Best of Nolan Podcast
Stephen Nolan's no nonsense approach to confronting the biggest issues of the day: an unmissable mixture of news, phone ins and entertainment. From BBC Radio Ulster
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Tributes to journalist Lyra McKee after she was murdered in Derry last night
Today
Dissident republicans have been blamed for the killing during a riot in the Creggan area
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Patrons scream as rat scurries around Portrush restaurant and is then killed in front of diners
Yesterday
A video that's being shared on social media shows the rodent running amongst tables.
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Irish journalist describes coverage of Notre-Dame fire as 'hysterical'
Wednesday
It follows round the clock coverage of the fire that engulfed the 850 year old cathedral
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IS bride Shamima Begum expected to get legal aid to fight for UK citizenship
Tuesday
Vinny Hurrell stands in for Stephen.
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"I hate the way Ireland is being used to try to scupper Brexit" - Author Brendan O'Neill
Monday
Talks between the government and Labour are set to continue over the Easter recess.
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Boris Johnson holds talks with DUP as pressure increases on PM - the Times report.
Last Friday
Boris Johnson holds talks with DUP as pressure increases on PM - the Times report.
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Trick or treat? It's a Halloween Brexit as deadline moves to 31st October
Last Thursday
What difference will it make?
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Footballer Jay Donnelly jailed over distributing an indecent image of a child
Wed 10 Apr 2019
Plus, is it time Belfast introduced a vehicle levy to help tackle pollution?
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It's revealed 20 senior council employees in NI are paid over £100K a year
Tue 9 Apr 2019
Is it too much? Or the going rate to get the best people for the top jobs?
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Journalist Paul Martin tells Nolan about his devastating cancer diagnosis
Mon 8 Apr 2019
"To be confronted with your own mortality at 41 is a very strange feeling" - Paul Martin
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PSNI ACC Alan Todd hits out at "vile and reprehensible" dissident republican threats on car recovery companies
Fri 5 Apr 2019
Plus John McCririck talks racing, growing old and he had some words of wisdom for Stephen
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Outrage as footage of soldiers from the Parachute Regiment shooting an image of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn emerge online
Thu 4 Apr 2019
A former Labour Defence Minister says the soldiers filmed need a "kick up the backside".
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Frankie Boyle and the BBC are lambasted after the comedian jokes about the IRA
Wed 3 Apr 2019
The comedian is under fire again as joke about IRA killing Tories causes outcry
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Alarming increase in diabetes rates in Northern Ireland as they spike by 70%
Tue 2 Apr 2019
Stephen spoke to the GP Dr George O'Neill and asked if he was surprised by the figures.
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Families of Dunmurry Manor Care Home are demanding to be given a place on an oversight group of the Independent Review
Mon 1 Apr 2019
Independent Review into how elderly people were historically neglected at the home
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The Brexit Day that wasn't - PM repeatedly said we would leave the EU on 29th March
Fri 29 Mar 2019
As of now we still don't know when we're leaving, if we're leaving, how we're leaving.
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The Brexit chaos continues - Theresa May has promised Tory MPs she will quit if they back her Brexit deal
Thu 28 Mar 2019
She told backbench Tories, "I am prepared to leave this job earlier than I intended'.
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It's Brexit "lucky dip day" as MPs vote on a series of alternatives to Theresa May's withdrawal deal
Wed 27 Mar 2019
MPs are preparing to vote for their peference on how we leave or maybe stay in the EU
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Liam Neeson erased from from the latest QUB undergraduate prospectus
Tue 26 Mar 2019
Nolan show is aware that an instruction was given for him to be removed.
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Should MPs back Theresa May's Brexit deal if she says she'll step down as Prime Minister?
Mon 25 Mar 2019
It comes after a weekend of speculation of a plot to oust her as PM.
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No deal? May’s deal? or potentially an extension? Where do we stand with Brexit deadline looming?
Fri 22 Mar 2019
Plus, could a full functioning Stormont return post Brexit?
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Older Peoples Commissioner’s concern over independent review into Dunmurry Manor
Thu 21 Mar 2019
Shocking revelations about issues within the health service in Northern Ireland.
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Controversy as Belfast boxer Michael Conlan enters the ring to song featuring "Ooh ah up the Ra”
Tue 19 Mar 2019
The Belfast boxer was fighting on St. Patricks night in New York's Madison Square Garden
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British army veterans planning to protest after it is announced that one soldier is to be prosecuted for Bloody Sunday
Fri 15 Mar 2019
The PPS said there was insufficient evidence to prosecute 16 other soldiers
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Widespread anger as Martin McGuinness awarded a posthumous "certificate of honour" by the city of San Francisco
Mon 11 Mar 2019
Plus, fallout after more long delays at Belfast International Airport.
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Belfast Roma leaders 'intimidating and exploiting' - a Nolan investigation
Mon 3 Dec 2018
Hear the secret recordings, political reaction and more in this Nolan investigation.
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A series of ugly brawls at GAA matches - is violence getting out of hand in Gaelic football?
Tue 9 Oct 2018
Sports journalist Steven Beacom and commentator Daithi McKay discuss.
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UFC mass brawl, and will be ever see a female Bond?
Mon 8 Oct 2018
UFC fight ends in mass brawl, and will be ever see a female Bond?
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Nolan Investigation: NI's TAX dodgers exposed
Fri 10 Nov 2017
Paradise Papers. A special podcast from the Nolan Show
