🗣🚨'We have to deal with our past' and if we don't, there is 'no clear path going forward.'

I've spoken to Ulster Unionist Party Leader Doug Beattie 👇

🗣'An appalling atrocity': Ulster Unionist Party Leader Doug Beattie reflects on the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

He told Political Reporter James that 'we have to deal with our past' and if we don't, there is 'no clear path going forward.'

Watch below👇

🚨👇I spoke to Sinn Féin MP John Finucane MP on the 50th anniversary of the Dublin & Monaghan bombings.

I asked him does he want to see Labour put in manifesto that the party will repeal the Legacy Act.

🚨NEW: MP John Finucane MP on 50th anniversary of Dublin & Monaghan bombings.

Reflecting on his own experience with loss, even 50 years on, he knows it doesn't get easier.

He tells James 'it would not cause any discomfort' if Labour put in manifesto to repeal Legacy Act.

🚨There are huge crowds here in Dublin for the commemoration of the victims of the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

📍President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins and Taoiseach, Simon Harris TD will also be here.

🚨👇35 people were killed, which included two unborn babies.

It remains the greatest loss of life on any single day of the Troubles.

🗣🚨An incredibly powerful statement from Brenda Doherty following the final day of the UK Covid Inquiry in Belfast.

It's a privilege to be trusted to share some of the stories from those who have lost loved ones over the last few weeks.

Lauren Mallon (She/Her)
LizzieAlíBeth
P.A. Duffy & Co. Solicitors

❗️🗣'Now bloody go and do it or I'll headbutt ya.'

🗣Brenda Doherty from NI Covid-19 Bereaved Families quotes Mo Mowlam 'in full' & in 'true NI fashion.'

⛔️She says she is 'sick' voting politicians in, and then 'they do nothing.'

Political Reporter James was there.

🚨UK Covid Inquiry: Sue Gray leaves the Inquiry in Belfast.

It is the last day of it here.

She was giving evidence for just under an hour today.

Political Reporter James is there.

🗣'Now bloody well, get on and do it.'

❗️🗣'Now bloody well, get on and do it.'

🗣Brenda Campbell KC, on behalf of NI Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, finishes her statement with a message to 'those who represent us.'

📻Our Political Reporter James is at the UK Covid Inquiry in Belfast.

❗️'Political maturity and good leadership were in remarkably short supply.'

🗣🚨Covid Inquiry: 'The road to ruin is paved with good intentions'

❗️Brenda Campbell KC on behalf of NI Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, starts a powerful statement.

❗️'Political maturity and good leadership were in remarkably short supply.'

James is there.

🚨🗣Covid Inquiry: When asked to compare how 'collective responsibility operates in Northern Ireland' to Westminster:

❗️Sue Gray says: 'It is very different.'

Political Reporter James is at the final day of the Inquiry in Belfast.

⛔️After three weeks in Belfast, it is the last day of the UK Covid Inquiry here.

We've heard from those involved in making decisions for how NI was to deal with the virus.

I'll have updates from the final day.

🚨📍Good morning. It is the final day of the UK Covid Inquiry in Belfast.

🗣Former Permanent Secretary, Department of Finance, Sue Gray is giving evidence.

She will not be giving evidence for the full day.

Our Political Reporter James will update throughout today.

🚨👏 'Cool FM is now the only station with more than half a million listeners in NI.'

🙌'Consolidating new position as Northern Ireland's biggest radio station.'

Stuart Robinson
Cool FM

🚨👇It was a pleasure to speak to Khalid today.

He wants to get the family that he has left out of Gaza and to safety.

🗣'I just want her to come for five minutes and see the kids'

Belfast-born Palestinian Khalid El-Astal's wife Ashwak was killed in Gaza back in November.

🎤He told Reporter James that he still sends texts to her phone with photos of their kids.

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👇🎤Thanks to Lizzie for sharing her story with today at the UK Covid Inquiry.

She's calling for a Northern Ireland specific inquiry when this one ends tomorrow.

Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK