Andrew E Madden

Belfast Telegraph City Reporter. Views my own, retweets not an endorsement. Email: [email protected]

[Andrew E Madden @AndrewEMadden]

Video games, free love and Victorian discipline: The story of the two ‘cults’ that arrived in Co Donegal https://t.co/vlld5x5yEP

[Belfast Telegraph @BelTel]

Former Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie is considering taking legal action over a letter from the party’s Upper Bann constitution association in which he was described as being “aggressive” at a recent meeting.

Read more: https://t.co/C8gCxxPuhM

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‘What would you do if it was your child?’: Stormont to wrestle with debate on when young people should be held accountable for crimes

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Doug Beattie has admitted to lying in a social media post as the fallout from the former leader’s resignation from the UUP continued.
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[Belfast Telegraph @BelTel]

Doug Beattie didn’t miss and hit the wall. Resignation letters are often finely tuned balancing acts. A little disappointment here, a reference to different priorities there, and everyone moves on with their dignity intact, writes Suzanne Breen 🖋️
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[Belfast Telegraph @BelTel]

Doug Beattie was to be suspended from UUP over ‘abusive language to leader Jon Burrows’ and other issues including ‘failure to remove grossly misogynistic old tweets’

@SuzyJourno https://t.co/ThsYczwdUE https://t.co/ThsYczwdUE

[Suzanne Breen @SuzyJourno]

EXCLUSIVE: Doug Beattie was about to be suspended from the UUP & lose the party whip for "abusive language to Jon Burrows, the failure to remove grossly misogynistic tweets, & other issues". The party leader was set to inform the Upper Bann MLA on Monday.
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[Belfast Telegraph @BelTel]

Breaking news: Doug Beattie quits Ulster Unionist Party claiming ‘insidious campaign’ against him within party https://t.co/9SPqVMD8HQ https://t.co/9SPqVMD8HQ

[Andrew E Madden @AndrewEMadden]

A scathing resignation letter from @BeattieDoug regarding the leadership of @JonBurrowsMLA

“I wish the party well in the future and hope it can rediscover its social conscience and return to the path set by Mike Nesbitt in 2012.”

[Sunday Life @TheSundayLife]

Morning readers, here's a look at today's edition of The Sunday Life.

Today's front page: https://t.co/hSrK3LaDVX

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

Incredible piece of writing

[Fonie Mitsopoulou @FonieMits]

One of the best pieces I’ve read — Andrew has been working on this for ages and what’s emerged is a very harrowing story underpinned by incredible reporting

[Andrew Kersley @AndrewKersley]

In November 2023, police found the decayed corpse of Tracey Turnell in Walthamstow Market.

She had no phone, job, passport, friends or lovers. There wasn’t a single photo of her.

I pieced together who she was and who was responsible for @_TheLondoner

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[Belfast Telegraph @BelTel]

Northern Ireland’s prison population has increased dramatically by almost 50pc in the last five years, with assaults on staff and drug confiscations also on the rise, new figures have revealed.

Read more: https://t.co/Hl8LS9O77K

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🚨The BelTel podcast🚨

Dig begins for disappeared victim 29-year-old Seamus Maguire

29-year-old Seamus Maguire is thought to have been killed and secretly buried by republicans 50 years ago.

@CiaranDunbar is joined by Belfast Telegraph Journalist @AndrewEMadden

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It’s not just the fact that their loved one was murdered, it is the lack of closure that is the most traumatic, writes Andrew Madden 🖋️

Read more: https://t.co/M5iqPt6T0o

[Andrew E Madden @AndrewEMadden]

The Maguire family said: "We hope that the ICLVR can now recover Seamus’s body so that he can be buried in St Patrick’s graveyard in Aghagallon with our parents May and Patrick."

[Andrew E Madden @AndrewEMadden]

First search for remains of Disappeared victim to get under way in Co Antrim https://t.co/WWn1CxV5vP

[Andrew E Madden @AndrewEMadden]

The remains of four Disappeared victims are yet to be found, but there could be more out there https://t.co/inpPKjzr0Q

[David Benedict 🏳️‍🌈🕎 @eggsbened]

There are days when I miss being an editor and I particularly loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

[Belfast Telegraph @BelTel]

Questions have been raised over where millions in funding to deliver the York Street Interchange provided under the “confidence and supply” agreement in 2017 has gone.
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