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Stephen Nolan's no nonsense approach to confronting the biggest issues of the day: an unmissable mixture of news, phone ins and entertainment. From BBC Radio Ulster

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    Principals and Education Authority in stand off over children with special educational needs - who is going to blink?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 78:58


    Also-should we contribute £100 more in rates to help fix the NI water infrastructure?

    A mum contacts Nolan after 'terrifying' find of a “metal nail” in her son's baby food

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 78:17


    Also - a "rarely used" PA system in Belfast Grand Central Station costs over £700,000.

    Judge blocks Stormont's A5 upgrade plan - are we seeing the consequences of ambitious climate change policy set by Executive?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 80:36


    Also - Iran and Israel conflict - Nolan discusses the latest developments.

    More money for the PSNI - but where is the £200M going to come from?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 79:07


    More money for the PSNI - but where is the £200M going to come from? Also, Stephen speaks with a barber who spent weeks in a coma due to overwork & stress

    A grieving wife told to examine her husband to confirm he was dead says it should never happen to anyone again

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 79:48


    Also - Nolan talks to Dr Joanne McClean from the PHA about the new Covid strain.

    Assaults on police - are the sentences adequate? Should jail time be mandatory?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 78:48


    Also, a health service department senior leader is working from France 3 weeks each month

    Belfast man lifted by ICE immigration police and thrown into detention in America - his parents contact Nolan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 79:38


    Also - Iran/Israel attacks - Security Expert Professor Anthony Glees gives analysis.

    Pressure mounts on Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson after unionist parties ask for her to step aside

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 77:41


    Also, Executive says it will have an "equity stake" in a redeveloped Casement Park

    UVF rebuild infamous mural of masked gun men damaged in storm - what does it say about the grip paramilitaries have in NI?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 79:14


    Exclusive - Nolan reveals Public Prosecution Service will fight to get the loyalist Winston Irvine's sentence extended

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2025 79:00


    Also, police officers have been attacked in a fourth night of violence & disorder.

    Racists - claiming to care about people, property and justice - gloat and laugh as they wreck Larne leisure centre

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 81:04


    Nolan talks to Justice Minister Naomi Long and Communities Minister Gordon Lyons

    Another night of 'racist thuggery' in Ballymena with homes attacked, minorities living in fear and seventeen police injured.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 80:37


    Nolan talks to DUP MP Gavin Robinson and Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson.

    Gangs of masked protesters attack and burn homes in Ballymena

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 80:18


    Nolan talks to Belfast Telegraph photographer Kevin Scott and TUV MP Jim Allister.

    Family members and social media officers - does there need to be more scrutiny around who MLAs employ?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 78:14


    Also, should richer households pay more for the TV licence than those less well off?

    Convicted criminal and loyalist Winston Irvine reportedly expelled from the UVF

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 78:45


    Nolan talks to Dr Aaron Edwards - author of "UVF: Behind the Mask"

    Should the Civil Service be attending Pride after organisers say no Executive party welcome?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 78:26


    Nolan talks to Green Party's Mal O'Hara and DUP MLA Peter Martin

    Why would loyalists want to build a huge bonfire beside homes on the Shankill?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 78:30


    Nolan talks to SDLP Cllr Carl Whyte and UUP Cllr Jim Rodgers.

    Overpromise & underdeliver – Another broken promise of the NI Executive's Programme for Government

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 77:23


    Overpromise & underdeliver – Another broken promise of the NI Executive's Programme for Government

    Gerry Adams says his libel case was about ‘putting manners' on the BBC – NUJ Irish secretary calls the comment ‘chilling'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 78:31


    Nolan talks to BBC NI crime and justice correspondent Julian O'Neill.

    RVH patients ask for care to be moved to Dublin after mistaken concerns.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 78:53


    Nolan talks to John Compton, former chief executive of NI's Health and Social Care Board

    Working from home - MLAs told 'not enough space' for civil servants to return to office full time

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 79:30


    And - should schoolgirls in NI have the right to wear trousers as part of their uniform?

