Best of Nolan Episodes Episode guide
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Secretary of state Karen Bradley has introduced legislation that gives the Civil Service greater powers.
Is this anti-democratic and are they up to the job?
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Secretary of State Karen Bradley accused of 'dithering' over cutting MLA pay
Vinny Hurrell sits in for Stephen.
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Secretary of State James Brokenshire has fired a warning at Stormont MLAs over pay
Is he upping the ante? Will it help break the Stormont deadlock?
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Secretary of State gets powers to cut MLA pay - but still no date for when he will do it
Do you have any confidence he will carry through with his threat to cut MLA pay?
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Secretary of State fires starting gun on the process to give MLAs a vote on post-Brexit trading rules
And an update on Casement Park
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Secretary of State delays language legislation despite assurances he gave last year
Also, just how broken is our Ambulance service?
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Secretary of State Brandon Lewis sends a message - the Protocol is going nowhere and is here to stay
A wake up call to all the unionist parties whose policy is to scrap the NI Protocol.
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Secretary of State accused of threatening to introduce a ‘punishment budget’ for Stormont
Minister Steve Baker points the finger at Stormont ministers for the budget mess
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Secretary of State ‘looking seriously’ at appointing a go-between to help paramilitaries ‘transition’
Also, foodbanks - who should be using them?
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Secret Sinn Fein back channel to loyalist Jamie Bryson
Evidence suggests a back channel between SF and Jamie Bryson to damage Peter Robinson.
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SDLP’s Colum Eastwood hits out at Sinn Fein's call for border poll after Brexit
Stephen speaks with SDLP leader Colum Eastwood and political commentator Daithi McKay.
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SDLP's Colum Eastwood calls for the two governments to implement much of the 'draft accomodation' between the DUP and SF
Plus, new row over Brexit plan that could mean NI remains in the EU's custom territory
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SDLP MLA accuses Jeremy Corbyn of a crushing failure of leadership after the Labour leader says Brexit can't be stopped.
It comes after the Labour leader told a German newspaper that Brexit can't be stopped.
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SDLP manifesto interview – their candidate Matthew O’Toole in Nolan studio to sell his party’s vision
This morning the SDLP take part in our manifesto interviews
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SDLP leader says he wants vaccine passports in NI immediately
Colum Eastwood spoke to Stephen on Nolan Live.
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SDLP leader calls for 2km exercise zone to be introduced in NI like RoI
Also on the podcast, visiting loved ones "too great a risk" - Health Minister.
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SDLP drop any reference to women or girls in their period poverty bill.
SDLP told the Nolan Show they don't want to debate gender definitions.
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Scundered! Are Belfast parents the most embarrassing in the UK? A third of young people here say they are
Have you ever given your kids a redner?
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Scotland u-turn over exam results - but NI exam body say there will be 'no change' in the approach here
Is it fair to judge pupils on the past history of their school?
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Scores of people still driving on Northern Ireland's roads despite having 12 or more penalty points
The Nolan Show can reveal that 43 people in Northern Ireland have 12+ points on licence
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Schools’ disruption as thousands of teaching support staff on strike across NI
Also over 20,000 fish at a publicly owned Fish Farm in Ballymoney have had to be culled.
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Schools struggling to provide basic equipment, NAHT union says it’s a catastrophic situation
Schools struggling to provide basic equipment like first-aid kits, pens, pencils and soap.
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Schools or the Economy and Leisure? What will the Executive prioritise in talks over easing restrictions?
The Executive is set to meet next week on so-called ‘Super Tuesday’.
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Schools minister Nick Gibb has said mobile phones in schools should be banned. Is he right?
Vinny got the views of commentators Simon Warr and Tina Calder.
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Schools in NI putting children into isolation against United Nations advice
This fact emerged during our investigation into the cost of some school uniforms
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Schools in NI might have to drop to a four day week if funding crisis continues – claims local Headteacher
Â鶹ԼÅÄ research shows that almost half of all NI schools were in budget deficit last year
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School uniforms - desperate parents tell Nolan of the added pressures on family budgets - do schools need to do more?
We heard from parents, a former school principle and the children's commissioner.
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School boy with spina bifida contacts Nolan as Education Authority have not provided him with adequate transport
We've been fighting on his behalf
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Say our son was not a criminal - parents of Paul Quinn plea to Conor Murphy
Say our son was not a criminal - parents of Paul Quinn plea to Conor Murphy.
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Sarah Ewart - who went to England in 2013 for a termination - talks to DUP's former health minister Jim Wells in studio
Doctors said her unborn child would not survive outside the womb.