Belfast news

• Mash Direct posts pre-tax profits of £1.8m

  05-10-2026 10:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Co Down prepped vegetable firm also saw significant growth in turnover last year
  
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• Moment priest who tried to meet young boy is snared by ‘paedophile hunter’ group

  08-10-2026 17:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  When the Donegal priest, who pleaded guilty at Londonderry Crown Court to over 100 sex offences, was told the police were coming, he appeared to wince in pain
  
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• ‘Quite right’: DUP leader welcomes letters being sent by police over Garvaghy Road protest

  08-10-2026 16:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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• How to grow and power Northern Ireland’s renewable future

  08-10-2026 16:12 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Italian renewables firm ERG has invested close to £200m in Northern Ireland through renewable energy schemes, including the Corlacky Wind Firm. It recently brought together a host of industry experts and stakeholders to discuss our clean energy future, the need for greater grid capacity, and a focus on long-term planning as Northern Ireland works to expand renewable generation and decarbonise power
  
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• Lambert Smith Hampton: laying the foundations for a solid property investment

  08-10-2026 15:51 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  As a leading commercial property consultancy in Northern Ireland, Lambert Smith Hampton has worked on some of the region’s largest transactions. Beyond the headline grabbing deals, LSH has an expert team providing advice and insight across the built environment. Ulster Business speaks to Niki Alderdice, head of project and building consultancy to examine what buyers and developers need to consider when investing in commercial property
  
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• Man missing for 34 years had changed his name, found love and led a ‘happy life as an openly gay man’

  08-10-2026 15:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Patsy O’Sullivan’s family only learnt in August where he had been, when they found out he died in 2024
  
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• Teen accused of murdering man and attempting to murder his wife and child unfit to appear in court

  08-10-2026 13:59 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Sidi Djalo was found dead at the scene, while his eight-year-old daughter lay seriously injured beside him.
  
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• Man pleads not guilty to murder of pensioner

  08-10-2026 11:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Adam Krzan was found dead in his flat in Dungannon in February 2025.
  
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• Politicians call for resolution to Drumcree dispute

  08-10-2026 11:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is the twelfth day of deadlock between residents of the Garvaghy Road and the local district lodge of the Orange Order over the parade.
  
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• Jet-skiing drug lord from Co Down who had lavish waterside pad seized is jailed over EncroChat cocaine bust

  08-10-2026 11:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Desmond ‘Dessie’ Enfield, from Moneyreagh, had regularly been seen in high-powered cars and enjoyed days out jet-skiing with friends
  
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• Teen rapists who filmed attack on woman in NI car park will be deported to East Timor and ‘barred from returning’

  08-10-2026 11:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Victim ‘devastated’ as double rapists to walk free after just three years
  
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• PSNI officers face probe into ‘spoofing’ while working from home

  08-10-2026 09:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  But senior officer claims no ‘systemic abuse’ of arrangements identified
  
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• Change in direction: ‘Often, it’s smaller, less risk, more achievable steps that help us shape our next chapter’

  08-10-2026 07:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Eleanor Tweddell advises on how to turn an unexpected career detour into a new beginning
  
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• ‘We still get excited every time we open the kiln’: Identical twins mark 25 years running Belfast ceramics business

  08-10-2026 07:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Claire and Karen Gibson on a quarter of a century working side by side, sharing dinners and morning routines, and why clay never bores them
  
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• Wonky wych elm in County Down crowned Tree of the Year

  08-10-2026 07:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is the first time a tree in Northern Ireland has won the national title since it was launched in 2014.
  
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• Belfast solicitors threaten legal action against Law Society over handling of David Lavery controversy

  08-10-2026 07:28 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Legal professionals hit out afterdiscovering chief was suspended via Belfast Telegraph
  
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• How boxing inspired a play about men's mental health

  08-10-2026 07:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The play explores losing a sense of purpose, the difficulty some men have talking about their mental health and the support they can find in each other.
  
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• Barristers on high-profile cases must be allowed to carry out their work without fear or intimidation, asserts NI Bar Council

  08-10-2026 07:25 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Statement comes as several individuals involved in legal proceedings amid Drumcree stand-off said they have received threats 
  
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• ‘Productivity spoofing’ crackdown sees 20 police staff’s home working investigated

  08-10-2026 07:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  The PSNI said no ‘systemic abuse’ of arrangements was identified
  
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• Thatcher urged SAS member not to risk his life again after ambush of IRA unit

  08-10-2026 07:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Members of specialist force speak about their time in Northern Ireland in a new podcast - The Shadow War
  
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• Givan’s order for officials to boycott Stormont education committee could be unlawful, MLAs advised

  08-10-2026 07:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Failure of top civil servant to turn up for meeting branded as ‘shocking’ by UUP leader Burrows
  
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• ‘I wanted to make opportunities happen’: World-renowned ballerina from NI on bringing her production to Belfast

  08-10-2026 07:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Melissa Hamilton’s show runs at the Grand Opera House this week
  
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• Exhibition to 'bust myth' about loyalist prisoners

  08-10-2026 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An ex-loyalist prisoner hopes the event will "create a new understanding" about Trouble-era inmates.
  
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• 'An absolute one-off' - former BBC broadcaster Conor Bradford dies

  07-10-2026 19:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The veteran presenter spent four decades on the airwaves before retiring in 2022, presenting Inside Ulster, Good Morning Ulster and Evening Extra.
  
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• No child should have to learn in a cold classroom - children's commissioner

  07-10-2026 19:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The EA suggests cost-saving measures as it warns school gas and electricity bills are set to rise.
  
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• Analysing 500 million calls fell to one person, Omagh bomb inquiry hears

  07-10-2026 19:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  PSNI Det Ch Insp Pete Billingsley gave evidence to the inquiry on Wednesday about the volume of calls that had to be analysed in the wake of the attack.
  
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• Drumcree dispute could lead to issues with other marches, say residents

  07-10-2026 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There have been 11 days of deadlock between Garvaghy Road residents and the local Orange Order over the proposed march in Portadown, County Armagh.
  
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• Residents warn parade agreements across NI may be ‘revisited’ if Drumcree dispute remains unresolved

  07-10-2026 18:33 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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• Patient jailed after assaulting police officer with metal pole ripped off hospital bed

  07-10-2026 18:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Judge brands attack by Barrie Holland on emergency staff in RVH as ‘outrageous’
  
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• Call for City Hall memorial to murdered councillors as Larry Kennedy remembered 45 years on

  07-10-2026 18:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  The Ardoyne man and Paddy Wilson were killed during Troubles by loyalist terrorists eight years apart
  
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