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Monday-Friday @BBCRadioUlster , Weekends on @BBC5live , and on @BBCOneNI . (Not the thoughts of the BBC. RT's not an endorsement) Also follow @StephenNolan

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The Nolan Show, BBC
1 year
"Many of us over here are sick of you" - caller Mary in Nottingham says “we should get rid of you” and wants Great Britain to have a referendum on NI remaining part of the UK Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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5 years
Who is that man?! @StephenNolan #NolanLIVE available now on @BBCiPlayer but warning… he looks a bit different 💪
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6 years
Nolan caller wants show extended for #UlsterScots content
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8 years
‘On Sunday it felt I too had gone 12 rounds with Carl' - #JimmyNesbitt on #NolanLive @RealCFrampton
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2 years
DUP refusal to go in to Executive over protocol row - "it's not right that the one party is holding all of Northern Ireland to ransom" - @SorchaEastwood #NolanLIVE on @BBCiPlayer
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1 year
DUP's Paisley says if European Court of Justice has jurisdiction in Northern Ireland - devolution will never come back Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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1 year
‘The LCC shouldn’t exist’ - Alliance’s @SorchaEastwood reacts to David Campbell comments 🎧
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3 years
"Promises have been broken and deadlines past - if British government are true to their word then this has to happen" - @Phil_Kelly_ on Irish language legislation #NolanLIVE
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3 years
Huge reaction to the Nolan Investigates podcast. This is highly controversial, contested territory. It's a debate that needs to happen throughout this country. All we ask you to do is listen and make up your own mind. 🎧
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5 years
. @SJAMcBride responds to personal attack on him by DUP MP Ian Paisley "There has to be a sense that this is unacceptable" @StephenNolan | #NolanLIVE
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7 years
Meanwhile a former army colonel says non-British citizens who are terror suspects should be deported, without a court trial
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11 months
Should Sinn Féin MP John Finucane be attending IRA commemoration this weekend? Commentator Chris Donnelly @chrisadonnelly | #NolanLIVE | @BBCiPlayer
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1 year
Orange Order votes unanimously against Stormont coming back until Windsor Framework demands are met 🎧
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7 months
Unionists who voted for Brexit ‘are the author of their own misfortune’ – Alliance MP Stephen Farry on Unionist opposition to the Windsor Framework
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6 years
Who does it better? @theresa_may or @StephenNolan ? 🤔💃 #DancingQueen
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4 years
On @StephenNolan today - Education Minister u-turns – all GCSE grades will now be determined solely on teachers assessments. But the Minister has refused to budge on AS Level or A Level results. 📻 @bbcradioulster 🎧 @BBCSounds 📞 03030805555 📲 81771 ✉️ nolan @bbc .co.uk
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4 years
"When you're 26, looking at everybody around you, getting married, having babies, buying houses... Knowing I'll never have any of those milestones" Brave Shannon talks to @nweir1 about her cancer battle and says "there's always somebody worse off" 🎧
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5 years
"There wouldn't have been a border if the 26 counties hadn't decided to leave the UK." @JimAllister reacts as @simoncoveney sets out Irish no-deal #Brexit measures @StephenNolan
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2 years
"No unionist should even contemplate any role in Stormont unless or until the protocol is removed" - @JimAllister on #AE22 result Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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6 months
Any alternative to 50% plus 1 United Ireland vote would be ‘morally, ethically, legally and practically wrong’ – UUP MLA @mikenesbittni 🎧
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4 years
Also on @StephenNolan - Claire Hanna protests at having to swear allegiance to the Queen while taking her seat in Westminster. She says "I do not believe it serves trust in parliament for MPs to be obliged to rehearse pledges that are not true for them." Is she right?
