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8 Sep, 2019 Top stories of the week A round up of the most popular news stories this week. Latest News Man suffers leg injuries in paramilitary-style shooting A 27-year-old man was shot in the leg in a paramilitary-style shooting in Belfast last night (Friday). Sam McBride: Why is Sir Patrick Coghlin taking so long to finalise his RHI report? Is the RHI Inquiry report deliberately being withheld to protect the DUP? That's the suggestion which for months has been circulating online, mostly but not exclusively from anonymous republican social media accounts. Ben Lowry: Have Tories noticed the muted unionist opposition to backstop? There was an ominous signal on attitudes to the backstop recently. Martin McGuiness IRA bomb footage strengthens belief of Claudy families People whose lives were devastated by the Claudy bombings have had their convictions that Martin McGuinness was involved strengthened by new footage showing him involved with a car bomb only four months earlier. Ben Lowry: The UUP is far from alone in its opposition to the legacy scandal This week Professor Kieran McEvoy of Queen's University appeared before a committee of MPs at Westminster, where he described Ulster Unionist Party opposition to the Stormont House Agreement (SHA) structures for dealing with the past as "morally outrageous". NIO 'passing the buck' on definition of victim The NI Office has been accused of "passing the buck" over whether the statutory definition of a victim should be changed. Sam McBride: Why is Sir Patrick Coghlin taking so long to finalise RHI report? Is the RHI Inquiry report deliberately being withheld to protect the DUP? That's the suggestion which for months has been circulating online, mostly but not exclusively from anonymous republican social media accounts. Age not a barrier as Joe aims for World Cup win An ultra-endurance athlete from Northern Ireland has his sights set on an astonishing World Cup victory — at the age of 60. See all the day's news here

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