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BIZARRE: 4 - What They Never Told You

NI’s Finance Minister publishes draft budget despite ongoing impasse over plan

The DUP rejected John O’Dowd’s spending proposals as ‘deeply flawed’.

Evening Standard

Stormont’s top challenge is ‘severe underfunding of public services’ – O’Neill

Michelle O’Neill accused the Labour Government of making ‘false promises of a new dawn’, but ‘following Tory austerity’.

Evening Standard

Asbos would lead to one section of community policing other, Sinn Fein warned

Gerry Adams said his party was ‘deeply concerned’ about proposed new laws to tackle anti-social behaviour in 2004.

Evening Standard

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Trimble warned that review of Assembly must include decommissioning

The 1998 Good Friday Agreement largely ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland.

The Independent UK

Irish officials believed 9/11 would change how US politicians saw peace process

Irish officials believed the September 11 attacks would impact how US politicians viewed the Northern Ireland peace process.

Evening Standard

British officials feared ‘top man’ in Northern Bank robbery would avoid arrest

Downing Street chief of staff at the time, Jonathan Powell, said the robbery ‘had knocked up the price’ of peace negotiations.

The Independent UK

Good Friday Agreement wording on border poll is ‘workaround’, McDonald says

Mary Lou McDonald said the clause around a border poll was the ‘beating heart’ of the Good Friday Agreement.

Evening Standard

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Sinn Fein accused of ‘misinformation’ around funding for teachers’ pay

Education Minister Paul Givan also said he can give a pay increase of up to 4% for teachers.

Evening Standard

Sinn Fein urges Starmer to intervene in case of pro-Palestine hunger strikers

The hunger strike began in early November in protest at being held in custody while awaiting trial.

Evening Standard

‘Hold Israel accountable,’ detained Irish citizens tell committee

‘If another country had kidnapped Irish citizens, what would we have done?’ the committee was asked.

The Independent UK

Secretary of State accused of ‘burying head in sand’ over Irish border poll

Sinn Fein MP Daire Hughes said an ‘energetic debate’ was under way about a new Ireland.

Evening Standard

Move to strip former Israeli leader's name from a Dublin park sparks an outcry in Ireland

A proposal to rename a Dublin park named after a former Israeli president has sparked controversy

The Independent UK

Stormont response to Covid characterised by ‘petty party politics’, say bereaved

Relatives of people who died in the pandemic said the latest Covid inquiry report vindicated their criticism of the official response in the region.

Evening Standard

Harris takes finance post in Irish Cabinet reshuffle

Ireland’s deputy premier Simon Harris has assumed the position as Finance Minister in a Cabinet reshuffle prompted by a high-profile resignation.

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Irish Labour leader Ivana Bacik says Irish unity stance is not about Sinn Fein

‘It’s something I believe fundamentally in,’ the leader of the Irish Labour party said.

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Dignitaries gather for inauguration of Catherine Connolly as Irish president

The ceremony is taking place at Dublin Castle.

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Bid to force Education Minister Givan from office over Israel trip fails

Paul Givan called the no-confidence motion against him a ‘calculated attempt to drive a unionist minister from office’.

Evening Standard

No direction for police to remove personal protection weapons – Boutcher

The PSNI Chief Constable addressed the monthly meeting of the Policing Board in Belfast.

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Scrutiny of social media post is matter for NI Civil Service head, Assembly told

Finance Minister John O’Dowd was speaking after Paul Givan said he had been given him a ‘clean bill of health’.

Evening Standard

Department’s social media post on Israel trip ‘strictly non-political’ – Givan

The Stormont Education Minister defended asking his department to publicise his visit to a school in Israel amid calls for him to resign.

Evening Standard

Lough Neagh algae blight is significant crisis for all Ireland, says McDonald

Sinn Fein president Mary-Lou McDonald said there should be a national focus on the issue, including from the Irish Government.

The Independent UK

UUP will not back no-confidence motion in Education Minister over Israel trip

Sinn Fein and the SDLP have said they will support the motion against Paul Givan.

Evening Standard

Sinn Fein confirms it will back no-confidence motion in Education Minister

DUP leader Gavin Robinson said Paul Givan is ‘going nowhere’.

The Independent UK

Stormont Education Minister Paul Givan under fire over visit to Israel

The Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council said the visit was ‘deeply troubling’.

Evening Standard

Questions remain over Catherine Connolly’s ‘new republic’

Catherine Connolly said her supporters had come together to “shape a new Republic”.

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