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Last Wednesday morning, my daughter couldn’t go to school because the teachers in Northern Ireland were on strike. That afternoon, she couldn’t go to school because the main school building was found to be in danger of collapse.
Late on the morning of December 7, 1983, students and lecturers were coming and going on Queen’s University’s campus, oblivious to the fact that an act which altered Northern Ireland for decades was about to unfold.
The main body which trains UK churches in how to spot and prevent child abuse has expressed dismay at a new Stormont law which protects suspected paedophiles.
Above a photo of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the Belfast Telegraph’s front page headline yesterday was stark: “We’re in no hurry”.
The Belfast Telegraph’s podcast The BelTel has won Best News and Current Affairs Podcast at the prestigious 2023 Irish Podcast Awards in Dublin.