Northern Ireland news

• Man beaten with hammers in Newtownabbey burglary requires surgery

  20-11-2019 15:31 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A man is to undergo surgery after he was beaten with hammers during a burglary in Newtownabbey.
  
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• Sinn Fein and DUP 'hopeful' of Northern Ireland power-sharing return

  20-11-2019 15:27 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  The DUP and Sinn Fein are hopeful of restoring Northern Ireland's power-sharing institutions.
  
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• Coroner announces sequencing for legacy inquests backlog

  20-11-2019 14:35 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  The order in which dozens of fresh inquests into killings from Northern Ireland’s troubled past will be heard has been announced.
  
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• Men force their way into north Belfast house using gun and hammer

  20-11-2019 12:10 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A group of men forced their way into a house in north Belfast using a gun and a hammer as weapons.
  
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• DUP man believes party will still have ‘leverage’ with Tories after election

  20-11-2019 11:42 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A senior DUP politician has said he believes his party will continue to “have leverage” over the Conservative Party following the election.
  
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• Investigation reveals Dr Watt carried out hundreds of needless procedures

  20-11-2019 11:07 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Suspended Belfast neurologist Michael Watt carried out hundreds of needless procedures on patients, an investigation has revealed.
  
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• Dr Watt neurology scandal: PSNI meet health officials to determine if crime committed

  20-11-2019 11:07 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Police have met with Department of Health officials over the Dr Michael Watt neurology patient recall scandal and are assessing the possibility crimes may have been committed.
  
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• Man charged in Ballynahinch ATM raid investigation

  20-11-2019 10:56 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A 26-year-old man has been charged by police investigating the attempted theft of an ATM machine in Ballynahinch.
  
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• Sinn Fein's John O'Dowd has 'no regrets' over deputy leadership challenge

  20-11-2019 10:09 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  John O'Dowd has said he has "no regrets" after he failed in his attempt to unseat Michelle O'Neill as Sinn Fein's deputy president.
  
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• Police treating death of man found dead at Bangor home as suspicious

  20-11-2019 08:47 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Police are treating the death of a 68-year-old man in Bangor as suspicious.
  
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• Bangor man found dead in suspicious circumstances in home

  20-11-2019 08:47 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Police are treating the death of a 68-year-old man in Bangor as suspicious.
  
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• 'Very important people' behind infamous 1952 murder of NI judge's daughter

  20-11-2019 08:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  An Irish author believes he knows who murdered the daughter of a leading Northern Ireland judge in November 1952, but you'll have to read his book to discover the killer's identity.
  
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• Unique Hands of History exhibit remembers NI's peace-builders

  20-11-2019 08:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  An art exhibition showcasing bronze casts of politicians who were involved in brokering the Good Friday Agreement is to go on display in Belfast next month.
  
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• Uncle accused of raping his niece admits to incest but says it was consensual, court told

  20-11-2019 08:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  An Enniskillen man has gone on trial accused of raping his niece in an alleged incident over two years ago, which he accepts was incest but maintains sex was at her instigation.
  
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• New centre teaching autistic people independence is a lifeline, says charity at official opening

  20-11-2019 08:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A pioneering autism centre which opened yesterday aims to make a fundamental difference to services in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Gambling firm 32 Red repays £590k stolen by Derry woman

  20-11-2019 08:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  An online gambling company has reimbursed almost all the £590,000 a Londonderry woman stole from her employer and then lost online, a court has heard.
  
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• Family behind Ireland's biggest ferris wheel eyes Barry's deal

  20-11-2019 08:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Irish amusement park operator Curry's believes it is "the perfect fit" to take over Barry's of Portrush after it went on the market last week.
  
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• Barber shop attack thug avoids prison

  20-11-2019 08:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A Belfast man punched a barber and threatened to burn down his shop after being confronted about using electricity to charge his phone, a court has heard.
  
