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5 July 2021 • 10:29pm Darragh MacIntyre looks back over the evidence Credit: BBC It was the politest of 999 calls. Chris Ward, an employee of the Northern Bank headquarters in Belfast, was reporting a crime. “Hello, how you doing. I wonder if you could help me? I just actually went through an ordeal of an abduction,” said Ward, before explaining that he had been used to rob the bank. “How much are we talking?” asked the operator. “Thirty million altogether.” The operator lets out ...

Submitting... The plan merely said that North-South relations would “be impacted”. Mr Poots has thus flagged up the anaemic nature of DUP opposition to a disastrous internal UK border that was imposed on unionists after three years of warnings from the great and the good of republican violence if so much as CCTV was put at the land border. The current court action against the protocol summarises four core legal problems with it. These also confirm it to be a political outrage. First, it is ...

Last Updated: Red Tape, Confusion: EU Accidentally Blocks Cancer Drug Citing Brexit Law, NI Protocol The drug, used to treat non-small cell cancer, was supposed to have approval by the EUs European Medicines Agency (EMA) last month but was stalled. IMAGE: AP EU has ‘accidentally blocked’ the UK authorized critical lung cancer drug as it moved the production to Dublin citing the Brexit red tape on the exports, the Northern Ireland protocol, and other arrangements of the post-Brexit ...

); One of these men will today be elected DUP leader, heres what they want and how the voting takes place It’s the first leadership election in the party’s history. By Rónán Duffy Friday 14 May 2021, 6:00 AM 2 hours ago 8,731 Views 19 Comments The two leadership contenders. THE DUP WILL take the unprecedented step today of electing a n...

The families of the Ballymurphy victims said the British Prime Minister had “ruined the moment” for them by the clumsiness of the way in which the apology was made.

Northern Bank robbery to be revisited in new BBC documentary 16 years on The documentary includes exclusive source material - including police 999 calls along with internal bank CCTV The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Want the biggest politics stories sent to you every week? Simply sign up here and well do the restInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your informat...

TV Editor Bank Holiday highlights include Andrew Scott and Cillian Murphy in The Delinquent Season, more Mare of Easttown, the return of Beat the Chasers and Ghosts, and Heist: The Northern Bank Robbery . . . Pick of the Day Heist: The Northern Bank Robbery, 9.00pm, BBC One Heres a documentary about the infamous Northern Bank robbery in Belfast in December 2004, when an armed gang seized a total of £26.5 million. The investigating team of Darragh MacIntyre and Sam McBride shed new light on the...

Arlenes career as a juggler ends Updated / Saturday, 1 May 2021 10:56 In his final piece of online analysis, former RTÉ News Northern Editor, Tommie Gorman, looks back on the career of outgoing First Minister, Arlene Foster, and asks what next for power sharing in Northern Ireland. For much of her five and a half years as DUP leader, Arlene Foster has been waiting for the sky to fall. When the end came, as so happens in politics, it was brutal. A number of times in a past life she was one of ...

Edwin Poots likely to face competition from Jeffrey Donaldson for DUP top job A source close to the Lagan Valley MP told the News Letter that he could contest the election. By Ian Curran Saturday 1 May 2021, 1:23 PM 3 hours ago 7,836 Views 28 Comments Image: Eamonn Farrell Image: Eamonn Farrell JEFFREY DONALDSON, the Democratic Unionist Party...

Fosters exit bodes poorly for north-south relations Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly. 44:02 What led to Arlene Fosters ouster this week, who will succeed her and what will it mean for politics on the island? To find out we talk to Sam McBride of the Belfast Newsletter. Then Pat Leahy and Jennifer Bray look at the other big political news of the week: the major moves towards reopening the country, and t...