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THE major damage caused by an arson attack on the former Antrim Arms hotel in Ballycastle not only represents a significant setback for the entire...
NOTHING that Donald Trump does has moral authority, because everything that he says and does is underpinned by his narcissism and psychological...
THIS obsession on the airwaves and in the press here with the ins and outs of the agonies of the British Labour Party, and its prospects in the local...
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Ulster University is the author of its own misfortune, though that will be no comfort to the 450 people whose...
Politics is probably the only job where you can publicly fail for years but return every five years after a review. The review will point out that you...
I WENT to see a play at the weekend with a group of women friends. You know, the women in your life you finally realise are your people, because you...
A REVILED US lawyer who died nearly four decades go might not be expected to have a central influence on one of the main Irish sporting events of the...
WHEN Keir Starmer became British prime minister after his comprehensive general election victory in July 2024, there was every indication that, with...
WHAT a week! Just when you thought Donald Trump couldn’t sink any lower into the amoral pit of his mind, he posts an image of himself looking like...
All the recent fuss over Mrs Davison meant I had taken my eye of the ball when it came to parenting: it’s only by the grace of God that I came out...
MOJACAR is a small but, according to the guide books, impressive town in southern Spain where a lot of Brits used to congregate. Years ago I recall...
AN important social housing project at a north Belfast interface is being held up by lack of sewage capacity. The Duncairn site between Tiger’s Bay...
IF there were a united Ireland tomorrow, it would probably have one of the most incompetent governments in Irish history. An odd prediction, you say,...
FROM the wealth of cooking shows on television, Great British Menu has always been my favourite. For those unfamiliar, it’s a high-stakes...
WHEN you hear that a government – usually the US or its glove puppet, the UK – has ‘sanctioned’ somebody, what does that mean? The term was...
John Swinney’s SNP are favourites to secure an outright majority in Scotland come the parliamentary election in May. A YouGov poll just days ago put...
There can be few stories more ridiculous than the M&S shopping bag saga given oxygen through the media this week. The story was based on comments...
ULSTER University is one of our most important institutions at every level, and there can only be enormous concern over the revelation that it is...
THERE’S something jarring about the idea of Eddie Hearn swaggering into Croke Park on Friday morning. It is to be overcast in Dublin but, still,...
THE sight of ambulances queued up outside hospital A&E units, unable to hand over patients requiring emergency care, has been a cause of major...
WHAT if Stormont’s Good Jobs Bill is a bigger issue for the public sector than for the private sector? In an open letter this week, 22 business...
WHEN the Good Friday Agreement was signed, my then boyfriend – now husband – and I were sitting in our house on the Falls Road watching people put...
MICHEÁL Martin’s government had it coming. People seem to have forgotten the protests by farmers about Mercosur which reached a crescendo in...
WE’RE just three weeks away from the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and English local council elections on May 7. And maybe, depending on how...
IT is telling that among the most strident criticism faced by Donald Trump in recent days has been from those involved with Christian groups which...
In a place where allegiances are parsed and identities contested, a boy from Holywood has achieved something remarkable beyond his six major...
MORE than 30 years ago I undertook research examining the system of public appointments in the north. It highlighted serious concerns about the...
As we track the rising cost of fuel and energy, it’s worth remembering the far greater human price being paid elsewhere. Families across the Middle...
As the National Living Wage increased again on the April 1, the response from all sides was familiar. Ministers make the announcement saying that work...
As fuel stocks continue to be eroded, and inventories are not sufficiently supplemented due to continued blockages in the Strait of Hormuz, we will...
IT is Easter Sunday in Florence, and like thousands of others I’m walking towards the Duomo – that great whited sepulchre topped by...
Of all the bizarre sights during last week’s fuel protests, Athlone took the biscuit, or in this case, the Holy Ghost. A priest was filmed sitting...
LAST week, I temporarily shut down my X/Twitter account, such was the volume of the vitriol and bile directed towards me. My crime, as far as these...
IT is difficult to know at this stage if threatened fuel protests at the Westlink, Larne and other locations across the north will generate anything...
The plan couldn’t have been simpler and in the event, the great care home escape was executed with aplomb: Mrs Davison in the front seat of our car...
THERE has been a fair amount of discussion this week after some push-back against the idea that men, or society more broadly, should feel any sense of...
IF I’m being honest, I haven’t looked at a single news story in one whole week and I’m not a bit ashamed of my ignorance – because it truly...
HAS the Catholic Church’s first American pope been sufficiently outspoken against America’s war on Iran? Described as mild-mannered and...
MICHEÁL Martin has said he is “open” to nuclear power in Ireland, although he has questioned the cost. The taoiseach was responding to questions...
THE Easter holidays seem to have brought it home to the north’s hospitality trade that they face serious difficulties competing with their...
There is something especially bleak about violence carried out by a crowd. A disagreement between two individuals may be ugly enough. But when a group...
I SUPPORT the idea of a New Ireland. Not because I’m eager to get on board with something that’s inevitable (very little in life is inevitable)....
100 years ago, in April 1926, Fianna Fáil, which went on to become the dominant political party of independent Ireland, was founded. It was...
THE 2000 fuel protests, a landmark event in recent political history, received significant support in Northern Ireland, including from the Ulster...
EVERY so often in a WhatsApp chat, or on the rare occasion I get to see old friends for a real life catch-up, we talk about how relieved we are that...
THOSE who lived through the Cold War, including hair-trigger stand-offs such as the Cuban missile crisis, might have hoped that the threat of...
THE north’s growing housing crisis – and it can only be described this way – has been evident for some time, but latest figures underline its...
THE problem with optimism is that it tends to be accompanied by one dashed hope after another: and with those dashed hopes comes one disappointment...
WHAT’S in a name? The media everywhere has to be careful with nomenclature, not least in the US where the White House clown has banned certain...
OF the forest’s worth of sticks with which you could beat Liverpool, the most splintered one is that they have just stopped working. When Brighton...
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