Mid Ulster councillor’s bid to defund GAA over social distancing and pro-IRA songs fails

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Subscribe              Sep 27, 2020           Top Stories A round up of the most popular news stories this week.           Mid Ulster councillor's bid to defund GAA over social distancing and pro-IRA songs fails           A proposal to temporarily withdraw council support for the GAA in Mid Ulster was voted down at a meeting of the local council.                 Police officer shot dead in custody suite was 'big in stature and big in heart'   Tributes have been paid to Matiu Ratana, the Metropolitan Police officer fatally shot at a south London custody suite.           Sam McBride: Sinn Féin thought Covid would hasten Irish unity, but increasingly it is exposing the party   It was clear that in the early weeks of the pandemic, Sinn Féin saw this crisis not just as a human disaster, but as a political opportunity.           Ben Lowry: Ruth Dudley Edwards is fearless in the face of anonymous trolls   Ruth Dudley Edwards joins us as a weekly columnist on Tuesday.           Police officer injured during dissident protest at Maghaberry Prison   Four men were arrested following disturbances at a republican demonstration outside Maghaberry Prison on Saturday.           Ben Lowry: A zero risk approach to fighting Covid is not noble, it just means a rise in risks from other diseases and other forms of ruin   The fact that Northern Ireland has had the highest number of new Covid-19 infections ever recorded in a day is cause for serious concern.           Ulsterman's 'unimaginable ordeal' after he lost £25,000 to cruel scammers   Ballymena man Jonathan Leakey has impressive professional credentials. A secondary school teacher for many years and a university lecturer, with a PhD in computer-assisted language learning, he is not the sort of person, if, indeed, there is a 'sort of person' who one think would be taken in by a scam.           NI man Ronnie Andrews first to receive Royal British Legion honour for dedication to veterans   The dedication of Ronnie Andrews to the outreach work of the Royal British Legion has seen him become the first Northern Ireland man to be awarded the organisation's Downing Shield.           Documentary claimed loyalists planned school attack, for which there's no evidence, yet propagandists ignore actual IRA school attacks   Not for the first time when it comes to legacy issues, the News Letter is to be commended.                 View more news

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