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Morning readers, here's a look at today's front page of the Belfast Telegraph. Stay with us for all your breaking news today. 🗞️
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Nurses from Ghana who had never seen snow before danced for joy in Belfast this week as wintry flakes fell. ❄️❄️ Adwoa Aninkore said: “I felt like a child. Inside, I had that childlike feeling of joy. I was excited because I have only seen snow on the TV" 🥹
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Derry Girls star Jamie-Lee O’Donnell joined hundreds of Pro-Palestine protestors in the Maiden City during an international day of action.
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Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has claimed Irish unity is now within “touching distance” as she hailed the significance of her party assuming the role of Stormont first minister for the first time.
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𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 | Liverpool FC and NI star Conor Bradley mourns death of father ➡️
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"We have a situation where people are dying in significant numbers, well above the average rate, for months on end. And nobody can explain why this is happening..."
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The march for an Irish Language Act - which has been dubbed as the biggest language rally "in a generation" - took place at 1pm on Saturday.
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"Lineker now says he will 'continue to try and speak up for those poor souls that have no voice.' No Gary. You will continue to speak up for rich telly types like yourself who have an inflated sense of your own importance."
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Wolfe Tones singer Brian Warfield: “What the hell is wrong with IRA? It is the Irish Republican Army. It is the people who put us here and gave us some hope when we had no hope.”
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Belfast City Hall in support of #Manchester
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. @TheVampsband leave girls screaming for more at Belfast Odyssey http://t.co/6fMFUuWM0V http://t.co/wO5gaytXfP
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Popular TV newscaster Aideen Kennedy has died shortly after announcing she had a terminal illness on social media and asking people to “keep an eye out” for her children.
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A campaign has been launched calling for the reopening of a key railway that served the west of Northern Ireland until the 1960s.
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All in favour of a Sister Michael spin-off 🙋🙋🙋🤩 #DerryGirls @LisaMMcGee @siobhni @channel4
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A convenience store in Northern Ireland has confirmed it has “terminated” the employment of one of its staff in relation to a video which mocked the death of Michaela McAreavey.
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Thousands of Celtic supporters defied the club and displayed Palestine flags ahead of their Champions League clash with Atletico Madrid.
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Meet the Kilkenny teen who has set up his own party to secure the unification of Ireland under British rule
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"Congratulations to those who sang that vile song about Michaela McAreavey: you’ve successfully united the public and all politicians and commentators in utter revulsion against you." ✍️ @3imear
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Derry Girls blackboard featured in new Ulster Museum exhibition examining Catholic and Protestant stereotypes
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Two dads from Londonderry have spoken of their pride at becoming the first gay couple in Northern Ireland to have a baby through surrogacy without leaving the country
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Karol Sikora: Meet the Professor of Positivity we should all listen to during coronavirus pandemic
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“It is our country that faced terrorism, faced the Troubles... so we don't need lectures from others about the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement." @DavidGHFrost has hit back at US President @JoeBiden over his comments on the NI Protocol
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According to Dame Arlene Foster, one could “be forgiven for thinking the visit was about them [Sinn Féin] and not marking the death of our sovereign and the first visit of her successor!”
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Kevin Bell Trust marks return home of 1,000th body of an Irish person who died abroad... 'It's an honour and a privilege to do this work in memory of our son'
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DUP MP Sammy Wilson has claimed “all evidence shows” the EU is responsible for the political crisis in Northern Ireland, which has seen “the collapse of the Good Friday Agreement”.
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk in Game of Thrones visit and 'looking Belfast investment opportunities'
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🔴 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 | Dame Arlene Foster says she believes President Joe Biden "hates the United Kingdom", claiming: “I just think the fact he’s coming here won’t put any pressure on the DUP, quite the reverse actually."
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English 'will not care' if Northern Ireland leaves UK for united Ireland, says former Chancellor
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Ireland’s most capped former international hockey player @shirleymccay was given her MBE by Prince William at Windsor Castle today 🏅🏑
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BBC Northern Ireland’s coverage of Sunday’s All-Ireland Gaelic football final proved a rival for RTÉ, attracting peak viewing figures of almost one million.
