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The Ulster Titans, Northern Ireland’s first gay friendly rugby team
On a waste ground off the Ormeau Road in Belfast, a rugby team trains on earth
ground in the biting Northern Irish winter. Every so often they have to stop
their passing plays while one of them goes to the petrol station to buy more
diesel for the generator powering the halogen lights.
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Annual search for BT Woman of the year
Do you know a carer worthy of winning a Belfast Telegraph Woman of the Year
award?
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Northern Ireland’s Frank Carson and Jimmy Cricket are keeping the fans laughing
An almost balmy night at the height of the summer season at Blackpool's Opera
House and an excited sell-out crowd is standing to attention to the
patriotic strains of God Save the Queen. Families with children, pensioners
and people in wheelchairs are clutching their bulldog-emblazoned programmes
and waving Union flags in happy anticipation of the evening's entertainment.
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Can today's women really have it all?
As more of us admit we're happier at home than in the workplace, is the myth
of 'supermum' over?
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Special report: What it's like when your husband is a paedophile
This Sunday the BBC screens a major new drama about the families of men caught
sharing images of child sex abuse. Here, researcher Clare Dwyer Hogg meets
three wives whose real experiences informed the show — and hears how one
knock on the door changed their lives forever.
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How to look well, feel well and live well
Getting to grips with a change in lifesyle may not be as difficult as you
think. Don't worry, help is at hand...
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Ulster witch spellbound in Armagh
If you thought witches, spells and covens belonged in fairy tales then think
again, as practising witch Sarah Cavanagh (56), from Co Armagh, tells
Stephanie Bell
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Fiat 500 Abarth
There's something hugely appealing about the unexpectedly fast, small car.
It's the combination of cute looks and the promise of major amusement from
cheeky, giant-killing performance.
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Mums tips for coping with first day at school
Nerves, tears and tantrums — and that’s just the mums. Kerry McKittrick asks
some of our best-known mothers how they cope with that heart-wrenching first
day at school
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So, just why is there a shortage of priests here?
With precious few candidates for the priesthood and rapidly emptying pews, the
Catholic Church is being forced to accept radical change.
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Ulster schoolgirl heading off on Arctic expedition
A Banbridge teenager is packing up her woollies as she prepares to embark on
an epic expedition to the Arctic to witness climate change at first hand.
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Road test: It's a flat ride when the bumps are smoothed out
The Citroën C5 Tourer took me serenely across Europe. But the drive was so stress-free it made me nostalgic for a car with a few rough edges
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Late summer is a lovely time to discover Latvia's capital, with space to appreciate the impressive architecture, as well as the city's cosmopolitan atmosphere. By Neil Taylor
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Barack Obama: The words of a dream
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Me & my health: Lucy Evangelista
Former Miss UK Lucy Evangelista (22) is a bit of a sleepyhead and loves nothing more than staying in bed until lunch time. She got engaged to boyfriend Matt in June and they live in east Belfast
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• David Healy: World Cup qualifying - here we go again
Ever since we lost to Spain and failed to qualify for Euro 2008, I’ve been waiting for the World Cup qualifiers to start.
• Robert Fisk: It's never good to swap people for bodies
Al-Jazeera – much praised by the now-dying US administration until it started reporting the truth about the American occupation of Iraq (at which point, you may recall, George Bush wanted to bomb it) – is back in hot water. And not, I fear, without reason.
• Adrian Logan: There’s no place like Tyrone for believing
The dream final is on. After yesterday’s thrilling All-Ireland semi-final, it’s Tyrone against Kerry in Croke Park in three weeks time.
• Laurence White: If you’ve finished posturing, can we get on with politics, please?
Maybe DUP leader Peter Robinson is starting to warm to Sinn Fein after all. In a statement in the wake of the Independent Monitoring Commission report which said that the IRA is now a spent force incapable, even if it wanted, of starting up a terrorist campaign again, Mr Robinson made it clear he is not entirely convinced that the Provos Army Council is totally redundant.
• Frances Burscough: Why I won’t miss smarmy Laurence off my TV screen
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, the dandy decorator from Dulwich with big hair and an even bigger head, must be one of the most annoying ‘personalities’ on TV, don’t you think?
• Lindy McDowell: Why Gordon should put a cork in it
Not since the days of Oliver Cromwell have we had a dourer bunch at the helm of the ship of state. Not since the days of Nostradamus have we had to listen to more dire predictions. Gordon Brown’s government has become the political equivalent of a hen house that’s just got a whiff of a prowling fox.
• Pól Ó Muirí: Going back to school teaches us all patience
In January people join gyms; in September they enrol in night classes. Yes, it is that time of year when you decide to challenge the brain and go to that evening class. The impetus varies.
• Ed Curran: Why is it always raining in Northern Ireland newsrooms?
Well, that was the summer that was. Or should I say: wasn't! I missed the worst of August thankfully through being on holiday in eat-your-heart-out, sun-kissed France, followed by the Olympics in Beijing.
• Billy Simpson: Every swan has to sing sometime
A recent trip to the breathtaking North Antrim coast reminded our writer of growing up in the ‘best location in the world’
• Victoria Brown: My husband has been kidnapped and sent to prison in Mexico
Recent readers of my husband Cooper's column will undoubtedly know that he was having some problems with the immigration authorities here in the United Kingdom.
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