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BelTel Politics: The BBC, Stormont and a toxic environment for women
Stormont has celebrated its first 10,000 days, but is it struggling with continuing political toxicity? As the UUP’s only mayor says she has faced ex…
4 months ago
The Anglo-Irish Agreement (Part Three): The ‘game-changer’ which lead to the Good Friday Agreement
Despite the protests and the anger of unionists, the Anglo-Irish Agreement endured under superseeded by the GFA. Some see it as a key factor in attra…
4 months ago
The Anglo-Irish Agreement (Part Two): ‘Ulster Says No’ - mass protests erupt over ‘evil document’
Unionists felt that Margaret Thatcher was someone they could trust so when she signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement giving Dublin the right to be consult…
4 months ago
The Anglo-Irish Agreement (Part One): Why did Thatcher give Dublin a role in NI?
The Hunger Strikes had led to a surge in support for Republicanism and in October 1984, Margaret Thatcher herself, narrowly escaped death in the Brig…
4 months ago
Eamonn Holmes in his own words: "The HMRC came after me... at the most vulnerable time in my life"
“I’m still working because the thieving HMRC came after me... at the most vulnerable time in my life,” Eamonn Holmes has revealed to the BelTel. H…
4 months, 1 week ago
'Marianne Smyth will never stop scamming' - Con-hunter opens up about being tricked by 'Queen of Con'
Jonathan Walton describes himself as a ‘con-hunter’ but that’s not what he set out to be. The tv producer turned vigilante after he was scammed by co…
4 months, 1 week ago
'Wicked, callous and evil liar' jailed after promising to donate kidney over Facebook
An east Belfast woman has been jailed after promising to donate a kidney over Facebook. Nicola Hutton reached out to Billy and Joanne Cullen over soc…
4 months, 1 week ago
BelTel Politics: Givan defiant, Greek signs in Belfast, and toilet flooder wreaks havoc at Stormont
Stormont Education Minister Paul Givan has been the focus of attention and anger over his visit to Israel. The UUP have lost a councillor, Linzi McLa…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Fethard-on-Sea: The boycott of Protestants which scandalised Ireland and its link to Ian Paisley
The Fethard-on-Sea Boycott was a notorious event in Irish history. In 1957, Sheila Cloney, the Protestant wife of a Catholic farmer, fled her home wi…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Maura Lyons: The Rev Ian Paisley and the 15-year-old “abducted” from west Belfast
The Rev Ian Paisley rose to prominence as the face of hardline unionism but the first time some would have heard of him would have been in connectio…
4 months, 2 weeks ago