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You can now submit your reports direct to the News Letter website - along with photos. Your reports are also likely to appear in your local weekly newspaper. Go to this link to register  Select News Letter from the menu. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Letter: "A man from Mars would get the impression that the RUC were the main cause of the Troubles. They were in fact the single biggest reason that we did not have civil war"
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The East Belfast MLA said she understands that the border friction is “difficult” for unionists, but added that it was an “inevitability as a consequence of Brexit
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GB News announces it will step in and provide live Twelfth of July parade coverage to a UK-wide audience after BBC NI decided against it. Dame Arlene Foster will lead the commentary.
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Whilst serving as a Democratic senator, Joe Biden campaigned against extradition of IRA suspects to the UK to face trial. This was because it would mean "admitting that the justice system in Northern Ireland is fair – a notion I absolutely abhor":
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NEWS | ​A photo shared by flute band from Co Armagh of one of its members giving two young lads in GAA tops a turn on his drum has gone down a storm online
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Twelfth of July: GB News coverage of Orange celebrations was UK-wide network’s top rated show – ‘and it beat Sky News in same slot by over 20,000 viewers’
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A man who was orphaned by the IRA at age 12 has called for the Republic of Ireland female players who engaged in IRA chanting to face the same sanctions as Kyle Lafferty for his recent sectarian comments.
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"If I'd known the consent principle was symbolic, law-making over NI could be handed to a foreign power and the Act of Union could be, in the lady chief justice’s words “subjugated”, there's no way I'd have supported the 1998 deal" writes @CatharineHoey
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The haranguing of an elderly poppy seller in Lurgan by a woman who wanted to sell IRA badges is being treated as a hate incident by the PSNI.
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"The killing of George Floyd was atrocious. But why does that murder give others, including those who never knew the victim, a right to riot? My mother was murdered by the IRA. I didn’t get a memo that said I could loot or murder," writes @AileenQuinton
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Ulster University has been challenged to explain how a Sinn Fein councillor, who “promotes the commemoration of IRA terrorists,” can be employed as an ‘equality, diversity & inclusion advisor.’
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Three street preachers from Northern Ireland have been arrested in Dundalk after preaching against homosexuality and are due to appear at the town’s district court on public order offences.
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Ex DUP leader @ArleneFosterUK : "Irish republicans love to belittle the Orange Culture to which I belong, and yet unaware of their irony, they tell us that the way forward is a shared Island (clearly without our culture, tradition or history celebrated)"
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Ex @duponline leader writes. "Sinn Fein seem to think it is acceptable to stay out of Westminster because they hate ‘the Brits’ but it is unacceptable for the DUP to stay out of the executive because they hate the protocol"
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"Accuse me of heresy if you will, but sometimes I wonder if the people of Northern Ireland might not get a better deal in a United Ireland, with folk who clearly want us"
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"I’ve had two calls in the last week – one is a woman in a mixed community, in a mixed marriage, who has two UDA flags either side of her house" Alliance pledges new law to rid NI lamp-posts of paramilitary flags: #IRA #UVF #UDA #UFF #QS #FGAU #INLA
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A former victim's campaigner has completed a PhD which lays out in detail the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Protestants from the border during the Troubles.
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The BBC has been challenged on how the Northern Ireland Centenary Parade which attracted 125,000 people apparently only warranted only a few minutes of television coverage.
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“I want Chris Hazzard to tell me what the difference is in someone walking into a pub and shooting people, and walking up behind my father, forcing him to his knees and shooting him twice in the top of the head, simply because he was a Protestant?"
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The Royal British Legion’s Northern Ireland Festival of Remembrance at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on Saturday night included a special tribute to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Ulster Defence Regiment’s Greenfinches
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NEWS | The Orange Order has launched its own blend of coffee, made from beans originating in the 17th century Dutch coffee houses where King William’s Glorious Revolution was planned
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4 years
“There is probably not going to be a Twelfth of July so instead of holding onto the money until next year, we decided we will just disperse it among the elderly people and whoever is housebound,” - committee secretary Jim Beggs
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Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney should recognise that he is the one of the reasons why relations between the Republic and unionists are at a low point, a Dublin-born peace campaigner said last night
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The sight of John Finucane quizzing John Major on state collusion this week prompts the question as to whether a border IRA victim will ever get the chance to quiz a former Taoiseach about Gardai collusion with the IRA along the border, it is claimed.
