Ulster Rugby has trashed its proud history, selling its soul for cash from a company described at a public inquiry as “little more than crooks & killers”. The team so many of us cheered has been replaced by a business which has chosen mammon over morality. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…

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Almost seven decades ago, Northern Ireland came far closer to building a nuclear power plant than most people realise. It would have been in Tyrone, 16 miles from the border. But the determination of one unseen figure helped thwart secret advanced plans. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/ne…

Sceptical civil servants refused in the 1950s to approve many basic facilities which turned Tollymore into Northern Ireland’s first forest park because they didn’t believe it would be popular with the public - but it became an instant success. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environme…

The man who would become Northern Ireland’s key reformist Prime Minister repeatedly expressed alarm at a plan to build a nuclear reactor in a Catholic area of Tyrone, a previously secret file from the old Stormont government reveals. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…

While urging people on to the streets to protest about immigration in Northern Ireland, former UDA leader Dee Stitt was on a six-week Spanish holiday. Now the Orange Order's most influential figure has given Stitt a character reference to get bail. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/or…

Colum Eastwood’s leadership of the SDLP wasn’t a triumph — but in time it might be seen as more significant than it now appears. In a age of polarisation, he preserved the SDLP as a credible, if wounded, nationalist alternative to Sinn Féin. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…

Sinn Féin's sudden U-turn from saying puberty blockers are "normal healthcare" to banning them in NI yet not wanting them banned in RoI is utterly illogical. Whatever one's view on the issue, the border can't make unsafe drugs safe or safe drugs unsafe. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/commen…

For the story of how their company was awarded generous HMRC tax breaks and how the records were destroyed by Stormont officials, see the below 👇 m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environme… x.com/SJAMcBride/sta…

.Mike Nesbitt telling a story about how hard it was to leak information outside of the UUP #VFS

A previously classified file reveals how a senior education inspector was appalled at how a special school handled the sexual abuse of several pupils, one of whom was a nine-year-old boy. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education…

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I fell for a very simple online scam which then became more sophisticated. My editor thought that not enough people had read about this so you should hear about my stupidity...his enthusiasm was such that he even took off the paywall. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…