@Vinnybelfast talks to the king of the chat shows, Michael Parkinson.
For years Sir Michael Parkinson was on our screens interviewing some of the most famous people in the world. He's 82 years old and STILL working. He's on his way to Belfast next month for An Evening with Michael Parkinson at the Grand Opera House. Vinny spoke to him and began by asking how having started his career in current affairs - he made the transition into talk shows.
24m Apr 13, 2017
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A controversial and costly drug that helps prevent the spread of HIV. Should it be free on the NHS?
A controversial and costly drug that helps prevent HIV infection is to be provided on the NHS in Scotland - BUT there are still no plans to make it available here. PREP - a pill that's taken before sex and which helps to block HIV - is also being trialled in England where it will be given to up to 10,000 people from high risk groups, including gay men. However, in the absence of a working execu...
5m Apr 13, 2017
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Arlene Foster to meet Irish language speakers. Is an 'act' a step closer?
DUP leader Arlene Foster has said she's willing to meet Irish language activists as talks pause for Easter.Only a few months ago Mrs Foster ruled out an Irish Language Act while she was leader.But are the DUP preparing the ground for an Irish Language Act? And what form will that take?
23m Apr 13, 2017
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Fans fury over Irish Cup Final footy tickets price hike
A row has erupted on social media over the price of tickets for this year's Tennent's Irish Cup Final. It's the biggest day of the local football season but fans are not happy about a hike in ticket prices. Both Coleraine and Linfield fans have criticised the decision. Tickets this year are up to £20 for the event at the National Stadium at Windsor Park. Is it too much for fans to pay - or fair...
11m Apr 12, 2017
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“Hitler did not use chemical weapons.” White House spokesman Sean Spicer apologises for major gaffe
President Donald Trump's chief press spokesman is making headlines of his own today. Sean Spicer caused outrage when he claimed that Adolf Hitler, who gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust, did not use chemical weapons. He made the comments during a White House briefing, when he criticised Russia for supporting the Syrian leader Bashar Al Assad.
17m Apr 12, 2017
17m
No Consultant. Over 300 patients with serious neurological conditions living in limbo west of the Bann
319 neurology patients in the Western Trust don't have a doctor. That service has been withdrawn after the doctor reduced his hours leaving hundreds of patients in limbo. Nolan reporter, Nicola Weir, has been speaking to one of them. Londonderry widow Betty Magee was diagnosed with Parkinson's 6 years ago. She says she is struggling to cope with every-day life after being left for nearly two ye...
22m Apr 12, 2017
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'Prehistoric Preachers’ to teach children dinosaurs and men lived together
An event is coming to Northern Ireland to teach young and old - that dinosaurs and humans existed on earth at the same time. 'Prehistoric' Preachers - hosted by the Creation Ministries, promotes the belief that the world is around 6,000 years old.
17m Apr 11, 2017
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Manus Deery, shot by the Army, was totally innocent. @vinnybelfast talks to his sister
Yesterday a coroner ruled that a Derry teenager shot by the Army almost 45 years ago was totally innocent.15 year old Manus Deery was out with friends in the Bogside area when he was shot by a soldier from the City's walls.Manus died at the scene.
7m Apr 11, 2017
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Sinn fein demand another election if there's no agreement by Friday in the Stormont talks
Give the people another election if there is no agreement by friday in the stormont talks. That's the demand made by Sinn fein, not once but twice.Yesterday afternoon Michelle O'Neill said she wanted an election if talks to form an executive fail and last night Sinn Féin Deputy Leader Mary Lou McDonald said the people must have their say if the British government and the DUP continue to block e...
30m Apr 11, 2017
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Our reporter @nweir1 joined local students as they visited concentration camps in Poland
Few places will ever reinforce the horror of the Second World War - and man's inhumanity to man - more than the concentration camps that millions of Jews lost their lives in throughout Europe. Recently, over 200 students from Northern Ireland were given the opportunity to visit probably the most notorious holocaust sites at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Birken-how). Organised by the Holocaust Educational...