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Failure to apologise for Kingsmills atrocity at today's IRA commemoration in Mullaghbawn will show Sinn Fein's attendance at King's coronation was a cynical 'vote expansion' exercise, says former IRA member
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NEWS | A woman whose father was killed in the 22-bomb IRA blitz against Belfast in 1972 known as Bloody Friday has asked why it has been forgotten while Bloody Sunday has always remained in the headlines
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Barbed statement from the NIO tonight, literally demanding to know how many terrorists Dublin has prosecuted in the last 25 years: IN FULL: UK government hits back at Dublin saying Ireland has failed in its own backyard on Troubles crimes
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A woman whose mother was killed in the 1987 Poppy Day Bombing has appealed for anyone with information on the killers to come forward. The 35th anniversary of the IRA attack is tomorrow.
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A woman whose mother was killed by the IRA has questioned how Sinn Fein can voice opposition to violence against women yet also believe there was "no alternative" to the bloodbath of the Troubles
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TUV Cllr Allister Kyle said: “While the BBC chose to snub the single biggest event in the cultural calendar of Northern Ireland because it celebrates Protestantism and Britishness, it is happy to give wall to wall coverage to the GAA just days later."
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All but the most obtuse unionists should now come to see that it is arguably as important as ever that we do not join an all Ireland, writes @BenLowry2
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NEWS | Gary Murray, whose 13-year-old sister Leanne was killed in the 1993 Shankill bomb, has welcomed the news that the Charity Commission are considering a statutory inquiry into the Feile festival
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A man who was "numbed with shock" when the IRA murdered his father has asked the Republic of Ireland women's football team for a conversation about how IRA chants retraumatise victims
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The DUP has challenged the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) to clarify if Michelle O’Neill’s assertion that “there was no alternative” to IRA violence is compliant with international human rights law
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A woman whose mother was killed by the IRA has questioned how Sinn Fein can voice opposition to violence against women yet also believe there was "no alternative" to the bloodbath of the Troubles:
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In an extraordinary intervention on an anti-protocol unionist website, the former home secretary says the NI Protocol was never intended to be permanent – and she urges the UK and EU to prioritise “re-opening” the Windsor Framework
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NEWS | TUV leader Jim Allister has said that neither US President Joe Biden’s “bribery” nor Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s “lies” can alter the realities of the Windsor Framework
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Latest column from @RuthDE "Trump removed regulations, made the economy roar, began no wars, stood up to China, halted Iran sell-out, got pacts between Israel & Arab nations, changed the direction of left-leaning judiciary, fought ridiculous woke agendas"
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Former soldier found guilty of the manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie in Co Tyrone in 1988
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BREAKING NEWS | The DUP will not return to power sharing in Northern Ireland according to Tory MPs and sources within party
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WATCH: Ukrainian forces are now armed with NLAW anti-tank bazookas – which have typically been built in Belfast
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The DUP has asked Sinn Fein to demonstrate that attending King Charles’ coronation is more than a photo opportunity – by unblocking celebrations at nationalist dominated councils across NI.
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Arlene Foster and the DUP realise it now: Theresa May was only using them to stay in power
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The DUP say there can be no role for the Irish Government in the internal affairs of Northern Ireland after a Westminster report emphasised a role for Dublin in decisions about the future operation of Stormont
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A Northern Ireland only backstop is illegal under the 1801 Act of Union, writes @JimAllister
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Military experts have highlighted that the Republic of Ireland is almost totally dependent on the RAF and Royal Navy to defend it from the threat of pending Russian military exercises off its coast.
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