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Beauty lovers and retail experts hail first Sephora store on island of Ireland

It is the beauty retailer’s first opening in the UK in 2026.

Evening Standard

Britain backs Ukraine with new £500million missiles and defence systems deal

1,000 lightweight multirole missiles, manufactured in Belfast, will be delivered to Ukraine under the deal

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How To Get To Heaven From Belfast on Netflix review: prepare your funny bones

4/5 The creator of Derry Girls is back with a murder mystery - but don’t worry, there’s still just as many jokes

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How to Get to Heaven from Belfast review: Derry Girls creator is 2 for 2 as new Netflix show pairs Irish wit with unhinged trauma — and it works

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast has all the Derry Girls Easter eggs you could possibly want, only its Irish charm comes with a dark side.

TechRadar

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast review – if you see nothing else this year, watch this

When old school friends reunite at a funeral, they suspect foul play. Cue this frenetic, witty caper from Derry Girls’ Lisa McGee – complete with a sensational performance from Saoirse-Monica Jackson

The Guardian - UK

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast review: A bonkers, brilliant return from the creator of Derry Girls

4/5 Lisa McGee’s eight-part Netflix show about a trio of thirtysomething friends navigating careers, motherhood and the untimely death of a schoolfriend is refreshingly idiosyncratic

The Independent UK

Lisa McGee on her Derry Girls follow-up: ‘When you’re approaching 40, people just go mad’

INTERVIEW: Four years after the finale of her award-winning Troubles-set comedy, the Northern Irish writer is back with ‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’. Ellie Harrison hears from McGee and her new lead cast

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Government’s continuing refusal to name Stakeknife ‘deeply insulting’ to victims

The Army’s former spy within the IRA was widely believed to be Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, who was 77 when he died in 2023.

The Independent UK

Historic fashion collection brought back to life 50 years after devastating fire

The Ulster Museum’s entire costume and textile collection was destroyed following a firebomb attack at Malone House in 1976.

Evening Standard

‘It’s the rubbish, female A-team!’ Derry Girl Lisa McGee on her hilarious new mystery thriller

After plundering her tearaway teens for the comedy classic, Lisa McGee is back with a Scooby-Doo-style caper. As How to Get to Heaven from Belfast hits our screens, she explains why the craic’s about to get deadly

The Guardian - UK

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast to Love Story: the seven best shows to stream this week

Lisa McGee’s follow-up to Derry Girls is beautifully sweet and sharp, while Ryan Murphy looks at the glamorous whirlwind romance between 90s It Girl Carolyn Bessette and John F Kennedy Jr

The Guardian - UK

Noah Donohoe inquest witnesses tell of screams on night of his disappearance

Noah, a pupil of St Malachy’s College, was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020.

Evening Standard

Woman tells inquest she heard two screams on night Noah Donohoe disappeared

Noah, a pupil of St Malachy’s College, was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020

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Michael Flatley wins injunction blocking firm from cancelling Lord Of The Dance

On Tuesday Switzer released a statement claiming the show in the 3 Arena in Dublin scheduled for Thursday had been called off with “immediate effect”.

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Police officer defends notes of first meeting with Noah Donohoe’s mother

Noah was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020.

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RE provision in NI to be reviewed but ‘Christianity will remain central’ – Givan

It comes after a Supreme Court judgment that Christian religious education at schools in the region does not comply with human rights standards.

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Inquest hears of discovery of Noah Donohoe’s mobile phone

Noah was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020,

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Woman ‘heard high-pitched scream’ on the night Noah Donohoe disappeared

Noah was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020.

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Witnesses tell inquest of seeing Noah Donohoe’s bike and helmet

Noah was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020.

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Witness saw Noah Donohoe’s bike and helmet after he disappeared

Noah was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020.

The Guardian - UK

‘They don’t see the need for division any more’: how teenagers of Belfast are escaping the city’s past – in pictures

Going beyond the well-worn stories of division, the Irish photographer depicts young people trying to live normally in the shadow of violence

Evening Standard

Woman tells inquest she saw Noah Donohoe cycling naked before he disappeared

The inquest into the death of the Belfast schoolboy is in its second week.

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Woman found Noah Donohoe’s bike the evening he went missing, inquest told

Witness Karen Crooks was also questioned about access to a culvert at the rear of her home in Belfast.

Evening Standard

Woman who saw Noah Donohoe fall from bike ‘confused’ about head injury theory

Noah was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020.

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Inquest hears about moment Noah Donohoe fell from bike

Noah was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020.

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