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4 years
The tragic death of TV's Caroline Flack - is it right to blame the media? @emmakennytv | @Tom_Slater_ | @StephenNolan | #NolanLIVE
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1 year
Loyalist paramilitaries "are not legitimate political stakeholders" - @EoinTennyson says the NIO and some local political parties have "too often pandered to" the views of Loyalist Communities Council Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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1 year
NOLAN EXCLUSIVE: The proposal endorsed by the ERG and Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. We understand that it went to the Prime Minister yesterday and is now with the European Union
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4 months
Stormont ‘veto’ a ‘weapon’ that needs taken off table or ‘will be used time and time again’ – Alliance MLA @SorchaEastwood 🎧
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1 year
English taxpayers tired of paying for "entitled" people in Northern Ireland - says Mary in Nottingham @malodoherty | #NolanLIVE | @BBCiPlayer
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7 years
Belfast Telegraph columnist slams Michelle O'Neill for condemning Manchester bomb attack weeks after attending commemoration to IRA men
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3 years
‘More Frank Carson than Sir Edward Carson’ – commentator Máiría Cahill criticises Jamie Bryson’s actions at Loyalist protest 🎧
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4 years
"He is not fit to be in government" @BreegeQuinn , mother of murdered Paul Quinn, calls for Sinn Fein to remove Conor Murphy as Minister over "smear" of son
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1 year
"The UK government pumps money into this society - and a lot of it is very badly spent" - Ben Lowry, editor of the News Letter @BenLowry2 | #NolanLIVE | @BBCiPlayer
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5 years
"Anybody who listens to Jacob Rees-Mogg and thinks he cares one jot about this place is mistaken." @columeastwood on @Jacob_Rees_Mogg ⬇️
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1 year
Paramilitary groups "a cancer within working class communities" - @chrisadonnelly says it is "a failing within policing and criminal justice" that they continue to exist and should not be "provided space in the political spectrum" Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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2 months
DUP concerns about funding for Casement Park development "nothing to do with money" says @chrisadonnelly - pointing to other projects the party welcomed in recent months like £63M for Ice Bowl redevelopment Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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10 months
Michelle O’Neill claims ‘colonialism’ and Northern Ireland being a ‘sectarian state’ were factors in how people were impacted by pandemic 🎧
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6 years
Who should replace the irreplaceable David Dimbleby on Question Time? 🤔 We thought @StephenNolan was fit for it - but he's throwing his weight behind @piersmorgan ! What do you make of that?
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1 year
Nolan exclusive: PSNI-Biden secret security document found laying in street
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6 years
A rat in mi studio?? 👻🎃 More on #NolanLive , tonight, 10.40pm, BBC One
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5 years
"They're not interested in free speech - they're interested in their own hate speech" @Kevin_Maguire on 'Nazi' chants aimed at MP
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The Nolan Show, BBC
6 years
Also on #BBCNolan with @vinnybelfast - The Moggie who refuses to lift a leg over the border - what did you think of that Jacob Rees interview?
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3 years
"This is scaremongering on steroids" - @StephenFarryMP hits back at DUP MLA Edwin Poots claims that hospitals and schools face food shortages because of NI Protocol
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5 years
"I would say to Karen - how can murder be dignified?" Kate Nash's brother was killed on Bloody Sunday - she hits out at the Secretary of State @StephenNolan #NolanLIVE
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3 years
"The hard #Brexit he wants has caused these consequences" - @MatthewOToole2 hits back at TUV leader call for unionists to "disrupt" NI Protocol Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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1 year
Anti-protocol campaigner @benhabib6 says “if it is possible to create an invisible border between GB and NI – it is surely possible to create that border between NI and the Republic” Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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The Nolan Show, BBC
9 months
Belfast pensioner shares regret for saving an IRA killer from debris of Shankill bomb Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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5 years
NUJ condemns as "unwarranted and unworthy" an attack by DUP MP Ian Paisley on News Letter political editor @SJAMcBride @seamusdo reacts 🎧
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6 years
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4 years
Disgraceful, dangerous scenes as fans from Dungannon Clarkes and Trillick invade the pitch after a game yesterday
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7 years
#BBCNolan today - Former soldiers are holding protests throughout the UK on Good Friday calling for "justice for Northern Ireland veterans".