13m Apr 10, 2017
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Robin Swann talks to #BBCNolan about the challenges of his new role as leader of the UUP
He's the new leader of the Ulster Unionist taking up the ropes from Mike Nesbitt, who stepped down after a disappointing election result. So is Robin Swann, the MLA for North Antrim, set to revive a party that has gone from having 16 seats in the Assembly last year to just 10 now.
18m Apr 10, 2017
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Local headmaster says our politicians' failings are leading to a "crisis" on education
No education budget means parents will have to pay for after-school activities and music provision. That is the warning from one primary school headmaster who has said that politicians had failed to "put aside old animosities and work for the benefit of our children".Kevin Donaghy, from St Ronan's Primary School in Newry called the situation faced by the school a "crisis"
22m Apr 10, 2017
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'He should be facing investigation and possible prosecution' - @PatrickCorrigan
Patrick Corrigan from Amnesty International reacts to shocking interview with church pastor and self-confessed paedophile Henry Clarke.
6m Apr 07, 2017
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Tour operators concerned over proposed changes for visitors to Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge
This week it was announced that the National Trust have introduced timed tickets at Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge to deal with crowds at the world-famous attraction. The new system will mean tourists are allocated a one-hour slot to cross the bridge. But not everyone is happy with the new rules. Stephen spoke to Gabriel Finn from bus operator Paddy Wagon and Sean McLaughlin who owns a bar and rest...
5m Apr 07, 2017
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'A proportionate and appropriate response' - @J_Donaldson_MP on US air strike on Syria
The US has carried out a missile strike against a Syrian air base in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town. Fifty-nine Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from two US Navy ships in the Mediterranean. Six people were killed, the Syrian army said. Stephen got reaction from Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP and People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll.
15m Apr 07, 2017
15m
Nolan exclusive - over 2000 civil service staff off on sick leave last year due to mental health related illness
Figures obtained through a Freedom of Information act by the Nolan Show, shows that there were over 2000 civil service staff of on sick leave last year due to Mental Health related illnesses with one department having 715 members of staff absent. In total over 94,000 working days were lost last year. What was formally the Department of Social Development had the highest number of absentees with...
19m Apr 07, 2017
19m
‘I will face him’ – Clarke victim challenges abuser to come back to NI and meet him
Yesterday you heard the shocking interview with Henry Clarke, a self-confessed paedophile and church pastor. He's never been brought to justice but the BBC's investigations reporter Kevin Magee tracked him down to Canada where Clarke admitted to him that he had abused boys at care homes in Northern Ireland. One of his victims Billy Brown, has waived his anonymity to speak to the BBC.
13m Apr 07, 2017
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'Surprised authorities there have never asked for him to be extradited' - Canadian Professor of Law Kathleen Mahoney
Yesterday we heard the shocking interview with church pastor and self-confessed paedophile Henry Clarke. He admitted abusing boys at care homes in Northern Ireland. He's never been brought to justice - but the BBC tracked him down in Canada. Stephen has been speaking to Kathleen Mahoney, a Professor of Law at the University of Law in Calgary in Canada and asked her for her reaction to this story.
6m Apr 07, 2017
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PSNI Chief Superintendent George Clarke responds to shocking church pastor paedophile case
PSNI Chief Superintendent George Clarke responds to shocking church pastor paedophile case
30m Apr 06, 2017
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'He should be in hell' - victim of church pastor paedophile speaks out
Henry Clarke took one of his victims to his parents home to abuse him. That child was 12 years old. Billy Brown is now 61, and has waived his right to anonymity. Here he is speaking to Kevin Magee.
3m Apr 06, 2017
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Shocking interview - BBC tracks down church pastor paedophile who abused boys at care homes in NI
This item contains details of child sexual abuse which some listeners might find upsetting. You'll have seen this story across BBC over the past few days. It's a shocking story. A serial child sex abuser - Henry Clarke - admitted his crimes to police in the eighties, but has never faced charges. He admitted abusing three children in Belfast at three children's homes in Belfast. For the past thr...
