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Bonus Episode: Sam McBride interviews Maroš Šefčovič.

The Belfast Telegraph's Northern Ireland Editor Sam McBride has an in depth conversation with Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the European Commission, to get the EU's reaction to UK moves to unilaterally change the Northern Ireland Protocol. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

by The BelTel

Allison Morris and Sam McBride survey the NI political landscape after an election earthquake

00:43:14

GAA manager Rory Gallagher, Nicola Gallagher and the domestic abuse allegations

00:17:55

Lives taken (Pt 4 of 4): ‘I’m still seeking the truth, 51-years-on, I don’t want Robert’s name forgotten’

00:16:38

Lives taken (Pt 3 of 4): RUC victim’s son says ‘The IRA had a choice, but they took away other people’s choices when they took their lives’

00:16:55

Lives taken (Pt 2 of 4): ‘My father was murdered in front of me when I was ten’ - it was ‘ethnic cleansing’

00:15:47

Lives taken (Pt 1 of 4): Slain UDR man’s daughter feels IRA wanted to "get rid of as many Protestants as possible"

00:15:20

Profiled: Patrick Kielty, the new Late Late Show host

00:22:46

‘How a cult brainwashed me, and how I escaped’

00:26:55

Gerard Mackin: Meet the brutal Belfast-born Kinahan enforcer the Irish criminal underworld fears

00:26:07

Elections in Belfast, can the ‘others’ become the largest block?

00:22:45

Derry and Strabane Council will see Sinn Féin and SDLP fight for the top spot – but the pack is snapping at their heels

00:31:00

The Irish Famine: ‘Trevelyan’s Corn’ and should his descendants make amends?

00:23:36

NI local elections: Nationalism, Unionism and others battle to win council seats

00:40:55

Sectarian incidents continue: is the problem getting even worse?

00:30:51

King Charles is crowned with support of just 42% of NI folk for monarchy

00:27:24

LucidTalk: Polls, politics and parties – support for Sinn Féin holds, unionists support DUP hardline on Stormont

00:34:45

Ann Ogilby: Murdered by teenage UDA girls over jealousy

00:22:48

‘Nutting Squad’: Third member of IRA's security unit suspected of being a double agent

00:21:54

Sam McBride tells story of Mobuoy, the illegal super dump polluting Londonderry’s water supply

00:27:45

Dublin's Trial of the Century (Part 1): The life and crimes of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch

00:23:21

Dublin's Trial of the Century (Part 2): Robin Schiller's first-hand account of Regency shooting.

00:19:38

Dublin's Trial of the Century (Part 3): Jonathan Dowdall, criminal connections, and his shadow over Sinn Féin

00:26:06

Peace and sport in NI: poaching players, police playing GAA, Premier League football in Belfast and the Giants

00:26:29

Colm Murphy: Who was the veteran republican found liable for Omagh Bombing?

00:27:19

Columba McVeigh: The teenager 'disappeared' by the IRA

00:21:23

Unsolved: Allison Morris investigates the murder of Michaela McAreavey

00:24:03

Best of the BelTel: How ‘Mad Dog’ Adair lost the Shankill

00:26:44

Best of the BelTel: How Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair took over the Shankill

00:23:52

Freddie Scappaticci: British spy Stakeknife and IRA 'nutting squad' executioner

00:24:01

Good Friday Agreement: ‘25 year later, we are no nearer to agreeing what happened’

00:30:47

Peace at last? 25 years on from the Good Friday Agreement

00:25:55

Good Friday Agreement: ‘We missed every opportunity’, admits Stormont’s former top spin-doctor

00:40:23

Enoch Burke claims 'judge laughed, mocked, and ridiculed me' - controversial Christian's court travails

00:15:56

What does Russia really want in Ukraine and what are ordinary Russians thinking?

