Tyrone pull out of All-Ireland semi-final against Kerry

Mental health charity sees 250pc increase in children accessing services due to pandemic

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Tyrone pull out of All-Ireland semi-final with Kerry

The gap has closed - but big game muscle memory will see Dublin past Mayo

Sr Canice Durkan: Middletown sister was caring, generous and fun-loving soul

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Tyrone semi-final decision due in days

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Coronavirus

Tyrone pull out of All-Ireland semi-final following Covid-19 outbreak

Tyrone have pulled out of their All-Ireland Football semi-final against Kerry next weekend after a number of players contracted Covid-19.

Topics

Four more deaths linked to Covid-19 as 1,389 new cases recorded

Another four people have died after contracting Covid-19, the Department of Health has said in its daily update on the pandemic.
Warning of further surgery cancellations as Covid ICU pressures mount

Doctors and nurses have expressed concern at the numbers of unvaccinated young people and pregnant women being admitted.
‘Overcrowding and vaccination rates' behind hospital restriction differences

A former head of the National Maternity Hospital said Holles Street had undergone a huge amount of development in recent years.
26 Covid-linked deaths in latest weekly Nisra update

The data from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) includes both confirmed and suspected cases of coronavirus.

News

Tyrone pull out of All-Ireland semi-final following Covid-19 outbreak

Tyrone have pulled out of their All-Ireland Football semi-final against Kerry next weekend after a number of players contracted Covid-19.

Topics

Sr Canice Durkan: Middletown sister was caring, generous and fun-loving soul

SR Canice Durkan was renowned for her joyful enthusiasm, musical talent and kindness to the people of Middletown, Co Armagh and beyond.
Mental health charity sees 250pc increase in children accessing services due to pandemic

A CHARITY has experienced a 250 per cent increase in the number of children accessing its mental health services during the Covid pandemic. PIPS, which delivers suicide prevention, bereavement support services and counselling, has seen a huge increase in the number...
Peter McCormick: The definition of a good, gracious and gentle man

ONE word repeatedly used to describe Peter McCormick is that he was such a gentleman.
New Parent Engagement Group wants parents to speak to them about school uniforms

Parents have been urged to join a conversation about school uniforms.

Business

Gym+Coffee moves in the right direction at Victoria Square

AN Irish 'athleisure' and lifestyle brand in which former One Direction star Niall Horan is an investor and adviser has launched its first Northern Ireland store at Belfast's Victoria Square.

Topics

Choice Housing secures £50m loan for 800 new homes

BRITISH housing finance aggregator bLEND, a subsidiary of £7.
More than two-fifths of UK adults 'planning holidays abroad'

MORE than two-fifths (43 per cent) of UK adults are still planning holidays abroad in the coming months, despite the continued uncertainties stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey.
Don't be functionally stupid (or you'll end up on the stupidity paradox)

THERE is a sound they make in TV shows and movies to soundtrack the part where someone does something really stupid; to accompany the open mouth, hands to face, wide eyed, frozen look of shock in those around them.
Nailed it: study looks for cheapest places to buy DIY tools

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Sport

Tyrone pull out of All-Ireland semi-final with Kerry

Topics

Tyrone pull out of All-Ireland semi-final following Covid-19 outbreak

Tyrone have pulled out of their All-Ireland Football semi-final against Kerry next weekend after a number of players contracted Covid-19.
Down need a good start if they are to secure senior status in relegation play-off with Offaly

All-Ireland Senior championship relegation play-off: Down v Offaly (today, Kingspan Breffni, 2pm) DOWN must put behind them what happened in Newry a fortnight ago as they head into this Relegation battle with Offaly in Kingspan Breffni Park.
Naomh Conaill's greater reserves can be telling in Donegal SFC final showdown with Kilcar

2020 Donegal SFC final: Naomh Conaill v Kilcar (today, Ballybofey, 8pm) There is a view that if Naomh Conaill can contain Paddy McBrearty and the gifted McHugh clan, then they will have one hand on the Dr Maguire Cup after a most low-key build up to the final.
Roscommon will look to strength in depth again in All-Ireland final clash with Offaly

EirGrid U20 All-Ireland Football Championship final: Roscommon v Offaly (tomorrow, Croke Park, 1.

Opinion

Patrick Murphy: Signs the EU about to abandon northern nationalists

While northern nationalists enjoy pointing out that Boris Johnson betrayed unionists by agreeing to the Northern Ireland Protocol, they do not yet appear to appreciate that the EU may soon abandon them, by accepting a much diluted form of that same protocol.

