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Talkback

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 BBC Radio Ulster

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Jun 26, 2026

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Episodes

Queen's University row after Irish and English bilingual sign motion passes 14.03.2018

Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin of Conradh na Gaeilge and UUP councillor Chris McGimpsey discuss.

The Secretary of State says she is 'minded' to make cuts to MLA salaries. Should they be cut? 13.03.2018

We ask Slugger O'Toole's David McCann and The Belfast Telegraph's Suzanne Breen.

A parent challenges her daughter's school as she is required to wear a skirt rather than her preferred trousers 12.03.2018

Teacher Simon Warr and journalist Leona O'Neill discuss.

Jeremy Corbyn wants the UK to stay in the customs union after Brexit. Is that the Brexit plan the country has been looking for? 26.02.2018

We ask Conservative MP Nigel Evans and Dugald McCullough from the NI Labour Party.

Sinn Féin calls for the two governments to re-form the Intergovernmental Conference and start making decisions about Stormont 23.02.2018

Is that now the best way out of our political impasse?

We hear from a Belfast woman who can't walk down the street without getting abuse simply because she has a facial disfigurement 22.02.2018

Thirty-three year old Janine Howard shares her story.

Should Westminster legislate for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland over the heads of the collapsed Stormont Assembly? 21.02.2018

Devolution expert Alan Trench, Ged Killen MP and the Rainbow Project's Gavin Boyd discuss

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? 20.02.2018

Former SF MLA Daithí McKay, DUP MP Sammy Wilson and journalist Amanda Ferguson discuss.

Boris Johnson makes a pitch to unite the UK saying those who voted to remain have nothing to fear from Brexit 14.02.2018

Do you believe him? We ask SDLP MLA Claire Hanna and Hugh Bennett of Brexit Central.

With lack of agreement on an Irish Language Act, we examine how the language acts work in Scotland and Wales 13.02.2018

Experts in Gaelic and Welsh language acts, Conradh na Gaeilge, and Jim Allister discuss.

The Taoiseach and the Prime Minister are at Stormont amid speculation that the DUP and Sinn Féin may be close to a deal 12.02.2018

Our panel share their thoughts and ask what kind of deal may now be on the table.

A film by an NI Christian group advocating 'gay cure therapy' is banned from a London cinema. Is this an attack on free speech? 08.02.2018

Gavin Boyd from the Rainbow Project and Luke Gittos from Spiked Online discuss.

The government is offering £1 million a year to any community willing to host a nuclear waste dump, would you live next to one? 31.01.2018

We ask Green Party leader Steven Agnew MLA and businessman Irwin Armstrong.

The Republic sets the date for the referendum on abortion laws...if you had a vote, how would you cast it? 30.01.2018

Marion Woods from Life NI and Grainne Teggert from Amnesty International discuss.

Former UVF commander turned 'supergrass' Gary Haggarty has sentence reduced from 35 years to six and a half 29.01.2018

We hear from some of the relatives of Haggarty's victims and solicitor Pádraig Ó Muirigh

Campaigners call for an Irish government Passport Office in NI to cope with the surge in applications since Brexit 25.01.2018

We speak to Sinn Féin senator Niall Ó Donnghaile who is leading the campaign.

As the next phase of Stormont talks begin, do new job advertisements indicate the NIO's Plan B? 24.01.2018

Prof. Rick Wilford, Brian Feeney, and journalists Sam McBride & Amanda Ferguson discuss.

Is it the end of rural bus services in Northern Ireland? 23.01.2018

We discuss possible cuts to Translink rural bus services.

Three former unionist politicians propose a referendum to tackle the Stormont impasse 18.01.2018

Would you support a public vote on Irish language, same-sex marriage and abortion laws?

GAA pundit Joe Brolly says middle-class Catholics have given up on the idea of a shared Northern Ireland - is he right? 17.01.2018

Journalist David McCann, blogger Chris Donnelly and ex-politician Trevor Ringland discuss

Is the by-election in West Tyrone a shoe-in for Sinn Fein, or are we likely to see a cross-community candidate emerging? 16.01.2018

We ask Nelson McCausland, journalist Allison Morris and victims campaigner Alan McBride.

Sinn Féin's Barry McElduff resigns as West Tyrone MP following the Kingsmills controversy 15.01.2018

Mr McElduff said he did "not want to be a barrier to the reconciliation process".

A cartoon about the Kingsmills Massacre controversy provokes a storm of reaction after it was tweeted out by a DUP MLA 11.01.2018

Christopher Stalford MLA explains why he has since deleted the tweet.

Row over royal garden party 'snub' 10.01.2018

We speak to the DUP's Drew Thompson and the UUP's Mary Hamilton.

One year since Martin McGuinness resigned. What has changed? 09.01.2018

We speak to commentator Alex Kane, journalist Allison Morris and Prof. Rick Wilford.

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