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The BelTel — 848 episodes

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1

Holy Cross 25-years-on: Allison Morris on what she saw, and the loyalist point of view

2

David Sullivan: The mystery of the headless alleged paedophile’s murder

3

God, Religion, the Troubles, and Christian Peacebuilding

4

“Everything that I was told was a lie”: Lauren Bradford-Clarke, Colin Howell’s daughter

5

The IRA’s infamous escape from Belfast’s prison ship, the HMS Maidstone

6

Drumcree: The crisis over an Orange parade which brought NI to the brink

7

Maura Lyons: The Rev Ian Paisley and the 15-year-old 'abducted' from west Belfast

8

‘Peace at last’: The 1994 Loyalist Ceasefires

9

Jon Burrows and the UUP in a fix as Mike Nesbitt resigns

10

'It’s Over’: The 1994 IRA 'ceasefire'

11

Families search for truth over 1983 south Armagh murders

12

Culture war rages in the wake of Prof Jason Arday resignation

13

Fleadh Cheoil hailed as an enormous success for Belfast

14

Inside the court as alleged godfather Daniel Kinahan charged and jailed

15

'Where have all the Prods gone?': 'Exodus' from Londonderry 'ignored'

16

Mystery as News Letter editor Ben Lowry dumped – and won't be replaced

17

New IRA: Republican terror group active on both sides of the border

18

West Belfast accountant blames office arson on death driver's friends

19

LucidTalk Polling: DUP's support tanks in Donaldson aftermath

20

The alleged New IRA bomb plot, the law student and the museum worker

21

The Derry murder of Paul McCauley: ‘It was like a black cloud of grief over this city’

22

NI’s poshest hotel offers prize for hard-right gathering featuring conspiracy theorists and antivaxxers

23

Andrew and Tristan Tate's falling empire – 59 charges, Miami jail and UK extradition fight

24

Does Andy Burnham really care about Northern Ireland?

25

Craigyhill UDA chief says he has "nothing to hide" after cops make murder appeal

26

“Clearly we have an issue”: Ballymena murder-suicide latest in number of similar tragedies to shock public

27

Ann Widdecombe killed in ‘targeted attack’, say counter-terrorism police

28

Where did Jeffrey Donaldson’s fortune go – and can he afford an appeal?

29

The Orange Order and the Twelfth, how did it come about?

30

Conor McGregor: Why does America keep giving the disgraced fighter a platform?

31

Bonfire season heats up as man arrested following replica of mosque placed on pyre

32

Woman claims Jeffrey Donaldson sexually assaulted her in Westminster DUP offices

33

New evidence revealed as John George murder trial expected to begin in January

34

Noah Donohoe inquest adjourned following ‘unprecedented’ late night sitting

35

'In the first four weeks, I spent £3 million' : The east Belfast man who won £10 million

36

Jeffrey Donaldson: Did MI5 and PSNI know of MP’s innapropriate behaviour?

37

Affairs, gay saunas, and drinking excessively: Former MLA on the Jeffrey Donaldson he knew

38

Is Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots out of control? A strange decision, a huge U-turn...and no explanation

39

Jeffrey Donaldson: Convicted paedophile’s mentor Enoch Powell also accused of preying on children in NI

40

Jeffrey Donaldson: Allison Morris on what we couldn’t report while trial was ongoing

41

“Donaldson was a fraud”: Allison Morris, Sam McBride and Suzanne Breen react as Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of sex offences

42

GUILTY: Jeffrey Donaldson is now a convicted child rapist

43

Extra: Starmer out - 'de facto' PM Andy Burnham in

44

Nicola Tallant on why Katie Simpson’s tragic murder leaves so many unanswered questions

45

Noah Donohoe: ‘Questions over teen’s death may never be answered’, final witness tells inquest

46

Donaldson Trial: Evidence “not sufficiently reliable” to convict, court hears

47

Sam McBride assaulted as he questions protesters in east Belfast

48

Donaldson Trial: ‘It is their word against his word’, defence tells jury

49

Ambush in Adare: The IRA killing of Garda Jerry McCabe and why case still remains open

50

Donaldson Trial: Prosecution accuses Jeffrey Donaldson of ‘sinful and deceitful lies’

51

Noah Donohoe: Mental health experts agree Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life had ‘influence’ on teen

52

Donaldson Trial: Jeffrey Donaldson denies child rape, admits affair

53

Violence continues as police respond with water cannon

54

Man charged over knife attack as bus and homes destroyed in NI race riot chaos

55

Donaldson Trial: Eleanor says husband Jeffrey unfaithful throughout marriage

56

Revulsion over 'attempted beheading' in north Belfast

57

Donaldson Trial: Jury hears denials during police interviews

58

"I’m not a soft unionist” says independent MLA Claire Sugden

59

Donaldson Trial: Jeffrey Donaldson asked Witness B to ‘forgive him’, court hears

60

Donaldson Trial: Court hears Jeffrey Donaldson ‘sent WhatsApp to minister saying he wanted to repent’

61

Donaldson Trial: Witness says she wishes she had “screamed”

62

Natalie McNally murderer McCullagh gets 31 years

63

Suzanne Breen on the UUP: Beattie and Burrows battle it out

64

Donaldson Trial: Complainant describes alleged rape

65

Donaldson Trial: Eleanor Donaldson “did nothing” when told of an allegation of abuse, Newry court hears

66

Former Free Presbyterian minister jailed with Ian Paisley ‘dares’ colleagues to expel him

67

Donaldson Trial: Wife planted bug in MP’s car over suspicions of an affair, Newry court hears

68

Noah Donohoe Inquest: Searching culvert “not a priority”

69

The very public break-up of Tommy Fleming and Tina Mitchell

70

Donaldson Trial: Jeffrey Donaldson asked alleged victim for forgiveness for ‘hurt and pain’ caused

71

Donaldson trial: Jury hears complainant wrote to defendants over “secret”

72

Dig begins for disappeared victim 29-year-old Seamus Maguire

73

Pat Finucane: Inquiry set to begin into the Belfast solicitor’s murder

74

Donaldson trial to begin: Attorney General warns public of contempt laws

75

Noah Donohoe inquest, week 16: Jury hears of ‘terrifying’ conditions

76

Ulster's Lost Counties: Ed Burke on Loyalism and Paramilitarism in Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal

77

Tattle Life: Why the case against gossip site fell apart

78

100 years of Fianna Fáil: The highs, the lows, the controversies

79

Noah Donohoe Inquest: Jury shown footage of Noah’s remains

80

David Graham: When my kids are 40 there won’t have been border poll, but unionism needs a reset

81

Kew Files: Buried for decades, a mother’s harrowing letter amid officials’ Bloody Sunday papers

82

'All Ana wanted was a friend': Eight years on from the disturbing killing of Ana Kriegel

83

Suzanne Breen on the ‘DUP Civil War’ - five years on

84

Noah Donohoe Inquest: ‘I’ve f***ked it’ - Stormont employee’s panic over unlocked hatch

85

Sam McBride’s hunt for Stormont’s secret civil servant on a vast salary

86

David McCann on the challenges facing Sinn Féin and a United Ireland

87

PSNI slammed by review of Katie Simpson murder investigation

88

Kew Files: How DUP tried to get back into Agreement talks – right after walking out

89

Bonus: Olympic Swimmer Conor Ferguson: How to How to turn setbacks into business lessons | In Good Company

90

Julia Holmes: The Castlederg woman, her many aliases, and the lives she destroyed

91

Noah Donohoe: Laptop thief denies photo of hand on teen’s phone is his

92

Dissident Republicans strike again as bomb explodes at west Belfast PSNI station

93

Kew Files: Spooks tried to suppress Stakeknife story – and feared McGuinness article

94

Stormont backed CIA-linked firm's software used by Donald Trump’s ICE

95

Noah Donohoe: Daryl Paul says he’s telling the truth

96

LucidTalk: Majority believe Gerry Adams was in IRA – but don’t care

97

Kew Files: What happened when the Garda arrested the SAS men

98

“I didn’t kill my little brother” - Brian McDermott’s brother says he can’t move forward because family blame him

99

Noah Donohoe: Expert believes teen likely died the night he went missing

100

Kew Files: Gerry Adams the focus of declassified docs – including Workers Party sectarian claims

101

How Rory McIlroy compares to golfing greats after another Masters win

102

Sex, lies and video tape: Julie McGinley and the murder of husband Gerry McGinley

103

Black Widow Part 2: The trial of Catherine Nevin and the media sensation that followed

104

Black Widow Part 1: The murder of Tom Nevin and one of Ireland’s most notorious criminal cases

105

Roger Casement: Protestant British hero who became a 'rebel and a traitor'

106

‘Among Communists’: Belfast poet, Sinéad Morrisey tells her family and political story

107

Noah Donohoe: Witness denies phoning cops over teen’s laptop

108

‘Boston Tapes’ Troubles archive ‘closed’ but not forgotten

109

Stephen McCullagh: What we couldn't report while Natalie McNally murder trial was ongoing

110

Noah Donohoe: Jury hears ninth week of evidence

111

Stormont’s extreme censorship of Famine remarks – and how we unravelled it

112

Youtuber Stephen McCullagh guilty of murdering of Natalie McNally

113

Rory O’Connor: The Anti-Treaty IRA leader executed by his former friends

114

Inside the Gerry Adams landmark £1 IRA court case

115

Stephen McCullagh trial: Prosecution says accused “lied and lied again”, defence says evidence points to “another killer”

116

Noah Donohoe: No evidence of drugs in teen’s system at the time of death, witness says

117

What sort of St Patrick's Day will Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin have in Donald Trump's White House?

