
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• Archbishop pays tribute to ‘bridge-builder’ Seamus Mallon at funeral

  27-01-2020 13:38 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Seamus Mallon was a bridge-builder who dedicated himself to peacemaking, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland has told mourners at his funeral.
  
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• Sunday trading hours: 92% of Belfast workers oppose extension

  27-01-2020 13:34 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  More than 90% of Belfast shopworkers are opposed to extending Sunday trading hours, according to a new survey.
  
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• Coronavirus: Student in Ireland isolated after travelling from Wuhan in China

  27-01-2020 13:24 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A student who travelled from Wuhan to Waterford in the Republic of Ireland is in self-isolation as a precautionary measure.
  
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• Northern Ireland ice weather warning issued by Met Office

  27-01-2020 12:41 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Met Office has issued an ice weather warning for Northern Ireland.
  
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• MoT chaos: Minister Nichola Mallon refuses to be drawn on compensation for hire cars

  27-01-2020 12:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon has refused to say if compensation will be provided to those affected by cancelled MoT tests to pay for hire cars.
  
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• Seamus Mallon's funeral: Final farewell to colossus of Irish politics as mourners gather in Armagh

  27-01-2020 12:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The funeral of former SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon will take place in his native Armagh at midday.
  
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• Seamus Mallon's funeral, a final farewell to colossus of Irish politics

  27-01-2020 12:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The funeral of former SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon will take place in his native Armagh at midday.
  
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• Seamus Mallon funeral: Archbishop challenges politicians to 'build shared home place' in tribute to former SDLP deputy leader

  27-01-2020 12:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Archbishop Eamon Martin has challenged politicians to renew efforts to build 'a shared home place' in tribute to the late Seamus Mallon.
  
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• Schools' Cup draw LIVE: Updates as the last 16 discover their fate at Kingspan Stadium

  27-01-2020 11:29 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  It's one of the biggest days in the Danske Bank Schools' Cup calendar as the last 16 discover who they will play in the first knock-out round.
  
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• Schools' Cup draw in full: Royal School Armagh handed chance for Campbell revenge as holders Methody drawn away

  27-01-2020 11:29 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Royal School Armagh will have a chance to get early revenge on Campbell College in the last 16 of the Danske Bank Schools' Cup.
  
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• Hoax behind Derry security alert

  27-01-2020 10:38 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A hoax device forced families out of their homes in Derry overnight.
  
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• Banned Belfast driver pretended to be his twin

  27-01-2020 10:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A banned driver tried to keep on driving by getting a licence in the name of his identical twin brother, a judge has been told.
  
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• Ex-UDA thug Gary McNeill faces jail and exile after abusing little girl

  27-01-2020 09:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A paedophile dubbed "the Beast of Bangor" is facing jail after he admitted abusing a little girl.
  
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• Dissident smuggler Aidan Grew at centre of £215m dirty cash probe

  27-01-2020 09:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Wealthy dissident smuggler Aidan Grew is at the centre of a £215m money laundering probe.
  
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• RUC man gave me gun for Milltown massacre attack, says Michael Stone

  27-01-2020 09:26 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Milltown massacre gunman Michael Stone has told the Police Ombudsman that the weapon used in the attack was given to him by an RUC officer who was also in the UDA.
  
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• Varadkar warns Johnson that EU will have upper hand in post-Brexit trade talks

  27-01-2020 08:24 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned the UK that the EU will have the upper hand in post-Brexit trade talks.
  
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• Coronavirus: Irish citizen describes Wuhan as 'ghost town'

  27-01-2020 08:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ben Kavanagh, originally from County Kildare, speaks from Wuhan where he has been working as a teacher.
  
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• Hagan Homes pulls Harry and Meghan ads after row

  27-01-2020 08:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A company in Northern Ireland has removed adverts featuring the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after action by representatives of the royal couple.
  
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• Brawl at Northern Ireland wedding spills onto street

  27-01-2020 08:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A fight that broke out at a Co Armagh wedding spilled out onto the streets on Friday night.
  
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• Air quality link to 178 deaths in Belfast in single year - Belfast Telegraph

  27-01-2020 08:13
  
  Air quality link to 178 deaths in Belfast in single year  Belfast Telegraph
  
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• Air quality link to 178 deaths in Belfast in single year

  27-01-2020 08:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  More than one in every 24 deaths in Belfast is linked to long-term exposure to air pollution, a new study has found.
  
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• Nathan Gibson's grief-stricken fiancee tells of devastation as she and son prepare for funeral

  27-01-2020 08:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The fiancee of murdered Co Armagh dad Nathan Gibson last night spoke for the first time about the devastating moment police told her he had been killed.
  
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• Manager hits out over 'vile' player abuse during Larne v Glentoran game

  27-01-2020 08:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Football fans are being urged to remember players are human beings after one was subjected to "vile" abuse at the Larne-Glentoran match on Saturday, at which the late Jerry Thompson's family were guests.
  
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• Larne boss hits out over 'vile' player abuse during Glentoran game

  27-01-2020 08:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Football fans are being urged to remember players are human beings after one was subjected to "vile" abuse at the Larne-Glentoran match on Saturday, at which the late Jerry Thompson's family were guests.
  
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• 'Dark cloud' engulfs Dublin community after deaths of McGinley children

  27-01-2020 08:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Post-mortem examinations have been completed on three children found dead in a Dublin house on Friday evening.
  
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