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The murder of a pregnant woman in Co Armagh a week before Christmas in 2022 has been described in a Belfast court as “planned, calculated and pre-meditated”.

32-yearold Natalie McNally was 15 weeks’ pregnant when she was attacked and killed in her Lurgan home.

36-year-old Stephen McCullagh, of Woodland Gardens in Lisburn, has denied her murder.

The prosecution set out its case on Monday.

Allison Morris, the Belfast Telegraph crime correspondent, reports.
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Seamus Culleton and his harrowing story of life inside an ICE detention centre in Texas made a big impact in Ireland. The Kilkenny man quickly gained the sympathy of Ireland’s public and politicians, only for the tide to suddenly turn as new developments emerged. So, how did Seamus Culleton go from “perfect victim” to publicly scrutinised? And is Micheál Martin likely to push Donald Trump’s immigration buttons when he visits the White House next month?

Host: Fionnán Sheahan
Guest: Niall Donald
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‘Don’t call Jeffrey Epstein a paedophile’ – that was the demand of a top NI lawyer to a London newspaper in 2011.
Paul Tweed was brought in to try and limit the damage to the sex-offender's reputation after he was released from prison.
The Belfast solicitor is one of the best-known libel lawyers in the UK and Ireland.
He has told the Belfast Telegraph that he “categorically rejects the suggestion that he acted in any way inappropriately”, saying he acted within his professional and regulatory obligations.
The Belfast Telegraph’s Northern Ireland editor Sam McBride joins Ciarán Dunbar in the studio.

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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Vehicles believed to be unmarked police cars arrived at his home in Sandringham this morning, where he had been living following his departure from Windsor. The former prince was stripped of his title in October 2025 over his links to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Mountbatten-Windsor, who denies all wrongdoing, turned 66 years old today.
Ciarán Dunbar is joined by TRT World News Anchor Enda Brady.

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A former PSNI officer who searched the culvert in which the remains of Noah Donohoe were ultimately found has indicated felt the search operation had been as professional and as urgent as possible. He also said there had been “no suggestion or evidence he had ever gone into the culvert”. The inquest into the death of 14-year-old schoolboy Noah Donohoe is continuing in Belfast.
Liam Tunney is covering proceedings for the Belfast Telegraph.

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