118

'The Child Snatcher': Who was serial killer Robert Black?

119

Musk’s AI Grokipedia makes a mess of NI history

120

Stephen McCullagh Trial: Court outbursts as witness denies murdering Natalie McNally

121

Stephen McCullagh Trial: Natalie McNally’s ex-boyfriend arrested last week ‘over threats to kill woman’

122

Noah Donohoe: Pathologists agree teenager’s cause of death was drowning with ‘no indication’ of assault

123

Desmond Boomer: The mystery of Malta plane accident, and the Belfast Engineer who never came home

124

Stephen McCullagh Trial: Man accused of Natalie McNally murder ‘recorded ex’s counselling sessions after she lost child’

125

Noah Donohoe: Jury shown transcript of phone call involving man selling teen’s possessions

126

John George Murder Suspect killed in Spain

127

Man abused at NI ‘Christian nightclub’ accuses Presbyterian Church and PSNI of failing him and ‘other victims’

128

Stephen McCullagh Trial: Murder accused told police Natalie McNally was “having problems with her ex” when arrested in connection with killing

129

'Within seconds it turned violent': The ‘Love Ulster’ riots 20 years on

130

Noah Donohoe: People who ‘inserted themselves’ into the search caused difficulties for police, witness tells inquest

131

Stephen McCullagh trial: Jury shown YouTube ‘live stream’ from night Natalie McNally was killed

132

Noah Donohoe: Inquest hears there was no interaction between Noah and Daryl Paul

133

Stephen McCullagh trial: Prosecution describes Natalie McNally murder as “planned, calculated and pre-meditated”

134

How Irish ICE detainee Seamus Culleton went from “perfect victim” to public scrutiny

135

‘Don’t call Jeffrey Epstein a paedophile’ - top Northern Ireland lawyer part of 2011 effort to defend Epstein’s reputation

136

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

137

Noah Donohoe: Former PSNI officer said search as 'professional and as urgent as possible'

138

Noah Donohoe: Conditions in pitch-dark tunnel would have be ‘challenging’ to survive in

139

Stephen McCullagh goes on trial accused of murdering Natalie McNally

140

The Firm out for revenge after Armagh City attack on alleged enforcer

141

NI culture director: "People perceive our cultures to be competing... they’re not"

142

Turning Point: Widow of Charlie Kirk expected to visit NI

143

Claire Hanna: SDLP leader says united Ireland is ‘likely’ but not ‘inevitable’

144

Epstein files: Keir Starmer on the brink, and Irish connections explored

145

Lauren Bradford-Clarke: Being Colin Howell’s daughter

146

UVF serial killer supergrass Haddock 'dead man walking'

147

Noah Donohoe: 'Significant evidential development' over CCTV footage on Northwood Road

148

Noah Donohoe: More witnesses say they heard ‘screams’

149

Nama trial: How Frank Cushnahan was cleared of fraud

150

Noah Donohoe Inquest: Witness heard ‘scream’ and mother Fiona was worried over Jordan Peterson book

151

Rostrevor man convicted in Greek court after killing student in holiday confrontation

152

Noah Donohoe Inquest: Police notes described Noah as a 'high functioning autistic teenager'

153

Noah Donohoe Inquest: Witness saw schoolboy coming off his bike

154

Jon Burrows: New UUP leader on his meteoric rise, how to sell the union, and Nigel Farage

155

Noah Donohoe Inquest: Close friend says teenager “was going through something”

156

Noah Donohoe inquest: Jury hears from friends and teachers

157

Carrickfergus UDA enforcer Colin Simms looks for new patch in 'Ards

158

Derry man gets jail for putting father’s body in fridge

159

Noah Donohoe Inquest: Jury hears Fiona Donohoe's evidence

160

Unionist 'unity' - could it ever happen and what does it mean?

161

Northern Ireland and ‘Nazi Tinder’: Single, lonely, and looking to ‘breed white’

162

Former PSNI detective says Fermanagh girl Kelly Lynch’s death warrants murder investigation

163

Enniskillen Bombing: Reports claim female who ‘led’ massacre living a ‘comfortable life’ in Fermanagh

164

Allison Morris: NI teens shocked to find out AI has 'nudified' them

165

Barristers strike means delays for victims, but lawyers say they have no choice

166

Steve Bannon's plan for Irish MAGA movement - could it happen?

167

The UK and Europe in turmoil as Trump goes after the oil

168

Secret files reveal government wooing of UDA terror chiefs

169

DUP’s Phillip Brett: "Nigel and Dianne Dodds were my political mum and dad"

170

The murder of Pearl Gamble and the man who was hanged for it

171

Martin O’Hagan: The LVF murder of Sunday World journalist and the struggle for justice

172

The time the Stickies went to North Korea

173

McIlroy’s masters win, boxing success, and NI wins the World Cup... Northern Ireland’s top 15 2025 Sport moments

174

The DJ Carey Story EP 3: The Con Collapses

175

The DJ Carey Story EP 2: The Cancer Lies

176

The DJ Carey Story EP 1: The Sports Star

177

The murder of Denis Donaldson – a mystery that just gets murkier

178

‘Ulster-Scots a wealth denied, and Britishness not valued as it was’: Lee Reynolds

179

Dave Rupert: The Chicago trucker recruited by the FBI to spy on IRA

180

NI Artist Colin Davidson on painting the late Queen, the Troubles and his most important work

181

‘Media amplifies opposition to Irish language’: Newly appointed Irish Language Commissioner

182

Scappaticci / Stakeknife’s extraordinary relationship with army revealed

183

Disappeared commission chief on the search for the dead

184

The UDA's deadly attack on Dublin Airport, 50 years on

185

'Republicans' threaten elected politicians

186

People Before Profit's Gerry Carroll outlines his vision of socialism

187

Danny Morrison on 'inevitable' united Ireland, Gerry Adams, and Stormont

188

Would a nine-county Northern Ireland have survived?

189

Julian Simmons on WW3 and Alien invasions, missing 'the old UTV', and losing his mum

190

"It looks like a youth club": The open prison that lets NI’s most violent men roam free

191

Socialist vigilantes linked to pipe-bomb attacks on west Belfast far right

192

Enoch Burke jailed again: Who is funding his crusade?

193

Presbyterian Church mired in controversy as PSNI launch criminal investigation

194

BelTel Politics: The BBC, Stormont and a toxic environment for women

195

The Anglo-Irish Agreement (Part Three): The ‘game-changer’ which lead to the Good Friday Agreement

196

The Anglo-Irish Agreement (Part Two): ‘Ulster Says No’ - mass protests erupt over ‘evil document’

197

The Anglo-Irish Agreement (Part One): Why did Thatcher give Dublin a role in NI?

198

Eamonn Holmes in his own words: "The HMRC came after me... at the most vulnerable time in my life"

199

'Marianne Smyth will never stop scamming' - Con-hunter opens up about being tricked by 'Queen of Con'

200

'Wicked, callous and evil liar' jailed after promising to donate kidney over Facebook

201

BelTel Politics: Givan defiant, Greek signs in Belfast, and toilet flooder wreaks havoc at Stormont

202

Fethard-on-Sea: The boycott of Protestants which scandalised Ireland and its link to Ian Paisley

203

Maura Lyons: The Rev Ian Paisley and the 15-year-old “abducted” from west Belfast

204

BelTel Politics: LucidTalk, border poll criteria and a northern look at Irish Presidential election

205

UVF members behind Dublin Monaghan Bombings named

206

Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre: The book that rocked the royals

207

Flags and sectarian grievances are ‘hindering NI boxing’

208

Bloody Sunday Soldier F found not guilty

209

BelTel Politics: What a new Irish President means for NI amid souring relations in Stormont

210

United Ireland or United Kingdom: Sam McBride and Fintan O’Toole on the "good arguments for, and against"

211

The Enhanced Games: Will the ‘steroid Olympics’ be the evolution of sport or its undoing?

