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Comedian Tim McGarry talks comedy, religion and the need for integrated education
Tim McGarry and iconic on-screen character on screen 'Da', along with the likes of Uncle Andy and Billy the Peeler, has long been making fun of life …
2 years, 10 months ago
Policing in crisis: What next for the PSNI as Simon Byrne bows to the inevitable?
In the end, Simon Byrne had to go. He had lost the confidence of the public and politicians – and above all, of his own officers. The final straw w…
2 years, 10 months ago
‘A People Under Siege’: Author Aaron Edwards in conversation with Sam McBride on the history and future of Ulster’s unionists
Aaron Edwards is from Rathcoole in north Belfast but works at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, educating the British Army’s future officers. He …
2 years, 10 months ago
Putin after Prigozhin: Could he reach for the nuclear option to halt Ukrainian advance?
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s brief uprising challenged Vladimir Putin in a way no one else ever has. Is the Russian president now in a stronger position or ha…
2 years, 10 months ago
Polls back Jeffrey Donaldson’s boycott of Stormont – so what next?
The latest Belfast Telegraph Lucidtalk polling tells us the majority of unionists are behind the DUP boycott of the NI Assembly and Executive. Does …
2 years, 10 months ago
What would a Labour Government mean for Northern Ireland?
With the Labour Party soaring ahead in the polls, Keir Starmer is predicted to become the next Prime Minister after the general elections. But what w…
2 years, 10 months ago
Lucy Letby: We know what she did, but why did she do it?
We know Letby murdered babies and tried to kill many more but why? How did this young, intelligent, woman, with loving parents, become a mass murdere…
2 years, 10 months ago
Lucy Letby: Allison Morris breaks down the serial killer nurse case
Serial killer nurse Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life in prison after being convicted of murdering seven helpless babies. She has never adm…
2 years, 10 months ago
The IRA murder of Andrew Kearney
In 1998 an IRA Punishment squad broke into Andrew Kearney's flat. They shot him three times and Andrew bled to death. He was cradling his 19 day-old …
2 years, 10 months ago
Best of the BelTel: The complex legacy of SAS legend Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne
One of the founders of the SAS, Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne was a great soldier and a hero in his native town, Newtownards. But his legacy is a complicated o…
2 years, 10 months ago