Belfast news

• Police 'enquiries into possible wrongdoing' in Belfast after online posts

  11-08-2018 18:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police have said they are making enquiries into "possible wrongdoing" after comments were posted online about the south Belfast community.
  
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• Belfast man deemed ‘danger to public’ gets 32 months in prison for brutal assault on partner

  29-06-2026 16:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Thug (40) has history of violence and was jailed in 2018 for battering another girlfriend
  
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• On a packed midweek night in Lidl’s new pub, our round came to a modest £12.80 so we splurged on two packs of own-brand crisps

  29-06-2026 16:03 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Chrissie Russell visited the new pub at the Dundonald supermarket... and also left with ajumbo paddling pool and 12 macarons
  
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• ‘Criminally savvy’ chef accused over cross-border drugs operation denied bail

  29-06-2026 15:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Cancer-stricken Portstewart man (41) admits involvement in cannabis and cocaine trade and paying his supplier in England £10k a week
  
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• Noah Donohoe inquest jury asked to determine whether police response contributed to teen’s death

  29-06-2026 15:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  The coroner has been continuing his charge to the jurors
  
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• Win 1 of 5 £100 M&S vouchers

  29-06-2026 14:32 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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• My Money: ‘Mounjaro is £300 a month. Is not having diabetes and not being called a ‘fat b*tch’ on the street an investment?’

  29-06-2026 13:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Comedian Alison Spittle
  
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• ‘These assets generate what might be called a joy dividend’: Are luxury items like handbags, art and whiskey good investments?

  29-06-2026 13:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Seven money experts share their views on alternative investments with Niamh Hennessy
  
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• Revealed: How Jeffrey Donaldson once ‘spent hours’ in rape crisis centre quizzing staff

  29-06-2026 12:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  “Looking back, I certainly never thought he was a child abuser, I thought he was gay,” says Eileen Calder, former director of the Rape Crisis Centre in Belfast
  
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• ‘I had to get out’: How NI council chair found herself in Enniskillen after fleeing abusive relationship

  29-06-2026 12:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Debbie Coyle has vowed to champion Women’s Aid during her spell in office after accessing its support during a critical time 30 years ago
  
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• What you need to know about major new Buy Now, Pay Later rule changes

  29-06-2026 08:23 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Ruth Lawes on how regime for putting off payment will operate
  
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• ‘I had to get out’: NI council chair on how fleeing abusive relationship led her to Enniskillen

  29-06-2026 08:12 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Debbie Coyle has vowed to champion Women’s Aid during her spell in office
  
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• The forgotten murder: How young father became a victim of NI’s troubled summer

  29-06-2026 08:06 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  The first murder of a Chinese person here was lost amid a wave of crime and politics. Thirty years on, Andrew Madden revisits the case of Simon Tang
  
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• ‘She changed my life in so many ways’: Traumatic experience of premature birth leads mum to nursing career

  29-06-2026 08:03 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Graduation ceremonies continue at Queen’s University
  
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• ‘I grieved for who I was, but I’ve learned to accept who I am now’: NI man marks 30-year milestone after surviving an aneurysm

  29-06-2026 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Paul Foster opens up on ‘feeling like an imposter’ following life-changing trauma to making a remarkable recovery against all odds
  
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• Vice principals at Co Down school mark retirement with £100k raised for charity set in memory of cystic fibrosis victim

  29-06-2026 07:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Charlene’s Project was established in 2008 with the aim to educate and empower Ugandan communities
  
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• Beattie requests Police Ombudsman probe into disgraced Donaldson’s conduct as SDLP mark conviction of former DUP MP as ‘watershed moment’

  29-06-2026 07:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Ex-UUP leader is calling for an inquiry into everything the PSNI knew prior to paedophile’s arrest in 2024
  
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• ‘Hell isn’t good enough’ for Donaldson, claims MP as she blasts ‘inadequate’ review plan

  29-06-2026 07:31 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Sorcha Eastwood calls on actions of convicted paedophile while in UUP to also be scrutinised
  
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• The attention economy comes for Northern Ireland 

  29-06-2026 07:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  People now spend more of our waking lives inside engineered feeds than ever before. 
  
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• Best of the BelTel: The long history of fascism and the far-right in Ireland

  29-06-2026 02:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Ireland has long flirted with the far-right – and has had political movements with profoundly antisemitic views. Historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has written a new book - ‘Burn Them Out – A History of Fascism and The Far-Right in Ireland’ investigating the history of fascism in Ireland. He joined Ciarán Dunbar.This podcast was originally published in April 2025.
  
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• Is Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots out of control? A strange decision, a huge U-turn...and no explanation

  29-06-2026 01:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots has performed a massive U-turn on a strange decision which has caused unusual controversy around Stormont. Last month, Mr Poots blocked MLAs from discussing a proposal which survivors of abuse wanted to become law.The episode was extraordinary - because a large majority of MLAs not only wanted to discuss the proposal, but to vote for it to become law.Mr Poots has now changed his mind but has refused to give any explanation for why he did what he did. Ciarán Du
  
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• Galway submit to Dublin’s late surge as Ger Brennan’s tumultuous year turns full circle

  28-06-2026 21:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Dublin 1-25 Galway 1-21
  
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• ‘It worked so well because it took the p**s out of bands’: Star of The Commitments reflects on magic ingredients that made it a masterpiece

  28-06-2026 20:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Robert Arkins, who played cocky band manager Jimmy Rabbitte, set to play songs from iconic film at back-to-back gigs at Stendhal and the Empire
  
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• Wee heroes pull off famous triumph against the odds as 14-man Louth stun Monaghan in epic display

  28-06-2026 19:06 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Louth 0-27 Monaghan 2-18
  
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• Jeffrey Donaldson demanded zero tolerance for sex offenders... now he shares a prison wing with them

  28-06-2026 16:02 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Ex-DUP leader on ‘hospital’ landing for his own safety, keeping company with some of Northern Ireland’s most depraved inmates
  
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• Jeffrey Donaldson according to Jim Wells: ‘I thought I knew him better than anyone... but the penny’s only dropping as to what was going on’

  28-06-2026 16:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  One-time colleague says he ‘can’t think of anyone whose character has been so utterly destroyed’
  
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• How come so many in the DUP were wise to duplicity of Donaldson after the event but weren’t so wise before it?

  28-06-2026 16:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Former colleagues have been lining up to condemn man they once cosied up to
  
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• Security alert sparked in country park after suspicious object found

  28-06-2026 13:27 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Residents have been asked to avoid the area
  
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• SDLP call for DUP to ‘think about’ Donaldson’s ‘grotesque hypocrisy’: ‘That cannot go on’ 

  28-06-2026 13:24 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Stormont Opposition leader says public needs to know what action was taken
  
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• Calls for DUP’s independent review into Donaldson to be made public

  28-06-2026 13:12 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  Stormont Opposition leader says public needs to know what action was taken
  
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