212

Newry drug baron ‘The Chocolate’ unwrapped at last

213

BelTel Politics: Irish sign controversy continues, DUP and TUV at loggerheads, and Mike Nesbitt’s potential successor

214

The road to the Anglo-Irish Agreement: The New Ireland Forum

215

Malcolm McKeown: The life, crimes and execution of the notorious gangster

216

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

217

Massive Nama fraud trial begins with dramatic evidence: Sam McBride reports

218

The Maze / Long Kesh prison: History still resonates from derelict site 25-years after paramilitaries walked out the door

219

The IRA Kidnapping of Dutch Industrialist Dr Tiede Herrema that shocked the world

220

Onlyfans model Madison Allen: Wife of John George’s alleged killer arrested after crystal meth find

221

Officials fear right not to send kids to school or tell state they exist could be dangerous

222

Kneecap’s Mo Chara says ‘it was always about Gaza’ as terror case thrown out

223

Guinness: The Earl of Iveagh on his famous family and the drink which made their fortune

224

Notorious evangelical Christian Burke family confront the DUP over LGBT ‘support’ - why?

225

From H-Blocks to the pulpit: how IRA gunman Mark Lenaghan became a Catholic cleric

226

Stephen Walker: ‘There would have been no Good Friday Agreement without David Trimble’

227

Border Bandit Brendan ‘B-Man’ O’Callaghan looking at jailtime over encrochat cocaine dealing

228

No Tyrone Goldrush: Why Stormont confusion and local division mean gold worth billions might stay under the ground

229

‘Soldier F’ Bloody Sunday trial begins in Belfast - Nicola Tallant reports

230

'The scientist who wasn’t there’: The incredible story of a fantasist father, was he a spy?

231

Marianne Smyth: The American con-woman who claimed to be on IRA Army Council and to be Jennifer Anniston

232

What does the murder of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk mean for an angry America?

233

September 2005 Riots: The three days of mayhem as police and soldiers battled loyalist rioters and gunmen

234

Sean Hegarty: How is the brutal double murderer able to be on Facebook despite being in prison?

235

The death of Brian Murphy: Dublin's class distinctions and southside privilege on trial

236

Father Ted's Graham Linehan arrested by armed police amidst Trans controversy

237

IRA Stormont Spy Ring: What secret files reveal about Denis Donaldson and the Stormont crisis

238

The IRA’s Heathrow attacks, a massive lie, and enduring love

239

Lord Alderdice: Dossier alleging bullying in Presbyterian Church still with Charity Commission three years later

240

Nine murders in nine weeks: Northern Ireland’s problems with violence continue

241

Kew Files: Jeffrey Donaldson secretly told governments he wasn't as hardline as they thought

242

Loyalism, what do loyalist women want, and why they don’t trust the media or that O'Neill and Little-Pengelly are in control

243

The Killings of the Reavey Brothers: Eugene Reavey tells the story of the murders and the role he believes Willie Frazier played

244

Kneecap’s Mo Chara’s terror charge case judgment delayed over technical legal argument

245

LucidTalk: TUV, unionist pacts, bonfires and bilingual signs

246

The Gunmen: The Nutting Squad, who were the IRA's security team really loyal to?

247

Allison Morris: East Belfast fox-baiter Neil Pinkerton behind racist ‘patrols’ now banned by TikTok

248

The Gunmen: Colm Murphy, the life-time south Armagh republican found liable for Omagh

249

Sam McBride on the DUP’s route to power sharing - denials, flattery of Ian Paisley’s ego and secret Sinn Féin talks

250

“I know evil is an over an overused word, but he was evil”: Detective who solved NI’s longest cold case

251

Peter ‘the Punt’ Robinson and the the loyalist ‘invasion’ of Clontibret

252

Paddy Kielty and Cat Deeley’s shock split and is Liam Neeson going out with Pamela Anderson?

253

London UDA ‘transitions’ into an “old comrades association”

254

Banbridge schoolgirl turned Islamic terrorist 'White Widow', connected to 7/7 attacks, remains at large

255

Sole suspect in Fermanagh shooting tragedy, Ian Rutledge, dies in hospital

256

The Miami Showband Massacre: "They tried to wipe out the entire band"

257

South-East Antrim UDA starts ‘winding down’ but rule out disbanding

258

Fermanagh in shock after woman and children murdered in their own home

259

Jeffery Dudgeon on the story of the NI Gay Rights Association and his doubts about ‘queer’ activism today

260

Former Presbyterian minister had mental breakdown after his congregation spied on him for months

261

West Belfast mobile users left ‘dataless’ as 5G masts keep getting burned

262

All-star Hurler DJ Carey’s €415,000 cancer fraud, Texas trips, and the Croke Park Conundrum

263

The Open: McIlroy mania sweeps Portrush as locals slam ‘extortionate’ price hikes

264

William McKee: Former Maze Prison Governor on the day Billy Wright was killed, Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair, and several attempts on his life

265

July Bonfires: A sectarian safety risk, or a harmless tradition?

266

BelTel Sport: Stephen O’Neill reflects on iconic Tyrone/Kerry rivalry ahead of semifinal showdown

267

What disbandment would mean for the UVF | Allison Morris explains

268

NAMA Trial concludes: What’s next for Jamie Bryson and Daithí Mckay?

269

Sam McBride: The mystery of Ian Paisley Jr’s office – three mortgages, a dead man’s name and a mystery owner (Part 2)

270

Sam McBride: The mystery of Ian Paisley Jr’s office – unpaid rates, red letters and court action (Part 1)

271

Conor McGregor’s civil rape appeal begins: Claim Nikita Hand was assaulted by ex-partner dramatically dropped

272

Cormac Moore: The Boundary Commission and why it didn’t change Northern Ireland’s border

273

Noah Donohoe: Key questions remain as inquest into teenager’s death nears

274

EXTRA: The race to 2025 All-Ireland GAA Final begins - Do Armagh and Tyrone have what it takes?

275

Will northerners get a vote in Ireland’s presidential election? | Sam McBride and David McCann discuss

276

EXTRA: Trump bombs Iran, backs Israel, and takes a massive gamble

277

The 1975 IRA Provo-Stickie feud which left 11 dead and scarred Belfast

278

Beltel Sport: Stuart Dallas- “The togetherness at Euro 2016 was something special”

279

‘Tattle Life’ exposed: The NI couple who took the infamous gossip site on in court and won

280

Chaos in London as Kneecap’s Mo Chara appears in court over terror charge

281

A week on from Ballymena riots, the post mortem begins

282

Noraid: The IRA and Sinn Féin’s American wing, Martin Galvin, and where the money went

283

Ballymena race riots continue: Larne Leisure centre attacked and PSNI threatened with hatchet

284

PSNI officers injured and houses destroyed in Ballymena race riots

285

Iris Robinson and the affair scandal which shocked Northern Ireland

286

How Richard Satchwell almost got away with murder: "He told lies, upon lies, upon lies”

287

‘I had 9 death threats in under a year’: Life as an NI Journalist under threat

288

Meet the Macrons: ‘Slapgate’, controversies and bizarre conspiracy theories

289

Gerry Adams wins his defamation case against the BBC

290

Referees ensure UVF’s Winkie Irvine given lenient sentence for firearms charges

291

Lucid Talk polling: Kneecap, Sinn Féin, Irish signs and what is a woman

292

Kincora: Lord Mountbatten, MI5, William McGrath and Tara – the search for the truth

293

Gerry Adams’ BBC defamation trial: Jury hears final arguments

294

EXTRA: Kneecap's Mo Chara faces charge under terrorism act over Hezbollah flag

295

Former PSNI officer challenges ‘Sean’ allegations of anti-Catholic sectarianism in the force

296

Bryson, McKay and O’Hara misconduct trial to begin in Belfast – Allison Morris reports

297

Gerry Adams defamation case: BBC vigorously defends its journalism

298

Skortgate: The ‘totally absurd’ row over what Camogie players wear

299

Starmer’s “island of strangers” migration crackdown and what it means for NI

300

Gerry Adams accused BBC barrister of trying to persuade a jury he has “no reputation whatsoever”

301

Séamus Ruddy: The Newry man ‘disappeared’ by INLA in Paris

302

Conclave: White smoke and dark secrets, Catholic cardinals are choosing the next pope

303

Kew Files: Sam McBride on what secret files reveal about David Ervine, Gerry Kelly and the UDA

304

Meet the ‘freemen of the land’ who believe they are above the law

305

Kneecap: Terror cops confirm 'grounds for further investigation', politicians push for bans, musicians rally

306

Officials say minister wrong to suggest opinion polls will trigger Irish border vote – who is right?

307

Austin Stack: ‘The IRA couldn’t admit my father’s murder was sanctioned because of political repercussions’

308

Sallins Train Robbery: Osgur Breatnach, a false confession, the Garda 'Heavy Gang', and convicted by a sleeping judge (Part 2)

309

Sallins Train Robbery: The IRSP members wrongly imprisoned for IRA heist (Part 1)

310

What is Micheál Martin saying (or not) about a United Ireland?

