Families of Muckamore Abbey patients continue in call for public inquiry into state of care for vulnerable adults at the hospital
Families of relatives at Muckamore Abbey Hospital are still calling for a public inquiry into how and why their loved ones were so badly treated at the facility for people with severe learning disabilities. That's despite an apology from the top man at the Department of Health, Richard Pengelly, last night. Stephen heard from more families this morning.
27m Dec 18, 2018
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BBC names first LGBT correspondent - is it an essential position for 2018? Or political correctness?
BBC Africa presenter Ben Hunte has been named as the corporation's first LGBT correspondent. The BBC said it was "aiming to create the most open, inclusive culture we can." Is it a must have position in 2018? Or is this another case of political correctness? Stephen got the views of John O'Doherty from the Rainbow Project and commentator Angela Epstein.
25m Dec 18, 2018
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Gary Lineker criticised by fellow BBC colleague over airing his political views on twitter.
BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has been criticised by a fellow BBC colleague over airing his political views on twitter. BBC cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew said in response to a tweet from Lineker on Brexit that Lineker was "the face of BBC Sport" and that he should "observe BBC editorial guidelines". He continued "Keep your political views, whatever they are and whatever the s...
18m Dec 17, 2018
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PM warns against another #Brexit referendum. Would you welcome one? Or have the people already spoken?
Theresa May is to warn, later today, that another Brexit referendum would cause "irreparable damage" to British democracy -- just as some of her closest aides have denied reports they discussed the possibility. She'll tell the Commons that a new vote would send the message that democracy doesn't deliver. Supporters of another referendum say the case for the public having the final say is becomi...
33m Dec 17, 2018
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Should people who use illegal drugs be able to have them checked before taking them?
Should people who use illegal drugs be able to have them checked before taking them? Testing in nightclubs happens in some countries around the world. Commentators have suggested that criminalisation is clearly ineffective when it comes to stopping kids using drugs while allowing them to use an unchecked toxic substance is an unjust punishment for experimenting. Is it a step too far? Stephen go...
4m Dec 14, 2018
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Should comedians have the right to offend people?
Should comedians have the right to offend people? Comedian Konstantin Kisin pulled out of a student charity event after being asked to sign a contract banning him from being offensive, before performing at a students’ union. He tweeted a picture of the contract he says he was asked to sign - it states - 'by signing this contract, you are agreeing to our no-tolerance policy with regards to racis...
10m Dec 14, 2018
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The #RHI Inquiry chair asks again what Arlene Foster meant when she said she was accountable but not responsible for aspects of the flawed scheme
Today is the final day of the Inquiry into botched energy scheme, the Renewable Heat Incentive. It began hearing additional evidence earlier this week and is taking closing remarks from barristers for several key participants. They include civil servants who were responsible for the scheme and the DUP. Stephen spoke to Newsletter political editor Sam McBride.
17m Dec 14, 2018
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More questions over Muckamore Abbey Hospital
What has the Health Service got to hide? We are reporting on two major issues this morning regarding Muckamore Abbey. The controversial seclusion room for mentally ill, vulnerable patients. The Health Service is trying to tell you that they cannot let the public see a picture of the empty room for "privacy reasons." Have you ever heard the like of it? Secondly - openness and transparency. Why i...
28m Dec 14, 2018
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Biggest Book Club in the Country - @ruth_sanderson joined @vinnybelfast to review @DevlinMartina's "The House Where it Happened"
The Biggest Book Club in the Country is back! You can borrow all the books featured in our book club, from your local library. Today's book is 'The House Where it Happened' by Martina Devlin. Ruth Sanderson joined Vinny for the review.
8m Dec 13, 2018
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@PatSheehanMLA joins families in call for public inquiry into Muckamore Abbey Hospital care failings
Sinn Fein MLA Pat Sheehan joins families in call for public inquiry into Muckamore Abbey Hospital care failings.
