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It’s not anti-semitic to condemn Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza

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Patrick Murphy

Anyone got any ideas how to spend £30m in Newcastle?

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Newton Emerson

A dislocated shoulder, a deranged neighbour and a car full of cats: my weird night in Craigavon A&E

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Fabien Mcquillan

The price of perfection: How the selfie obsession is leading to deadly risks - Sophie Clarke

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Sophie Clarke

Chicago’s greatest export meets Peru’s most humble servant 

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Brónagh Diamond

The US is trying to bully the world under the pretext of ‘reciprocal tariffs’

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Li Nan

Why shouldn’t Sinn Féin act as if they own the north?

Michelle O’Neill attended the annual VE commemoration in St Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast on Monday with Emma Little-Pengelly beside her. It’s the...

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Brian Feeney

My opinion on Kneecap? I’ve seen it all before...

Somebody asked me the other day why I had never written about Kneecap. The answer is pretty simple: they don’t interest me. So uninterested in...

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Alex Kane

‘It’s a celebration of the music’ - Ged Graham on Seven Drunken Nights: The Story of The Dubliners

IN THE mid-1960s, somewhere in the working class area of the Liberties in Dublin, a six-year old boy heard The Dubliners for the first time. Flash-...

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Robert Mcmillen

The DUP and Sinn Féin have given up on devolving taxes

The argument for devolving more tax powers to Stormont appears to be dead: the DUP has ruled it out and Sinn Féin no longer wants to talk about it....

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Newton Emerson

The problem with courting controversy is that if you dish it out, you have to accept the consequences

They say the 1960s was the ‘Decade of Love’. And if that’s true, then these 2020s we’re all navigating are surely the ‘Decade of...

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Leona Oneill

Keep the civil service away from decisions on Derry

The British government has given £30 million to reopen Doncaster/Sheffield airport, part of a plan to transform it into an aviation hub and boost...

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Brian Feeney

The world is witnessing genocide in real time in Gaza but failing to act - The Irish News view

While world leaders sit on their hands, over two million Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation, in what can only be described as a...

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Unionism beware: the rise of Reform could be the second wind that nationalism needs

One message emerged from last week’s local elections: Reform is on a roll. The party decisively won the popular vote and elected 677 councillors,...

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David Mccann

The cardinals assemble, the ballots are readied, a world holds its breath

The 133 cardinal-electors will surely feel the weight of heaven and earth on their shoulders when they behold the sacred grandeur of the Sistine...

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Martin Obrien

Outrage needs directed at Israel, not Kneecap

Not since John Lennon famously said The Beatles were more popular than Jesus has there been more hyperventilating about musicians saying stupid...

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Mary Kelly

Starmer’s march to the right will not end well for Labour 

It’s said that one of the signs of madness is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. Step forward Britain’s...

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Tom Collins