311

‘Every one of them looks like someone’s grandfather’: Belfast pensioners sentenced for running grooming gang

312

The National Front, Tartan gangs and Combat 18: Loyalism and the far-right

313

Rory McIlroy achieves sporting immortality with Masters victory

314

Joe Lynskey and Robert Nairac: 'Bodies will never be found’, IRA source admits

315

'Burn them out': The long history of fascism and the far-right in Ireland

316

Sam McBride: Paul Givan and the case of the missing civil servant

317

SSPX Resistance: Who are the group behind masses Catholic Church in Derry says are ‘illicit’?

318

Controversial Ballymena ‘brand builder’ Darren Campbell quits after months of controversy

319

Trump's tariffs: 'Brexit means NI could pay more for some goods if we're stuck in the middle of a trade war'

320

Internment without trial: ‘The single biggest mistake that the British state makes in the Northern Ireland conflict’

321

Secret JFK Files reveal how the CIA spied on Irish and British intelligence services

322

One year on, Jeffrey Donaldson’s shock resignation and its impact on the DUP

323

Sam McBride: Secret files suggest Robert Nairac was meeting with an informant before disappearance

324

The MAGA Manosphere: Why are Conor McGregor and the UFC punching right?

325

Flights from hell: Do we need to clamp down on alcohol at 30,000ft?

326

Portadown teacher Niamh Farrell denies being ‘GAA catfish’ as she wins an injunction against Dublin school

327

How Basil McCrea's career and party ended in utter chaos | NI21 (Part 2) - the downfall

328

How two UUP MLAs broke away to find a new 'confident' path for unionism | NI21 (Part 1) - the rise

329

Rosemary Nelson: RUC ‘threats’, Red Hand Defenders and alleged collusion, the murder of a Lurgan solicitor

330

On-the-run Magilligan prisoner before courts in Rhode Island after alleged $800,000 scam

331

Gerard Conway inquest: 32-year-old disappeared in 2007 – witnesses testimony weaves a complex story

332

PSNI Chief Con denies intrusive surveillance on journalist investigating Noah Donohoe death, Sam McBride reports

333

Allison Morris on the New IRA’s potential ceasefire after secret peace talks

334

Noah Donohoe: PSNI accused of spying on journalist investigating teen’s death

335

Martin Dillon: “There’s no evidence for the ‘Say Nothing’ ending” and Mairead Farrell was "addicted to romantic nationalism"

336

Alliance: From liberal Unionism, to the agnostic ‘middle ground’

337

Suzanne Breen: Irish unity, Sinn Féin’s White House dilemma and MLA pay rises

338

Allison Morris on attempted murder of Sean O’Reilly as ONH feud boils over

339

William Hampton: The eccentric English millionaire who left his wealth to Sinn Féin

340

‘King Con’: Belfast conman Cartmill who scammed Stephen Nolan and Eamonn Holmes faces jail

341

The IRA’s La Mon Bombing and the victims’ quest for justice

342

The Official IRA’s ‘training’ trip to North Korea

343

Allison Morris: The origins of the PSNI and the challenge of recruiting Catholics

344

Ciaran Barnes: Why UDA shot pensioner after Bulgarian brothel raid in Coleraine

345

Top Belfast school Methody apologises after rugby hazing leaves boy ‘traumatised’

346

How I caught the catfish who took my identity

347

“The starting point is to is to name people”: Sam McBride talks to legacy chief Sir Declan Morgan

348

Why was Big Brother's Seany O’Kane turned back from Moscow?

349

The murder of Robert McCartney, the IRA cover-up, and his sisters’ fight for justice

350

‘Operation Torpedo’: Allison Morris reveals new details on Bryson’s mole and the plotters inside the DUP

351

Rev Harold Good: Decommissioning IRA weapons, secret talks and Martin McGuinness

352

The 'GAA Catfish': "She would have needed at least 25 different phone numbers to pull this off"

353

SAS: Rogue Heroes - Should ‘Paddy’ Mayne get the Victoria Cross and yet another terrible NI accent

354

Sorcha Eastwood takes on Andrew and Tristan Tate

355

The IRA’s infamous escape from Belfast’s prison ship, the HMS Maidstone

356

Allison Morris: John George’s return flight from Alicante was “booked after he was dead”

357

Jarlath Burns and Rory Gallagher row: Does the GAA have a problem with double standards?

358

Revealed: Sam McBride on secret unionist unity talks between DUP and UUP

359

Sam McBride: Files revealed on Ian Paisley, DUP’s sex education panic and the plans to dam Strangford Lough

360

What Dublin’s secret files reveal about NI, Trimble, Bruton, JFK and Casement

361

Lion tamer, street-fighter and 'sectarian murderer': The life and crimes of Buck Alec Robinson

362

2024: The year of political scandals, returns and bizarre plot twists

363

Belfast: Rosaleen O’Kane and the murder the RUC didn't investigate

364

Belfast: The Falls Road Curfew - the raid on the Official IRA which turned west Belfast against British Army

365

Belfast: Bloody Friday – What impact did the IRA’s Blitz have?

366

Sam McBride: The IRA’s Northern Bank Robbery and how it almost shattered the peace process

367

BelTel Football: NI star Gareth McAuley reveals all about his incredible career

368

‘Say Nothing’: The ‘Disappeared’ of Andersonstown, John McClory and Brian McKinney

369

40 years of Band Aid: Christmas, charity and controversy

370

Left, right, populism and woke – why are the working classes not voting socialist?

371

Don Anderson: The NI journalist who escaped fall of Saigon as airport burned tells the story of reporting Vietnam

372

‘Peace’ game is up for UVF chief Winston “Winkie” Irvine as he finally admits gun charges

373

'Revolutionary Years' : 1913 to 1923, 10 years which changed Ireland

374

MasterChef's Gregg Wallace: What is being alleged?

375

‘Mr-Fix-it': Newry's Rory Trainor facing jail for EncroChat money laundering, Ciaran Barnes reports

376

The chicken farmer, the ‘Triads’ , and the cannabis in the shed, Sam McBride reports

377

Ian Ogle: Ciaran Barnes on the murder that rocked the East Belfast UVF

378

'Notorious' - Conor McGregor’s career and legacy is in freefall – what next?

379

Joe Lynskey: The monk who joined the IRA and was 'disappeared' by it over trying to kill his love rival

380

Double Cross: The Ardoyne murder of Robbie Lawlor, and the brutal feud that led to his death

381

Boxing stars Barry McGuigan, Carl Frampton and the £6 million lawsuit

382

‘Ulster-Scot Hillbilly’ JD Vance is ‘one heartbeat away from the presidency’ - who is he?

383

The LVF murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan and the struggle for justice

384

Suzanne Breen: NI split over DUP meetings with LCC, O’Neill suffers from McMonagle fall-out but Sinn Féin’s support solid

385

Allison Morris: "PSNI failed to do even the most basic police work" in Katie Simpson murder investigation

386

The Newry actress, the Iraqi businessman and the multi-million-pound gangster film scam

387

EXTRA: Ex-Sinn Féin man McMonagle jailed for child sex offences

388

Enniskillen Bombing: "30 people involved, yet Nobody has been brought to justice”, Denzil McDaniel

389

Trump triumphant by a landslide – how and why did he win the American people?

390

Loughinisland Massacre: Trevor Birney on the PSNI’s "Stasi" tactics, and his arrest

391

Alf McCreary: Journalism, a lucky break, Ian Paisley and faith

392

The UVF and the savage '70s: Shankill Butchers, Gusty Spence, and the Dublin Monaghan Bombings

393

BONUS: The 'Angel of Death' who terrified Irish town and captivated the world

394

Alexander McCartney: “Nothing but a disgusting child predator”

395

Incels exposed: “Men aren’t entitled to sex, but women aren’t owed safety”

396

Ireland’s gang wars: How the Kinahans’ Belfast bound assassin ‘The Butcher’ was caught

397

Sinn Féin’s woes – self-inflicted, a media pile on, or a lack of professionalism?

398

Serial killer Uel ‘Cookie’ Cooke and the brutal murder of Anne-Marie Smyth

399

The RIC murders of the McMahon family, which changed Belfast forever

400

EXTRA - Sinn Féin: Mary Lou McDonald attempts to quell crises – did she succeed?

401

“What has gone wrong?”: Allison Morris on Northern Ireland’s femicide problem

402

‘Peace at last’: The story of the Loyalist ceasefires 30 years on

403

“The Manchester Bombing was an elaborate hoax”: why do some people believe terror victims are ‘crisis actors’?

404

Suzanne Breen on Sinn Féin's McMonagle problem and Claire Hanna as she takes charge of SDLP

405

UDA soap opera continues, Spence flees, Beachball’s back on Sandy Row and ’Ards boss fined for running a checkpoint

406

Michelle O’Neill and Sinn Féin struggle with questions over how they dealt with child sex offender

407

Arlene Foster: How we almost booked her as a renewable energy expert for 10k

408

“Michael Collins disappeared far more people than Martin McGuinness’ comrades in the Provisional IRA”

409

“We sold our house for this”: Cruise passengers ‘stranded’ in Belfast before 3-year long trip

410

Loyalists call on DUP education minister to block integrated Irish school in east Belfast

411

"Sinn Féin need to be careful on meaningless dates for a border poll": Suzanne Breen

412

There’s something about Eamonn (Holmes)...