00:28:27

Scissor Sisters: Carved and discarded, the gruesome tactics of Dublin's murderous siblings

00:22:36

MI5 raises terror threat in NI to “severe” before US president Biden visit

00:27:56

East Belfast UVF expels 20 for drug-dealing as PSNI crack down

00:18:48

South-East Antrim UDA: ‘Purge’ underway as new management takes over

00:23:15

The week that was in it, Boris, Trump, and the price of a pint

00:26:30

Census reveals lower percentage of LGB+ people in NI and more

00:25:46

Michael O'Neill: Can the returning Northern Ireland manager recapture the magic of Euro 2016?

00:25:45

New IRA: Why do dissident republicans continue with their violent campaigns?

00:33:05

The Burkes: Mayo Christian family cause chaos in court

00:23:21

Jeffrey Donaldson’s quandary as DUP supporters say ‘No’ to Windsor Framework Brexit deal

00:42:48

Belfast’s heroin epidemic, are overdose prevention centres a solution?

00:25:41

Michael Carroll, Lottery win disasters and how to avoid them

00:24:30

Noel Johnston: The life and crimes of Ballymena’s 'Cocaine King'

00:24:58

Bonus: NI's first referendum on a United Ireland, 50 year ago

00:23:54

Kim Jong-un's North Korea: Assassinations, nuclear tensions and the child heiress to the throne

00:17:02

John DeLorean: The rise and fall of the man who brought the future back to Belfast

00:24:15

The murder of Robert McCartney and the IRA cover up

00:36:04

What is the Windsor Framework and will it be enough for the DUP?

00:29:06

Allison Morris on the New IRA threat after Omagh shooting

00:23:24

‘The Firm’ - Lurgan and Portadown’s cross-community crime gang

00:17:46

What makes a serial killer and why are we fascinated by them?

00:22:09

High profile PSNI detective critical after suspected New IRA gun attack

00:12:43

Sean Fox: Drugs boss murdered ‘after protection money for dissidents not passed on’

00:19:48

Wagner: Putin's private army of prisoners

00:25:16

Nicola Sturgeon: why has the Scottish FM decided to go?

00:19:19

Nicola Bulley: Rumours rife as mother of two remains missing

00:18:03

Submarines and secret planes: How Dublin's Kinahans and other cartels are smuggling drugs

00:16:28

Sam McBride quizzes Paul Gosling, the Englishman arguing for Irish unity

00:41:33

Stephen Fulton, the wife-killer forced to resign from top Orange Order position

00:16:32

Enoch Burke: What is the Mayo evangelical Christian trying to achieve?

00:18:52

‘Mo’ Courtney, the UDA, and trouble brewing on the Shankill

00:18:34

Eoin McGonigal - Paddy Mayne’s best friend and SAS original

00:24:02

Lucid Talk poll reveals unionists have turned against Good Friday Agreement

00:41:28

Meet the Burkes - The evangelical family from Mayo at the centre of controversy

00:23:56

True Crime: Robert Black, the making of a child serial killer

00:21:41

Andrew Tate: Who is this champion of toxic masculinity?

00:22:22

How spy Dennis McFadden and MI5 controlled a human rights group fronted by Gerry Conlon

00:31:50

Stephen Nolan on Jamie Bryson, money, and his longing for a family (Part 2)

00:50:52

Stephen Nolan: Sam McBride’s exclusive with ‘biggest journo in the country’ (Part 1)

00:51:42

Prince Harry: What is he playing at?

00:24:23

Allison Morris on the murder of Natalie McNally and the scourge of femicide

00:29:48

Crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried and Newry’s millionaire wonderkid

00:29:39

1998: Talks, an agreement and Mo Mowlam

00:32:14

Lord Lucan, the horrific murder, his Irish links and could a man in Australia really be him?

00:21:13

“My Name is Joseph”: How a young Belfast man lost his life in prison

00:17:55

Best of the BelTel: Dennis Donaldson, Britain's agent at the heart of Sinn Féin and the IRA

00:21:36

The Best of the BelTel: What happened to Lisa Dorrian?

