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Town shocked after salon gun death

A MAN in his 20’s is understood to have taken his own life in a shooting incident at a hair salon in Dungannon.

UUP MLA Danny Kennedy

MPs in row over IRA ‘genocide’

SHOCKED English MPs have rejected a Stormont minister’s testimony that the IRA carried out “genocide” against unionists in south Armagh.

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General view of the Maze Prison / Long Kesh front gates. Picture: Diane Magill

Anger erupts over EU Maze cash

UNIONIST politicians and victims of IRA atrocities have reacted angrily to the revelation that £18m of European funding has been approved for a conflict resolution centre at the Maze.

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David McNarry

UUP probe into ‘McNarry affair’

THE Ulster Unionist Party has announced a probe into the “alleged indiscipline and breaches of party confidentiality” by David McNarry MLA and other party members.

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Dogs attacked 1,000 people in Ulster last year

ALMOST 1,000 people were attacked by dogs last year in Northern Ireland, it can be revealed.

Sport rss

Manx star Kneen confirms roads plans

Hot prospect Dan Kneen will ride a full stable of Suzuki machines at the international road races in 2012.

Ian Hutchinson with the external fixator on his left leg following his crash at Silverstone in 2010

Hutchinson facing uphill struggle

Luckless Ian Hutchinson’s hopes of competing at the Relentless International North West 200 in May hang in the balance after the Swan Yamaha rider broke his left leg during a stunt show rehearsal on Wednesday.

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RBS Six Nations Preview - Ireland ready for Wales test video

Preparations are almost complete for Ireland’s opening game of the Six Nations Championship which is a rematch of the World Cup quarter-final defeat against Wales

Andrew Perry

PERRY AIMING TO ECLIPSE KEY RIVAL

ANDY Perry is hoping to turn the tables on Michael Burton on Sunday when they clash in the Dublin and District club’s Manders Cup eighth round of the Irish trials championship at Glenealy, Co Wicklow.

Friday 15 April 2011; Caroline O'Hanlon in action for Northern Ireland against Scotland in the Home International Netball Championship at the Antrim Forum, County Antrim.

Mandatory Credit - John Dickson - www.dicksondigital.com

O’Hanlon pleased to have Mcintosh in charge

Northern Ireland’s star player Caroline O’Hanlon has welcomed the appointment of double World Cup winner Jill McIntosh as the new national coach.

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RBS Six Nations Preview - Ireland ready for Wales test video

Preparations are almost complete for Ireland’s opening game of the Six Nations Championship which is a rematch of the World Cup quarter-final defeat against Wales

Lifestyle rss

Billy (Kenneth Branagh) and Norman (James Ellis) had a fractious relationship in the drama

It’s all about Billy

GRAHAM Reid’s Billy plays, screened in the 1980s, offered, for the first time, a glimpse into working-class Ulster Portestant life.

Get creative with Young at Artand help make cardboard cities

Entertainment for short attention spans

THE BELFAST Children’s Festival returns with a week-long programme beginning, March 9, of fun-filled events and low cost activities for children aged 0-14.

Host a tea party and raise vital funds for ovarian cancer research

Host a tea party and fundraise for cancer

EVERY year in Northern Ireland more than 180 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Grim statistics, yet funding and awareness of ovarian cancer remains low.

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Who will be 2012 Nurse of the Year?

THE search is on to find the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2012.

Wonder Woman Niamh Callan, is taking off to sign up for the Ulster Cancer Foundation (UCF) Wonder Woman Challenge on Sunday, April 1.

Sign up for charity’s Wonder Woman challenge

WONDER Woman Niamh Callan is taking off to sign up for the Ulster Cancer Foundation (UCF) Wonder Woman Challenge in April.

Community rss

IAN PAISLEY: In praise of our heavenly ‘Vagabond King’

THE New Statesman recently carried an article entitled The Vagabond King. It tells the story of Valentine Strasser. In 1992 he became the world’s youngest head of state when he seized power in Sierra Leone. But now, according to this article, he lives with his mother and spends his days drinking gin by the roadside.

NI needs to take reins from London

I ENJOYED Alex Kane’s musing on the possibilities of a Northern Ireland ‘Arab spring’.

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Time to muzzle dogs

YET again another child is savaged by a dog, so I ask: how long will it take before a child is killed by such dogs?

NICK GARBUTT: The demonisation of Fred ‘the Shred’

BY the time I joined National Australia Bank Fred ‘the Shred’ Goodwin had already left. I never found anyone who had a good word to say about him.

Confusion reigns over Sabbath laws

IN response to Mr Boyd’s letter (December 19) concerning the Sabbath commandment, much of the confusion relating to the law of God is due to a lack of understanding regarding its three-fold division.

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