17m Dec 13, 2018
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Margaret Kelly from @Mencap_NI says "Muckamore's future is absolutely in question" after damning report into the state of care
Margaret Kelly from MENCAP on damning report into the state of care for vulnerable adults at Muckamore Abbey Hospital
6m Dec 13, 2018
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Desperate mum speaks out about care her daughter received at Muckamore Abbey Hospital for vulnerable adults - including being placed in a seclusion room
We've had vulnerable old people abused and neglected in some care homes in NI. Now, the Health Service faces yet another, separate scandal. This time - it happened in a hospital for vulnerable adults with mental health issues: Muckamore Abbey. They put people with mental health problems into a seclusion room without monitoring them. People who needed our protection and care. Catherine is distra...
28m Dec 13, 2018
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Daughter of an elderly lady got in touch about her mother who couldn’t leave hospital because there wasn’t a care package available.
Rosemary contacted the Nolan show to highlight the importance of home care packages.
13m Dec 12, 2018
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Theresa May defiant and vows to fight on following vote of no confidence from some Tory MPs
"I will contest this vote with everything I've got". Prime Minister Theresa May says she will fight on after a vote of no confidence was triggered in her leadership. A vote to determine Mrs May's future will take place later today. Conservative MPs will make their decision between 6 pm and 8 pm. The challenge to Mrs May's position comes after the required 48 letters calling for a contest were d...
23m Dec 12, 2018
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Special cakes to celebrate the roll-out of universal credit, are they having a laugh? #BBCNolan
"Tasteless and insensitive," that's how SDLP Deputy leader Nichola Mallon has described the Department of Communities purchase of 40 cakes decorated with the Universal credit logo to celebrate the end of the roll out of the new benefits system. Reported in yesterday's Irish News, civil servants spent over £1000 on the treats for staff. The Universal Credit system has faced much criticism with c...
13m Dec 11, 2018
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Tariffs, the backstop and chlorinated chicken. @JimAllister and Jane Morris discuss potential #Brexit fallout #BBCNolan
Following yesterday's Brexit development, Stephen talks to Jim Allister and Jane Morris.
25m Dec 11, 2018
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Another #Brexit deadlock as PM calls off Parliament vote - @JP_Biz, @Jim_Wells_MLA and @Anna_Soubry discuss what’s next #BBCNolan
Theresa May will meet European leaders and EU officials later for talks aimed at rescuing her Brexit deal, after postponing her Commons vote on the proposals. The Prime minister has said she needs "further assurances" about the Northern Ireland border plan to get backing from MPs. But what happens next? Stephen talked to BBC NI  economics and business editor, John Campbell, DUP MLA Jim Wells an...
28m Dec 11, 2018
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The #RHI revelations keep coming - @SJAMcBride talks us through the latest written evidence submitted to the Inquiry
The oral evidence may have finished at the RHI Inquiry, but the revelations keep coming. The latest written evidence to be published on the Inquiry website has raised significant questions over some of the original testimony already submitted by both the DUP and Sinn Fein. Sinn Fein have now contradicted oral evidence given by their former Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir on how the party's...
6m Dec 10, 2018
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Nolan challenges Dept of Communities and Capita - the people behind the payments – with testimonies brought to the Nolan Show
Over the last few weeks we have been hearing some really damning stories about the Personal Independent Payment assessment. We heard from Aisling, her 16 year old son Pearse is severely disabled requiring 24 hour care. He has cerebral palsy, a learning disability, he takes seizures, he can't walk, he is non-verbal, and he is peg fed through a tube. When he was assessed he received 1 out of 8 fo...
44m Dec 10, 2018
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DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson talks to Nolan about #Brexit
One of the most controversial aspects of Theresa May's Brexit deal is the issue of the NI backstop. Something we’re sure you never thought that you'd be talking about for the last two years. Now Northern Ireland is at the heart of the biggest EU story in decades. Stephen has been speaking to MP and chief whip for the DUP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. They, of course, want to bin the backstop. Stephen ...