00:28:03

Best of the BelTel: Murdered in prison - How the INLA killed Billy Wright

00:23:26

Best of the BelTel: ‘King Rat’, Billy Wright’s rise as a loyalist icon and LVF chief

00:24:05

2022, a massive year for news, profound change and not short of farce

00:41:52

Best of the BelTel: Inside the mind of Hazel Stewart

00:24:50

Best of the BelTel: The story of the Castlereagh Raid

00:19:44

Downfall: Sean Quinn, the Cavan Versailles and the wrath of the fairies

00:19:17

Colin Harvey makes the case for a United Ireland

00:41:04

Lee Reynolds makes the case for the Union

00:37:15

The complex legacy of SAS legend Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne

00:20:19

Newry gangland murder sparks fears of further bloodshed

00:24:12

Wrightbus and Green Pastures in the headlines as court actions begun against the company directors and the mega-church

00:26:52

The Loyalist Flag Protests, 10 years on

00:30:02

The Peru Two: From dancer to drug smuggler, the Michaela McCollum story

00:23:37

Unsolved: The murder of Marian Beattie

00:27:56

Sam McBride on the new details which have emerged in the NAMA controversy

00:39:22

Prisons are filled with men and not women - is it that men are simply more likely to be 'evil'?

00:27:47

Monica McWilliams tells the story of the Northern Ireland Womens’ Coalition

00:27:46

Suzanne Breen talks polls, politics and parties and whether ‘joint authority’ is a runner

00:29:41

Miscarriage of justice: The story of the Birmingham Six

00:21:17

The ‘cost-of-living crisis,’ what is it, who caused it, and how will affect you?

00:23:42

New Belfast drug gangs emerge after old guard's secret gangster phones hacked by French spies

00:25:08

Lord Mountbatten: Allegations of abuse made against King Charles' mentor

00:17:08

The Death Investigator- "Everyone who has children in NI should be worried about this!"

00:25:25

"The Belfast agreement was not as good as what was already offered in 1973"- Dermot Nesbitt discusses the past, present and future of unionism

00:31:52

Allison Morris reports on Loyalism’s sense of betrayal seeing support for peace ‘waning’

00:27:34

Would the Republic vote for a United Ireland?

00:27:09

Downing Street's 60 days of chaos!

00:21:28

Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald, new book says she's a 'Republican Riddle'

00:35:22

‘The Big Man’ - Suzanne Breen profiles Ian Paisley, from rabble rouser to ‘Chuckle Brother’

00:28:27

'Feis fixing': Irish dancing embroiled in cheating allegations

00:21:47

Who killed the judge's daughter?: The murder of Patricia Curran and why her family was not properly investigated (Part 2)

00:25:03

Who killed the judge's daughter?: The murder of Patricia Curran and how an innocent man was stitched up for it (Part 1)

00:27:59

'Mad Dog' (Part 2): Bloody loyalist feuds and the banishment of Johnny Adair

00:26:44

'Mad Dog' (Part 1): The rise of Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair and the UDA’s C-Company

00:23:52

West Belfast’s ‘Marbella’ drugs crew being decimated by ‘professional’ hitman

00:25:46

Carrickfergus, the seaside town in the grip of the UDA and UVF

00:25:43

Alex Kane on where ‘despondent’ unionism goes now

00:24:17

Whitey Bulger and me – John Crawley on his life as an IRA gunrunner

00:22:22

Do we need to dump comforts and capitalism to solve the climate crisis?

00:20:29

NI has held a United Ireland border poll before, here’s what happened

00:23:54

Madeleine McCann — The little girl lost in time and 15 years of heartbreak

00:24:26

Ready, Steady, Census.... Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland

00:28:37

Nurses warn hospitals aren’t safe for patients as strikes loom

00:33:18

Eamonn McCann: Protestants coming round to the idea of a United Ireland is ‘magical thinking’

00:30:41

The Spence family tragedy ten years on, Nevin’s rugby legacy and what might have been

00:16:29

Joe Brolly: In the GAA, we treat referees like s**t. It’s a toxic culture that must change

00:17:37

Covid-19, was the lockdown necessary and have we dropped our guard too soon?

