The BelTel

By: Belfast Telegraph
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  • The BelTel brings you some of Northern Ireland's top journalists, Allison Morris, Sam McBride and Suzanne Breen to name but a few, giving you the inside stories behind what is in the news. Presented by Ciarán Dunbar, the Bel Tel investigates, debates and informs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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Episodes
  • ‘Ulster-Scot Hillbilly’ JD Vance is ‘one heartbeat away from the presidency’ - who is he?

    ‘Ulster-Scot Hillbilly’ JD Vance is ‘one heartbeat away from the presidency’ - who is he?
    Nov 20 2024
    Incoming US Vice President JD Vance is a self-professed ‘Scots-Irish Hillbilly’. He first made waves in US politics with his best selling memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ on his poor upbringing, which was later adapted into a film. How did JD Vance get from the Applachians to the White house, what does he have to do with Ulster Scots, and how important is the Ulster Scots community in the US? Ciarán Dunbar is joined by director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin, Professor Liam Kennedy.

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    23 mins
  • The LVF murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan and the struggle for justice

    The LVF murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan and the struggle for justice
    Nov 18 2024

    Martin O’Hagan was a former IRA prisoner who eventually rejected violence and became an investigative reporter with the Sunday World. He was murdered by the LVF in Lurgan on 28th of September 2001. No-one has ever been convicted of the killing. The National Union of Journalists wants an independent inquiry into the killing and the subsequent investigation into it.

    Ciarán Dunbar is by joined by Anton McCabe, Seamus Dooley, and by Jim McDowell, Martin O’Hagan’s editor at the Sunday World.



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    30 mins
  • LUCIDTALK: NI split over DUP meetings with LLC, O’Neill suffers from McMonagle fall-out but Sinn Féin’s support solid

    LUCIDTALK: NI split over DUP meetings with LLC, O’Neill suffers from McMonagle fall-out but Sinn Féin’s support solid
    Nov 15 2024

    The Belfast Telegraph’s political editor Suzanne Breen joins Ciarán Dunbar with her analysis of Belfast Telegraph’s LucidTalk polling, including a recent dip in support for Michelle O’Neill among recent Sinn Féin controversies and Unionist support for DUP ministers’ meetings with Loyalist paramilitary representatives.


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    27 mins

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