Topics

Newton Emerson: Flags report delay fuels conspiracy theories

Dangerous conspiracy theories are being fuelled by the executive's refusal to publish the long-delayed report of the Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition (FICT).
Persistent problem of hate crimes

AFTER a year in which communities have come together in countless inspiring ways to support each other through the Covid pandemic, it is deeply depressing to report again on race hate attacks on our streets.
Bimpe Archer: Celebrate exam achievement when there is a level playing field

I didn't leap for joy when I got my exam results – but that was mainly because, despite going to an all-girls school, there were no press photographers present.
Alex Kane: Our freedoms are at risk from the anti-vaxxers

John B Finch, a former chairman of the US Prohibition Party in the early 1880s was addressing a meeting of the party on the subject of personal liberty: “I stand alone upon a platform.

Magazine

Joe Swash explains decision to postpone wedding to Stacey Solomon

The couple are currently awaiting the birth of a daughter.

Topics

Filmmaker Ken Loach ‘expelled' from the Labour Party

The veteran leftwinger said he was the victim of a ‘purge' of critics of the party leadership.
Martin Freeman hails ‘fantastic' actress Una Stubbs following her death

Stubbs died earlier this week aged 84.
BBC journalist speaks of her ‘devastation' at being expelled from Russia

Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford has been told her visa will not be renewed.
Royal fan collects £1,850 piece of Charles and Diana's wedding cake

Gerry Layton collected his new prize and was even given a fresh cake to feed him on the long journey home from Gloucestershire to Leeds.

Life

Travel: Culture and history within walking distance in medieval Kilkenny

HOLIDAYING at home has become quite the norm, hasn't it? While jaunts abroad may have been more my thing pre-Covid, with foreign travel out for most of us this year again the staycation was back on our holiday agenda.

Topics

Marie Louise McConville: Amazing athletes show our kids that anything is possible

I can't quite believe I'm about to admit this - but I'm really missing the Olympics.
Gardening: How to grow mushrooms – and help save the earth

THESE days we can buy mushrooms in all shapes and sizes, foraging for them in fields and forest or even having a go at cultivating them ourselves.
Take on Nature: Encounter with seal inspires reflection on the lure of the 'selkie'

DIMINISHED fragrances and waning flowers from the wild woodbine and frothy meadowsweet of our hedgerows suggests summer's work is almost done, as spikes of purple loosestrife, yellow splashes of bird's-foot trefoil and conical flowers of bowing buddleia provide last flushes of seasonal colour.
Nutrition: Some 'holiday habits' can actually help to keep us healthy

OVER the next week or so I will be taking a break from work to revel in some downtime.

Arts

Weekend Q & A: Michael Cameron on cooking seafood to relax and the power of a good podcast

How do you unwind at the weekend? Now that I have immersed myself in writing, weekends have disappeared.

Topics

Jean Russell on her life with Belfast author Brian Moore and the new Lonely Passions festival celebrating her late husband's work

WIVES of great writers assume different roles.
Thousands set to descend on Falls Park for `Back to the 80s' event

Thousands of music lovers are expected in west Belfast tomorrow night for Féile an Phobail's Back to the 80s event.
Cri de coeur faoin ár sa Bataclan a bhfuil macallaí aige don tuaisceart
Mr Jukes and Barney Artist on hip-hop-tinged album team-up The Locket

RECENTLY, while going through an old, dusty hard drive of demos recorded around the time he formed Bombay Bicycle Club as a teen, Jack Steadman stumbled upon a batch of songs which sounded a little different.

Brexit

‘Window of opportunity' to resolve post-Brexit trading issues, says First Minister Paul Givan

Paul Givan made the comments following a meeting of the North South Ministerial Council.

Topics

NI could become ‘permanent casualty' of Brexit if protocol dispute not resolved

A House of Lords committee has called on the UK and EU to drop their ‘fundamentally flawed’ approaches to the new arrangements and find compromise.
PLATFORM: No room for unilateral actions or renegotiation of the Protocol

By Neale Richmond TD Fine Gael A deal is a deal.
Sammy Wilson 'appalled' at Edwin Poots' ministerial handling of Brexit pet checks, letter reveals

SAMMY Wilson told party colleague Edwin Poots that he was "astounded and appalled" by his attitude towards the Northern Ireland Protocol as a minister, in a private letter sent earlier this year.
Under Vote Leave Brexit plan `Ireland would have been a bit messy but so what' - Cummings

FORMER prime ministerial chief aide Dominic Cummings has said Vote Leave's vision post-Brexit meant "Ireland would have been a bit messy but so what".

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