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2 months ago | 
echolive.ie | Rebecca Black
Tánaiste Simon Harris is set to highlight the memory of Irish peacekeeper Sean Rooney during a visit to Lebanon. Private Rooney, 24, from Co Donegal, was killed while on deployment with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) on December 14th 2022. Mr Harris is set to raise the “frustration and concern” of the Government at the “lack of progress” in the case during a series of political meetings in Lebanon.
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2 months ago | 
kildare-nationalist.ie | Jonathan McCambridge |Rebecca Black
By Jonathan McCambridge and Rebecca Black, PANine schools across the North were targeted by a threatening email which is thought to be a hoax, police have said. Several of the schools across counties Antrim, Fermanagh and Tyrone closed due to a “security concern” on Monday morning. Earlier the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said they were liaising with the Metropolitan Police in London over the emails.
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2 months ago | 
westernpeople.ie | Jonathan McCambridge |Rebecca Black
By Jonathan McCambridge and Rebecca Black, PANine schools across the North were targeted by a threatening email which is thought to be a hoax, police have said. Several of the schools across counties Antrim, Fermanagh and Tyrone closed due to a “security concern” on Monday morning. Earlier the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said they were liaising with the Metropolitan Police in London over the emails.
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2 months ago | 
waterford-news.ie | Jonathan McCambridge |Rebecca Black
By Jonathan McCambridge and Rebecca Black, PANine schools across the North were targeted by a threatening email which is thought to be a hoax, police have said. Several of the schools across counties Antrim, Fermanagh and Tyrone closed due to a “security concern” on Monday morning. Earlier the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said they were liaising with the Metropolitan Police in London over the emails.
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2 months ago | 
laois-nationalist.ie | Jonathan McCambridge |Rebecca Black
By Jonathan McCambridge and Rebecca Black, PANine schools across the North were targeted by a threatening email which is thought to be a hoax, police have said. Several of the schools across counties Antrim, Fermanagh and Tyrone closed due to a “security concern” on Monday morning. Earlier the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said they were liaising with the Metropolitan Police in London over the emails.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
westernpeople.ie | Rebecca Black
By Rebecca Black, PAJust three out of 10,000 people who applied to join the PSNI failed to clear security vetting based on social media posts, the Northern Ireland Policing Board has heard. Chief Constable Jon Boutcher previously expressed concern at the number of young people failing vetting over social media activity. During a meeting of the board on Thursday, Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly questioned Mr Boutcher further on what sort of activity would lead to a candidate failing the vetting.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
irishexaminer.com | David Hughes |Eleanor Barlow |Rebecca Black
Ireland will do anything it can to help Keir Starmer’s plan to "reset" Britain’s relationship with the European Union (EU), Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said. Ireland and Briatin are opening the "next chapter" in their relationship, Mr Starmer said, as ministers from the two nations discussed plans to increase co-operation. The Taoiseach and British prime minister were in Liverpool with senior ministers from both governments.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
westernpeople.ie | Rebecca Black
By Rebecca Black, PAIreland and the UK are set to agree a new programme of enhanced co-operation at a summit in Liverpool. Taoiseach Micheál Martin and British prime minister Keir Starmer will lead delegations of their respective Cabinet colleagues in the first of a new series of annual UK-Ireland summits.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
echolive.ie | Rebecca Black
A major weapons manufacturer is set to open a third facility in the North, Assembly members have heard. Thales, a French-owned arms company, operates two sites in the region – with high-precision missiles designed and produced at a plant in east Belfast, and final missile assembly at another plant in Crossgar, Co Down. It designs and produces missiles including Starstreak, Lightweight Multi-role Missile (LMM) systems as well as final assembly of the Saab designed NLAW.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
westernpeople.ie | Jonathan McCambridge |David Young |Rebecca Black
By Jonathan McCambridge, David Young and Rebecca Black, PAThe North’s First Minister has said she is “incredulous” at a large order for a Belfast plant to supply missiles for Ukraine. The Thales plant in east Belfast is to supply 5,000 air defence missiles to Ukraine in a deal worth up to £1.6 billion (€2 billion), the British government has announced.
