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Kate Hoey chooses title of Baroness of Lylehill & Rathlin after townland of her idyllic childhood

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Subscribe              Sep 20, 2020           Top Stories A round up of the most popular news stories this week.           Kate Hoey chooses title of Baroness of Lylehill & Rathlin after townland of her idyllic childhood           Former Whitehall Minister and Labour MP Kate Hoey has chosen the name of the idyllic Co Antrim townland where she grew up as her official title when she formally joins the House of Lords next month.                 Sam McBride: Ulster unionism is at risk of presenting itself as being for sale to the highest bidder   Increasingly, unionism is flirting with a danger about which some thoughtful members of all the unionist parties have either publicly or privately expressed alarm.           Sir Patrick Coghlin was paid £648k to chair RHI Inquiry – but junior barrister got far more   Sir Patrick Coghlin was paid more than £1,000 a day to chair the RHI Inquiry, the News Letter can reveal – but his earnings were superseded by those of one of the inquiry's junior barristers.           Police tight-lipped on whether Sinn Fein ministers at Bobby Storey funeral given letters   The PSNI has declined to say whether or not any Sinn Fein ministers have received letters as part of the police's investigation into Bobby Storey's funeral.           It is more than tricky to sell a united Ireland to unionists   A newspaper article entitled 'Selling Irish Unity to unionists will be tricky, says Sinn Fein chief McDonald', brought as much disgust to me as the (not the IRA's) show of strength at Storey's funeral did.           Tories criticise Boris Johnson's bill to prevent worst EU interpretation of the internal UK border, but they didn't speak up for Union last year   Where were they a year ago?           Police tight-lipped on whether SF ministers at funeral given letters   The PSNI has declined to say whether or not any Sinn Fein ministers have received letters as part of the police's investigation into Bobby Storey's funeral.           The News Letter is 283 years old and, let's hope, might go 283 years further   This week I wrote about the Belfast News Letter's birthday.           Champagne at BBC   With some of the BBC's top talent paid ten times the salary of the prime minister plus a bumper pay rise on the way, is the recession real?                 View more news

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