23m Apr 06, 2017
23m
Plan to install window at City Hall to celebrate LGBT community - @NualaMcAllister and Rev David McIllveen clash
A proposal has been put forward for a stained glass window to be commissioned at City Hall to celebrate the contribution of LGBT citizens to life in Belfast. The motion was proposed by the first openly gay Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast, Sinn Fein's Mary Ellen Campbell and was seconded by Alliance councillor Nuala McAllister. She joined Stephen this morning along with Rev David McIllveen, a forme...
8m Apr 05, 2017
8m
Controversy over comments journalist Peter Taylor made on IRA violence - he spoke to #BBCNolan
There has been controversy after comments journalist Peter Taylor made on IRA violence. On the BBC Breakfast programme at the weekend the Panorama journalist was asked how he felt terrorism has changed over the years. Stephen spoke to Peter Taylor and was joined by the victims campaigner Kenny Donaldson.
18m Apr 05, 2017
18m
Former soldiers in 'Justice for Northern Ireland Veterans' protests - we hear from one of them today
Former soldiers are holding a series of protests throughout the UK on Good Friday. They're campaigning for what they're calling "justice for Northern ireland veterans". The group claim that there is a one sided witch hunt against members of the security services who served in Northern Ireland during the troubles. Alan Barry is one of the former soldiers from the group, he joined Stephen this mo...
16m Apr 05, 2017
16m
Local couple kept disabled woman as sex slave - another woman who lived inside the House of Horrors talks
The next item contains some details of sexual abuse that some people might find upsetting. This is story of horrific abuse. It's been described as the House of Horrors. A married couple from Northern Ireland were jailed this week for repeatedly raping and assaulting a woman with severe learning difficulties in their Craigavon home. Keith and Caroline Baker kept a vulnerable woman a virtual pris...
28m Apr 05, 2017
28m
The local couple who kept a disabled woman as a sex slave - another woman who lived inside the House of Horrors tells her story.
A married couple from Northern Ireland were jailed this week for repeatedly raping and assaulting a woman with severe learning difficulties in their Craigavon home. Mandy Highfield talks about what life was like inside the so-called House of Horrors
28m Apr 05, 2017
28m
Millions of pounds in parking fines have been issued in Northern Ireland - what's it like where you live?
Millions of pounds in parking fines were issued in Northern Ireland - and they are up by 11%. That's £4.9 million into the coffers of the Department of Infrastructure last year alone. Over 120,000 tickets were issued last year, with more than two fifths issued in Belfast. Outside Belfast it's a mixed bag: most fines were issued in Fermanagh and Omagh Council and the fewest in Antrim and Newtown...
7m Apr 04, 2017
7m
Ex-Chief Executive of Health and Social Care Board in health service overspend warning
Northern Ireland's health service is facing a potential overspend of more than £300 million this year as reported in yesterday's Belfast Telegraph which carried a warning from ex-chief executive of the Health and Social Care Board John Compton. He said that the system is in an "unsustainable" financial state and the political stalemate at Stormont is making things worse. He spoke to Stephen thi...
10m Apr 04, 2017
10m
Three strikes and your bin might not be lifted! City Council in food waste crackdown
A ban on food waste in black bins. Last night Belfast City Council approved a proposal that means that food waste can not be disposed of in your black bin. Under new regulations raw and cooked food waste must now go in brown bins and this will be monitored with a three strike rule which could lead to your bins not being collected. Councillor Jim Rodgers sits on the People and Communities Commit...
29m Apr 04, 2017
29m
DUP Cllr accused of sexism over remarks about council Chief Executive - Fionola Meredith and @NiamhHoran debate
A row has erupted after a DUP Cllr made what some have called 'sexist remarks' at last night's Belfast City Council meeting. Cllr Graham Craig remarked on the 'pleasure' of seeing the Council's Chief Exec 'whizzing past him' on her bike in the mornings. He said it 'does quicken up one's step slightly'. So was it a harmless comment, or just another example of the every day sexism that women face...