28m Dec 10, 2018
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More major #RHI revelations - @SJAMcBride on the latest evidence submitted to the Inquiry
More developments in the RHI saga. It has now emerged that Jonathan Bell - the former minister who gave that explosive interview to Nolan - was secretly recording his friend, mentor and former boss Peter Robinson. In other evidence emerging from the Inquiry Arlene Foster is now saying that she might have got her sequence of events wrong around whether she did or didn't know about allegations co...
43m Dec 07, 2018
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Former Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff, who resigned after his controversial Kingsmill video, is to stand in next year's council election
Former Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff, who resigned after his controversial Kingsmill video, is to stand in next year's council election. Stephen spoke to victims campaigner Kenny Donaldson and Irish News journalist Allison Morris.
6m Dec 07, 2018
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Could an ultra low-calorie liquid only diet be the way to turn around Type 2 diabetes? Initial trials show promising results
An ultra low-calorie liquid only diet could be the way to turn around Type 2 diabetes. The regime is to be prescribed to thousands of people with the condition in England. It restricts people to around 800 calories a day. Initial trials have shown it can reverse that type of diabetes in those who have been diagnosed recently. Professor Navid Satar was involved in trial research, he spoke to Ste...
22m Dec 07, 2018
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Should there be an age limit on purchase of energy drinks?
Experts advising the government have said there is not enough scientific evidence to warrant a ban on the sale of energy drinks to children. But the Science and Technology Committee said concerns in society, and evidence from teachers, could "justify a ban." What do you think - should there be an age limit on the purchase of energy drinks? Stephen got the views of commentators Heidi McAlpin & D...
6m Dec 06, 2018
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Is there a generation gap when it comes to caring about green and orange issues?
Yesterday there was a big Top Table school takeover! We were at Belfast Boys' Model School in North Belfast for the debate. Joining pupils from Boys Model, Mercy College and Blessed Trinity College - we had SDLP's Claire Hanna, Alliance Party's Naomi Long and DUP's Jim Wells. One of the questions we asked was is there a generation gap when it comes to caring about green and orange issues? Steph...
40m Dec 06, 2018
40m
Does your Christmas décor say something about your social class?
No coloured fake trees, door bows or tinsel - and do not put your tree up until mid-December! Some of the advice from etiquette expert William Hanson. He says your decor can reveal your social class. What do you reckon? Do you think about your social class when you're decking your halls? William debates with commentators Tina Calder and Chris Suitor.
26m Dec 06, 2018
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Exclusive - @StephenNolan reveals a Roma church led by Aurel and Nicola Nicolae are ordered out of rented premises in south Belfast
On Monday a Nolan Show investigation brought you a shocking secret recording from a Roma Church service in Belfast. It was Aurel Nicola - the chair of the Roma charity RRCANI - and the leader of the Roma Penticostal Church in the Holylands in Belfast. The Nolan Show can reveal this morning that because of those intimidating comments - Aurel Nicola's church is no longer welcome at City Church in...
2m Dec 06, 2018
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New @BBCOneNI series @HotRightNowTV will be on your screens tonight!
New BBC One series Hot Right Now will be on your screens tonight!
5m Dec 05, 2018
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Humiliation in the Commons - Tory government hammered three times over #Brexit votes in Westminster
Yesterday Theresa May suffered three Brexit defeats in the Commons as she set out to sell her EU deal to sceptical MPs. Ministers will respond to one of those votes by revealing when they'll publish the full legal advice they received about the plan. But in what might be an even more significant defeat, MPs also backed calls for the Commons to have a direct say in what happens if the PM's deal ...
20m Dec 05, 2018
20m
"Bring home the bagels" instead of "bring home the bacon" - animal rights charity @peta call for end to anti-animal language
"Words matter, and as our understanding of social justice evolves, our language evolves along with it" - the words of animal rights organisation - PETA. They want us to stop using anti-animal language phrases like "bring home bacon" or "take the bull by the horns" and replace them with "bring home the bagel" and "taking the flower by the thorns." Vinny spoke to John Carmody from Animal Rights A...
