
Brendan Hughes
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Journalist, currently Political Reporter for @BBCNewsNI. [email protected] https://t.co/0Lm1Kgu7aM
Joined June 2010
RT @BBCNewsNI: "Challenging night" for Northern Ireland fire and rescue service as bonfires and wildfires contribute to more than twice as….
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RT @BBCNewsNI: Thousands of Orange Order members are to take part later today in Twelfth of July parades in Northern Ireland. https://t.co/….
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A DUP councillor has been suspended for three months by a standards watchdog over her involvement in planning decisions lobbied on by her MLA husband. @BBCNewsNI.
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Stormont should not be held to an "impossibly higher standard" than other governments, former US senator George Mitchell has said. @BBCNewsNI.
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Delays at Belfast's Grand Central Station. but this time not with the buses and trains. A mural remains hidden behind a big question mark with its unveiling postponed indefinitely. The artist says he feels "humiliated". ✍️ @LauraTrueman8. @BBCNewsNI.
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Stormont's end of term report card - could do better?. ✍️ @BBCGarethG takes a look 👇. @BBCNewsNI.
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The first and deputy first ministers want to bring back the Civic Forum established under the Good Friday Agreement, but in a much smaller form. @BBCNewsNI.
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An Ulster Unionist MLA decided to quit Stormont after a dispute over a party statement on rioting in Ballymena, @BBCNewsNI understands.
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Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson and former Sinn Féin MLA Daithi McKay have been cleared of misconduct charges over a Stormont committee probe into the Nama controversy. @BBCNewsNI.
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The first year of a united Ireland could cost €3bn (£2.6bn) according to a new report, which describes it as "well within what could be afforded". ✍️@ClodaghLRice . @BBCNewsNI.
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A damning @NIAuditOffice report into the regulation of the waste industry says the Northern Ireland Environment Agency needs "significant improvement" to effectively identify and deter crime. ✍️ @LouiseMCullen . @BBCNewsNI.
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Almost 50 charities and anti-poverty organisations are calling for the Northern Ireland Executive to withdraw its draft strategy to tackle poverty, saying that families "deserve better". @BBCNewsNI.
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Two people are to be prosecuted following a police investigation into Mid and East Antrim Borough Council. @BBCNewsNI.
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Northern Ireland's Equality Commission is to seek a declaration from the courts to address "uncertainties" over how to apply the UK Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman. @BBCNewsNI.
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A £100 increase in the average household rates bill could largely solve Northern Ireland's water infrastructure crisis, new report suggests. @BBCNewsNI.
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