Belfast news

• Coronavirus: I'm so grateful to be back home with my family, reveals Gavin Whyte

  06-04-2020 23:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland star Gavin Whyte has spoken about his relief at being back home in Belfast with his family rather than being alone in Cardiff during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Protestant identity was ‘weaponised’ in ‘sectarian’ Irish presidential campaign, says Heather Humphreys

  26-08-2026 14:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Former Fine Gael deputy leader was beaten by Catherine Connolly
  
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• Face of ‘manipulative’ St Vincent De Paul boss who told her ex to take his own life

  26-08-2026 14:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  For a number of years she has been the public face of the well respected charity which offers avariety of family support services
  
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• Five-star Belfast hotel goes on the market for over £30m

  26-08-2026 11:31 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  The hotel recently secured planning permission for a ‘significant expansion’
  
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• Fifty 50 Part 3 — Ranking the 50 best All-Ireland final displays of the last 50 years

  26-08-2026 11:26 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Counting down from 30 to 21 across football and hurling
  
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• Martin O’Neill reflects on his most painful Celtic night as defeat costs club £17m in Champions League prizemoney

  26-08-2026 11:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  5-1 defeat sees the Bhoys relegated to Europa League
  
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• ‘No excuse whatsoever’ — Callum McGregor apologises for Celtic’s Champions League collapse in Austria

  26-08-2026 10:29 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  5-1 defeat sees Martin O’Neill’s Bhoys relegated to Europa League with loss of at least €20m in prizemoney
  
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• Wedding couple hit by fake invoice scam as alleged data breach at Irish hotel probed

  26-08-2026 09:51 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Republic of Ireland’s Data Protection Commission assessing notification from four-star Co Wicklow hotel
  
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• Irish couple found dead in hot tub with ‘puncture wounds’ at luxury Spanish coastal resort

  26-08-2026 09:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Their two young children reportedly alerted the homeowner after finding their naked bodies inside the hot tub
  
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• The IRA’s infamous escape from Belfast’s prison ship, the HMS Maidstone

  26-08-2026 08:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  HMS Maidstone, an ex-Royal Navy Ship, was used in the early 1970s to hold internees. In January 1972, a group of IRA prisoners swam 270 meters through an ice-cold Belfast Lough in a bid to escape, greasing themselves in butter to squeeze out of the ship’s portholes. They then hijacked a double-decker bus before slipping across the border, humiliating the authorities. Ciarán Dunbar is joined by James Durney, author of ‘Jailbreak: Great Irish Republican escapes’. This epis
  
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• PSNI officer sacked after ‘catalogue of corruption’ over sexual relationship with vulnerable woman

  26-08-2026 07:27 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  ‘Catalogue of corruption’ found by Police Ombudsman prompts dismissal
  
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• ‘There is no stereotypical adopted child, just as there is no stereotypical adopter’

  26-08-2026 07:22 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Adoption is not about finding perfect parents, it is about finding the right ones, writes Lynda Wilson CBE, chief executive of Family Routes
  
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• ‘Doing homework or making revision notes in study sessions can help greatly as you progress through the year’

  26-08-2026 07:21 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Caitlin Johnston, who is in her final year of school, offers guidance and advice for those entering their A-level years
  
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• Leonard Cohen tribute show inspired by chance meeting with legend: ‘He was just so humble’

  26-08-2026 07:15 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Rob Doyle recalls memorable run-in with Canadian singer-songwriter and poet ahead of Belfast performance next month
  
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• History teachers warn new curriculum proposals will endanger future of subject

  26-08-2026 07:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Planned changes branded ‘a splurge of events to cram into heads of young people’ that will put them off studying topic at GCSE and A-level
  
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• Stormont department routinely shredded papers after they were read by minister

  26-08-2026 07:11 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  After Good Friday Agreement, devolved departments were told to shred or return files from direct rule era
  
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• Britain’s 1950 view of NI declassified: Militarily strategic, religiously harmonious and bound to GB by racial ties

  26-08-2026 07:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Internal Foreign Office document fused self-reflective honesty about the past with wishful thinking about the present
  
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• Sleepless nights, terrorism and riots... my years reporting on the Drumcree deadlock

  26-08-2026 07:02 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Working very close to the front line, I saw a conflict that came closer to disaster than most realised
  
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• PSNI officer sacked after probe uncovers inappropriate sexual relationship

  26-08-2026 01:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  ‘Catalogue of corruption’ found by Police Ombudsman prompts dismissal
  
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• ‘It’s certainly different, but it’s cool’ — Rory McIlroy gives thumbs-up to radical new Tour Championship format

  25-08-2026 23:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Three-time winner backs PGA decision to bring in matchplay finale
  
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• What is the Parades Commission? Public body set up to ease parading tensions now in eye of the storm

  25-08-2026 22:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  What is the commission’s role, and why is a DUP MP calling for its members to now resign?
  
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• Meet the Co Antrim potter inviting customers in to watch the magic happen: ‘I’ll likely be covered in clay’

  25-08-2026 21:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Young mum Natasha Swan has been inundated with commissions from likes of Copeland Distillery and Killeavy Castle — but everyone’s welcome at her studio
  
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• Meet the Co Antrim potter inviting customers in to watch the magic happen: ‘I’’ll likely be covered in clay

  25-08-2026 21:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Young mum Natasha Swan has been inundated with commissions from likes of Copeland Distillery and Killeavy Castle — but everyone’s welcome at her studio
  
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• Restaurant review: With superb small plates, cosy Belfast bar and kitchen is still a lunchtime legend

  25-08-2026 20:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Tiny, trendy Gnostic still punching way above its weight
  
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• Former All-Ireland GAA winner pleads guilty to posing as a solicitor in Scottish court

  25-08-2026 20:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Kevin McGourty pleaded guilty last week to the fraud charge
  
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• Scathing Drumcree ruling shows Parades Commission was complacent at best... and jaw-droppingly incompetent at worst

  25-08-2026 18:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  The body will have to consider any fresh application by Orange Order for Drumcree march in the now, not the troubled circumstances of 30 years ago
  
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• Former council boss Anne Donaghy convened apparent Sunday crisis meeting at own home over deleted emails

  25-08-2026 17:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Cases relates to alleged breaches of Freedom of Information Act
  
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• Pair jailed after industrial-scale cannabis factory uncovered in north Belfast

  25-08-2026 17:15 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Quantity estimated to be worth between £110k and £497k
  
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• ‘End the criminal activity’: Priest pleads with friends of fatal M9 crash victim at funeral

  25-08-2026 16:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  There was a visible garda presence around the church and throughout the town of Athy, Co Kildare
  
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• Calls for Parades Commission members to resign as court quashes decision to restrict Drumcree march

  25-08-2026 15:47 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  ‘Totemic victory has laid bare why confidence in the commission has collapsed within the unionist community’ - Gavin Robinson
  
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