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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 8h

⭕ "This is going to drag on. We're not going to leave it. We're not going to accept that there'll be no Commissioner."

Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin said the delay in appointing Stormont's language commissioners is "deeply disappointing".

📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Delay on language commissioner appointments ‘deeply disappointing’, says Conradh na Gaeilge president

The delay in appointing Stormont language commissioners promised more than five years ago is “deeply disappointing”, the president of Irish language advocacy group Conradh na Gaeilge (CnG) has said.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 20h

Jim Allister is a (v good ) Barrister & has said multiple times that he would have no qualms taking the case of an IRA person if he was approached because the cab rank rule is fundamentally part of the legal system here.
JIM ALLISTER.
So quit with this angle about Catherine Connolly, it’s a smear

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 16h

💬 During the event Mac Giolla Bhéin also expressed solidarity with @naomilong.bsky.social and @michaelalong.bsky.social whose home was targeted by masked men overnight.

"We stand in solidarity with Naomi and Michael in the face of intimidation and threats," he told the crowd.

Conradh na Gaeilge president Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin

Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 16h

🏛️ An event has been held at the gates of Belfast City Hall to mark the passing of the Council's new Irish language policy.

@cnagaeilge.bsky.social President Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin told the crowd the language has grown "in every part of the city".

📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 1d

That's on the list for tomorrow's commute too 😂

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Paisley I believe in conversation with Michelle Gildernew and Jamie Bryson. Haven't got listening to it yet but I've seen the fallout!

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 1d

🎙️ Realise we're competing with another big podcast today 👀 but myself and @ciarandunbarrach.bsky.social have been dissecting the last week in politics with Alex Kane and @dmcbfs.bsky.social

⭕️ Language policy, the Labour conference and the SDLP on the agenda

📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

BelTel Politics: Irish signs, Labour snubs, the SDLP targeting Alliance, and will Farage eat the Tories?

Domestically, Northern Ireland politics has been consumed by Irish language issues this week and unionists reel in the wake of Belfast City Council’s new bilingual policy – is it just the result of de...

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 An uplift in the tariff is expected to be in place by the end of this month. Officials told the Economy Committee today that owners of some 590 boilers have not engaged with the Department.

📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Owners of almost 600 boilers have stopped engaging with department over RHI scheme

Almost 600 boiler owners eligible for legacy payments under a proposed renewable heat incentive (RHI) closure scheme have stopped engaging with the department responsible.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 1d

DoH: Monitor spending on restricted procedures

Trusts: lolz

An NIAO report has found "inadequate approaches" to data recording and 'no assurances' the Dept policy was followed.

📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Health trusts spend more than £22m on restricted surgeries with little or no monitoring of rules

Health trusts failed to verify they followed policies on the use of resources in relation to 12,000 restricted operations carried out at a cost of around £22m, the Audit Office (AO) has found.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 3d

🔴 | LATEST: "This is a reckless attack but it won't stop me in my role as Minister"

Liz Kimmins and First Minister Michelle O'Neill have hit out at those responsible for the attack in Newry.

📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

‘We will not be deterred’: Sinn Féin minister responds to pipe bomb attack on constituency office

Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has said she “will not be deterred” after a pipe bomb was left outside her Co Down constituency office over the weekend.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 8d

It was completely omitted from the analogy he made about football.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 8d

He did indeed. That was the only mention. Scunthorpe steel and even "the data centres of Essex" got a mention. Humberside too.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 8d

On the fringes of the Labour conference, Sean Brown's family continued their battle for truth about his murder.

Secretary of State Hilary Benn had earlier defended a Govt decision to oppose the calling of a public inquiry.

📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

NI Secretary must ‘put neck on the line’ and grant public inquiry, says family of Sean Brown

Secretary of State Hilary Benn needs to move beyond sympathetic words and “put his neck on the line” to grant a public inquiry into the death of Sean Brown, his family have said.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 8d

✍️ The absence of NI from the speeches of Labour's big hitters - Starmer, Reeves - meant Hilary Benn was left to carry the can alone, but his comments on Stormont competence will jar with many people's experience.

📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Starmer appears to forget NI in speech analogy... while Secretary is left to put blame on Stormont

Remember that time David Healy scored the winner for Northern Ireland against England?

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 10d

Me: I'm doing a thing.

TikTok:

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 12d

"When one considers the amount of thought which must have been put into it by scores of coaches one is surprised that the result is so spasmodic. The sense of frustration seemed to be the prevailing feature from beginning to finish."

☝️Not my words but I concur 😂

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 12d

🏈 A look back at when the US Army teams gave Belfast its first taste of American Football.

Croke Park will tomorrow host Ireland's first in-season NFL match between Pittsburgh Steelers & Minnesota Vikings.

📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

‘A very sloppy game’: How NI reacted to its first taste of American football during World War Two – at Ravenhill

One of the biggest sporting spectacles will be staged in Dublin this weekend – more than eight decades since an unlikely match-up in Belfast.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 13d

🙌 Delighted to be among these five nominations.

My work on the FBA Brand Builder has been shortlisted for the Media Freedom Awards Investigation of the Year (Regional).

Congratulations also to @kscott94.bsky.social & @sjamcbride.bsky.social also 👏

📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Belfast Telegraph receives five nominations at prestigious Media Freedom Awards

The Belfast Telegraph has been shortlisted across five categories at the prestigious UK-wide Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards 2025.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 14d

🫆 Quite a reaction locally to Keir Starmer's reported plan to introduce digital ID 'Britcards' cross the UK.

📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Michelle O’Neill slams Keir Starmer’s plans for ‘Brit Cards’: ‘This proposal is an attack on the rights of Irish citizens’

First Minister Michelle O’Neill has slammed the Prime Minister’s plan for digital ID cards in the UK, calling it “ludicrous and ill-thought-out”.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 16d

Love that film. Was also the first game I ever got with the Playstation 1 😂

Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 20d

🏥 | Some 1,600 appointments were cancelled as a result of this week's major IT outage in the Southern Trust.

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has said work was underway to determine the cause of the failure.

📰| @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Major IT outage in NI health trust resulted in around 1,600 cancelled appointments

Some 1,600 healthcare appointments were postponed across the Southern Trust as a result of a major IT failure this week, the Department of Health has confirmed.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 21d

🔴 | NEW: The IT outage within the Southern Trust has been referred to the UK body that handles potential data breaches.

The ICO said it was assessing information after receiving a report from the Trust.

📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Data watchdog probing major IT incident which hit NI health trust

The UK’s data watchdog is investigating a major IT incident which affected a Northern Ireland health trust.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 The reaction to this PSNI training exercise to test preparedness for a terror incident has been amusing.

TikTok: Full Matt Le Tissier - "makes you think"

Instagram: Roy Keane - "it's their job"

More details here: tinyurl.com/mvpm95bn

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 23d

🔴 | Stormont's newly-appointed Standards Commissioner has quit the role after just eight days.

📰| @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

NI Assembly Standards Commissioner steps down after just over a week in post

The Stormont Assembly’s newly appointed Standards Commissioner has stepped away from the role just over a week after his appointment was approved.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 23d

The Truth Recovery Independent Panel continues to seek testimony from the victims of another dark chapter of our history - mother and baby homes.

"There was no consultation; they took my child – that I loved and adored – away from me.”

📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

'I was raped by my stepdad before my eighth birthday... then treated like a servant at Belfast mother and baby home'

A Northern Ireland woman abused from the age of four and raped just a month before her eighth birthday has described being treated “like a servant” in a mother and baby home after becoming pregnant at...

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