Best of Nolan
By BBC Radio Ulster
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Podcast Description
Stephen Nolan's no nonsense approach to confronting the biggest issues of the day has made it the biggest show in the country. An unmissable mixture of news, phone ins and entertainment.
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Nolan: David McNarry / Girdwood Redevelopment Tuesday 29th May 2012 | Strangford Assemblyman David McNarry speaks out about his expulsion from the Ulster Unionist Party. He says he's been kicked out for personal reasons and claims the UUP is "not the same party that I joined". And we get reaction to the SDLP leader's claim yesterday that the Girdwood barracks redevelopment and Peter Robsinon's endorsement of a conflict transformation centre at the Maze are evidence of a Sinn Fein/DUP carve up. | 29 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Reconciliation Talks Monday 28th May 2012 | Talks about reconciliation are up and running between Sinn Fein and individuals within the unionist community. Details of the dialogue were disclosed at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis by deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. He said "significant" people from the Protestant community are engaging with his party. But what role if any do unionist politicians have in this process? And what are the aims of the dialogue - what is it trying to achieve, and what are the chances of success? | 28 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Shared Future. Friday 25th May 2012. | The row over housing allocation in Girdwood that refuses to die down, and where now for Northern Ireland's controversial Shared Future document on tackling sectarianism and improving community relations? | 25 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Shared Housing: 24th May 2012 | The Alliance party have walked out of the Cohesion Sharing and Integration committee- they say their ideas for education, housing and flags and emblems were rejected by the other parties. The final straw came after the plan for housing at the former military site at Girdwood in north Belfast was revealed. | 24 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Housing Girdwood: 23rd May 2012 | It's been called the Girdwood breakthrough deal that could help transform North Belfast - but will it solve long-standing tensions over housing in the area? | 23 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Kate Carroll: 22nd May 2012 | A widow's "disgust" at a 14 year tariff for a policeman's killer. Kate Carroll also wants to know why Northern Ireland doesn't have the same minimum 30 year term for murdering a police officer as in England. | 22 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Cold Callers: 21st May 2012 | Sinead's grandmother is being tortured by cold callers. She's now afraid to answer the phone so Sinead contacted the Nolan show...And there is a lot more people out there being affected by this | 21 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Reading and Writing 18th May 2012 | For over 1 million adults reading and writing is a skill they miss out on, and this has a devastating affect on their lives. We hear from Harry and others about their struggle with literacy | 18 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Damien Duffy-Investigation Reopened 17th May 2012 | As the police reopen an investigation into the murder of a Belfast teenager in 2001 his brother tells us of a deathbed promise that drives him. | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Learner Drivers 16th May 2012 | Newly passed drivers on motorways, a lower drink drive level, and younger drivers on the roads - is the Environment Minister's radical overhaul of driving rules what Northern Ireland needs? | 16 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Sectarianism on the Golf Course 15th May 2012 | Linda McAuley is presenting for Nolan today and at the start of Community Relations Week the Junior Ministers both had a pop at golf clubs in an apparent attempt to suggest that. Jonathan Bell has since apologised saying his remarks were clumsy. So were they 'clumsy' or a true reflection of the problem of sectarianism in Northern Ireland? | 15 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Nolan Shared Future? 14th May 2012 | It's community relations week in Northern Ireland and today we're asking once again: where is the official Stormont strategy for breaking down sectarian divisions? We've been waiting five years for it. And guess what, it seems there's still infighting on the hill over the overdue policy. | 14 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Marian Price: 11th of May 2012 | A new legal bid to secure the release of former IRA prisoner Marian Price, after a judge dismisses a case against her. We talk to her husband Jerry | 11 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Strike Action. Thursday 10th May 2012. | The picket lines are out today, as thousands of public sector workers in Northern Ireland take strike action in defence of their pensions. The stoppage is part of a UK-wide day of action. Civil servants and health workers are among those taking part. It follows a day of action last November on the same pensions issue. But what can strikes like this achieve these days? Will David Cameron's government listen and what support do the strikers have from the public? | 10 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Fat Cat Pay. Wednesday 9th May 2012 | Research for the BBC has found the typical pay of top company bosses in the UK has gone up by 11% to £3.65m a year. The figures have been revealed, with a backlash against chief executive salary packages. Are shareholders right to fight against fat cat pay, and even force bosses out? Or is this just a witch hunt against the captains of industry, the company chiefs who can lead us to economic recovery? | 9 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Union Strike Threat Tuesday 8th May 2012 | Union leaders in N Ireland are threatening civil disobedience acts - like occupying buildings - in the battle over Government spending cuts. They say they will look at direct protest actions, as well as industrial action. There's more strike action on the way this week. Civil servants are staging a one-day stoppage on Thursday here and across the water in protest at pension cuts. Is this a move you welcome? Is it a fight worth fighting against public spending cuts? Or are unions on a road to nowhere? | 8 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Bishop Donal McKeown Speaks Out 7 May 2012 | Bishop Donal McKeown has responded to comments made by political leaders speaking out about Cardinal Brady. Broadcaster Eamonn Mallie and Commentator Jude Collins join Stephen to discuss. | 7 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Should Brady resign? 4th May 2012 | Four days after the BBC's "This World" programme and pressure from both sides of the border has been building for Cardinal Sean Brady to step down as head of the Catholic Church in Ireland. | 4 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Cardinal Brady Wednesday 2nd May 2012 | Ireland's most senior priest, Cardinal Sean Brady, is facing fresh allegations over his involvement in the Father Brendan Smyth sexual abuse affair. The 'This World' programme by investigative reporter Darragh McIntyre claimed that the Cardinal was sent to investigate allegations against the paedophile priest in 1975 - rather than just being a note taker in the investigation as had previously been claimed. The programmes said that information about Father Smith's abuse was passed on to the Cardinal - but when "This World" spoke to all of the children who one of the victims, Brendan Boland, had identified, they all told the programme that to the best of their knowledge none of their parents or families were warned in anyway about Brendan Smyth. In 2010, when Cardinal Brady's involvement in the affair was first revealed, he said that if he thought his failure to act led to children being abused, then he would resign. | 2 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Elderly Man Murdered Tuesday 1st May 2012 | A community in Coleraine is in shock this morning, still coming to terms with the murder of 72-year-old pensioner Bertie Acheson. Bertie died during a burglary at his home, the latest in a series of attacks on the elderly across Northern Ireland. People who knew Bertie described him as a good man, well respected in his community, and the sole carer for his sick wife Shiela. | 1 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nolan: Terminal Cancer Sufferer Monday 30th April 2012 | On 5live we had been talking about things that make you happy and I was contacted by Steve from Wolverhampton who said "I am constantly happy. I was diagnosed with terminal cancer last September and the obvious not withstanding have never been happier". Here is his story | 30 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 21 Episodes |