413

East Belfast GAA: Huge growth, hoax bombs condemned, but ‘concerns’ voiced

414

Allison Morris reports on feud fears as ‘Óglaigh na hÉireann’ splits into two factions

415

Huw Edwards avoids prison over child abuse images: Joshua Rozenberg explains why

416

Loyalist Clifford McKeown released after sentence for Billy Wright ‘birthday gift’ taxi driver murder

417

UDA ‘will hit back’ after North Antrim boss attacked at band parade

418

The disappearance of Castlederg teen Arlene Arkinson and the search for her body

419

Gisèle Pelicot: Grandmother drugged by husband and raped by scores of men

420

EXTRA: Donaldsons plead not guilty

421

Enoch Burke: Has ‘woke’ Ireland really jailed a Christian teacher who challenged ‘trans’ ideology?

422

Lucy Letby: Why are there growing doubts over her conviction?

423

EXTRA: Ulster Rugby sponsor Kingspan heavily criticised in Grenfell fire report

424

Captain Robert Nairac: The IRA murder and the stories surrounding it

425

Oasis fans’ are ripping over ‘price gouging’ - but who's to blame?

426

NI's £20m Crypto scams: "He was someone I could trust"

427

'It’s Over’: 30 years on from the IRA ‘ceasefire’

428

Colum Eastwood steps down as SDLP leader and backs Claire Hanna

429

Sinn Féin soaring, UUP struggling, unionists and nationalists completely divided on immigration

430

Allison Morris: Harry Holland murderer McKee had 'chance to change' but is back behind bars

431

The Judge's Daughter: New declassified files reveal why government ignored the convicted man's innocence 

432

The Murder of Patricia Curran (Pt2): Why wasn't her family investigated?

433

The Murder of Patricia Curran (Pt1): How an innocent man was stitched up for it

434

Doug Beattie: Sam McBride on what next for UUP after shock resignation

435

Northern Ireland’s ‘Murder Triangle’ (Part 3): Margaret Perry and the IRA execution of her alleged murderers

436

Puberty blockers for transgender children and Northern Ireland's potential legal loophole

437

BelTel Sport: Can anyone stop Irish League champions Larne from winning the Gibson Cup for a third season in a row?

438

Belfast riots: Allison Morris on three nights of disorder

439

Ex-PUP deputy leader John Kyle on Gusty Spence and prospects of Irish Unity

440

INLA accused of receiving Russian State ‘Dark Money’ amid Republican group’s ‘support’ for war in Ukraine

441

Assembly's censorship of Martin McGuinness accusation about Peter Robinson overturned... after 26 years

442

The birth of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and why they disappeared after the Easter Rising

443

2024 Olympics: As the games begin, who are the NI athletes going for gold?

444

The Kew Files: Sam McBride unveils Secret memos on NI Secretary of State's IRA Intelligence Concerns

445

All-Ireland Football Final 2024: Armagh alive with excitement as ticket scramble continues

446

Gusty Spence and the brutal beginnings of the modern UVF

447

Whitney Hughes jailed – what next for Newry’s ‘Cocaine Queen’?

448

"The Falls Road started it, the Village will finish it": Children encouraged to riot in south Belfast disorder

449

The Border Fox: Allison Morris reports as former INLA gunman Dessie O’Hare walks free

450

Denis Bradley: Hume, McGuinness, dissidents just “stone in the shoe” filling jails - but Irish must talk to them

451

BONUS: “A dingo’s got my baby” – The story that divided Australia

452

The deaths of the Quinn children, the UVF murder which changed Northern Ireland

453

Ian Paisley: At just 57, what will ex-MP do after shock defeat?

454

Suzanne Breen: Fantastic election for Jim Allister, Robin Swann and Sorcha Eastwood

455

General Election NI: DUP disaster – Paisley loses North Antrim, Lagan Valley falls

456

Jeffrey Donaldson: Sex abuse case goes to trial as charges increase to 18

457

General Election ’24: BelTel / LucidTalk polls show strong SDLP and Alliance but DUP struggling

458

The Falls Road Curfew: The raid on the Official IRA which turned west Belfast against the British Army

459

BONUS: Taylor Swift - The dark side of fandom

460

‘Walter Mittys’: Why men like Nick Adderley lie about military careers, and Northern Ireland's 'Walts'

461

Nigel Farage: The controversial politician’s near-death experiences, failed campaigns, and what he thinks of Northern Ireland

462

Sam McBride grills Alliance’s Stephen Farry as he fights to keep North Down

463

West Belfast UDA Boss Mo Courtney and the £10,000 extortion of Shankill ‘Granny Bingo’

464

Allison Morris: UVF men bused in to east Belfast and Ardoyne parade dispute re-emerges from hibernation

465

General Election 24: Suzanne Breen and Peter Donaghy on the polls and a focus on Foyle

466

Out of fashion? Amnesty International's Patrick Corrigan makes the case for human rights

467

BONUS: French Alps quadruple murder - The family, the cyclist and the DNA tests

468

Colonel Tim Collins: “I’m going to win - there's no doubt about that” - Outspoken UUP candidate sits down with Sam McBride

469

Sinn Féin takes hit, Farage endorses DUP candidates, and concerns over lack of female candidates

470

20 women murdered in NI since 2020 - why do men keep killing?

471

Lyra McKee Trial: Court told rioting was orchestrated to ‘put on a show’ for MTV camera crew

472

2024 General Election: Suzanne Breen on what happens if DUP’s Gavin Robinson loses his seat and if Sinn Féin can make gains

473

UVF, UDA and ‘Russians’ in gun panic - arms allegedly held by loyalist could be linked to unsolved murders

474

Murdered in her own home: Belfast Man given life sentence after brutal murder of Caoimhe Morgan

475

Eamonn Holmes: Shock divorce, ‘bitter’ tax bill and those Philip Schofield comments

476

MTV footage of accused shown as Lyra McKee trial opens in Belfast

477

GE 2024: David McCann and Lee Reynolds on the NI seats to keep an eye on

478

The Kew Files: Sam McBride on IRA decommissioning and how it almost collapsed the Good Friday Agreement

479

"People were buried outside my house": Irishman on escaping Ukraine

480

GE 2024: What's Sunak thinking and can the Tories avoid a wipe-out?

481

LucidTalk: Should Donaldson resign as MP and is a United Ireland inevitable?

482

Ex-Ulster rugby player Paddy Jackson voices ‘concerns’ over TV dramatisation of 2018 rape trial

483

Jonathan Creswell, the murder of Katie Simpson and the three-woman cover-up

484

Arlene Foster 'roasted' as she's accused of deflecting questions in tetchy day at Covid Inquiry

485

Michelle O’Neill left 'flapping' under Covid cross-examination , Sam McBride reports

486

Allison Morris: PSNI accused of ‘Stasi’ tactics over keeping tabs on ‘troublemaker’ journalists

487

Sam McBride: Covid Inquiry reveals Stormont’s ‘rotten system’

488

Lordship: The murder of Adrian Donohoe and the runaway Co. Armagh suspect - part two

489

Lordship: The murder of Adrian Donohoe and the runaway Co. Armagh suspect – Part One

490

EXTRA: The extraordinary life of Stephen Grimason, the journalist and top Stormont Spin doctor who broke news of Good Friday Agreement

491

BelTel Sport: Linfield and Cliftonville set to face off in tense Irish Cup Final

492

Sunningdale and the Ulster Workers Strike (Part Three): Who really won?

493

Sunningdale and the Ulster Workers Strike (Part Two): The loyalist ‘revolt’

494

Sunningdale and the Ulster Workers Strike: The forgotten power-sharing ‘experiment’

495

Warrenpoint-based Michael O’Loughlin breaks gangster code by admitting crimes

496

Jeffrey Donaldson in court over historical sex offences

497

Col Tim Collins ruffles Alliance feathers, Irish signs ‘traumatise’

498

Newtownards Falklands and Troubles veteran on the reality of war

499

Suzanne Breen on Jeffrey Donaldson’s potential replacement in Lagan Valley

500

Middle East on the brink after Iran's unprecedented revenge attack on Israel

501

The Kew Files: Sam McBride on the secret papers on Peter Robinson, Ulster Resistance and Emma Little-Pengelly's father

502

The Kew Files: Sam McBride and the secret files on Martin McGuinness, the IRA and SDLP

503

A United Ireland: Inevitable or a fantasy?

