A report by MPs says wealthy pensioners should stop getting winter fuel allowance and the money should go on food for poor OAPs instead
Put Tory/DUP billion pound deal before parliament or I'll go to the courts - Brexit campaigner @thatginamiller
"I think the DUP ought to have a degree of concern, if this government falls at any point before this money is authorised they don't get anything." Journalist @SJAMcBride on the DUP spending money ...
"I was told your weight isn't low enough to refer you, come back when you're another stone lower. Well you can imagine what I did. My lowest ebb was between four and five stone. I am 5'7"." Ali Nor...
"This is a great sporting moment for Northern Ireland. This is only the start, the best is yet to come." Sports journalist @StevenBeacom5 on Mark Allen winning the Masters
"If you start eroding anonymity... what about whistleblowers, people in a vulnerable position? I'd be worried about an increase in surveillance culture." Fionola Meredith on @JamieBrysonCPNI's call...
"She put her foot in it right from the start, Sinn Fein have no unionist brothers and sisters, she's going nowhere with that." Commentator David McNarry on Mary Lou McDonald's pledge to convince u...
"We can all see it on the telly but we're going to let the one guy who can't see it make the decisions! It's mental!" 5 Live pundit Pat Nevin on the VAR system trial in football
"In 1998 there was an understanding we would move on and the Irish language would play a key role but we never anywhere prescriptively wrote out what that was going to be and I don't think it happe...
"It is not tenable to have your entire institutions not in existence for a year, people want politcians elected and paid to work." former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on the current situation in NI
"The trouble with Karen Bradley is I have no idea who she's talking to... Is the 7th a deadline and can she achieve anything? No." Commentator Alex Kane on new SoS Karen Bradley's push to break the...
"I never wanted to be an alcoholic... I wasn't living, I was just waking up to drink. Didn't care what I looked like, bills were not getting paid..." Newry mother of six Martine Marron talking to o...
"Let him know that we love him very much, we want him to come home, we want him to be safe. We want to know he's ok." Cathy Cullen's emotional appeal to her missing brother Michael Cullen.
"They ensured that escorts, one who would wear a body camera, escorted people to and from the premises. Why would that be necessary if what women were experiencing was peaceful protest?" @GTeggart ...
"We do not see a need for an Irish language act... I would be very surprised if Sinn Fein come up with anything because they are the real blocks" UUP's Steve Aiken on new talks expected to be annou...
"I think Northern Ireland has become a very needy nation, we're a country that's always asking for things. I really don't see it." Commentator @paulmartin on Miriam Margolyes' belief that the North...
"When you look at the meat and the gist of what he said, a lot of people would agree... Don't have children you can't afford." @cf_farrow of @TheConWom on @bbradleymp's comments on benefit claimant...
"If a bank needs bailed out we can afford it, if we need new battleships we can afford them, it's only when it comes to the health service we can't afford things." @pmulholland15 on @ChukuUmunna's ...
"Not very many people want to put themselves out there the way I have... people with Tourette’s have thanked me for it..." @lewisqball on the benefits of his new-found fame
"The UUP and DUP need to be careful they don't provoke another nationalist reaction. The ink was barely dry on Barry's resignation when they were talking about united unionist candidates." @DaithiM...
"What we're providing is not just useless to buses but dangerous because it is effectively a high speed undertaking lane for the least law abiding motorist." @NewtonEmerson's call to either enforce...
"I want them people up there to realise, there's human beings out here who are suffering... We don't need to be dragged through any more bickering." Institutional abuse survivor Clint Massey's dyin...
"They have mentioned months... I've ignored that. There is no plan B." Institutional abuse survivor Clint Massey who told The Nolan Show he has just months to live
"This wasn't just unionists speaking out... this wasn't going to go away..." @AllisonMorris1 on @barrymcelduff's resignation
"15 years ago before strictly started, I had no idea about the ride I was in for" @bbcstrictly star @BrendanCole on his love for his job ahead of Belfast show
"You could be harming people's health by saying eat no meat. Where are you going to get your vitamins from?" Farmer Sam Chesney on Veganism. Could you go Vegan for January?
"Throwing money at it is not going to solve the situation." GP George O’Neill on the 357 operations cancelled in our hospitals here in just over a month
Beauty Queen and Single starts BBC One on Monday - what's it all about? @vinnybelfast speaks to some of the single beauty queens
Referee who gave THAT penalty scuppering NI's chance to get to the World Cup admits he made a mistake
Targets for cancer waiting times have again been missed in NI - Roisin Foster from @CancerFocusNI reacts
Brexit cheerleader @Nigel_Farage says he is close to backing a second EU referendum - @ClaireHanna and @MartinDaubney debate
Sinn Fein's John O'Dowd condemns Kingsmills massacre and says he is "ashamed" by it - @AllisonMorris1 and @SJAMcBride react
Survey finds majority of us admit to being bewildered by what it means to be romantic - what does it mean to you?
Mum of five hits out as knee replacement operation cancelled twice - @nweir1 reports and @doloreskelly reacts
Wales could be set to follow Scotland by introducing ban on smacking kids - should NI follow suit?
Kingsmills cartoon controversy - #BBCNolan callers react
Kingsmills cartoon row - legitimate political commentary or an insult to victims?
New row over Kingsmills massacre after some unionists shared controversial cartoon about the atrocity online
Probe into Britain First video stunt at Belfast City Hall - @SDLPlive Cllr Paul McCusker and @allianceparty Cllr @EmmetMcDB react
"The individual shares the same name as myself... I was told that I should be shot..." Belfast law graduate on being mistakenly targeted by self-styled 'paedophile hunters'
"Northern Ireland secretary viewed with horror by some MPs, it's seen as the bottom rung in the ladder." @SJAMcBride on appointment of Karen Bradley as James Brokenshire's replacement
"Giving an abstentionist MP three months off on full pay is not the right course of action..." @SDLPlive MLA Nichola Mallon on @sinnfeinireland's action regarding @BarryMcElduff's Kingsmill video
‘My family is still grieving, 42 years later we are still being victimised’
Sinn Fein MP causes outrage with Kingsmill Anniversary social media post #BBCNolan callers react to @vinnybelfast
‘…It was a calculated mocking of one of the most horrendous terrorist incidents the IRA ever perpetrated…’
SDLP’s Daniel McCrossan and former UUP MLA Danny Kennedy react
"He would not still be an elected representative for Alliance" - @naomi_long on whether MP @BarryMcElduff should resign over outrage over his Kingsmill video
New comedy show Derry Girls made its TV debut last night. Did you think it was good craic, hi?
Former SDLP MLA Alban Maginness accuses republicans of "rewriting the history of the Troubles"
Top broadcaster Nick Ferrari calls giving billions in foreign aid "insane" when the UK health service is in crisis
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