23m Apr 04, 2017
23m
More youth clubs under threat because of Stormont stalemate - @newbelfast and @ClaireHanna respond
Youth clubs and community groups here are facing a very difficult future. We have been contacted by numerous organisations who say cuts to the money they receive will make life extremely hard for them. The Education Authority says the situation is because a budget hasn't been set at Stormont. Former Sinn Fein Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir came in for criticism at the weekend after he twe...
21m Apr 03, 2017
21m
'Incredibly erroneous' - @ianpaisleymp hits out at revelation his father's phone was ’tapped’
Security services tapped the phone of the late Ian Paisley while he was an MP, John Prescott has claimed. The DUP leader had his calls tapped despite a long-standing convention that MPs should not have their communications monitored, the former deputy Prime Minister said. Lord Prescott said then Prime Minister Tony Blair told him in the year 2005 that security services had eavesdropped on an MP...
4m Apr 03, 2017
4m
'Sort this out so it never happens again' - @StevenBeacom5 blasts IFA personal details cock-up
Another cock-up this morning, this time by the IFA. An email was sent out by NI football's governing body to 174 supporters. It announced that their final payment for the World Cup qualifying campaign tickets had failed. But instead of each person receiving it individually - they could also see all the 173 other people who received the email. The email said "This payment has declined and your a...
5m Apr 03, 2017
5m
.@naomi_long responds to Dept of Economy cock-up over RHI names
This morning the Nolan show returns to our investigations into the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme. We are concentrating today on the fact that the Department of Economy published wrong information about what companies had received. This is despite the department knowing what the public outcry was likely to be in this huge , politically loaded story. People have been left devastated by their er...
28m Apr 03, 2017
28m
DUP asked for details of EU referendum spending not to be released before snap election – @naomi_long reacts
Yesterday a Freedom of Information Request by the investigative website The Detail revealed that senior DUP figures were putting pressure on The Electoral Commission not to publish the party's election returns before the Assembly election. But initially there was some public confusion in the DUP about the exact sum, and where the money came from. "We want to be open and transparent" said the DU...
26m Mar 31, 2017
26m
'Traumatised' - pensioner robbed, gagged and beaten with hammer speaks of horror attack
A pensioner has been tied up and beaten during a robbery at his home in County Down. Clifford Mooney, who's 69 years old, was returning from a prayer meeting late on Tuesday night when he was attacked by robbers at his home in Slieveshan Park in Kilkeel. He was hit on the head with a weapon and punched in the face, stomach and ribs before being tied up and gagged. Stephen spoke to the man's nep...
21m Mar 31, 2017
21m
Cop in England confiscates daffodils from two little girls picked in park - were police right or a bit harsh?
Is it ever ok to pick some flowers from the side of the road? An outraged dad decided to take out his phone and film an altercation with a police officer in Mansfield. He was told off for letting his little girls - pick some daffodils at the side of the road. And he, was not happy. The police woman took the flowers from David Taylor's 5 and 10 year old girls, and reportedly gave them to a nursi...
17m Mar 31, 2017
17m
'Sinn Fein demand respect, but they need to show it themselves' - @mikenesbittni blasts Adams "tube" comments
"Sinn Fein demand respect, but they need to show it themselves" Ulster unionist leader, Mike Nesbitt, has hit out after Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams called former secretary of state owen patterson "a complete tube". Mike Nesbitt says Sinn Fein is hypocritical in demanding respect from others, whilst seeming incapable of showing it themselves.
8m Mar 31, 2017
8m
@StephenNolan talks to broadcasting legend Sir Trevor McDonald about more than 50 years as a hard-hitting journalist
Our guest this morning had a career in journalism spanning over fifty years. Sir Trevor McDonald came to Britain from Trinidad in the late sixties and within a few years, he had become ITN's first black reporter. He is known to millions as the face and voice of ITN's News at Ten and then ITV's News at Ten Thirty, and he continues to delight audiences with his unique interview style and hard hit...
