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Graeme's secet agony

Golf ace Graeme McDowell has been nursing a secret heartache while celebrating his US Open win.

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Snow Patrol outside the Duke of York, where a special plaque was unveiled in their honour

Ulster Pub of the Year awards: Duke of York

Sunday, 20 June 2010

It's Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody's favourite bar -- and the Duke Of York gets his vote for the Ulster Pub of the Year crown.
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Search is on for our top pub

Sunday, 20 June 2010

Pubs of Ulster, formerly known as the Federation of the Retail Licensed Trade, is calling on publicans to demonstrate the very best that the local pub trade has to offer in a bid to become the Pub of the Year 2010.
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Thomas McAuley under arrest in thailand

Belfast father's firing squad nightmare

Monday, 24 May 2010

A Belfast man will know in six weeks time whether he is to be executed.
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Rebecca McGrath has vowed to stand by boyfriend Kirk McCambley

Kirk's girl stands by her man

Sunday, 17 January 2010

THIS is the pretty Ulster teenager who stole Kirk McCambley's heart after his relationship with Iris Robinson soured.
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He threw Iris a bone

Sunday, 17 January 2010

HAVE a butcher’s at this snap of another lover of Iris Robinson. He’s beefy butcher Billy McCambley — the DAD of the former DUP MP’s toyboy lover Kirk McCambley.
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Foreplay to screenplay

Sunday, 17 January 2010

The race is on to turn the sensational story of Iris Robinson’s sordid sex romps with her toyboy lover Kirk McCambley into a smash-hit movie.
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UUP line up Nesbitt for Robinson's seat

Sunday, 17 January 2010

Victims Commissioner and ex-UTV presenter Mike Nesbitt is being lined up to stand as a UUP candidate to fill Iris Robinson’s Westmintser seat.
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Niamh McKee is better known as Wee Nasty

'Wee Nasty' revealed

Sunday, 17 January 2010

She looks like any normal schoolgirl, but this teen hides a terrible secret — it was her vicious attack on a helpless pensioner that led to his murder.

It's Shame McGowan

Sunday, 17 January 2010

SHAMELESS star Aaron McCusker has revealed how he once had to take to the stage and fill in for his hero Shane MacGowan.
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Cowen slams child abuse

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has branded the Catholic Church cover-up of hellish child rapes by paedo priests as “shocking and disturbing”.
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  Natalie Portman

Ulster models’ roles as stand-ins for movie star Natalie

Sunday, 29 November 2009

It might look like her on screen — but it’s not nudity-shy Natalie Portman’s flesh on display in her new movie.
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Fiona Hurley night at Richill house with NI Paranormal Society

Our girl goes in search of scary goings-on with Ulster’s very own ghoul hunters

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Scare we are again — it’s Hallowe’en. It seems to have come in frighteningly quick and this year I sought help to look for some spooks. I spent an evening with Northern Ireland’s paranormal society, PSI, on the hunt for “ghosties and ghoulies and long-leggit beasties and things that go bump in the night”, as the famous old Scottish prayer describes them.
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Van Morrison

Sunday Life reclaims the celebs with Ulster ties

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Van Morrison and Liam Neeson might be renowned for being as Northern Irish as the Ulster Fry. But they are just part of a long list of A-listers with family ties to Northern Ireland. It turns out the Province has been home to them all, from millionaires to Hollywood stars, fashion icons to notorious politicians.
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Emma Louise Johnston with niece baby Holly

How recession has meant more mums giving birth in Ulster

Sunday, 1 November 2009

The Mid-Ulster town of Magherafelt has been experiencing a baby boom with the highest number of births from across the province in recent years. Could it be something in the water or is there something in the air? I went in search of answers and headed along to the Parent/Toddler and Baby group at the local leisure centre.
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Sunday Life's Gail Henderson meets,

Britain’s Got Talent stars shocked by vast crowds at Ballymena appearance

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Britain’s Got Talent stars Stavros Flatley had to console panic-stricken children and their worried parents before a fraught public appearance at a Co Antrim shopping centre last week.
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Keira McCormack

Shock as Kevin becomes counsellor Keira

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Meet the TRANSSEXUAL rape counsellor who saw vulnerable victims while wearing HIGH HEELS, LEGGINGS and LIPSTICK. Burly Keira McCormack, 47 — who used to be a quantity surveyor known as Kevin — was employed at the Nexus Institute in Belfast from 2005 to May this year.

John and Edward Grimes

Jedward rock the audience with belting Queen classic

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Love them or loathe them, it’s hard to ignore them — 18-year-old Dublin twins John and |Edward Grimes are the most talked about teenagers in town right now.
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Mark Smyth

Man who publicly denied the murder of Lisa Dorrian convicted of multiple motor offences

Sunday, 25 October 2009

A man who went public to deny involvement in the murder of Lisa Dorrian has got himself into trouble with the police — again. Drug dealer Mark Smyth has been banned from driving for five years and ordered to do 240 hours’ community service after being convicted of a drink-driving escapade.
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Sunday Life's Gail Henderson meets TV presenter Craig Doyle

TV hunk Craig on why there will be no more stripping now he has kids

Sunday, 25 October 2009

Hunky telly presenter Craig Doyle has described how becoming a father has changed his life — including how he acts in front of the camera. The Dublin-born ITV sports presenter — once dubbed the ‘sexiest man on the planet’ — was often pictured without his shirt during the seven years he presented the Holiday show.
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Lt. Hannah Keenan with Isobel Geddis

After six months fighting Taliban in Helmand, brave squaddies meet families

Sunday, 25 October 2009

Signs on either side of the gates of Abercorn Barracks at Ballykinler declared ‘Job done — swift and bold’ yesterday as around 70 soldiers from The Rifles 2nd Battalion returned home after their tour in Afghanistan.
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