504

Gerard ‘Hucker’ Moyna: From killing Lenny Murphy for the IRA to IPLO feuds

505

Private Investigator: Ian Withers on tracking the IRA, informing for the Seychelles government and murder allegations

506

Sam McBride and Allison Morris on Jeffrey Donaldson’s arrest and what it means for the DUP

507

Jeffrey Donaldson resigns as DUP leader after being charged with historical sex offences

508

Ian Hurst: The Army ‘spook’ who exposed Scappaticci and accuses McGuinness

509

Simon Harris and NI, Sinn Féin heckled left and right

510

Megan McAlorum: Murderer of west Belfast teen dies in road crash

511

Pat McArt: Derry, the Troubles and Martin McGuinness

512

Pearse McCauley: The life and crimes of the IRA garda killer and wife beater

513

Sam McBride's week in politics: TUV, Reform, Gaza and Biden

514

Millionaire heiress to IRA mastermind - Rose Dugdale, the renegade debutante

515

Is Ukraine losing the war, and how far will Russia go?

516

Red Army Faction member captured after 30 years, who were the terror gang?

517

Eamonn Mallie: ‘Eyewitness to War and Peace’

518

Sam McBride: What will PM Starmer mean for NI and a border poll?

519

Britain’s worst mass murders – what drove the killers?

520

Oscar drama: The scandals, snubs and controversies that shook Hollywood

521

OnlyFans: NI 'pornstar' defends her work - but is it empowerment or exploitation?

522

Alliance Party members begin to lean towards Irish unity

523

Allison Morris: Antrim ATM raiders jailed – but where’s the money?

524

How BDSM fetish chatroom led to mass murder in Fermanagh

525

Allison Morris: Supergrass Haggarty's evidence 'unreliable' as UVF man not guilty of Convie & Fox murders

526

Casement Park: Will stadium controversy poison atmosphere at Stormont?

527

Davy Tweed: Stepdaughter on life with former Ireland rugby player and ‘violent paedophile’

528

Conor Bradley: How the young Tyrone man took Liverpool and the Premier League by storm

529

That Girls' night in the Devenish: Pleasure Boys shock, but some think it's just 'a bit of fun'

530

BelTel LucidTalk poll: Is there now support for a united Ireland?

531

Texas and 'civil war': The Russian disinformation campaign stoking division in the US

532

Life beyond Earth and UFOs: What does the ‘evidence’ tell us?

533

BelTel politics: Where’s Stormont going to get the cash from?

534

'I spoke to Ian Bailey the day before he died' - The expert who questions his guilt

535

McGladdery: The last man hung in Northern Ireland for the vicious murder of Pearl Gamble

536

Ireland and Palestine: Will Sinn Féin skip the annual White House Visit?

537

East Belfast UVF: PSNI cocaine crackdown brings down gang

538

Stormont Return: Sam McBride and David McCann on how’s it going

539

RAF Chinook crash: The Mull of Kintyre tragedy

540

"I never had any doubt that Ian Bailey killed Sophie Toscan du Plantier"

541

Sir Jeffrey strikes a bargain: What’s in the DUP’s new deal?

542

DUP return to Stormont: Who is Jamie Bryson’s ‘mole’?

543

Kneecap: Critics rave over film but unionists rage over its funding

544

Sinn Féin: Where does the party stand on immigration?

545

DUP Update: Sir Jeffrey throws down the gauntlet

546

Europe 2024: What's lies ahead for the EU with Donald Trump on the horizon?

547

Margaret Perry and the IRA’s execution of her alleged murderer

548

Rose Dugdale: The English millionaire debutante who joined the IRA

549

The United Nations: Why is it so powerless as wars continue to rage?

550

The Foundlings: Three siblings abandoned alone search for fourth ‘foundling’

551

Kevin Conway: ‘Firm’ member slain in west Belfast gangland murder

552

Post Office scandal: “They knew what was going on”

553

Best of the Beltel: Colm Murphy, the veteran republican found liable for Omagh Bombing

554

Best of the BelTel: How romance monster Phillip O'Shea went from online catfisher to real life stalker – and how he got caught (Part 2)

555

Best of the BelTel: Romance monster catfisher threatens dozens of women – just for kicks (Part 1)

556

Best of the BelTel: The 'living hell' of winning the Lottery

557

Best of the BelTel: The life and crimes of Ballymena’s 'Cocaine King' Noel Johnston

558

Best of the BelTel: John DeLorean, the man who brought the future back to Belfast

559

Best of the BelTel: ‘How a cult brainwashed me, and how I escaped’

560

Best of the BelTel: Gerard Mackin, the Belfast-born Kinahan enforcer the criminal underworld fears

561

Stalkers, sexism and Santa: Could Christmas movies like Love Actually be made today?

562

‘Winkie’ Rea: The loyalist leader who led the Red Hand Commando

563

Israeli ambassador says “absolutely no” to Palestinian statehood

564

Alexei Navalny: Imprisoned but still Putin's greatest opponent

565

Sam McBride: 'Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has struck a deal’

566

Elon Musk: Who is the world’s wealthiest man?

567

Alan Scott: Ex-North Coleraine pastor under fire for alleged ‘spiritual abuse’

568

The other IRA: The Story of the Officials and The Workers’ Party

569

Shane MacGowan: London-Irish punk, performer and poet

570

Longford double murder: Mysterious case linked to loyalists

571

Joris Minne: The recipe behind restaurant reviews revealed

572

Dublin riots: what happens next in Ireland's capital after night of anarchy?

573

East Belfast UVF: Ciaran Barnes reports the latest on the drug dealer purge

574

The British Army's Troubles tactics: Sam McBride interviews expert Huw Bennett

575

BelTel Sport: Linfield’s historic return to Solitude

576

UVF ‘clean-up’: Allison Morris on East Belfast battalion’s ‘stand down orders’

577

Rishi Sunak ‘reshuffles’ the deck, dumps Suella and brings back Brexit-Dave

578

Authoritarianism: what is it, why are people attracted to it, and why is it on the march?

579

Mother, monster, killer: Who is the real Molly Martens?

580

Sam McBride interviews Michael Cameron, former top NIO official, playwright and spouse to a DUP MLA

581

The Ashling Murphy trial: how Jozef Puska tried to get away with murder

582

Lucid Talk: Border polls, party support and Casement

583

Suzanne Breen on Rishi Sunak boredom with NI & DUP, Sinn Fein’s sudden U-turn after heavy criticism and much more

584

Unsolved disappearances in the midst of the Troubles: The lost boys of Belfast

585

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict explained: “Two peoples, one land”

586

The IRA's Mountjoy Prison Helicopter Escape and the manhunt that followed

587

The witch trials of Islandmagee

588

Meet John Bew, the NI global policy expert with the ear of the PM

589

The 'Rules of War' explained

590

‘Supergrass’ trial: Allison Morris breaks down UVF murder case

591

Fake News: Why do people believe it and how can it be fought?

592

Black Magic: How the spooks used superstition against the IRA

593

Malachi O’Doherty: ‘How to fix Northern Ireland’

594

Black Axe: Massive international gang now firmly established in Ireland

595

Casement Park: The Euros are coming to Belfast, but NI fans divided

596

Politics: The Israeli-Hamas war and the NI split over it

597

Explainer: Israel-Hamas war - what happened and what could follow

598

Unsolved: The murder of Brian McDermott in 1973 Belfast

599

Máiría Cahill: "Republican movement underestimated my staying power"

600

‘Children identifying as cats’: Where does fake news come from?

601

Patrick Devaney: Portaferry man’s reign of terror over teens in detention

602

Ihab Shoukri and the UDA murder of Gerard Lawlor

603

GB News scandal: Wootton sacked from MailOnline in fallout from Laurence Fox interview

604

The DUP: Jeffrey Donaldson and the factions vying for the soul of his party

605

Pat Ward: The brutal murder which shocked a Tyrone village

606

Jay the Barber: From tragedy to triumph

607

Sean Quinn: Bankrupt former billionaire tells his side of the story

608

Christine Connor: The ‘lone wolf’ republican

609

Russell Brand: The mounting allegations and now the financial fallout

610

The Wolfe Tones: Despite the condemnation, young people are flocking to hear them – why?

611

Putin and Kim Jong Un: What does the bromance mean for Ukraine

612

Apocalypse Neagh: The source of 40% of NI’s water poisoned by bacteria

613

Thomas Niedermayer: How the IRA murder of a German businessman led to the death of his family

614

Sinn Féin: Aoife Moore's new book sets out to reveal the inner workings of Ireland’s largest political party

615

Wallace Thompson: DUP founder tells Sam McBride ‘New’ Ireland is inevitable

616

Comedian Tim McGarry talks comedy, religion and the need for integrated education

617

Policing in crisis: What next for the PSNI as Simon Byrne bows to the inevitable?

618

‘A People Under Siege’: Author Aaron Edwards in conversation with Sam McBride on the history and future of Ulster’s unionists

619

Putin after Prigozhin: Could he reach for the nuclear option to halt Ukrainian advance?

620

Polls back Jeffrey Donaldson’s boycott of Stormont – so what next?

621

What would a Labour Government mean for Northern Ireland?

622

Lucy Letby: We know what she did, but why did she do it?

