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Hospitals are facing huge pressures in the summer

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Euros and Twelfth holidays contributed to summer crisis in NI hospitals, says senior ED nurse as she predicts difficult winter

Patients will be treated in the back of ambulances this winter as pressure mounts on the broken NHS, a senior emergency medicine nurse has warned.

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Donna Crilly from Armagh who had a remarkable transformation of her garden using £2 items during lockdown. Photo by Peter Morrison

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A Co Armagh mum-of-three who longed for her own private space during lockdown has told how she transformed her wasteland of a garden into a stunning, low-cost sanctuary.

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Seven years of blood, sweat and tears unravelled in less than 10 seconds for Rhys McClenaghan in the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo.

Aidan Walsh was the hero of Ireland's boxing team in Tokyo. Pic: INPHO/James Crombie

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Belfast idols and an inspirational sister: The rise of Olympic medalist Aidan Walsh

Before he went to Tokyo, Aidan Walsh was better known as Michaela Walsh’s kid brother. But he comes home as Belfast’s ninth Olympic medallist following in the footsteps of some of the legendary figures in the pugilist trade in the city where boxing matters.

Message: A UVF mural on a gable wall off the Woodstock Road, close to the Cregagh Estate in east Belfast

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Eimear McGovern Opinion Social anxiety is certain to be an obstacle in post-Covid world

As I shut down my laptop after another videochat on Zoom with my book club, that familiar feeling came over me. Sitting in a now-dark room, my partner asleep in the bedroom and having drunk two glasses of wine, I initially felt content. But soon, I started to second-guess everything I had said over the several hours I had spent virtually with my friends.

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The ginger man: how Wayne Adair’s business sprang from his exploits in the family kitchen at age 10

It was the early autumn of 1999 and for 23-year-old Wayne Adair it was the end of another good summer at Papa Capaldi’s ice cream parlour on Queen’s Parade in Bangor. Papa Capaldi’s was something of an institution in the town but when the days grew colder and the nights longer trade just melted away.

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