Michael Cousins Acting Managing Editor

Good morning

In the news today:

* Health Minister Robin Swann appeals for public support for health workers ’during the current extreme pressures’.

* Sinn Fein’s past hostility towards NATO ‘shows party was peeing into the wind, and it has come back to hit them in the face’.

* Presbyterian moderator the Rev David Bruce has launched an emergency appeal within his church in response to the devastating Russian invasion of Ukraine and mass exodus of people from the country.

* Fermanagh GAA player’s family hit by third tragedy as father dies after being hit by lorry.

Opinion:

* Morning View: The sudden increased awareness of Nato, and support for it due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is welcome.

* Owen Polley: Voters in the Stormont election will be turned off by unionist infighting.

Sport:

* Plans to revive the debt-hit Ulster Grand Prix in 2022 have fallen through in a major setback for Irish road racing with confirmation that the iconic Dundrod meeting has been cancelled.

* Tourism NI 'unable to justify' £800,000 funding for NW200 and Ulster Grand Prix.

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