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• 'Appalling' north Belfast hijack leaves delivery man badly shaken

  20-11-2019 08:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  The hijacking of a delivery driver in north Belfast has been condemned as "appalling".
  
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• Class act: Lisburn boy Isaac (10) raises over £3k in memory of his grandad to help buy school minibus

  20-11-2019 03:30 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Ten-year-old Isaac Corney, from Lisburn, and his grandfather, Dr Andrew Loane, whom he called Papa, were best of friends. They enjoyed each other's company every day - Dr Loane lived in a granda flat attached to the home of his daughter, Sheena Corney, her husband Malcolm and their son.
  
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• Royal Portrush declines to say if it plans to join groups distancing themselves from embattled Prince Andrew

  20-11-2019 00:08 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Royal Portrush Golf Club would not be drawn on whether it would review its links with Prince Andrew as calls continued for him to make a statement about Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Irish unity march an exercise in chasing fantasy: DUP man

  20-11-2019 00:04 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Republicans of all shades are expected to converge on Strabane at the weekend for the first March for Irish Unity.
  
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• Belfast man James Weir admits trying to smother his ailing 90-year-old dad with a pillow in failed mercy killing

  20-11-2019 00:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A North Belfast man has admitted trying to murder his dying 90-year-old father in a nursing home in an apparent failed mercy killing.
  
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• Rampant Germans leave Northern Ireland men in a real spin

  19-11-2019 23:53 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  An injury stricken Northern Ireland side were made to suffer for poking the German bear in a freezing Frankfurt on Tuesday night.
  
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• Northern Ireland to leave EU along with the rest of UK, Boris Johnson tells debate

  19-11-2019 23:31 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Boris Johnson on Tuesday night claimed "it's there in black and white" in his Brexit deal that Northern Ireland will leave the EU with the rest of the UK.
  
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• Suzanne Breen: General Election campaign isn't in the gutter... it's in the sewer

  19-11-2019 23:22 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  The history of the Troubles is littered with callousness, but there is something particularly horrific about a gunman entering a hospital.
  
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• General Election: DUP's Dodds condemns Finucane banners and challenges SF to follow example

  19-11-2019 23:18 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Nigel Dodds has said the DUP will be seen as the voice of Northern Ireland if it has the most MPs after the election.
  
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• Adrian Rutherford: As Frankfurt prepared for Christmas, Northern Ireland rightly had their sights set on March

  19-11-2019 23:04 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  In Romerberg, in the heart of Frankfurt’s old town, they were getting ready for Christmas.
  
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• For the love of cod... new theory for Strangford Lough's mysterious hum

  19-11-2019 23:01 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  There something fishy about a mysterious humming sound that has been heard around Strangford Lough, which has left locals baffled.
  
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• I won't back Foster bid to overturn new abortion law: Aiken

  19-11-2019 23:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Ulster Unionist leader Steve Aiken has said he will not back any DUP attempt to repeal the new legal framework around abortion.
  
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• Declan Bogue: Players set for sting in GAA fixtures tale

  19-11-2019 22:48 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  If one of the functions of the media is to facilitate debate, then an email sent out within a bumper document delivered by the Club Players' Association (CPA) at the Pendulum Suite of the Carlton Hotel in Blachardstown on Tuesday morning was simply jaw-dropping.
  
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• Alban Maginness: Anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down is a reminder of the importance of a strong Europe

  19-11-2019 22:36 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Berlin, like Belfast, was a divided city for decades. Whereas we divided Belfast ourselves, through sectarian hate and conflict, Berlin's division was imposed upon it by outsiders. Its division was agreed among the victorious Allies, who decided to maintain a presence in the city and to give each great power a sector.
  
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• General Election: Corbyn dismisses Johnson’s pledge to get Brexit done as ‘nonsense’

  19-11-2019 21:30 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has dismissed Boris Johnson’s pledge to “get Brexit done” by the end of January as “nonsense”.
  
