No Tyrone Goldrush: Why Stormont confusion and local division mean gold worth billions might stay under the ground
There are billions of pounds worth of gold under the Sperrin Mountains in County Tyrone. A US-based company, Darlriadan Resources, wants to mine it. But local people are divided over whether the mine would benefit or harm them, some are mounting legal challenges against it. Sinn Féin is struggling with the decision and with its policy on mining. Will the gold ever be brought out of the ground and it is – who will benefit from it? Ciarán Dunbar is joined by the Belfast Telegraph’s Northern Ireland editor, Sam McBride. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The trial of Soldier F has begun in Belfast. The former paratrooper is accused of murdering James Wray and William McKinney, two of the thirteen civil rights protests shot dead on Bloody Sunday in 1972. He is also charged with five attempted murders in Derry’s Bogside area. Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Sunday World’s Investigations Editor, Nicola Tallant, who was in court. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'The scientist who wasn’t there’: The incredible story of a fantasist father, was he a spy?
Michael Briggs has a famous scientist but as it turns out he had faked some of his qualifications. He also faked research that supposedly showed the safety a brand of oral contraceptives. His daughter Joanne has written a book about him - ‘The Scientist Who Wasn't There’ She joined Ciarán Dunbar to tell her incredible story and to try and answer the question, who really was her father? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Marianne Smyth: The American con-woman who claimed to be on IRA Army Council and to be Jennifer Anniston
Marianne Smyth had a long career on both sides of the Atlantic as a swindler and a con-woman. Smyth has now been convicted in Downpatrick of swindling more than £115,000 from four victims, including Derry GAA player Dermot McNicholl. Born in Maine, Smyth claimed she had ordered IRA killings, been the heir of a multi-million dollar fortune, and survived cancer, among many other absurd lies. Smyth had even had her pet dogs euthanised before she fled Northern Ireland. The Belfast Telegraph’s Kurtis Reid joined Olivia Peden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What does the murder of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk mean for an angry America?
Thirty-one-year-old conservative activist and father-of-two Charlie Kirk was fatally shot during a public event on Wednesday. With an intense manhunt underway, US president Donald Trump has blamed the “radical left” for the gruesome killing. How is an already splintered America responding to the murder of Charlie Kirk? And what happens next in a bitterly divided county awash with guns? Host: Kevin Doyle Guests: Terry Sheridan and Gina London Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The BelTel brings you some of Northern Ireland's top journalists, Allison Morris, Sam McBride and Suzanne Breen to name but a few, giving you the inside stories behind what is in the news. Presented by Ciarán Dunbar, the Bel Tel investigates, debates and informs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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