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3 years
Mairia Cahill calls for former Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger to quit media advisory role It comes after revelations ex colleague Roy Greenslade supported the IRA. @mairiac31 🎧
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5 years
On @StephenNolan today - Loyalist commentator Jamie Bryson hits out at "media snobbery" and says working class unionists are subjected to "dehumanising stereotypes". Does he have a point? 🎧 @BBCSounds 📞 03030805555 | 📲 81771
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8 months
‘DUP have yet again put selfish, self interest for their party above everything else.’ – Alliance MLA Sorcha Eastwood 🎧
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3 years
Loyalist Jim Wilson tells UVF victim son "you know absolutely nothing about the conflict" Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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7 months
Other parties ‘aren’t going to scare unionists back into Stormont’ – Moore Holmes, loyalist activist
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5 years
"We would ask the DUP to consider voting for this deal" Wesley Aston Chief Executive of the Ulster Farmers Union to @StephenNolan #Brexit 🎧
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The Nolan Show, BBC
3 years
HMIC lead investigator won’t reveal name of security company used for Storey funeral 🎧
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6 years
📻 | ‘I’m tired of it, I want to see progress.’ – Alliance leader @naomi_long shares frustration with ongoing Stormont stalemate #BBCNolan ➡️
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3 years
"If it comes to the bit where we have to fight physically to maintain our freedoms within the UK, so be it” - Loyalist Communities Council Chair Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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6 years
📻 | #BBCNolan reporter @nweir1 chats to country superstar @iamNATHANCARTER from Craigavon Hospital
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The Nolan Show, BBC
2 years
"Brexit has upset the delicate balance - not the protocol" - @SorchaEastwood reacts to DUP leader saying 'the wheels are coming off the political process' Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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The Nolan Show, BBC
5 years
On @StephenNolan today - A new survey suggests nearly sixty percent of Conservative Party members would sacrifice Northern Ireland's future in the UK to make sure Brexit happens. Do you remember anyone telling you that when you were told we should leave the EU?
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2 years
Ruby – a 13 year old camogie player – calls Nolan over Causeway Coast and Glens Council row as Mayor blocks reception for All-Ireland champions Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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2 years
"It would appal me and should appal all unionists" - @BenLowry2 on suggestion of joint authority rule of Northern Ireland Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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5 years
On @StephenNolan today - PUP councillor John Kyle accuses loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson of brushing over the problem of paramilitary drug dealers as if they don't exist. 📞 03030805555 | 📲 81771
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3 years
"End the farce of Stormont" - that's the call from @JimAllister as British government tell #NolanLIVE they will push through Irish language legislation over the heads of the DUP
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7 years
LISTEN | 17yo non-binary pupil says they are being bullied so much, they don't want to continue with their education #BBCNolan #TopTable
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5 years
"The DUP do not represent the people of Northern Ireland - and it's about time they were honest about that." @Anna_Soubry on PM's delayed #Brexit vote 🎧
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11 months
Tory MP Simon Hoare’s meeting with UVF and UDA leaders ‘utterly reprehensible’ – Alliance MLA @SorchaEastwood 🎧
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4 years
As cases of #covid19 run rampant in Northern Ireland – why do people not get it that it’s the law here to wear a face mask? @StephenNolan #NolanLIVE 10.45pm @BBCOne
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4 years
On @StephenNolan today - PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne says the status of the Provisional IRA would not be something for him to comment on. But why not? When was that decision taken? 📞 03030805555 | 📲 81771
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3 years
The movie "Belfast" is already being tipped as an Oscar contender. @vinnybelfast went along to the London premiere #NolanLIVE available now on @BBCiPlayer
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6 years
Put Tory/DUP billion pound deal before parliament or I'll go to the courts - Brexit campaigner @thatginamiller
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5 years
The weather balloon that P7 children of Ballymacrickett Primary School in Crumlin recently sent to the edge of space, and got some amazing pictures. Pupil Áine McStay and teacher Jacqueline McAllister are on air with @StephenNolan now
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8 years
Petition calls for Belfast City Council to do more to help the city's homeless #BBCNolan