25m Mar 30, 2017
25m
A campaign for ALL taxis to be allowed in Belfast's bus lanes - does that sound like a good idea?
Should taxis be allowed to drive in bus lanes. Currently there is a 12 week trial that allows certain types of taxis to travel in Bus lanes throughout what is to be the new Belfast Rapid Transport route running from West to East Belfast and including the 12 hour bus lanes in the city centre, which link the two routes with the trial ending in May. But William McCausland owner of Fona Cab is call...
10m Mar 30, 2017
10m
Gerry Adams "£5 Billion" RHI cost gaffe - shouldn't he be across the detail? @daithimckay and @malodoherty discuss
We've been hearing for months that the RHI scandal that could cost taxpayers up to £490million. It was cited by Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness as the main reason for his decision to resign as Deputy First Minister. So wouldn't you expect their President, his best mate, Gerry Adams, to be across such an important detail? You'll be able to have a listen to what he said on RTE radio yesterday. Step...
26m Mar 30, 2017
26m
Brexit officially triggered - what impact will it have on NI? @TKbytesback and @J_Donaldson_MP discuss
Brexit, it's the biggest political story in a generation. The official process of leaving the EU begins today as Prime Minister Theresa May triggers article 50. And, of course, Northern Ireland doesn't even have a government to represent the views of the people living here. From today two years of negotiations will begin before we leave, with or without a deal, sometime in 2019. What will that ...
21m Mar 29, 2017
21m
'If you're speeding you deserve to be punished' - caller appeals to speeding motorists
'If you're speeding you deserve to be punished' - caller appeals to speeding motorists
6m Mar 29, 2017
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Confusion over PSNI speed penalties - how much leeway is given if you go over the speed limit?
Yesterday on the show we were talking about speeding and you had been contacting us saying that you had been done for speeding when being just a few miles per hour over the speed limit. There seems to be some confusion around the 10% + 2 mph discretion that can be applied to motorist who are caught speeding. Stephen talks to Tim Shallcross, from road safety charity IAM RoadSmart and Stewart, hi...
25m Mar 29, 2017
25m
'Impact on community and young people devastating' - youth club leader blasts Stormont over budget stalemate
'Impact on community and young people devastating' - youth club leader blasts Stormont over budget stalemate
7m Mar 29, 2017
7m
MLAs set for £500 pay rise - but should they be hit in the pocket if they don't get back to business at Stormont?
Should our politicians be hit in the pocket if they can't reach a deal and get back to business at Stormont? Today the Belfast Telegraph front page reports that MLAs are actually in line for a £500 pay rise from this Saturday to £49,500 despite the Assembly in limbo over the power-sharing crisis. But former PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan - who sat on the Independent Financial Rev...
21m Mar 29, 2017
21m
#BBCNolan callers hit out at PSNI over speeding penalty confusion
Nolan Show callers hit out at PSNI over speeding penalty confusion
25m Mar 28, 2017
25m
'Third of organisations saying they've issued redundancy notices' - CEO of @NICVA warning over Stormont stalemate
'Third of organisations saying they've issued redundancy notices' - CEO of Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA) warning over Stormont stalemate
5m Mar 28, 2017
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How much leeway is there for edging over the speed limit? The PSNI try to clear things up on #BBCNolan
Yesterday we broke the story that there are currently 124 drivers in Northern Ireland that have 12 or more points on their licence and have not been disqualified from driving. The highest has 20 points. During the discussion, Stephen put it to former Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan that it was his belief that motorists were allowed a 10 per cent leeway on their speed plus two. It led t...
9m Mar 28, 2017
9m
Stormont stalemate - what happens next? @DGordonoldhack and @JP_Biz discuss
Stormont stalemate - what happens next? Former Executive Press Secretary David Gordon and BBC NI Business and Economics Editor John Campbell discuss.
10m Mar 28, 2017
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