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  "path": "/news/belfast-knife-attack-sinn-fein-first-minister-accuses-gb-news-fake-news-grilling-open-irish-border",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-09T16:37:45.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.gbnews.com",
  "tags": [
    "DUP leader blasts Labour 'reticence' in response to 'barbaric' Belfast knife attack",
    "WATCH: Stormont issues joint response to 'barbaric' Belfast knife attack",
    "Tory frontbencher hails 'inspiring bravery' in Belfast after 'appalling' knife attack",
    "The GB News Editorial Charter"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nGB News Northern Ireland's reporter Dougie Beattie has been left outraged after being accused of \"fake news\" by the First Minister of Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking to the People's Channel after the heated accusation, Dougie told GB News that today is \"absolutely the day\" to be having a discussion about \"open borders\" in the country.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nPressing Michelle O'Neill on Sinn Féin's \"open border policy\", Dougie quizzed her on why her party \"insists on a porous border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland\".\n\nMs O'Neill hit back at Dougie, telling him: \"Quite the monologue there Dougie, and fake news.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"And on the day that's in it, totally inappropriate. I don't know any country that is open borders.\"\n\nMs O'Neill insisted that she believes in an \"immigration system that is fair, and managed and enforceable and compassionate and human rights compliant.\n\n\"But that is not the debate for today. The debate today is about our society, about our inclusive society, our welcoming society.\"\n\nStressing the severity of the situation surrounding the Belfast knife attack, the First Minister made clear: \"Our conversation today is about our thoughts that are very much with that gentleman who finds himself as a victim of that violent and horrific attack last night.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"Our thoughts today are about creating calm in our society. So I think the message from here, from this platform is very consistent, and I have no truck with your fake news.\"\n\nHitting back at Ms O'Neill, Dougie argued that she had failed to \"answer the question\" about Northern Ireland's border situation.\n\nShutting down Dougie a second time, she simply hit back: \"I have no truck with your fake news.\"\n\nReacting to the accusation on GB News, Dougie told host Martin Daubney that it is \"not fake news\" what is happening on the Irish border.\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * DUP leader blasts Labour 'reticence' in response to 'barbaric' Belfast knife attack\n  * WATCH: Stormont issues joint response to 'barbaric' Belfast knife attack\n  * Tory frontbencher hails 'inspiring bravery' in Belfast after 'appalling' knife attack\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHe said: \"There never seems to be a day to talk about this, and all we hear is platitudes as they come out and condemn exactly what people in these areas are saying, that politicians are not listening to them, and they come back with 'this is not the day to talk about this', and then claim that it's fake news.\n\n\"It's not fake news. Exactly what has happened in Dublin is happening here in Northern Ireland, because of a European immigration policy that is now making its way into Northern Ireland.\"\n\nPraising Dougie's question to Ms O'Neill, Martin declared: \"Once again, you're just excellently holding power to account.\n\n\"You're doing your job, a proper journalist holding the First Minister to account on a day where they would like us to be saying, 'it's not the day to talk about it'. Thank you, my friend, for asking that pertinent question.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nA Sudanese man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following an attack on a man in his 40s in Belfast.\n\nThe suspect is believed to have travelled from Sudan to Paris, and then from Paris to Dublin on unknown dates, before taking a bus to Belfast in February 2023 where he immediately claimed asylum.\n\nThe Home Office has confirmed that the individual was granted leave to remain in the UK until 2028.\n\nThe individual claims to have entered the UK via the Common Travel Area.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Sinn Fein FM accuses GB News of 'fake news' after being grilled on Sudanese stabbing suspect exposing 'open Irish border'"
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