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Malachy McAllister deportation: Chair of Congress Committee and NY Senator unite to blast President Trump

Two senior figures on Capitol Hill have taken aim at President Trump over the deportation of Belfast political asylum seeker Malachy McAllister. The Lower Ormeau man was flown home to Ireland yesterday in an Air Ambulance by Federal authorities — he had suffered a dislocated shoulder in a weekend biking accident.  New York Senator Charles […]

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EXCLUSIVE: First video footage of hazmat-suited group at centre of PSNI probe

The PSNI has said it is investigating an incident on Sunday evening on the Ormeau Road involving a group of men wearing hazmat suits. Some of the group are alleged to have racially abused four local teenagers.  Officers asked for anyone who was in the area around 6.30pm and may have information to contact investigators. […]

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Greenlight on way for cycle bridge over Lagan…at last?

Hopes are high that the Department for Infrastructure Lagan Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge project may soon get the go-ahead from Minister Nichola Mallon — seven years after it was first unveiled. The bridge — branded the Bridge of Sighs by the cycling community due to its many delays — is at an “advanced stage” say […]

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Deported: After 24-year battle, Malachy McAllister returned to Ireland by Air Ambulance

With family members and supporters looking on Malachy McAllister surrendered himself to federal authorities in Newark, New Jersey on Tuesday morning, June 9, for what all believed would be the final chapter in an extraordinary 24-year American saga. At time of writing, McAllister is on his way back to Belfast via Air Ambulance after having […]

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VIDEO REPORT: Jean Smyth-Campbell’s sister makes emotional appeal for information on 48th anniversary of her death

The family of West Belfast woman Jean Smyth-Campbell have urged witnesses to her death to come forward 48 years after she was shot dead. The 24-year-old mother-of-one was fatally wounded on the Glen Road around 11.40pm on June 8 1972 after a night out with friends. The family believed for several years that the IRA […]

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Stormont newbie Matthew O’Toole pledges to battle Brexit and boost local media

WITH Brexit looming and the world in the grips of a deadly pandemic it would be fair to say that South Belfast MLA Matthew O’Toole hasn’t taken up his latest role in the most auspicious of circumstances. That said it would be difficult for even the most critical of commentators to argue that he has […]

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