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RTE pay scandal: Ryan Tubridy appears before Ireland’s Public Accounts Committee
Ireland’s RTE has seen its highest paid star Ryan Tubridy appear before the Irish parliament’s public accounts committee.
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What now for politics in Northern Ireland?
Two weeks ago, Sinn Féin followed up their victory in last year’s Stormont elections with another historic first – becoming the largest party in Northern Ireland’s local government.
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Sunak asks DUP to do ‘right thing’ and restore Northern Ireland power share
Rishi Sunak has urged the Democratic Unionist Party to get powersharing in Northern Ireland up and running again.
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Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland as efforts to end political deadlock continue
The global great and the good have descended on Northern Ireland in recent days to celebrate 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement and they have “begged” the Democratic Unionist Party to get back to power sharing at Stormont.
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President Biden wraps up four-day trip to Ireland
President Biden is wrapping up his four-day trip to the island of Ireland with a bit of family history – visiting a cathedral built with the bricks that his great, great, great grandfather sold to fund his voyage to America.
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Debate: Will Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland change anything?
We speak to Belfast comedian Jake O’Kane and Margaret Gibney, who as a schoolgirl, 26 years ago, wrote to Tony Blair asking him to make peace happen in Northern Ireland.
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‘My generation want to see a Northern Ireland that is thriving’ – Ulster students reflect on Biden’s visit
Straight from this morning’s meeting with Rishi Sunak, Joe Biden gave a keynote speech to a packed audience at Ulster University’s brand new campus here – in which he described young people as the ‘cutting edge’ of Northern Ireland’s future.
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Joe Biden calls for Stormont power-share return on Ireland tour
First, there was the politics, as Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak reaffirmed their joint commitment to the Good Friday Agreement – hailing the 25 years of peace it’s underpinned and expressing the hope that the Stormont power sharing administration could be restored.
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Did secret intelligence operation help secure Northern Ireland’s Good Friday agreement? Expert explains
We speak to the journalist and broadcaster Peter Taylor, whose new book ‘Operation Chiffon’ describes the top secret intelligence operation that led to peace in Northern Ireland.
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‘We haven’t learned the lessons of history’ in Northern Ireland, says father of Real IRA bombing victim
We spoke to Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden was among the 29 who were killed by the Real IRA bombing in Omagh in 1998.
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Good Friday Agreement Anniversary: power vacuum ‘failing’ Northern Ireland
Twenty five years ago today, the Good Friday Agreement was signed – bringing an end, on paper at least, to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which had cost thousands of lives over decades.
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Northern Ireland: MI5 raises terror threat level to ‘severe’
MI5 has raised the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland from “substantial” to “severe” – meaning an attack is now considered highly likely.
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Sunak wins Brexit vote – what next for Northern Ireland?
There were some big names among the rebels but when it came to the vote on Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal for Northern Ireland, the rebellion was somewhat on the small side.
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Northern Ireland post Brexit agreement ‘doesn’t match what the government said’, says Northern Ireland editor of Belfast Telegraph
Earlier Jackie spoke to Sam McBride, the Northern Ireland editor of the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Independent. She began by asking if the DUP’s decision had come as a surprise.
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Westminster reacts to Sunak’s Northern Ireland deal
Political Editor Gary Gibbon is in Westminster.