15m Dec 05, 2018
15m
The internet is killing our town centres - billionaire retail entrepreneur Mike Ashley fires warning to MPs as he calls for 20% tax on online sales
There have been some dire warnings about the future of the High Street from the owner of Sports Direct and House of Fraser, Mike Ashley. He's been telling a committee of MPs that the internet is killing town centres and he called for a 20% tax on online sales. Would you support that? Or would you put the responsibility on the High Street itself - to evolve? Vinny got the views of Glyn Roberts f...
31m Dec 05, 2018
31m
Shot dead in front of school children - a horrific murder in west Belfast - @cllrtimattwood on the horror at the school gates
Shot dead in front of school children. That was the terrible fate of a local man yesterday outside a school in west Belfast while he was waiting for his son. The police have called it a disgraceful murder and reckless act that could have also resulted in children being seriously injured or killed. Vinny got reaction from SDLP councillor Tim Attwood.
8m Dec 05, 2018
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US radio station bins Christmas classic "Baby It's Cold Outside" for being at odds with #MeToo movement
It's a Christmas classic that many will sing along to, but a radio station in Cleveland, Ohio has decided to remove "Baby It's Cold Outside" from its playlist following complaints from listeners. Local media report that listeners said the song was inappropriate and at odds with the #MeToo movement. What you think is the song now inappropriate in the current climate or should it just be seen as ...
4m Dec 04, 2018
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Should you or do you care about the views of paramilitaries on #Brexit?
Should we care what the UDA, UFF and the Red Hand Commando think about the Brexit backstop? Many Loyalist paramilitaries are opposed to Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement backstop, but in an article for the Belfast Telegraph - commentator Ruth Dudley Edwards says - talking to the spokesmen for paramilitaries - gives them a status they don't deserve. Stephen got the views of Ruth Dudley Edwards,...
33m Dec 04, 2018
33m
No DUP here! A Belfast bookshop bans all DUP elected reps from a new cafe they are planning to build due to party's position on same-sex marriage
A Belfast bookshop has banned all DUP elected representatives from a new cafe they are planning to build. Belfast Books on the York Road has said that DUP elected representatives will not be welcome in the new cafe when it opens due to their stance on same-sex marriage. Stephen spoke to managing director John Junk and DUP MLA Jim Wells.
34m Dec 04, 2018
34m
Restaurant chain giving kids free meal if parents hand in their phones
The restaurant chain Frankie and Benny's is offering free child meals to families who go phone free. It comes as a nationwide study found seven in ten children wish their parents would spend less time on their phones and more time talking to them. The No Phone Zone promotion will encourage people to put their mobiles and electronic devices in a lockable box while they eat. The trial will run un...
8m Dec 03, 2018
8m
Belfast Roma leaders 'intimidating and exploiting' - a Nolan investigation
It's a charity that is supposed to prevent poverty and hardship in one of our most vulnerable communities, the Roma community. This morning, a special Nolan Show investigation reveals what a powerful father and son have been up to in the Roma community. Hear the secret recordings, political reaction and from those on the front line in this Nolan investigation. Read more here: https://www.bbc.c...
40m Dec 03, 2018
40m
Concerned mother of two epileptic children contacts @StephenNolan concerned about flashing Christmas light display in Lisburn
Katie has contacted the show with regards to a new light show that is part of the Christmas display in Lisburn. Her two children suffer from epilepsy and she has concerns about the flashing lights. She spoke to Stephen this morning.
15m Nov 30, 2018
15m
"The process is cruel" - GP Dr John Kyle on Lewis Nickell PIP assessment
"The process is cruel" - GP Dr John Kyle on Lewis Nickell PIP assessment
5m Nov 30, 2018
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"Under no conceivable way should he have got zero points" - SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone
"Under no conceivable way should he have got zero points" - SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone reacts to Lewis Nickell PIP assessment experience
5m Nov 30, 2018
5m
@LewisQball lives with Tourette's syndrome - he speaks to @StephenNolan about PIP assessment where he was awarded
Lewis Nickell has had a tough life. The young Bangor man developed Tourette's syndrome when he was just 17 years old. That means he has physical tics and uncontrollable swearing. You'd think that would suggest he has issues around communicating and socialising but not according to PIP assessors. We reveal this morning that Lewis was scored 0 for 'mixing with other people', 0 points for 'communi...
