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THERE was a time – and it seems an extraordinarily long time ago – when politicians from Northern Ireland visiting the White House over the St...
GAVIN Robinson – he’s the charisma-free DUP leader, in case you don’t know – took Reform’s Robert Jenrick for a walk on the Shankill last...
In an age when so much public life feels hurried, transactional and fleeting, it is worth pausing to consider the quiet, steady example of people like...
MY granny was a very practical woman who believed that a dose of common sense was the answer to most problems in life. And for her generation, which...
USUALLY when politicians or governments continue doing the wrong thing, despite multiple sources telling them they’re wrong, we assume incompetence....
The withdrawal of civil proceedings against Gerry Adams in a London court on Friday came after the judge in the case raised the possibility that the...
There was a time when the views of members of the minority nationalist community in Portadown, in common with many of their counterparts across the...
SOME aspects of the annual St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Washington can be open to parody, but there were developments during last week’s...
WELL, it’s over, the ordeal in Washington that is. Micheál Martin survived. Better than that, he emerged unscathed. Opposition parties criticised...
IN November 2024, the Executive found a spare £17 million for a one-off winter fuel payment for pensioners who had lost the benefit when the...
IT is something of an embarrassment to have to tell the rest of the world that our system of government is essentially based on the 16th century...
I WAS supposed to join my brother and his wife to take part in the St Patrick’s Day parade in my home town of Letterkenny, but as I looked out my...
THERE is something oddly revealing about the queues that form whenever a new chain restaurant opens in the north. Over the past year we have watched...
UNIONISM has historically had a problem with regard to claiming people and land. It raises its head each time the loyal orders demand the right to...
NEGOTIATING a meeting in front of cameras with Donald Trump must feel like handling nitroglycerin for any politician summoned to his gilded White...
THERE has never been a better time to be an Irish person in England. Gone are the days of signs in London guest house windows reading ‘No Blacks, No...
It was appalling in every way that dozens of west Belfast residents, including pensioners and young children, were forced to evacuate their homes for...
I HAVE a lot of time for this Irish government, not least for the support it gives to a variety of Northern Ireland community groups that are...
TWO parties threatened last weekend to quit the executive. Alliance leader Naomi Long, addressing her party’s annual conference, said participation...
VIOLENCE against women and girls in Northern Ireland is a critical issue and one we cannot ignore. Earlier this month, 23-year-old Ellie Flanagan died...
IT is profoundly frustrating for ordinary citizens, struggling to cope with overwhelming cost of living pressures, to see the two main Stormont...
THE philosopher Alan Watts, who helped introduce the world to the Beat Generation and wrote the multi-million bestseller The Way of Zen, had a very...
THERE’S a new book out tomorrow from Will Hutton, author and journalist, formerly principal of Hertford College Oxford. Thirty years ago he wrote...
Ireland has a truly special relationship with the United States. Historically tens of thousands of people left poverty, hunger and poor prospects...
DEAR Patrick I hope you don’t mind me dispensing with the honorific – we live now in more egalitarian times (or so we think). I had thought...
Among the rubble of a medical facility in southern Lebanon this weekend lay the bodies of 12 healthcare workers: paramedics and medics who had gone to...
I once almost made it to the White House for St Patrick’s Day. I was a Senator and invited during Barack Obama’s term. Except someone forgot to...
Considering the poisoning of Lough Neagh hit the world’s headlines in 2023, you would assume that by now the pollution would be decreasing. Yet...
Enormous advances have been made in policing since the launch of the PSNI almost a quarter of a century ago, but all the progress must be carefully...
SO the body which oversees the pay of our politicians has approved a whopping 27% increase in the salary of MLAs. Unsurprisingly, the public – Joe...
COUNTLESS articles and reports have been written about the crisis in health and social care in Northern Ireland. We have become accustomed to reading...
IF GAA regulations still prevented British soldiers and northern police officers from joining today, it would be completely understandable if the...
It’s 25 years since Naomi Long was first elected as a councillor in Belfast, and ten years since she became Alliance leader. Notwithstanding the...
I often say I don’t need to tell lies doing stand-up comedy, because my whole life is a joke. While this may seem gratuitously self-deprecating, it...
I’LL get back to Mrs Davison in the care home in a while – suffice to say that her neighbour Genghis wasn’t happy about her being left there...
Over the last few days, while taking a somewhat unreliable bus service into Belfast city centre, we have stopped at a set of traffic lights beside a...
AS the Second World War was ending, Hitler was reported to have ordered non-existent troops into battle. Keir Starmer is no Hitler, but he too appears...
A JUDGE has accused two Stormont departments of being “entirely unfair and unacceptable”, “unprincipled” and of “gaslighting” in their...
THURSDAY week ago, after it emerged a French frigate was at Limassol in Cyprus and Spanish, Italian, Greek and Dutch ships were on the way to help...
THE prolonged attempts to obtain a criminal conviction under anti-terrorism legislation against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, also known as Mo Chara, of the...
There is a delicate balance to be struck between the rights of residents who live beside our public amenities and the wider public who fund, own and...
REGULATING the price of home heating oil in Northern Ireland would be surprisingly straightforward. It would be unusual – most developed countries...
IMMEDIATELY after the official speeches from the stage concluded, special guest speaker Mary Robinson focused on the younger women in the gathering,...
THE fact that the body of 23-year-old Ellie Flanagan was discovered in Co Fermanagh on the eve of International Women’s Day was a development of...
THE DUP love Britain being at war. It’s their chance to maximise their notions of loyalty, of patriotism, to urge the British government to go...
MY interview with John Taylor – published in this paper on February 28 – generated a lot of traction. I wasn’t entirely surprised: it has been...
Given the intense publicity last summer surrounding the health risks in assembling and lighting a bonfire on a site containing asbestos in south...
IT started with picnic baskets – plastic bags filled with Tupperware in all probability – and a long, slow walk to Lough Neagh down Castor Bay...
THE thing with columns is you can’t be too repetitive. I’m doing this one for about a year and it does get tricky. If you’ve already written...
Many criticisms can be made of the Stormont administration, but probably the biggest single indictment to be put forward is its consistent and...
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