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News [1]
Opinion [2]
Business [3]
Sport [4]
Life [5]
Entertainment [7]
Travel [8]
Sunday Life [9]

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Life

Reptile lover: TikTok star Hannah McSorley with a bullfrog called Jabba, a chameleon and a bearded dragon

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The Northern Ireland social media stars making most of lockdown

From baking banana bread to painting the house, we all sought ways to keep ourselves busy in lockdown. Catriona Doherty hears from four local people who turned to the internet for entertainment and watched as their pages became overnight success stories.

Rainbow knit: Australian Open tennis champion Naomi Osaka’s cover shoot for the March edition of GQ magazine, wearing a chunky knitted cardigan by NI designer Hope Macaulay

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Tennis ace Naomi Osaka sports Portstewart fashion designer's rainbow knitwear on cover of GQ magazine

Making your way in the tough world of fashion is all about getting your name out there, finding the best exposure for your designs.

Outdoors: Paula McFetridge enjoys a walk around Ormeau Park

Features

Me and my health: Paula McFetridge on her lifestyle

Paula McFetridge (54), from Belfast, is Artistic Director of Kabosh Theatre Company and has just directed Laurence McKeown's powerful new play Before You Go. She is married to playwright and actor Vincent Higgins

Happy outlook: Peter Bradley at his Carryduff home with wife Lisa and three-month-old baby Fin and dog Lola

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How we're helping other people who have a stammer to find their voice

According to The British Stammering Association, 8% of children will stammer at some point, but most will go on to talk fluently. However, for up to 3% of adults, it will be a lifelong condition.

Rev Canon Ian Ellis

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Rev Canon Ian Ellis: 'The coronavirus has forced all of us into rethinking our core values'

Rev Canon Ian Ellis is Church of Ireland Bishop-elect for Clogher. He is married to Heather and they have three grown-up children and three grandchildren.

Happy day: Joanne Doody and her husband Mark, went ahead with their planned wedding in October 2020, despite restrictions

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Planning your big day during a pandemic

In January, Caoimhe Doyle from Dromara set up the 'Covid Bride Tribe' on Instagram and already has almost 2,000 followers.

Features

Terrible tiredness: more people are struggling with their sleep but Deirdre Martin insists there are ways to help, such as not bringing phones to bed

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Sleep tight: How you can get a good night’s rest

Experts say that things are far from hopeless when it comes to love in the time of Covid

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Why things are far from hopeless when it comes to love in the time of Covid

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Recipe For Disaster: A Piece of Cookalong Theatre was great fun

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Cookalong theatre was a Recipe for Disaster ... but what a laugh we all had

Canon Shane Forster

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'Adopting my two children has been the best experience of my whole life': What I Believe with Canon Shane Forster

The Big Ask

Turning to crime: Novelist Sharon Dempsey

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The Big Ask with Belfast writer Sharon Dempsey: 'I'd no confidence when I was young. You change by saying yes to things'

Belfast writer Sharon Dempsey (51) lives with husband Liam and daughter Sarah. The journalist has published fiction and non-fiction and facilitates writing classes for those affected by health challenges

High notes: Singer Cara Dillon

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The Big Ask with singer Cara Dillon: 'Mum taught me nothing is more important than kindness'

Q Tell us about your childhood.

Suits you: Chris Suitor

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The Big Ask with Chris Suitor: 'It's important to keep going, no matter what happens'

In this week's interview we talk to Chris Suitor (38) who lives in Dundonald with this wife Nichola (37), daughters Ava (9) and Lois (7), and pet dog Gucci. Chris is a partner and Creative Director at Suitor Brothers, Belfast

Right step: Irish dancer Jason O’Neill

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The Big Ask with Jason O'Neill: 'The streets of Belfast became my stage when pandemic hit'

Q Tell us about your childhood

Family Life - September 2020

Autumn tidings - time for new beginnings.

The Belfast Telegraph at 150

No stopping the 'Tele' from hitting the streets, despite having been rocked by an explosion. Here newsboy Joe Officer makes his way through the rubble to sell Belfast Telegraph's.

Belfast Telegraph at 150

The big anniversary read: 150 years of the Belfast Telegraph

Behold the front page... for a century-and-a-half the Tele has been a window into our world of hope and despair. On its 150th anniversary, Ivan Little retraces its history.

George Best in the Belfast Telegraph newsroom in 1961 (left) and the front page of the Belfast Telegraph following his death in November 2005 (right).

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Incredible highs and pitiful lows: How the Belfast Telegraph charted George Best’s life in the public eye

Belfast Telegraph. Page One. IRA Ceasefire Announced 'IT'S OVER' Front page headline. 31/8/1994

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‘Wow, this is it!’ – The day the Belfast Telegraph reported the news of the 1994 IRA ceasefire

A composite image showing Bombay Street in 1969 and 2019

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The Troubles: The Tele of 1969 saw the eruption of violence as a storm that would pass

RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage in 1912, killing over 1,500

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'The Titanic Sinking’: The story behind the telegram with which the Belfast Telegraph landed one of history’s greatest scoops

Homes & interiors

This year has seen a focus on homes like never before as Covid-19 has corralled everyone indoors for extended periods.