    Northern Ireland Prison Service give Winston Irvine paramilitary status in Maghaberry - Nolan Exclusive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 81:02


    Belfast Telegraph's Sam McBride, UUP MLA Doug Beattie and author Dr Aaron Edwards react.

    Questions remain over how leading loyalist Winston Irvine got half the minimum sentence for firearms offences

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 78:53


    A grandmother arrested for placing a sticker on an ATM machine in pro-Palestine protest

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 79:47


    Also-Gary Lineker presents his final Match of the Day-will you miss him? Or glad he left?

    Liverpool FC cancel lifelong fan's tickets accusing him of facilitating ticket touting – Nolan investigates

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 79:31


    Plus, dozens of rats scurrying around a popular walkway along in Londonderry.

    More calls for leading loyalist Winston Irvine's jail sentence to be increased for guns offences

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 79:56


    Nolan talks to Mick Fealty - Editor of political website Slugger O'Toole.

    Why was a leading loyalist, who admitted to firearm offences, only given half the minimum statutory sentence?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 79:09


    UUP's Doug Beattie and Belfast Telegraph Crime Correspondent Allison Morris discuss.

    Doctors and Health Minister face off in row over funding and patient access to GPs

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 77:28


    Dr Frances O'Hagan from BMA NI and politicians talk to Nolan

    Weight loss jabs - are they really a medical game changer? Or too good to be true?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 78:56


    Plus, reaction as UK and EU strike a new.

    Rising popularity of weight loss jabs – they sound to good to be true, are they?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 79:14


    Nolan talks to Ulster University obesity expert Prof Alex Miras

    Unions slam practice of temporary contracts for classroom assistants

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 79:42


    Unison and Unite tell Nolan it is : "unacceptable, unjustifiable and exploitative".

    Sinn Féin councillor stays silent when asked to translate contribution in Irish at Belfast City Council meeting

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 78:30


    Also, is it time to bring booze back to the NI football terraces? Nolan discusses.

    Belfast City Airport 'no stop zones' row as one man fined £100 after friend forgot his bag

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 78:23


    Nolan also talks to listeners and hears about their experiences at airport.

    Row continues over how trans issues will be treated in Northern Ireland following Supreme Court ruling on definition of a woman

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 82:13


    Also - the camogie controversy over players being told to change from shorts to skorts.

    Local universities say they urgently need £1,000 a year more in tuition fees. Is it fair for students to foot the bill?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 78:57


    Also - Pope Leo XIV is the first North American Pope – what can we expect?

    80th anniversary of VE day - one of the UK's oldest veterans speaks to the Nolan Show

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025 78:32


    Listeners also tell Stephen of their memories of World War II

    Statue of IRA hunger striker being investigated by Belfast City Council after it was erected without planning permission

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 78:15


    Also, Stephen talks to a newly-wed couple who had 95 bridesmaids on their big day

    Is it time for a new flag in Northern Ireland? Something that represents us all?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 78:30


    Also, home heating oil is at its lowest price since 2021. Is now the time to buy?

    Stephen Travers, who survived a UVF gun and bomb attack on the Miami Showband, tells of how that night changed his life

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 80:12


    Warning – this episode includes graphic detail about violence and injuries that some listeners might find upsetting. Stephen Travers, who survived a UVF gun and bomb attack on the Miami Showband, tells of how that night changed his life.

    Victim of so-called IRA ‘kneecap attack' speaks for the first time and tells of the trauma…

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 81:02


    Liam Barker speaks alongside Prof Liam Kennedy. Stephen also speaks with Henry Robinson.

    The real impact of new post-Brexit paperwork requirements on some businesses spelt out on Nolan

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 79:19


    BBC NI Economics and Business Editor John Campbell explains

    Belfast City Councillor tells Nolan Show he wants Kneecap banned from performing on council property

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 79:34


    UUP Cllr Jim Rodgers says "under no circumstances" they should be allowed to perform

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