We filmed with the Extern crisis team in Derry for a 2020 Spotlight programme about rising suicide rates. In one 24 hour period staff were a life line for the most vulnerable, many in desperate situations. Where will they go now?
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Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments
The late-night host said on Monday that Trump's allies were
ABC pulls late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off air indefinitely over comments he made about Charlie Kirk shooting.
Celebrating the announcement, President Donald Trump said it was "great news for America". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israel threatens national film awards after Palestinian story wins top prize
The Sea follows a boy from the occupied West Bank who wants to visit Tel Aviv to see the sea for the first time.
Israel's culture minister threatens to axe funding for the country's national Ophir film awards - Israelโs equivalent of the Oscars - after The Sea, a story about a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, wins top award. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Daniel has not been seen for over four years and was only discovered missing after the Department of Social Protection alerted Irish Child and Family agency, TUSLA, to irregularities in an application for child support payments.
17.09.2025 13:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Dublin: Skeletal remains found in search for missing boy
Gardaรญ say they believe the remains are of Daniel Aruebose, who was believed to be about two years old at the time of his disappearance.
Co Dublin: Skeletal remains found of young boy who had been missing and presumed dead in Donabate.
Gardaรญ believe the remains are of Daniel Aruebose, not seen for a number of years and who would now be seven. BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
17.09.2025 13:31 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
MI5 'illegally obtained communications data' from phone of former BBC journalist Vincent Kearney
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has heard that MI5 conceded unlawfully obtaining communications data twice.
MI5 'illegally obtained communications data' from phone of former BBC NI Spotlight journalist Vincent Kearney.
A BBC spokesperson said: "MI5's admission..is a matter of grave concern. It raises serious & impt questions that we will continue to pursue." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
16.09.2025 09:51 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
UN commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza since 2023.
Killing members of a group, causing serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, preventing births. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Irish presidential candidate said she had attended Orange Order parades as a child.
While that stopped when the Troubles broke out, she said Ireland had moved to a point where Orange bands had participated in St Patrick's Day parades in Monaghan @rtenews
14.09.2025 13:41 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Delighted to speak at the NI premiere of Gerard Gormanโs life story, BOY at the Linenhall. Ground breaking, brave work that explores the devastating fall out of child sexual abuse while touching and lifting the soul through music and poetry. Bringing understanding, hope, & healing.
14.09.2025 13:40 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Humphreys takes message of unity to campaign trail
There was fervent support for Heather Humphreys at her campaign launch in Monaghan town yesterday, an event which was packed to the rafters, writes Paul Cunningham.
Presbyterian presidential candidate, Heather Humphreys, says she feels she is an example to NI unionists of a new Irelandโฆโa tolerant, inclusive Ireland that can accommodate different traditions and viewpoints.โ @rtenews www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
14.09.2025 13:38 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at Gaza aid sites - BBC
โPutting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan.โ Council on American-Islamic Relations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
14.09.2025 13:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Garda probe into disappearance of child feared dead
Gardaรญ are investigating the disappearance of a child whom they fear may have died in unreported and suspicious circumstances in Dublin.
Dublin - A year after Kyran Durnin was first reported missing Irish police are searching for another child missing for a significant period of time, now feared dead. Frightening. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...
01.09.2025 21:46 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
The UDA have set themselves up as housing officers..โ
Victims campaigner, Raymond McCord @StephenNolan as catholic families intimidated out of north Belfast development by the west Belfast UDA and ethnic minority households living in fear of attack.
01.09.2025 21:44 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
A privilege to be part of the NI premiere of the searingly powerful BOY by Damian Gorman @thelinenhall 11 Sept. The story, in words & music, of his brother Gerard who endured horrific abuse at the hands of Fr Malachy Finegan. Gerardโs courage inspired many other men to come forward.
01.09.2025 21:43 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Iโll have more on this story in BBC Newsline
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Stormont: Charities call for executive to drop anti-poverty strategy
The letter says families
โIt is more harmful to have a strategy that will not address poverty, than no strategy at all.โ
Almost 50 charities & anti-poverty orgs in Northern Ireland call on executive to drop anti-poverty strategy saying families โdeserve betterโ. BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hundreds of neighbors rally to give a 9-year-old with cancer one last Christmas
The days leading up to the Saturday night event were hot and humid but that didnโt stop the community from decorating miles of houses for Kasey Zachmann.
Hundreds of households celebrated Christmas in June for a little girl with cancer who might not make it to December.
In the thick heat and humidity, neighbors dressed in holiday apparel gathered to help one family find happiness in the face of tragedy.
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A picture of violence: The 27 women killed in four years
In at least 20 of the 27 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.
A picture of violence @ItaDungan
27 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland as young pregnant mother Sarah Montgomery latest name to be added to devastating roll call. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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BBC News NI on X: "A man has been arrested over the murder of a pregnant mother of two in Donaghadee. https://t.co/778EyB2w4M" / X
A man has been arrested over the murder of a pregnant mother of two in Donaghadee. https://t.co/778EyB2w4M
Another woman, a young mother, murdered in Northern Ireland.
โUnfortunately Sarah isn't the first woman to pass away in Donaghadee in the past year, or in Northern Ireland.
"I've almost lost count on how many women have passed away in tragic circumstances since 2020."
29.06.2025 19:44 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A&E โcorridor careโ now normal at NHS hospitals in England, senior doctor says
Consultantโs comments come as north London hospital posts specific ad for corridor care nurses
senior doctor in emergency medicine has said โalmost every hospital is treating patients in corridors and car parksโ after a hospital posted adverts calling for nurses to take on 12-hour โcorridor careโ shifts. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
13.01.2025 09:35 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
NI emergency departments: Elderly patients spend five days in hospital ED
At 17:00 GMT on Monday, 1,052 people were in Northern Ireland's nine EDs, up from 797 on Sunday night.
Must Read @mlchealth @BBCNewsNI
Two elderly patients in the emergency department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast for more than 5 days.
Over 500 patients unable to be discharged on Sunday night, despite being medically fit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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