00:22:39

Northern Ireland reacts to the death of Queen Elizabeth II

00:24:16

The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson

00:23:43

UN Expert - ‘Climate change will lead to war’

00:29:22

Sean Quinn, the €100,000 wedding cake, and the right to be forgotten

00:22:54

Scottish Independence would be a ‘shock’ for Northern Ireland unionists

00:24:06

Princess Diana: The impact of her death and what she was really like

00:28:33

Hazel Stewart: The mind of one of Northern Ireland’s most notorious female killers

00:24:50

What happened to Lisa Dorrian?

00:28:03

Who shot Michael Collins?

00:20:12

‘Mucky Marty’ – Who is Northern Ireland’s most prolific pimp?

00:24:02

Shot and left for dead: Northern Ireland man who was tortured and shot while his wife was murdered tells his story

00:23:41

'King Rat' (Part 2)- Murdered in prison - How the INLA killed Billy Wright

00:23:26

‘King Rat’ (Part 1)- Billy Wright’s rise as a loyalist icon and LVF chief

00:24:05

The BelTel: The Kidnapping Of Shergar - Ireland's most famous missing racehorse

00:36:14

Kidnapped- "It was the most terrifying face I've ever seen!"

00:23:09

Sectarianism - "It is getting worse!"

00:26:20

From RUC Stings To Street Parades - The Story Of Belfast Pride

00:22:43

From Vanguard to Nobel Peace Prize – the life of David Trimble

00:24:00

Barrys to Curry's - the story of the takeover that saved summer

00:22:06

Bonus Episode: Union leader ‘struggling’ to see how the NI Protocol Bill will improve life for farmers

00:35:17

Bloody Friday, the IRA's blitz of Belfast

00:25:05

FBI’s Most Wanted - The Bulgarian Cryptoqueen, a $4bn scam, and her Irish connections.

00:21:24

Voter fraud, bombs and bullets, from the Armalite to the ballot box, the reality of NI elections

00:23:24

The Orange Order and the Twelfth, how did it come about?

00:26:25

From Trinity College to leader of Sinn Féin – the making of Mary Lou McDonald

00:25:42

Scappaticci, IRA executioner and British agent, Stakeknife

00:24:01

IRA Heist - the mystery of the Northern Bank robbery

00:27:56

LIV Golf, the Saudi Government and Sportwashing

00:22:31

SPECIAL: Northern Ireland’s finest hour, Spain ’82

00:30:18

Could Donald Trump end up in jail?

00:25:25

The murder of Lyra McKee and the New IRA in Derry

00:22:26

Bonus Episode: Sam McBride interviews Maroš Šefčovič.

00:34:22

The UDA - why does it still exist?

00:24:01

Northern Ireland’s other disappeared, women murdered by men and secretly buried

00:23:51

Bonus episode: Why do so many of us love Love Island?

00:22:00

'Vladimir Putin has turned Russia into a totalitarian state'

00:22:31

The Castlereagh Break-in – how the IRA did it and what they took

00:19:44

Airport Chaos: How to get your money back when a flight is cancelled

00:22:40

PSNI: Beaten, attacked with bricks and shot at!

00:22:42

Ian McElhinney: Star Wars actor and Derry Girls' Granda Joe talks history and spin-offs

00:25:52

The story of Ballymena’s Green Pastures mega church and its pastor, Jeff Wright

00:23:19

Derry Girls, laughs, nostalgia, and a roaring success for Northern Ireland

00:24:37

Cash or reform – what does Northern Ireland’s NHS need most?

00:21:51

What exactly is the Northern Ireland Protocol?

00:23:20

Northern Ireland’s politics have changed so what happens next?

00:25:13

How MI5 agent Dennis McFadden crippled the New IRA

00:21:36

Northern Ireland’s key political battles with Suzanne Breen

00:23:12

Denis Donaldson, the British agent at the heart of the IRA and Sinn Féin

00:21:36

Vindicated: The whistleblower vet who took on the government and won

00:24:48

The BelTel - Introduction

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