Connla Young

@ConnlaYoung

Irish News journalist [email protected]

Based in Belfast

Joined April 2015

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 23

PSNI to install audio and video at Northern Ireland’s ports irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Belfast republican takes legal challenge

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 23

Calls for loyalist flags outside Catholic church to be removed irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Coagh village at centre of flags controversy in past

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 23

SDLP councillor who highlighted claims of loyalist intimidation targeted by ‘inflammatory and false online’ comments irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Claims that mixed area included in loyalist parade route in bid to intimidate

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 23

Chief Constable delivers bedside apology to terminally ill brother of Catholic murder victim irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Collusion suspected in the 1994 murder of Paul ‘Topper’ Thompson

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 21

Tensions rise in Maghaberry Prison as inmate population close to maximum irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Minister urged to outline plan to tackle prisoner - staff numbers

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 21

Former Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan raises unprecedented concerns about independence of PSNI watchdog. irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Authority recently delegated to former RUC/PSNI officer Hugh Hume

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 20

Anti-PSNI billboard poster remains untouched in republican heartland .irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Billboard poster put up outside Casement Park

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 18

Controversial loyalist parade at Open golf tournament not marked as ‘sensitive’ by authorities irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. 83 loyalist bands expected to take part in Saturday’s parade

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 18

Eleventh Night parade ‘attempt to intimidate’ residents at centre of Irish language sign row irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. PSNI and Parades Commission face calls to treat north Belfast parade as ‘contentious’

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 17

Commercial eel fishing on Lough Neagh forced to close for 2025 irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Industry ‘casualty of significant environmental change within the lough’

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 17

Nuala O’Loan - second human rights expert questions independence of British government’s legacy body irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Concerns raised about independence of British government legacy body

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 17

Orange lodge which opposed GAA presence at children’s sports camp hosts loyalist band which took part in UVF parade irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Sports summer camp cancelled after Orange Order raise concerns over GAA children

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 17

Veterans body accused of trying to ‘airbrush’ British military role in civilian deaths during Troubles irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. John Pat Cunningham shot in back by British army in 1974

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 15

Stakeknife: 25 family reports handed over by Operation Kenova irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Concerns raised about attempts by MI5 to block reports raised last month

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 15

Human rights chief’s unprecedented criticism of British government’s key legacy body irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Alyson Kilpatrick says former policeman’s position ‘untenable’

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 9

Calls to remove ‘racist’ Stop the Boats bonfire display irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Hate-filled display appears on loyalist bonfire

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 9

Friends use pedal power to raise cash for Kevin Bell Trust irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Charity helps repatriate those who die abroad

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 9

Martin Galvin: British officials ‘laugh and scoff’ at unity poll prospects irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Role of Noraid in north’s conflict to feature in new RTÉ documentary

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 9

Martin Galvin’s arrest ‘staged at request of Martin McGuinness’ irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Former Noraid leader was banned from north and Britain

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Connla Young@ConnlaYoung · Jul 9

PSNI chief constable Jon Boutcher urged to take action over UVF flags irishnews.com/news/northern-…

ConnlaYoung's tweet card. Victim’s daughter hits out over paramilitary tributes in Co Tyrone

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