Mar 28, 2021

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A round up of the most popular news stories this week.


	Arlene Foster: I know people don’t have this perception of me but I love a good laugh with my friends and I can’t wait to do that again

	Formidable, strong-willed and driven; Arlene Foster has forged her political reputation as an uncompromising defender of unionist values and through her unflappable leadership in unprecedented times.

‘Unbelievable’: Sinn Fein charged with hypocrisy over 1916 plaque

Sinn Fein has been accused of “hypocrisy” for supporting a memorial plaque for an Easter Rising leader at Belfast City Hall, while at the same time vetoing a memorial stone marking 100 years of Northern Ireland at Stormont.

I’m pro-EU and pro-Protocol, says businessman – but the Irish Sea border bureaucracy is absurd

A leading businessman who voted to remain in the EU and is not against the Northern Ireland Protocol has spoken of his dismay at the absurdly bureaucratic reality of the Irish Sea border.

Republic of Ireland repays last of £3 billion crisis loan from UK – but still owes £35 billion to others

The Republic of Ireland has completed the repayment of a £3.23 billion loan given by the UK during the financial crisis in 2011.

Ben Lowry: There should not be an Irish language act, but it is too late — the DUP has agreed one

There was a remarkable episode around an Irish language act this week.

Sam McBride: Even after RHI, civil servants’ aversion to criticism hints at an enduring problem

Has the humiliating exposure of the RHI scandal really changed how civil servants operate away from scrutiny within Stormont departments?

Hopmaster Martin has still got it at almost 54 – shocked kids can’t believe BMX stuntman’s tricks

Newtownards man Martin Tuson’s wife Margaret thought he was having a mid-life crisis when he took up BMX stunt riding in his late forties.

A troubling further delay to the upgrade of Northern Ireland’s most important junction at Yorkgate

The Yorkgate junction in Belfast is the most significant junction in Northern Ireland.

Arlene Foster, Eamonn Holmes, and more, reveal the shows they watched during lockdown

Many of us turned to the small screen for escapism this year. These personalities tell HELEN MCGURK about the shows that took their minds off the bigger picture



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