BBC Radio Podcasts from Best of Nolan

Best of Nolan

Is there about to be a ‘Trans border’ down the Irish Sea?

Also, fuel prices have risen due to Iran war - now price of food looks set to increase.

Justice for Natalie McNally as her former partner and father of her unborn child is found guilty of her murder

Also, Belfast City Council takes down Union flags and Jesus saves flags in East Belfast

Alliance Party and DUP in war of words over wasteful public spending

Strabane business cancels plans for Easter Market over rising energy cost pressures.

Why did NI Secretary of State suggest 81-million-pound electricity fund could be used elsewhere?

Also - should electric vehicle drivers be allowed to use bus lanes to boost uptake?

Young people ‘radicalised by ongoing hostility to the Irish language’ – Irish language Commissioner Pól Deeds

Also, gas prices rise, fly tipping, and will pensioners see a boost from inflation?

Belfast City Centre could be closed to traffic for a week this summer for the Fleadh festival

Also, NI student admitted to hospital with suspected disease that can lead to meningitis

Pensioners afraid to put the heating on - meanwhile MLAs argue over how to distribute money to support them

& does NI have too many public sector workers? Also Nolan talks about one pothole hotspot

Sinn Féin and DUP clash in Economy Committee row - what does it say about relationships between the two biggest parties?

Also, how should home heating oil support be divided out?

MLAs get their £14K pay rise - but why were politicians consulted, and not the public who will pay for it?

Plus, price of oil hits over £1K for 900 litres - doubling in the space of a month.

Row over £81M to help with energy bills rumbles on as Sinn Féin and DUP squabble

the DUP's Philip Brett and SDLP's Claire Hanna react & are fat jabs just for the rich?

DUP call out Sinn Féin's Economy Minister over lack of plan to distribute £81M to people in NI to reduce energy bills

Also, the PSNI are set to introduce a new taser. Nolan talks to former firearms officer

Nolan understands Police Ombudsman investigating more than 100 incidents of alleged serious offences by former officer

Also, NI gynaecology waiting lists are worst in UK - is there a crisis in our services?

Weight loss jabs and the potential side effects - what are the risks? And the benefits?

Also, the price of oil passes $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022.

First Minister Michelle O'Neill says MLA pay rise of £14k is ‘excessive’ but will she take it?

Also, Iranian man speaks about Belfast protest and a former catholic PSNI officer talks

A reduction in people on waiting lists for the first time in recent years - but surgeons raise questions about the drop

Also, potholes, a vandalised statue and Nolan speaks with a man in Doha

Hostility to Irish language does unionism no favours - Irish Language Commissioner Pól Deeds

Also, dropping off at Belfast International Airport? From next Monday it will cost you £5

Oil and fuel prices hike - are big companies profiteering and exploiting US-Israel war with Iran for profit?

Don't panic buy home heating oil - says the Consumer Council

US-Israel attacks and Iran's retaliation - PM says he will allow US to use UK bases to strike Iranian missile sites

Nolan talks to UUP's Steve Aiken, PBP's Gerry Carroll - and travel expert Simon Calder.

MLA pay - why aren't any of our politicians publicly backing the proposed pay hike?

Also Former Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde says 50 /50 recruitment ship has probably sailed

Questions remain for the PSNI after they admit to illegally obtaining a journalist's information

Also, Nolan talks MLA pay

MLA pay rise - no public consultation says Stormont - so the public were consulted on Nolan today

Also, callers across NI tell Nolan about hearing a late night 'big bang'. What was it?

New bye-laws for buskers and street preachers for Belfast blasted by some councillors and performers

And, reaction to SF's call for 50:50 police recruitment to be re-introduced in the PSNI.