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Ian Paisley labelled MP ‘for North Antrim & Sri Lanka’ by SDLP’s Claire Hanna following Commons clash
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Actor Charlie Lawson will join former First Minister Dame Arlene Foster as part of the live coverage by GB News of the Twelfth in Northern Ireland.
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United Ireland acceptable to Eileen Paisley as long as there is freedom of religion and no one persecuted for their beliefs.
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Jamie Dornan's dad Jim dies aged 73... tributes paid to 'champion for many NI charities'
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"Let’s cut to the chase. If you’ve always accepted that a majority is adequate to maintain the Union, you can’t now say that it’s not enough to end it. The rules of the game can’t be changed 15 minutes before the final whistle." ✍️ @SuzyJourno
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SNP silent after Arlene Foster claims party is ‘mirror image’ of Sinn Fein
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Video: AC-12 on the case? Adrian Dunbar purportedly reprises Line of Duty role in Downing Street party stunt
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Former DUP Agriculture minister Edwin Poots is behind a decision allowing farmers to flout pollution laws, ex-Undertones frontman Feargal Sharkey has said.
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Stormont collapse fails to make front page of any UK national newspaper
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Two Co Armagh brothers who admitted intimidating a woman out of her home have been warned to “make arrangements” for their children and partners as it is “highly likely” they will be going to prison.
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"To the people in Derry... I am daily impressed with how you encompass the spirit of compromise and resilience despite the indignities, ignorance and stupidity of your so-called leaders (in) Dublin, Stormont and Westminster." -Siobhan McSweeney #DerryGirls
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🗣️ "My grandfather was the first Republican to stand in Ballymena so I feel like I've followed his legacy." Another historic moment for Sinn Féin as @BreanainnLyness is elected as their first ever councillor in Ballymena 🗳️ #LE23 live blog 👉
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"Disturbing double standards are evident as Prince Andrew is front and centre of public events marking the Queen’s death, yet it is Meghan Markle who is subject to venom and vitriol" ✍️ @SuzyJourno
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Belfast woman’s powerful picture of Donegal beach in colours of Ukraine goes viral #Ukraine
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Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson left ‘numb’ by extent of link between RUC officers and UDA killers
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Revealed: Ormeau Road bookies massacre gunman was Special Branch agent
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“I want to be very clear – I do not believe what I said, that is not my view"
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“As I prepare to take my leave of our shared home place, I find comfort in an old Greek proverb: ‘A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they will never sit’,” Seamus Mallon's autobiography ended.
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Senior UVF figures have warned loyalists will “wreck the place” and “the streets will be in flames” if any Brexit deal between the UK and EU does not scrap the Irish Sea border.
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DUP MP Sammy Wilson has been heard confusing Sinn Fein with Ukraine when speaking in the House of Commons
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A bid to erect a statue of Queen Elizabeth II has been approved by Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council. ➡️
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Irish president Michael D Higgins rejects invitation to NI centenary event with Queen
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Royal Mail unveils rainbow truck in support of LGBT community in Northern Ireland
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Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says she has urged Dublin to begin preparations for a border poll and wants the UK Government to state its view on a "tipping point".
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Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has offered his to support to a Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) professor after Baroness Hoey and loyalist campaigner Jamie Bryson targeted the academic on Twitter for her views on the NI Protocol.
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BBC apologise after Irish tricolour seemingly used to represent Northern Ireland during Platinum Jubilee concert
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Belfast council agrees to light up City Hall for Irish language rights
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Sir Jeffrey claimed increasing food costs are "direct results of the NI Protocol” - quoting data which, it has now emerged, came from a private report commissioned by a DUP-led Stormont department
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The Foreign Secretary will reportedly move to discard large portions of the Northern Ireland Protocol after giving up on Brexit negotiations with the EU.
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"You have disrespected us, you have disrespected the guidelines you signed off. Shame on you, Michelle O'Neill. Shame on you."
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