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5 years
Calls to honour snooker legend Alex Higgins with a statue – would you support it? #BBCNolan 🎧
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4 years
“This programme will stand up very tall for our right to ask questions in the public interest – no matter how much abuse is thrown at us” - @StephenNolan
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4 years
On @StephenNolan today - There's only one story as the Royal College of Nurses walks out and strikes for the first time in their 103 year history. Do you support them? 📞 03030805555 | 📲 81771
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3 months
What is more important to Sinn Féin? Short term - fixing Northern Ireland, or keeping momentum up for a united Ireland? Chris Donnelly says the party can do both #NolanLIVE | @BBCiPlayer | @chrisadonnelly
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3 years
‘I would have voted to stay in the UK. Since Brexit my mind is changing.’ - Alliance MLA @Kelmba on potential Border Poll vote
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6 years
On #BBCNolan today - fresh calls for an all-Ireland football team after Northern Ireland and the Republic come so close to getting to the World Cup
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‘No solid basis for an Executive until we have arrangements which respect NI’s place in UK internal market’ – DUP MLA Johnny Buckley 🎧
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11 months
Larne Bonfire Builder Rory ‘proud’ of bonfire and invites Stephen to see it 🎧
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3 years
‘It’s not going to be a very happy Christmas for our high street’ - TUV MLA @JimAllister reacts to Stormont’s new Covid restrictions
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3 years
Two junior officers "hurt and let down" over fallout of Ormeau commemoration - @PoliceFedforNI Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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5 years
The results are in and The Nolan Show is once again the biggest show in the country! 📻 But the ever humble @StephenNolan doesn’t really want to talk about it…
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4 years
“This is no joke. This is about personal responsibility. If you are incapable of listening to the message – then you are stupid and you are selfish.” @StephenNolan fires warning over #coronavirus #covid19 pandemic
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8 months
DUP are ‘engine of change’ towards a united Ireland – Aontú’s Peadar Tóibín 🎧
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2 years
Broadcaster Iain Lee - a victim of convicted stalker Alex Belfield - speaks of the trauma he was put through Podcast on 📲 @BBCSounds
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“Disappointing that sport has become a political game” - Chairman of Coleraine Football Club on stadia funding row Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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2 years
Events around Storey funeral show "there is two-tier policing" - @JimAllister Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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1 year
People "fed up and scundered" over Stormont stalemate - @EoinTennyson says the DUP are "punishing all of the people of Northern Ireland for the blunders that they made" Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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6 years
📻 | Former army chief's fury over ex-soldier Troubles prosecutions. @COLRICHARDKEMP says he'll return his officer's Commission in protest - he spoke to @vinnybelfast this morning ➡️
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7 months
How dare schools ‘shut out’ parents from how their child identifies - TUV’s @JimAllister hits out computer system which allows children to change gender identity in school without parents’ consent #NolanLive @BBCiPlayer
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6 months
‘We can’t have no decision making just because one party won’t go into government.’ – Alliance leader @naomi_long 🎧
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1 year
On Nolan today with @VinnyHurrell - The Charity Commission has told an IRA victim's family that it is considering a statutory inquiry into Féile An Phobail over pro-IRA chanting at a Wolf Tones event last summer. 📻 @bbcradioulster | 🎧 @BBCSounds 📞 03030805555 📲 81771
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5 years
On @StephenNolan today - Sinn Fein MEP Martina Anderson shouts the well known IRA slogan "Tiocfaidh ar la" at a hunger strike event and claims "Brtiain's days in Ireland are numbered". 🎧 @BBCSounds 📞 03030805555 | 📲 81771
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📻 | Sir Harry Gregg? Campaigners are pushing for the Man United legend to be knighted #BBCNolan
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10 months
25 years on – Should there be a re-think on Drumcree Orange Parade ban? 🎧
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6 years
A remarkable end to a toxic week in local politics sees the atmosphere over the Kingsmills row soften between our two biggest parties and an outright condemnation of the massacre by Sinn Fein's John O'Dowd
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5 years
'We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace. The spoils never seemed to reach us.' @ericastarling1 reads from #LyraMcKee article and pays tribute to her friend
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