623

Lucy Letby: Allison Morris breaks down the serial killer nurse case

624

The IRA murder of Andrew Kearney

625

Best of the BelTel: The complex legacy of SAS legend Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne

626

BelTel Revisited: The murder of Sean Fox and the hitmen taking out the ‘Marbella Crew’

627

Best of the BelTel: Bloody Friday- the IRA’s blitz of Belfast

628

BelTel Sport: Does the Irish League have a bright future or is it still stuck in the past?

629

Unsolved: Why was the murder of Rosaleen O'Kane not investigated?

630

PSNI Data Breach: officers left vulnerable due to ‘human error’

631

Brian Rowan: "We need outsiders to sort out the legacy of the Troubles"

632

Twitter becomes X: What is Elon Musk thinking and where can those fleeing the platform go?

633

QAnon: The ultimate conspiracy theory - the cabal, a shaman and a former US president

634

Stormont: Politics isn’t working so does Northern Ireland have a workable plan B?

635

Ronan Hughes and ‘Mo’ Robinson: The Armagh people smugglers and their 39 victims

636

Sinead O’Connor: Singer, songwriter, storyteller

637

Will Northern Ireland ever solve its ‘flags’ issue?

638

Best of the BelTel: Belfast Pride, how it began and what life was like for gay people in NI

639

The Peace Train: The IRA’s campaign against cross-border trains and the group set up to oppose it

640

The history of Pride: From the Stonewall Riots to Mardi Gras, how the LGBGT+ movement began

641

Suwei Shang: Where is the woman who stabbed her Derry husband to death?

642

Best of the BelTel: Patricia Curran, who really murdered the judge's daughter? (Part 2)

643

Best of the BelTel: The murder of Patricia Curran and the innocent man framed for it (Part 1)

644

PROMO: ‘I’m Not Here to Hurt You’ – A new podcast about Ireland’s most ‘polite bank robber’

645

Unsolved - the Dublin-Monaghan bombings and a search for the truth

646

Rise of the far-right: Across Europe once untouchable parties are making it in power

647

Best of the BelTel: Dissident Republicanism - why do they continue with violence?

648

Drumcree: The crisis over an Orange parade which brought NI to the brink

649

UFOs: Former Air Force officer says US is hiding alien spacecraft… and bodies

650

Best of the BelTel: The Twelfth - what is the origin of Orange culture?

651

Tubs: Ryan Tubridy, Noel Kelly & Dee Forbes – Profiling the 'talent', his agent & the director

652

The Best of the BelTel: Serial Killers - how are monsters made?

653

Margaret Thatcher: The IRA's plot to kill the 'Iron Lady' in the Brighton Bombing

654

Abusing witness protection: Allison Morris introduces the criminals given a new life paid for by the taxpayer

655

Entrepreneurship: Could teaching young people how to start a business be the key to economic progress?

656

The RTÉ grilling, Ryan Tubridy’s contract and Patrick Kielty’s pay

657

Best of the Beltel: Men are far more likely to be criminals than women, why?

658

Prigozhin, Putin, and what happens next in the battle for power in Russia

659

EXTRA: What Director General Dee Forbes knew – RTÉ break silence on Ryan Tubridy pay scandal

660

China and the USA: What’s driving tensions between the nuclear superpowers?

661

Punishment attacks: ‘What does it say about us that we tolerate the beating, shooting and abuse of our children?’

662

Best of the BelTel: Prigozhin - who is he and what is the Wagner group?

663

Good Friday Agreement: Alex Kane’s historic interview with David Trimble

664

Suzanne Breen: Jamie Bryson sets up secret talks between UDA, UVF and top Tory Simon Hoare

665

Extra: Race against time: the search for missing Titanic tourist sub

666

‘Once Upon A Time in Northern Ireland’: Sam McBride interviews directors of stunning BBC doc

667

Artificial Intelligence: Is it really ‘far more dangerous than nukes’ as the likes of Elon Musk claim?

668

Unsolved: A right royal scandal – who stole the Irish Crown Jewels?

669

The Monster of Romance (Part 2): How Philip O’Shea went from online catfisher to real life stalker – and how he got caught

670

The Monster of Romance (Part 1): ‘Evil’ catfisher threatens dozens of women – just for kicks

671

Chloe Mitchell murder accused ‘escaped three times from secure mental health facility’

672

Sam McBride: 'The state of Defence Forces shows the Irish government and republicans aren't seriously planning for a United Ireland'

673

Queen Elizabeth II, the IRA and the FBI

674

Rory McIlroy on LIV Golf, The PGA Tour merger and Saudi Money: What next for golf?

675

Ireland’s Defence Forces: Does neutrality mean having no military capability?

676

Belfast’s Eamonn Holmes takes no prisoners as he levels the accusations at Phillip Schofield

677

Best of the BelTel: The Birmingham Six, why were they framed and who really planted the IRA's bombs?

678

Phillip Schofield scandal: 'Unwise but not illegal', but will ITV's morning show survive the fallout of his affair?

679

Ireland’s Defence Forces: Not neutral, just defenceless and couldn’t cope with united Ireland, says TD

680

John Caldwell trial: Allison Morris has the latest as seven are charged

681

Allison Morris and Sam McBride survey the NI political landscape after an election earthquake

682

GAA manager Rory Gallagher, Nicola Gallagher and the domestic abuse allegations

683

Lives taken (Pt 4 of 4): ‘I’m still seeking the truth, 51-years-on, I don’t want Robert’s name forgotten’

684

Lives taken (Pt 3 of 4): RUC victim’s son says ‘The IRA had a choice, but they took away other people’s choices when they took their lives’

685

Lives taken (Pt 2 of 4): ‘My father was murdered in front of me when I was ten’ - it was ‘ethnic cleansing’

686

Lives taken (Pt 1 of 4): Slain UDR man’s daughter feels IRA wanted to "get rid of as many Protestants as possible"

687

Profiled: Patrick Kielty, the new Late Late Show host

688

‘How a cult brainwashed me, and how I escaped’

689

Gerard Mackin: Meet the brutal Belfast-born Kinahan enforcer the Irish criminal underworld fears

690

Elections in Belfast, can the ‘others’ become the largest block?

691

Derry and Strabane Council will see Sinn Féin and SDLP fight for the top spot – but the pack is snapping at their heels

692

The Irish Famine: ‘Trevelyan’s Corn’ and should his descendants make amends?

693

NI local elections: Nationalism, Unionism and others battle to win council seats

694

Sectarian incidents continue: is the problem getting even worse?

695

King Charles is crowned with support of just 42% of NI folk for monarchy

696

LucidTalk: Polls, politics and parties – support for Sinn Féin holds, unionists support DUP hardline on Stormont

697

Ann Ogilby: Murdered by teenage UDA girls over jealousy

698

‘Nutting Squad’: Third member of IRA's security unit suspected of being a double agent

699

Sam McBride tells story of Mobuoy, the illegal super dump polluting Londonderry’s water supply

700

Dublin's Trial of the Century (Part 1): The life and crimes of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch

701

Dublin's Trial of the Century (Part 2): Robin Schiller's first-hand account of Regency shooting.

702

Dublin's Trial of the Century (Part 3): Jonathan Dowdall, criminal connections, and his shadow over Sinn Féin

703

Peace and sport in NI: poaching players, police playing GAA, Premier League football in Belfast and the Giants

704

Colm Murphy: Who was the veteran republican found liable for Omagh Bombing?

705

Columba McVeigh: The teenager 'disappeared' by the IRA

706

Unsolved: Allison Morris investigates the murder of Michaela McAreavey

707

Freddie Scappaticci: British spy Stakeknife and IRA 'nutting squad' executioner

708

Good Friday Agreement: ‘25 year later, we are no nearer to agreeing what happened’

709

Peace at last? 25 years on from the Good Friday Agreement

710

Good Friday Agreement: ‘We missed every opportunity’, admits Stormont’s former top spin-doctor

711

Enoch Burke claims 'judge laughed, mocked, and ridiculed me' - controversial Christian's court travails

712

What does Russia really want in Ukraine and what are ordinary Russians thinking?

713

Scissor Sisters: Carved and discarded, the gruesome tactics of Dublin's murderous siblings

714

MI5 raises terror threat in NI to “severe” before US president Biden visit

715

East Belfast UVF expels 20 for drug-dealing as PSNI crack down

716

South-East Antrim UDA: ‘Purge’ underway as new management takes over

717

The week that was in it, Boris, Trump, and the price of a pint

718

Census reveals lower percentage of LGB+ people in NI and more

719

Michael O'Neill: Can the returning Northern Ireland manager recapture the magic of Euro 2016?

720

New IRA: Why do dissident republicans continue with their violent campaigns?

721

The Burkes: Mayo Christian family cause chaos in court

722

Jeffrey Donaldson’s quandary as DUP supporters say ‘No’ to Windsor Framework Brexit deal

723

Belfast’s heroin epidemic, are overdose prevention centres a solution?