21m Nov 30, 2018
21m
New survey finds we should put the fun back into funerals. Should funerals be a celebration? Or something more 'traditional'?
Have you made plans for your own funeral? A new survey out suggests we should put the fun back into funerals and that's what more of us want to do. Some leaving instructions for mourners to sing their favourite songs - Karaoke style! But should funerals be traditional and what is perceived as 'respectful' or should it be whatever you want? Vinny got the views of etiquette expert William Hanson ...
6m Nov 29, 2018
6m
A primary school scraps written homework because it adds to "stress" - a good move? Or should we encourage our children to toughen up?
An English primary school has scrapped written homework for nearly all its pupils because it adds to "stress." All year groups, apart from Year 6 in Littletown Primary Academy in Devon will be encouraged to do 20 minutes of reading every night instead. The change is aimed at reducing teachers' workloads as well as taking the pressure off children and their families. So, should we stop homework ...
19m Nov 29, 2018
19m
Dire warnings issued by head of Bank of England over what to expect for UK economy in event of no deal #Brexit
Dire warnings have been issued by the head of the Bank of England over what to expect for the UK economy in the event of a no deal Brexit. Mark Carney has warned that the £ could plunge by a quarter, sparking a worse recession than the financial crisis of 10 years ago. Vinny spoke to Alliance Party MLA Stephen Farry and economist and former advisor to David Trimble, Graham Gudgin.
33m Nov 29, 2018
33m
Police Federation in Brexit clarity call - TUV MLA Jim Allister and former PSNI officer Jim Gamble discuss
Police Federation in Brexit clarity call - TUV MLA Jim Allister and former PSNI officer Jim Gamble discuss
9m Nov 29, 2018
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Police Federation call for certainty, direction and clarity around #Brexit
The Police Federation for Northern Ireland is calling for certainty, direction and clarity around Brexit and what it will mean for policing in Northern Ireland after March next year. They say - "We need hundreds more officers if the UK crashes out of the EU without a deal...We simply cannot produce three-four hundred officers overnight." Vinny spoke to chair of the Police Federation Mark Lindsa...
7m Nov 29, 2018
7m
Unexplained wealth order - why don't such powers exist in NI? Would it help in tackling paramilitaries?
Unexplained wealth order - why don't such powers exist in NI? Would it help in tackling paramilitaries? Stephen spoke to BBC political editor Mark Devenport, BBC Ireland correspondent Emma Vardy and former PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Alan McQuillan.
32m Nov 28, 2018
32m
Can you be friends with someone whose political beliefs are totally opposed to yours?
We know all about political division in this country. But could you be friends with someone whose political beliefs are totally opposed to yours? Labour's Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell recently revealed that he could not be friends with a Conservative because of what he sees as the "human suffering" that Tories have caused. Phil Kelly's a Labour man to his core. Frank Shivers is a staunch Co...
11m Nov 28, 2018
11m
Small local business owner attacked again by paramilitaries in Carrickfergus - he spoke out on @StephenNolan this morning
Six vehicles have been destroyed in an arson attack at a garage in Carrickfergus. It happened in the early hours of yesterday morning at Dunlop Motors on Woodburn Road in Carrickfergus. It's not the first attack on the business. When will we stop hearing that word - paramilitaries - in Northern Ireland? Business owner Joe Dunlop spoke to Stephen this morning.
25m Nov 28, 2018
25m
DUP leader takes aim at media over rift between DUP and business leaders
The Prime Minister is en route to Northern Ireland today as part of her nationwide tour to try and sell the Withdrawal Agreement. She'll meet community representatives and the political parties. It's expected she'll tell them that the devolved assemblies of the UK will have more power after Brexit. Although, of course, we don't currently have an assembly. The fall out from the Agreement has bee...
24m Nov 27, 2018
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