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Conor Sheils

Reporter · GB

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · By Conor Sheils

    Paul Givan orders officials to boycott Education Committee over ‘bullying’ questions by Sinn Féin MLA (opens the original)

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    Paul Givan has ordered his officials to boycott the Assembly’s Education Committee, in a move its chair has branded “unprecedented and unacceptable”. In a letter to the committee, Mr Givan says they will stay away until the chair provides written assurances that the committee “will not stray off the subject of the briefing” or “seek to draw officials to answer questions on personal or personnel matters”. The DUP minister accused Sinn Féin’s Pat Sheehan, the committee’s deputy

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · By Conor Sheils

    Almost 50 arrested in Home Office operation targeting people-smuggling from Republic into UK (opens the original)

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    Immigration Enforcement officers made 49 arrests in three days as part of a Home Office operation targeting people-smuggling from the Republic into the UK. The operation covered seaports, airports, roads and rail networks across Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales between September 22 and September 24. The action, part of Operation Comby, targeted people who had travelled from the Republic to the UK in breach of immigration law. The Home Office highlighted a case at Belfast Internation

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · By Conor Sheils

    Clearing Garvaghy Road by force would have been ‘disproportionate’ and left people ‘seriously hurt’, say PSNI (opens the original)

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    A senior PSNI officer has said using force to remove protesters from the Garvaghy Road would have been “disproportionate” and left people “seriously hurt”. Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said the crowd at one stage numbered an estimated 1,000 people, including women, children and older people. He said clearing the road would have required “such a significant use of force that public safety would have been significantly jeopardised, people seriously hurt and disorder inevitabl

  4. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · By Conor Sheils

    Far-right groups from Republic crossing border to stir tensions in nationalist areas, report warns (opens the original)

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    Far-right activists from the Republic are crossing the border in a bid to stir up anti-immigrant feeling in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland, a new report has found. The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) examined the Locals First Initiative in Newry. The group was set up last year to oppose Newry, Mourne and Down District Council’s plans to join the City of Sanctuary network. Belfast City Council, Queen’s University and 42 schools in the north are already members. Newry,

  5. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · By Conor Sheils

    More men training for priesthood in Ireland as church says they want something ‘real, not fake’ in age of social media and AI (opens the original)

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    A leading Catholic cleric has said he believes young men disillusioned with social media and AI are being drawn to the priesthood, as the number beginning training in Ireland rose this year. Father Willie Purcell, the Catholic Church’s National Vocations Coordinator for Diocesan Priesthood, said a generation surrounded by social media was seeking deeper meaning in their lives, and rejecting the online world they grew up in. “Young people have the ability, maybe more so now than before, to se

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