Fashion and Beauty

Rainbow knit: Australian Open tennis champion Naomi Osaka’s cover shoot for the March edition of GQ magazine, wearing a chunky knitted cardigan by NI designer Hope Macaulay

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Tennis ace Naomi Osaka sports Portstewart fashion designer's rainbow knitwear on cover of GQ magazine

Philip Macartney

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Northern Ireland fashion firms get online boost from Republic

South Belfast 12-year-old Cara Mailey struts her stuff in some of the outfits she’s helped design

Northern Ireland

Belfast girl Cara (12) teams up with top London designers to create clothing range for children with dwarfism

Slower pace of life: New York fashion designer Yuri Lee Keown at her husband’s farm in Kilkeel

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Manhattan fashion designer Yuri Lee Keown on creating her sustainable fashion brand Love Wonky in Co Down

Health and Wellbeing

Outdoors: Paula McFetridge enjoys a walk around Ormeau Park

Features

Me and my health: Paula McFetridge on her lifestyle

Nicola Anderson. Photograph: Ruth Medjber @ruthlessimagery

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Cancer, Covid and me: ‘One tiny lump set on world domination’

Marie Louise O’Donnell is an Irish academic and broadcaster, who served as a Senator in the Republic from 2011 to 2020. Photo: Gerry Mooney

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‘Covid was petrifying... I have always been afraid of dying but I didn’t care now – being alive was more terrifying’

Peak fitness: Olympian Aimee Fuller

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On your bike: Olympic snowboarder Aimee Fuller on why you should take up cycling this winter

House and Home

Picturesque: The ‘unique’ property at Springmount Road on the outskirts of Ballymena

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In Pictures: 'Unique' Ballymena country estate on sale for £1.2m attracting lots of attention

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NI house hunters can go on virtual tour thanks to firm's new software

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Holywood couple create their dream home on a shoestring... Fiona and James tackle fixer-upper with video tutorials and elbow grease

Kevin and Elaine McWhinney

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Northern Ireland's Hollywood Hills: Millionaire pumps entire fortune into row of dream homes near Bangor

Food and Drink

Toast Office fancy ham and cheese

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Review: Belfast street food to melt your heart

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Recipe For Disaster: A Piece of Cookalong Theatre was great fun

Joris Minne Premium

Cookalong theatre was a Recipe for Disaster ... but what a laugh we all had

Restaurant Reviews Premium

NI football legend Gerry Armstrong teams up with chef Derek Steele for cookery show

Roam Pop-Up at Kaff in Gymco, The Devenish, Finaghy. www.roampopup.com

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Sing-a-long with chef Ryan for a superb culinary treat at The Devenish in Belfast

Books

Turning to crime: Novelist Sharon Dempsey

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The Big Ask with Belfast writer Sharon Dempsey: 'I'd no confidence when I was young. You change by saying yes to things'

Online events: Author Paul McVeigh will host Northern Ireland Writers Day

Northern Ireland

A first in literature: Inaugural NI Writers Day is announced

Aine Toner reviews a range of new reads, ideal for staying at home

Books

What's booking? From heartbreaking family scenes to an historical friendship, new reads that are ideal for staying at home

Crime novelist Claire Allen. Picture Martin McKeown. 26.01.21

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Author Claire Allan on deadlines, characterisation and finding inspiration in the every day

Weekend

Kate Humble, presenter of a new series about coastal Britain

Weekend

Kate Humble: The hidden treasures along our coastlines

Sue Divin

Weekend

Author Sue Divin: I wrote the whole first draft without telling anyone that I'd started to write

Toast Office fancy ham and cheese

Restaurant Reviews Premium

Review: Belfast street food to melt your heart

Sanjeev Bhaskar and Nicola Walker in Unforgotten

Weekend

'I have huge empathy for what Cassie is going through... it's an actor's job to look after her character'

Motoring

The VW Golf

Northern Ireland

More cars registered in October but overall NI sales still in slow lane

Northern Ireland is the second worst hit UK region for new car sales after Scotland (Peter Byrne/PA)

Northern Ireland

New car sales figures drop 34% in NI as worrying trend could hit jobs

Travel

Wilson Island

Travel

How to plan a trip to Australia's Great Barrier Reef

New York City

Travel

Biden boost can make trips to USA great again

One&Only The Royal Mirage

Travel

Opulent and unabashedly artificial, Dubai could be a genuinely refreshing post-lockdown break

The 3 Zinnen Dolomites.

Travel

Hitting new heights in Dolomites: Looking forward to Italy's 2021 ski season

Horoscopes

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