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Individuals who ‘inserted themselves’ into the search for Noah Donohoe caused difficulties for police, the inquest into the 14-year-old's death has heard.
On Wednesday it was revealed that more than 100 volunteers helped search for the schoolboy.
One of those volunteers showed he could put his whole body through the bars leading to the culvert.
It was also said in court that a resident of the Northwood Road area ‘couldn’t see any sign’ that someone entered the culvert where Noah Donohoe’s body was found.
Liam Tunney is covering the inquest for the Belfast Telegraph.

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The trial of the man accused of murdering Natalie McNally is continuing in Belfast. 36-year-old Stephen McCullagh of Woodland Gardens in Lisburn, denies murdering Ms McNally. She was fifteen weeks pregnant when was killed at her home in Lurgan in December 2022. On Tuesday, the state pathologist outlined the injuries she sustained in a prolonged attack – including defence wounds as she tried to fight off her attacker.
On Wednesday, the jury heard that experts from the PSNI’s cyberteam determined McCullagh’s six-hour stream on YouTube was not in fact live at all but had been recorded some days before. The crown’s case is that this constituted a false alibi.
Allison Morris was in court.

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Police received an anonymous tip-off that Daryl Paul had Noah Donohoe's backpack, the inquest into the 14-year-old's death has heard.
The inquest also heard that there “is categorical acceptance that Mr Paul would not have interacted with Noah during his journey from south to north Belfast”.
Noah’s naked body was found in a storm drain tunnel in north Belfast, six days after leaving home on his bike.
The inquest is now in its fifth week of hearing evidence.
Liam Tunney is covering for the Belfast Telegraph
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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?

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