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1 week ago | 
newsletter.co.uk | David Young
Professor Sir Ian Greer, the president and Vice Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, and the Vice Chancellor of Ulster University, Professor Paul BartholomewUniversity chiefs in Northern Ireland have jointly called on the province's political leaders to back a significant uplift in tuition fees, warning that failure to tackle a funding crisis in the sector will force them to cut places for local students.
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1 week ago | 
newsletter.co.uk | David Young
Oliver MacCormack was handed a seven-year sentence at Belfast Crown Court last month after he pleaded guilty to human trafficking and controlling prostitution chargesProsecutors are to appeal against a seven-year sentence handed to a pensioner who exploited vulnerable young women by supplying them with heroin in exchange for them working as prostitutes.
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1 week ago | 
newsletter.co.uk | David Young
Janet Caldwell, her husband William Caldwell, and William's sisters Rita Caldwell and Edna Jackson, pose for a photo during a street party marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day, and in honour of those who served during the Second World War, on Woodstock Road in east Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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1 week ago | 
breakingnews.ie | David Young
Tributes have been paid to a 13-year-old girl who died in a motorsport racing crash in Co Cork. The young girl, named locally as Lauren O’Brien from Knockane near Tarelton, was competing in an event at the Cork Autograss Racing Club when her vehicle crashed on Sunday afternoon. The incident happened at a race track in Castletown-Kinneigh, close to Bandon in west Cork. The young racer died at the scene, and her body was taken to Cork University Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsletter.co.uk | David Young |David Young
Bridie Brown, the widow of murdered GAA official Sean Brown, holds a picture of him, outside the Royal Courts of Justice in BelfastThe family of a murdered GAA official has criticised the Government's response to a court ruling that found it was acting unlawfully in failing to order a public inquiry into the killing.
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3 weeks ago | 
breakingnews.ie | David Young
Rory McIlroy playing free from the burden of chasing a career grand slam is a “scary” prospect for his rivals, according to Open champion Xander Schauffele. Schauffele said he would not be surprised if the world number two now “rattled off” several more major titles following his dramatic Masters victory at Augusta National. The 31 year-old Olympic gold medallist, who won both the USPGA and Open crowns last year, made clear he also harbours the dream of claiming all four majors.
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1 month ago | 
independent.co.uk | David Young
The 29-year-old was murdered and secretly buried near Lurgan in 1976. David YoungAn investigator tasked with finding a Disappeared victim of the Northern Ireland Troubles has appealed for the “vital piece” of information that will help end the bereaved family’s five decades of pain. Seamus Maguire, who was 29 and from Aghagallon near the Co Armagh town of Lurgan, was murdered and secretly buried by republican paramilitaries during the mid 1970s.
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1 month ago | 
newsletter.co.uk | David Young
Paula Bradshaw chairs Stormont's Executive Office committee, which is tasked with holding the office of the First and deputy First Ministers to account. Stormont's leaders are more interested in optics than delivery of meaningful legislation, the chairwoman of their scrutiny committee has claimed.
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1 month ago | 
newsletter.co.uk | David Young
Crowds, including former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, have gathered in west Belfast to protest about the failure to redevelop Casement Park stadium. Gaelic games players and supporters have marched to the derelict Casement Park stadium in Belfast to demand its redevelopment.
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1 month ago | 
newsletter.co.uk | David Young
Police have made no meaningful progress to deliver training to improve how frontline staff assess threats and risks in domestic abuse cases, and better respond to children involved in such incidents, inspectors have found. Thank you for signing up!Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast News Letter, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Sorry, there seem to be some issues.
