Talkback Podcast
Highlights from Talkback. William Crawley and guests discuss the news headlines, chat to the people making them and ask you, the audience, what you think? From 大象传媒 Radio Ulster
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PSNI cuts number of police to lowest ever level
Thu 26 Jan 2023
Guests discuss how significant this shortfall in funding is.
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Nine PSNI officers were sacked last year for misconduct which had a sexual or domestic element, there are 74 ongoing cases.
Thu 19 Jan 2023
What more does the PSNI need to do to restore public confidence?
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Day Two of the co-ordinated big push to get our MLAs back to work.
Thu 12 Jan 2023
Can the two governments and the party leaders deliver us a government here again?
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Is our health service now beyond repair, or can it be fixed?
Tue 10 Jan 2023
What should it look like? Should it include more cross-border co-operation?
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Is it time for politicians here to take more risks?
Mon 9 Jan 2023
25 years ago, Mo Mowlam went into the Maze Prison to try to save the peace process.
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Whose responsibility should it be to enforce Covid restrictions?
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Is there any point in having rules in place if they are not being enforced?
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What should we do about homelessness?
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Two women share their first hand experiences of struggling to live without a home.
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Chaos over Covid travel passports
Fri 30 Jul 2021
It's been a week of chaos for those trying to get covid passports to travel
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The Labour Party says that after the decision to suspend parliament, the Prime Minister is behaving like a dictator?
Thu 29 Aug 2019
Do you agree? Is this a regime rather than a government?
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Mary-Lou McDonald refers to Londonderry - has Sinn F茅in launched a new charm offensive aimed at winning over unionists?
Wed 25 Apr 2018
Andr茅e Murphy, Rev David Latimer, Nelson McCausland and P谩draic Mac Coitir discuss.
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Why should schools in Northern Ireland be permitted to employ teachers based on their religion?
Wed 18 Apr 2018
Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle and former school principal Michelle Markem discuss.
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Why should schools in Northern Ireland be permitted to employ teachers based on their religion?
Wed 18 Apr 2018
Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle and former school principal Michelle Markem discuss.
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Police say they are treating the distribution of anti-Islam pamphlets in south Belfast as a hate incident
Thu 5 Apr 2018
An extremist group calling itself Generation Sparta posted leaflets in the Ravenhill area
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Should someone with a terrorist past be able to join the Victims & Survivors' Forum?
Wed 4 Apr 2018
Victims' campaigners Alan McBride and Kenny Donaldson and author Jude Collins discuss.
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Has our deaf community been forgotten in the minority languages debate?
Fri 23 Mar 2018
Majella McAteer from the British Deaf Association joined us along with her interpreter.
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Queen's University row after Irish and English bilingual sign motion passes
Wed 14 Mar 2018
Ciar谩n Mac Giolla Bh茅in of Conradh na Gaeilge and UUP councillor Chris McGimpsey discuss.
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The Secretary of State says she is 'minded' to make cuts to MLA salaries. Should they be cut?
Tue 13 Mar 2018
We ask Slugger O'Toole's David McCann and The Belfast Telegraph's Suzanne Breen.
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A parent challenges her daughter's school as she is required to wear a skirt rather than her preferred trousers
Mon 12 Mar 2018
Teacher Simon Warr and journalist Leona O'Neill discuss.
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Jeremy Corbyn wants the UK to stay in the customs union after Brexit. Is that the Brexit plan the country has been looking for?
Mon 26 Feb 2018
We ask Conservative MP Nigel Evans and Dugald McCullough from the NI Labour Party.
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Sinn F茅in calls for the two governments to re-form the Intergovernmental Conference and start making decisions about Stormont
Fri 23 Feb 2018
Is that now the best way out of our political impasse?
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We hear from a Belfast woman who can't walk down the street without getting abuse simply because she has a facial disfigurement
Thu 22 Feb 2018
Thirty-three year old Janine Howard shares her story.
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Should Westminster legislate for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland over the heads of the collapsed Stormont Assembly?
Wed 21 Feb 2018
Devolution expert Alan Trench, Ged Killen MP and the Rainbow Project's Gavin Boyd discuss
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Is it time to take the power out of the hands of politicians and back into the people's? Is it time to call an election?
Tue 20 Feb 2018
Former SF MLA Daith铆 McKay, DUP MP Sammy Wilson and journalist Amanda Ferguson discuss.
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Boris Johnson makes a pitch to unite the UK saying those who voted to remain have nothing to fear from Brexit
Wed 14 Feb 2018
Do you believe him? We ask SDLP MLA Claire Hanna and Hugh Bennett of Brexit Central.
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With lack of agreement on an Irish Language Act, we examine how the language acts work in Scotland and Wales
Tue 13 Feb 2018
Experts in Gaelic and Welsh language acts, Conradh na Gaeilge, and Jim Allister discuss.
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The Taoiseach and the Prime Minister are at Stormont amid speculation that the DUP and Sinn F茅in may be close to a deal
Mon 12 Feb 2018
Our panel share their thoughts and ask what kind of deal may now be on the table.
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A film by an NI Christian group advocating 'gay cure therapy' is banned from a London cinema. Is this an attack on free speech?
Thu 8 Feb 2018
Gavin Boyd from the Rainbow Project and Luke Gittos from Spiked Online discuss.
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The government is offering 拢1 million a year to any community willing to host a nuclear waste dump, would you live next to one?
Wed 31 Jan 2018
We ask Green Party leader Steven Agnew MLA and businessman Irwin Armstrong.
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The Republic sets the date for the referendum on abortion laws...if you had a vote, how would you cast it?
Tue 30 Jan 2018
Marion Woods from Life NI and Grainne Teggert from Amnesty International discuss.
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Former UVF commander turned 'supergrass' Gary Haggarty has sentence reduced from 35 years to six and a half
Mon 29 Jan 2018
We hear from some of the relatives of Haggarty's victims and solicitor P谩draig 脫 Muirigh