724

Michael Carroll, Lottery win disasters and how to avoid them

725

Noel Johnston: The life and crimes of Ballymena’s 'Cocaine King'

726

Bonus: NI's first referendum on a United Ireland, 50 year ago

727

Kim Jong-un's North Korea: Assassinations, nuclear tensions and the child heiress to the throne

728

John DeLorean: The rise and fall of the man who brought the future back to Belfast

729

The murder of Robert McCartney and the IRA cover up

730

What is the Windsor Framework and will it be enough for the DUP?

731

Allison Morris on the New IRA threat after Omagh shooting

732

‘The Firm’ - Lurgan and Portadown’s cross-community crime gang

733

What makes a serial killer and why are we fascinated by them?

734

High profile PSNI detective critical after suspected New IRA gun attack

735

Sean Fox: Drugs boss murdered ‘after protection money for dissidents not passed on’

736

Wagner: Putin's private army of prisoners

737

Nicola Sturgeon: why has the Scottish FM decided to go?

738

Nicola Bulley: Rumours rife as mother of two remains missing

739

Submarines and secret planes: How Dublin's Kinahans and other cartels are smuggling drugs

740

Sam McBride quizzes Paul Gosling, the Englishman arguing for Irish unity

741

Stephen Fulton, the wife-killer forced to resign from top Orange Order position

742

Enoch Burke: What is the Mayo evangelical Christian trying to achieve?

743

‘Mo’ Courtney, the UDA, and trouble brewing on the Shankill

744

Eoin McGonigal - Paddy Mayne’s best friend and SAS original

745

Lucid Talk poll reveals unionists have turned against Good Friday Agreement

746

Meet the Burkes - The evangelical family from Mayo at the centre of controversy

747

True Crime: Robert Black, the making of a child serial killer

748

Andrew Tate: Who is this champion of toxic masculinity?

749

How spy Dennis McFadden and MI5 controlled a human rights group fronted by Gerry Conlon

750

Stephen Nolan on Jamie Bryson, money, and his longing for a family (Part 2)

751

Stephen Nolan: Sam McBride’s exclusive with ‘biggest journo in the country’ (Part 1)

752

Prince Harry: What is he playing at?

753

Allison Morris on the murder of Natalie McNally and the scourge of femicide

754

Crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried and Newry’s millionaire wonderkid

755

Lord Lucan, the horrific murder, his Irish links and could a man in Australia really be him?

756

“My Name is Joseph”: How a young Belfast man lost his life in prison

757

Best of the BelTel: Dennis Donaldson, Britain's agent at the heart of Sinn Féin and the IRA

758

The Best of the BelTel: What happened to Lisa Dorrian?

759

Best of the BelTel: Murdered in prison - How the INLA killed Billy Wright

760

2022, a massive year for news, profound change and not short of farce

761

Best of the BelTel: Inside the mind of Hazel Stewart

762

Best of the BelTel: The story of the Castlereagh Raid

763

Downfall: Sean Quinn, the Cavan Versailles and the wrath of the fairies

764

Colin Harvey makes the case for a United Ireland

765

Lee Reynolds makes the case for the Union

766

The complex legacy of SAS legend Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne

767

Newry gangland murder sparks fears of further bloodshed

768

Wrightbus and Green Pastures in the headlines as court actions begun against the company directors and the mega-church

769

The Loyalist Flag Protests, 10 years on

770

The Peru Two: From dancer to drug smuggler, the Michaela McCollum story

771

Unsolved: The murder of Marian Beattie

772

Sam McBride on the new details which have emerged in the NAMA controversy

773

Prisons are filled with men and not women - is it that men are simply more likely to be 'evil'?

774

Monica McWilliams tells the story of the Northern Ireland Womens’ Coalition

775

Suzanne Breen talks polls, politics and parties and whether ‘joint authority’ is a runner

776

Miscarriage of justice: The story of the Birmingham Six

777

The ‘cost-of-living crisis,’ what is it, who caused it, and how will affect you?

778

New Belfast drug gangs emerge after old guard's secret gangster phones hacked by French spies

779

Lord Mountbatten: Allegations of abuse made against King Charles' mentor

780

The Death Investigator- "Everyone who has children in NI should be worried about this!"

781

"The Belfast agreement was not as good as what was already offered in 1973"- Dermot Nesbitt discusses the past, present and future of unionism

782

Allison Morris reports on Loyalism’s sense of betrayal seeing support for peace ‘waning’

783

Would the Republic vote for a United Ireland?

784

Downing Street's 60 days of chaos!

785

Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald, new book says she's a 'Republican Riddle'

786

'Feis fixing': Irish dancing embroiled in cheating allegations

787

Who killed the judge's daughter?: The murder of Patricia Curran and why her family was not properly investigated (Part 2)

788

Who killed the judge's daughter?: The murder of Patricia Curran and how an innocent man was stitched up for it (Part 1)

789

West Belfast’s ‘Marbella’ drugs crew being decimated by ‘professional’ hitman

790

Carrickfergus, the seaside town in the grip of the UDA and UVF

791

Alex Kane on where ‘despondent’ unionism goes now

792

Whitey Bulger and me – John Crawley on his life as an IRA gunrunner

793

Do we need to dump comforts and capitalism to solve the climate crisis?

794

NI has held a United Ireland border poll before, here’s what happened

795

Madeleine McCann — The little girl lost in time and 15 years of heartbreak

796

Ready, Steady, Census.... Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland

797

Nurses warn hospitals aren’t safe for patients as strikes loom

798

Eamonn McCann: Protestants coming round to the idea of a United Ireland is ‘magical thinking’

799

The Spence family tragedy ten years on, Nevin’s rugby legacy and what might have been

800

Joe Brolly: In the GAA, we treat referees like s**t. It’s a toxic culture that must change

801

Covid-19, was the lockdown necessary and have we dropped our guard too soon?

802

Northern Ireland reacts to the death of Queen Elizabeth II

803

The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson

804

UN Expert - ‘Climate change will lead to war’

805

Sean Quinn, the €100,000 wedding cake, and the right to be forgotten

806

Scottish Independence would be a ‘shock’ for Northern Ireland unionists

807

Princess Diana: The impact of her death and what she was really like

808

Hazel Stewart: The mind of one of Northern Ireland’s most notorious female killers

809

What happened to Lisa Dorrian?

810

Who shot Michael Collins?

811

‘Mucky Marty’ – Who is Northern Ireland’s most prolific pimp?

812

Shot and left for dead: Northern Ireland man who was tortured and shot while his wife was murdered tells his story

813

The BelTel: The Kidnapping Of Shergar - Ireland's most famous missing racehorse

814

Kidnapped- "It was the most terrifying face I've ever seen!"

815

Sectarianism - "It is getting worse!"

816

From RUC Stings To Street Parades - The Story Of Belfast Pride

817

Barrys to Curry's - the story of the takeover that saved summer

818

Bonus Episode: Union leader ‘struggling’ to see how the NI Protocol Bill will improve life for farmers

819

Bloody Friday, the IRA's blitz of Belfast

820

FBI’s Most Wanted - The Bulgarian Cryptoqueen, a $4bn scam, and her Irish connections.

821

Voter fraud, bombs and bullets, from the Armalite to the ballot box, the reality of NI elections

822

The Orange Order and the Twelfth, how did it come about?

823

From Trinity College to leader of Sinn Féin – the making of Mary Lou McDonald

824

Scappaticci, IRA executioner and British agent, Stakeknife

825

IRA Heist - the mystery of the Northern Bank robbery

826

LIV Golf, the Saudi Government and Sportwashing

827

SPECIAL: Northern Ireland’s finest hour, Spain ’82

828

Could Donald Trump end up in jail?

829

The murder of Lyra McKee and the New IRA in Derry

830

Bonus Episode: Sam McBride interviews Maroš Šefčovič.

831

The UDA - why does it still exist?

832

Northern Ireland’s other disappeared, women murdered by men and secretly buried

833

Bonus episode: Why do so many of us love Love Island?

834

'Vladimir Putin has turned Russia into a totalitarian state'

835

The Castlereagh Break-in – how the IRA did it and what they took

836

Airport Chaos: How to get your money back when a flight is cancelled

837

PSNI: Beaten, attacked with bricks and shot at!

838

Ian McElhinney: Star Wars actor and Derry Girls' Granda Joe talks history and spin-offs

839

The story of Ballymena’s Green Pastures mega church and its pastor, Jeff Wright

840

Derry Girls, laughs, nostalgia, and a roaring success for Northern Ireland

841

Cash or reform – what does Northern Ireland’s NHS need most?

842

What exactly is the Northern Ireland Protocol?

843

Northern Ireland’s politics have changed so what happens next?

844

How MI5 agent Dennis McFadden crippled the New IRA

845

Northern Ireland’s key political battles with Suzanne Breen

846

Denis Donaldson, the British agent at the heart of the IRA and Sinn Féin

847

Vindicated: The whistleblower vet who took on the government and won

848

The BelTel - Introduction