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2 hrs ago | UTV

Man in court over Hyde Park IRA bomb

A Co Donegal man has appeared in court charged with the murder of four soldiers in the 1982 Hyde Park bomb in London.

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Related Topix: Irish Republican Army, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, Essex County, England, Belfast County, Northern Ireland, Antrim County, Northern Ireland

7 hrs ago | BBC News

Referendum reflections

Exactly 15 years ago - May 22 1998 - voters went to the polls to vote yes or no for the Good Friday Agreement.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Antrim County, Northern Ireland, Belfast County, Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein

Tue May 21, 2013

BBC News

Men jailed over blackmail plot

Four men have been jailed over a blackmail plot in which a couple were threatened with paramilitary attack if they did not hand over A 15,000 in cash.

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Related Topix: Armagh County, Northern Ireland, World News, United Kingdom, Criminal Defense Law, Law,

Mon May 20, 2013

UTV

Live Tonight

Talks due to take place in Belfast will address how to move NI's peace process forward, 15 years on from the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Antrim County, Northern Ireland, Belfast County, Northern Ireland

UTV

Commissioner slams PSNI 'thug' leaflets

The Children's Commissioner has hit out at police for their latest campaign, which she says portrays young people as anti-social thugs.

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Related Topix: United Kingdom

Slugger O'Toole

Challenges for Protestants in "Dealing with the Past"

The second session at the all day PSA/Fellowship of Messines workshop - Has the Protestant Working Class lost out in the Peace Process? - looked back at some of the events and experiences that shaped loyalism.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Antrim County, Northern Ireland, Belfast County, Northern Ireland

Newsday

NI firm lands World Cup contract

A County Armagh company has won a contract for more than A 1m to work on six of the football pitches to be used during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

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Related Topix: Armagh County, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, World News, Brazil

BBC News

Earl 'devastated' by ancestral fire

The former Northern Ireland Office minister Sir Richard Needham has said he is devastated after a fire destroyed his family's ancestral home in County Down.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, United Kingdom

Sun May 19, 2013

The Age

Row over infamous Maze prison

A 'peace centre' will be built on the site of the prison where 10 IRA prisoners died during a hunger strike.

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Related Topix: Irish Republican Army, Terrorism, World News, United Kingdom, Antrim County, Northern Ireland, Belfast County, Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein

UTV

Live

A man is held by police and weapons are seized after terrorists target a PSNI patrol, and talks aimed at easing tensions ahead of the marching season get underway in Cardiff.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, World News, United Kingdom, Antrim County, Northern Ireland, Londonderry County, Northern Ireland, Belfast County, Northern Ireland, Roman Catholic Church, Religion,

UTV

At The Show

Highlights of the Balmoral Show, held last week at Balmoral Park in Lisburn, featuring agricultural, culinary and horticultural events.

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Related Topix: Antrim County, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Sat May 18, 2013

UTV

Co Down stately home gutted by fire

To find out if this video is available to you, we need to know what region you live in.

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Related Topix: United Kingdom

The Guardian

Derry gets its cultural kicks and a new start from local heroes

All communities are reaping the benefit in the 2013 UK city of culture, as visitors pour in and a new generation of talent flourishes, with a little help from old hitmakers At the porch of St Augustine's Anglican church, wedged on Derry 's walls between the loyalist Fountain estate and the republican Bogside below, volunteers Elma and Ivan Taylor ... (more)

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Related Topix: Travel, Northern Ireland, Ireland Travel, Europe Travel, Ireland Travel, United Kingdom Travel, Belfast, United Kingdom Travel, World News, United Kingdom, Antrim County, Northern Ireland, Belfast County, Northern Ireland

Slugger O'Toole

Micheal Martin "there is a grave danger that policing in the...

I've alluded to this in a post earlier in the week , but the Oireachtas record gives Deputy Gerry Adams a voice not captured on the Dail video .

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Related Topix: Fianna Fail (Ireland), Life, Holidays, Christmas, United Kingdom,

UTV

Man, 22, critical after Saintfield crash

He was the passenger in a silver coloured Audi TT which came off the Ballygowan Road in Saintfield shortly before 10.30pm on Friday.

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Related Topix: United Kingdom

BBC News

Large fire at Co Down ancestral home

They were called to the scene at Mourne Park House on the Newry Road, Kilkeel, shortly before 10:00 BST.

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UTV

Emergency fodder aid for NI farms

An emergency aid scheme for Northern Ireland farmers struggling due to the fodder crisis will launch at midnight on Saturday.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, United Kingdom,

Fri May 17, 2013

Lisburn Today

Fined for drug possession

Thomas Anthony Gavin McAllister, 26, from Glenkeen in Dunmurry appeared at Lisburn Magistrates Court this week charged with possession of a Class B drug, namely 4-MEC. The court heard that the police were carrying out a mobile patrol in the Bellsteele area.

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Related Topix: Antrim County, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

North Wales Chronicle

Bangor ASDA roundabout confusion fears

Gwynedd councillor Chris O'Neal logged eight near misses in 24 minutes at the old Farrar Road site, while shoppers questioned were conflicted over which lane to take for ASDA when approaching from Deiniol Road.

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Lisburn Today

Lisburn Fire Cadet Scheme

Due to the success of the scheme in the area the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service are now recruiting for this year's scheme.

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Related Topix: Fire, Antrim County, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom