Today's TV Friday 25 June

Fresh calls for Stormont report to be published as unionist flags raised in south Belfast

MLA Philip McGuigan speaks about having cardiac arrest while undergoing routine hospital tests

Sinn Féin condemns re-emergence of 'sinister' anti-protocol posters

Planning approval for first Irish floating hotel on River Bann

DUP and UUP unite for nuptials in Co Down

Matt Hancock 'sorry' for breaking social distancing rules by kissing aide

Alex Kane: What does a unionist in a united Ireland become?

Time Out: Sport and society have way to go to show diversity and acceptance

Neil Loughran: Sport and society have a way to go to show diversity and acceptance

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Almost half of criminals released from Republic's prisons re-offended within a year, report says

Latitude going ahead next month with full capacity as part of government pilot scheme

EU willing to ‘reach an accommodation’ on Protocol, says Micheál Martin

British government health secretary Matt Hancock accused of affair with adviser

Pence: Idea of overturning presidential election result was ‘un-American’

Only one coronavirus-linked death in latest weekly Nisra analysis

Coronavirus

Matt Hancock 'sorry' for breaking social distancing rules by kissing aide

Matt Hancock has apologised for breaking social distancing rules after he was pictured kissing a close aide in his Whitehall department.

Topics

Latitude going ahead next month with full capacity as part of government pilot scheme

Latitude has confirmed it will welcome a full capacity audience onsite this year.
British government health secretary Matt Hancock accused of affair with adviser

Briitsh health secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of having an affair with an adviser to his department.
Only one coronavirus-linked death in latest weekly Nisra analysis

It is the second time in three weeks when only one death related to Covid-19 has occurred.
Taoiseach calls on health experts to reconsider vaccines for younger age groups

Advisors ruled out the AstraZeneca and Janssen jabs for under 50s, but the taoiseach said the “balance of risk has changed” due to the Delta variant.

News

Almost half of criminals released from Republic's prisons re-offended within a year, report says

The studies looked at the number of convicted offenders who go went on to commit more crimes in 2018.

Topics

Matt Hancock 'sorry' for breaking social distancing rules by kissing aide

Matt Hancock has apologised for breaking social distancing rules after he was pictured kissing a close aide in his Whitehall department.
Latitude going ahead next month with full capacity as part of government pilot scheme

Latitude has confirmed it will welcome a full capacity audience onsite this year.
EU willing to ‘reach an accommodation' on Protocol, says Micheál Martin

Micheal Martin said the UK must be willing to engage in the process and follow through on commitments already made.
British government health secretary Matt Hancock accused of affair with adviser

Briitsh health secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of having an affair with an adviser to his department.

Business

Grant Thornton launches new Business Voice programme

BUSINESS advisory firm Grant Thornton has launched its first 'Business Voice' programme.

Topics

Finalists named for Invent 2021 innovation competition

TEN innovative, future focused start-ups have been named as finalists for the 2021 Invent competition for entrepreneurial early-stage businesses.
German retailer Butlers Homeware select Derry for first NI store

GERMAN retailer Butlers Homeware will open the first of two new Northern Ireland outlets in Derry this weekend.
Planning approval for first Irish floating hotel on River Bann

THE owners of a Coleraine marina have secured planning approval to turn a Norwegian barge into the first floating hotel on the island of Ireland.
Bank ups growth and inflation outlook as interest rates held at 0.1 per cent

THE Bank of England has insisted soaring inflation should be only temporary despite a bigger than expected leap in the cost of living as Britain's economic recovery gathers speed.

Sport

Antrim have a score to settle with themselves in Dubs clash says Saffrons selector Johnny Campbell

A MONTH after being well beaten at Parnell Park, Antrim selector Johnny Campbell admits the Saffrons have a score to settle in tomorrow’s Leinster Championship clash with Dublin – but it is with themselves, rather than their opponents.

Topics

Brendan Crossan: St Paul's Primary School in west Belfast a beacon of hope

WITH so many schoolchildren having to self-isolate over the past number of weeks because of COVID outbreaks, schools have been using Public Health Agency [PHA] messaging to help guide parents and guardians on the do’s and don’t’s.
Finn Harps hoping win over Longford can give them breathing space

FINN Harps go into this evening's final game of the first half of the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division campaign knowing that a victory over bottom club Longford Town in Ballybofey will give them some added breathing space.
Pundit's criticism of Down is unfair says Mourne county skipper Darren O'Hagan

DOWN skipper Darren O'Hagan says TV pundit Joe Brolly doesn't understand what it takes to be an inter-county football manager.
'Pulling on the Down jersey is a great honour' says defiant Mourne skipper Darren O'Hagan as Ulster Championship opener against Donegal looms

DOWN have played four Championship matches (three in Ulster and one in the Qualifiers) in Paddy Tally's two seasons at the helm and the Mourne manager has used 33 players over those games.

Opinion

Bimpe Archer: I must be one of the few people who doesn't know someone with a holiday home here

THE nights are fairly drawing in, aren’t they? It’s always tickled me that summer starts just as the sunlight begins to wane.

Topics

Alex Kane: What does a unionist in a united Ireland become?

THE fact that the centenary of Northern Ireland’s existence is being marked, noted, celebrated, commemorated (go on, add a few more words if you feel like it) is, when you think about it, quite the thing.
Communities department facing questions on two fronts

TO be subject to one critical report this week should be sufficient to provide cause for concern, but for a Stormont department to feature in a second investigation within just days bears closer scrutiny.
Unionist working class must have real political representation

How refreshing it was to read Raymond Mitchell’s short letter – ‘Self-indulgent attitude’ (June 16).
Patriotic songs

Magazine

Virgin Galactic given green light to fly paying customers to space

Sir Richard Branson could be on a flight this summer but the next test date has not been determined.

Topics

Trainspotting star Jonny Lee Miller joins cast of The Crown

The actor will debut in the fifth season, playing Prime Minister Sir John Major.
Ed Sheeran responds to public interest in his country estate

The singer has released new track Bad Habits.
TV review: Miriam O'Callaghan hears personal experiences of a century of the border

Border Lives, RTE 1, Monday TRYING to explain Northern Ireland to a predominantly southern audience has always been a difficult exercise.
Lloyd Webber: Theatre industry has been made a sacrificial lamb

The impresario said the sector's treatment during the pandemic had made him regret sitting as a Tory peer.

Life

TV review: Miriam O'Callaghan hears personal experiences of a century of the border

Border Lives, RTE 1, Monday TRYING to explain Northern Ireland to a predominantly southern audience has always been a difficult exercise.

Topics

Today's TV Friday 25 June
Film: Gino D'Acampo: ‘Why would you want Gino to play a priest?! I don't know'

SAT on his terracotta-hued terrace, Gino D’Acampo looks to be living the Mediterranean dream – a scene that has quite literally remained a foreign concept to most of us these past 12 months.
Malta, Maderia and Balearic Islands among those added to Northern Ireland green travel list

Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Malta are destinations that have been added to the Department of Health's green travel list.
Calls for more people to give blood as donations continue to fall

THE number of blood donations has dropped by more than 12,000 in the last four years, new figures reveal.

Arts

Latitude going ahead next month with full capacity as part of government pilot scheme

Latitude has confirmed it will welcome a full capacity audience onsite this year.

Topics

Latitude

Paradise lost: Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and Savage's Jehnny Beth on duets album Utopian Ashes

BOBBY Gillespie's great hero, the Celtic manager Jock Stein, would often think back to when he was a miner feeding rats in the darkness long before he became the first British manager to win the European Cup.
Film: Gino D'Acampo: ‘Why would you want Gino to play a priest?! I don't know'

SAT on his terracotta-hued terrace, Gino D’Acampo looks to be living the Mediterranean dream – a scene that has quite literally remained a foreign concept to most of us these past 12 months.
Albums: New music from John Grant, Modest Mouse, Gaspar Auge and Griff

JOHN GRANT – BOY FROM MICHIGAN JOHN Grant goes back to his roots with Boy From Michigan, his lyrics mining his troubled childhood in 1980s small-town Middle America.
Cult Movies: Hands Of Orlac a deeply moody masterpiece of twisted storytelling

The Hands Of Orlac CONRAD Veidt has been the recipient of much love on these pages before.

Brexit

EU willing to ‘reach an accommodation' on Protocol, says Micheál Martin

Micheal Martin said the UK must be willing to engage in the process and follow through on commitments already made.

Topics

Sinn Féin condemns re-emergence of 'sinister' anti-protocol posters

LOYALIST placards in Newbuildings threatening violence over the Northern Ireland Protocol have been condemned.
Republic of Ireland listening to those with ‘real concerns' over Protocol, Simon Coveney says

The Republic of Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister said he hopes progress will be made in the sausage war trade dispute between the UK and the EU.
UK and EU making positive progress on ‘sausage war' truce, says minister

The UK has made a formal request to extend the grace period for chilled meats crossing the Irish Sea.
Former minister Chris Patten warns PM must tell truth over protocol

A FORMER Conservative government minister has urged Boris Johnson to “tell the truth” that the Northern Ireland Protocol must be implemented.

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