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• Van Morrison: I'd like to cut back on tours and be more selective

  19-11-2019 21:16 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Sir Van Morrison has revealed he is getting ready to ease his workload by "cutting back and being more selective".
  
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• On display at last... Northern Ireland artist Paul Bell's Biblical painting which he began 25 years ago

  19-11-2019 21:10 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  It famously took Michelangelo four years of painstaking and back-breaking work to paint the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, but a Ballymena artist has made the Italian master's most celebrated achievement look like a rushed job.
  
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• Chief Constable Simon Byrne issues further appeal in Kevin Lunney abduction probe

  19-11-2019 20:13 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  The PSNI Chief Constable has issued a further appeal for information in the investigation into the abduction and torture of Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) executive Kevin Lunney.
  
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• Tributes paid to Derry teenager after tragic death from blood disorder

  19-11-2019 17:54 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Tributes have flooded in for a Londonderry teenager who passed away after a long battle with a severe blood disorder.
  
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• General Election: Alliance hits out over 'fake news' posters linking party to IRA

  19-11-2019 17:25 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  The Alliance Party has hit out at posters that have appeared linking the party to the IRA.
  
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• Woman accused of stabbing man 33 times weeps in court

  19-11-2019 17:20 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A Co Down woman charged with trying to kill a man who was stabbed and slashed more than 30 times wept as she appeared in court on Tuesday.
  
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• Belfast man faces 58 child pornography charges

  19-11-2019 17:15 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A 57-year-old Belfast man is to go on trial accused of making and distributing indecent images of children.
  
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• Man who refused to move for police told them he was 'El Chapo', court hears

  19-11-2019 16:58 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A man who refused to move off a Belfast street for a police Land Rover told officers he was "El Chapo", a court heard on Tuesday.
  
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• Mum accused of 'campaign of cruelty' against children to stand trial

  19-11-2019 16:05 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A mother is to stand trial for allegedly subjecting her children to a campaign of cruelty, a judge has ordered.
  
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• Non-Christian couple in legal challenge over Northern Ireland school religious teaching

  19-11-2019 16:03 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  A non-Christian couple are taking legal action over their five-year-old daughter receiving religious teaching at her school in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Jennifer Dornan murder trial jury discharged over legal issue

  19-11-2019 16:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  The jury presiding over a murder trial arising from the death of a west Belfast mother-of-three was discharged by a senior judge on Tuesday.
  
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• Jennifer Dornan murder trial collapses over legal issue

  19-11-2019 16:00 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  The jury presiding over a murder trial arising from the death of a west Belfast mother-of-three was discharged by a senior judge on Tuesday.
  
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• Fermanagh teenager's lung cut open during horrific machete attack

  19-11-2019 15:38 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  The man who launched a horrific machete attack on a 13-year-old girl in Co Fermanagh cut the teenager so deep that her lung was sliced open, her family have revealed.
  
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• No border poll before Brexit resolved says Coveney as Sinn Fein urge vote within five years

  19-11-2019 15:19 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Tanaiste Simon Coveney has rejected Sinn Fein's call for a vote on Irish unity to be held within the next five years.
  
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• UUP's Aiken won't back abortion repeal bid as Creasy accuses DUP of 'dehumanising' her in policy paper

  19-11-2019 15:05 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Ulster Unionist leader Steve Aiken has said he has an issue with proposed new legal framework around abortion, stating that the current time limit on the procedure in the UK is too late.
  
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• Action needed to prevent Northern Ireland public services crisis getting worse, says new Think Tank Pivotal

  19-11-2019 14:53 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  The director of a new think tank aiming to improve life in Northern Ireland has said action needs to be taken to prevent the current public services crisis from getting worse.
  
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• Ballynahinch ATM raid: Three arrested after digger used in bid to take machine

  19-11-2019 14:27 via Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Home RSS Feed
  
  Three men have been arrested in connection with the attempted theft of an ATM machine from a filling station in Ballynahinch on Monday.
  
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