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Irish News journalist c.young @irishnews .com

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Trouble in Derry furring Easter parade @irish_news
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Petrol bombs thrown at the PSNI during Easter Rising parade in Derry ⁦ @irish_news #easter #1916
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Petrol bombs thrown at PSNI in Derry after republican parade ⁦ @irish_news
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PSNI come under petrol bomb attack in Derry ⁦ @irish_news
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A republican colour party makes its way along the Falls Road in West Belfast as part of a Saoradh-linked Easter Rising commemoration ⁦ @irish_news
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Woman hurt as PSNI arrest RSF colour party at Easter Parade in Lurgan @irish_news
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The remains of PIRA founder Billy Mckee are brought from St Peter's Cathedral
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A republican colour party makes its way through the Creggan area of Derry ⁦ @irish_news
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Masked men and women march through Derry ⁦ @irish_news
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BREAKING: Intelligence links 25 people - including state agents - to the murder of GAA official Sean Brown
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"I told them 40 years ago who murdered my brothers and they never gave me any heed." - Eugene Reavey after it emerged that a former RUC officer has been referred to the PPS in connection with the murder of his three brothers via @irish_news
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The remains of PIRA founding member Billy McKee are brought to St Peter's Cathedral in west Belfast earlier. #Belfast
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A masked colour party leads a Saoradh linked Easter parade in Derry #easter #1916 @irish_news
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A band at Saoradh’s Easter commemoration in Newry makes its way through St Mary’s Church cemetery this afternoon ⁦ @irish_news
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Breaking: Former RUC officer referred to PPS in connection with murder of Reavey brothers via @irish_news
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The remains of PIRA founder Billy Mckee arrive at St Peter's Cathedral. #Belfast #BillyMcKee
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PSNI accused of attempting to 'thwart' publication of Police Ombudsman report into loyalist murders via @irish_news
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The moment a woman suffers head injury as PSNI move on colour party at RSF Easter Rising event in Lurgan @irish_news
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Hundreds take part in loyalist protocol protest in Newtownards
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Billy McKee's cortege makes its way along the Falls Road
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Some of those taking part in the Saoradh-linked parade in West Belfast ⁦ @irish_news #easter #1916
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Over twice as many Catholic children strip searched by PSNI via @irish_news
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GAA official Sean Brown remembered on 22nd anniversary via @irish_news
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Saoradh national hunger strike commemoration makes its way through Bellaghy in Co Derry @irish_news #hungerstreik21
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Bandsmen making their way through Newtownards during this evening’s loyalist protest @irish_news
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Sean Brown killers still being protected, says his daughter
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Masked colour party at Easter parade in Derry @irish_news
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Call for Billy Wright flags to be removed from Dungannon main road via @irish_news
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Surveillance operation on LVF suspect Mark ‘Swinger’ Fulton lifted the day before Sean Brown murder @irish_news https:// #GAA
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Shots fired at the wake of former INLA prisoner Martin McElkerney in West Belfast yesterday @irish_news
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SF Mid Ulster candidates Michelle O’Neill, Linda Dillon and Emma Sheerin arrive at the Magherafelt ⁦count centre ⁦ @irish_news #ae22
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Nationalist residents in north Belfast describe living beside loyalist bonfire as 'a nightmare' via @irish_news
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New report finds British government operated ‘a practice of impunity’ during Troubles to protect security forces from sanction
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Calls for suspected UDR involvement in east Tyrone killings to be investigated via @irish_news
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RSF colour party at Easter event in Lurgan @irish_news #Easter #1916
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Special investigation - The blood-soaked journey of R18837: How powerful gun smuggled into north by loyalists has been linked to up to 12 murders via @irish_news
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Treatment by state of GAA official Sean Brown's family a 'public shame and disgrace' via @irish_news
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DUP councillor Luke Poots, who was reported to a standards watchdog last year, has quit politics via @irish_news
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Michelle O'Neill elected in MU with 10,258 votes @irish_news #AE17
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Still no comment from from DUP a week after 'vile' asylum seeker comments from councillor via @irish_news
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RSF Colour party in Lurgan
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Coronavirus: Tributes paid to west Belfast couple who died hours apart via @irish_news
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More from West Belfast @irish_news
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Masked colour party at Easter parade in Derry @irish_news
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A colour party makes its way from the graveyard in Bellaghy where hunger strikers Francis Hughes and Thomas McElwee are buried #hungerstreik21 @irish_news
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MoD documents link Robert Niarac to Miami Showband Massacre via @irish_news @MiamiShowband
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Gridlock in Co Tyrone today as people opposed to a planned gold mine and cyanide processing plant attend a public consultation @irish_news
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Family of Sean Brown will continue fight for justice @irish_news #GAA
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Sean Brown's family make renewed call for inquest via @irish_news
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The front page of the @irish_news on this day 1988. Aidan McAnespie's family are still seeking the return of body parts removed during a post-mortem examination more than 30 years ago. #AidanMcanespie
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Hundreds of Catholics forced to flee Lisburn after 1920 RIC killing via @irish_news
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Colour party leads Saoradh Easter Rising parade in West Belfast @irish_news
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SDLP man Malachy Quinn has topped the poll in Torrent with 1,613 votes #LocalElection2019 @irish_news
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Official IRA man Joe McCann's widow to sue the PSNI amid claims police failed to properly investigate his killing via @irish_news
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RUC carried out surveillance op lifted night before Sean Brown murdered #gaa
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"If loyalists must act, let it be in south" - headline in @irish_news this day 40 years ago as former unionist Euro MP John Taylor reacts to the Narrow Water and Mullaghmore attacks. #NarrowWater #Mullaghmore
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Jamie Bryson speaks from the platform in Newtownards @irish_news
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Senior Ulster GAA official adds his support to family's quest for truth in the sectarian murder of Bellaghy club chairman Sean Brown via @irish_news
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Randalstown Irish language sign 'will not be removed' via @irish_news
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How @irish_news reported the murder of William Strathearn this day 1977. He was killed by the Glenanne Gang
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Loyalist Alan Oliver linked to Fox killings at inquest @irish_news
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Controversial flagpole in Magherafelt removed on Wednesday night @irish_news
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Philip McGuigan tops the poll for SF in NA for the first time with 7600 @irish_news #ae17
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Greencastle residents walk out of a public consultation hosted by Canadian gold mining firm Dalradian today @irish_news
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Sean Graham bookmakers massacre families voice concern about Police Ombudsman report delays via @irish_news
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GAA club paints mural in memory of Aaron Devlin in today's @irish_news
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A consultancy firm has been awarded a £300k Stormont contract to help review a gold mine application from a company it previously did work for via @irish_news
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Masked men march through kilwilkie in lurgan @irish_news #1916
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McGurks Bar relatives calls for General Frank Kitson to be questioned over IRA 'own goal' reports via @irish_news
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Legal action to be launched over scrapping of Irish language bursary scheme via @irish_news
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