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The Nolan Show: 26/03/2019

26/03/2019

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Liam Neeson erased from the latest QUB undergraduate prospectus.

Liam Neeson erased from the latest QUB undergraduate prospectus - but the university remain tight-lipped and are refusing to explain why.

The actor Liam Neeson has been erased from Queen's University prospectus and Queen's University, a bastion of free speech, is refusing to explain why. Inside information brought to the Nolan Show has been told that Neeson was scheduled to be in this year’s prospectus, but an instruction was given for him to be removed. Queen's has promised the BBC they would provide a comment, and then u-turned twice, deciding to remain tight-lipped. Is the university trying to distance itself from Liam Neeson on the back of those comments? In the 2019 prospectus for Queen's, Liam Neeson appeared in the University's "Heritage and Heroes" section. He's not there in the 2020 version. He was also in three other parts of the 2019 prospectus. They are also gone from the 2020 version. The Hollywood star found himself at the centre of a racism row last month after admitting that in the 1980s, he wanted to kill a black person when he found out a close friend had been raped. Stephen got reaction from commentators Malachi O'Doherty, Ruth Dudley Edwards and Amanda Ferguson.

Also on the programme, a new report has warned that more than £1 billion is needed to upgrade Northern Ireland's road network. Stephen got the views of transport expert Wesley Johnston who runs the Northern Ireland Roads website and the commentator and former special advisor Brendan Mulgrew.

And, a video emerged on social media last night appearing to show Northern Ireland supporters in a Belfast bar singing sectarian songs. The official Northern Ireland team twitter account responded to a posting of the video on twitter saying "this is utterly wrong and we condemn sectarianism in any form". Stephen got reaction from sports journalist Steven Beacom and DUP MLA Jim Wells called the programme about it.

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