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Job hunting has a peculiar ability to make even the most capable person feel completely unemployable. After finishing my master’s degree, I spent...
I recall a poem from my school days where the opening lines were: “To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower.” ...
THE EU that Britain is trying to get closer to is no longer the EU Britain left in 2016. It’s concerned with its eastern borders, whether or not to...
Bad news for the two swans which became trapped in algae on Lough Neagh this week. The algae will be there for as long as Stormont exists, because it...
There are two stories behind the resignation of UUP health minister Mike Nesbitt: the decades-old one about Stormont parties backing health reforms in...
ONE of the most discussed aspects of this year’s Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann was the involvement of musical bands from the loyalist tradition in the...
CLAIMS from the republican splinter group Óglaigh na hÉireann (ÓNH) that it attempted to kill an alleged loyalist in west Belfast earlier this...
THEY say a week is a long time in politics. In Northern Ireland, it seems we can hardly go a single day without another scandal, another jaw-dropping...
ONCE the votes are counted and the seats declared, the focus quickly shifts to whether an Executive can be formed, and then who will pick the various...
Mike Nesbitt’s resignation as health minister should serve as a warning to Jon Burrows: it is one thing to win applause by opposing an unpopular...
DARRYL Wilson, a DUP councillor in north Antrim, has raised an important and rarely considered problem with disability benefits – the burden...
PART of Jon Burrows’ appeal to UUP members was the prospect of a leader who would take control, enthuse the electoral base and end the ongoing,...
Jon Burrows has learned the hard way that politics is about more than making populist pronouncements. Just when the former policeman and Stormont...
THERE are a few nonsenses about the Assembly which need to be dismissed and then dumped for ever. The first is that there is some sort of magic...
IT’S pretty obvious that nationalists and unionists hold diametrically opposed positions on the national question which substitutes for bread and...
The weekend collision on the M9 motorway in Co Kildare, which killed five teenage boys and left four members of a separate family seriously injured,...
ANYONE spending time on social media cannot fail to have noticed the proliferation of competition websites in recent years. Slick adverts dangle the...
NINA Simone did not pull her punches. She lived in an era and a country where it was dangerous to be black. “Southern trees bear a strange fruit,”...
THE woman in the grey coat, holding a Pomeranian in her red woollen mittens, appeared calm when the RUC pulled up alongside her on the Malone Road in...
It is completely unacceptable for groups, whether based in a loyalist or a republican area, to organise bonfires which either endanger the public or...
Is it acceptable for paramilitary or dissident organisations to be around nearly 30 years after the GFA? No. Are there people who use these...
It’s no secret this columnist favours the tone, content and conduct of the Talkback programme over similar offerings on BBC Radio Ulster. I also...
KOBE McDonald has become arguably Ireland’s most celebrated citizen, even though he is still only 18 and it seems likely that he will be a resident...
I know I’m still telling you about what happened in Donegal, but I just want to mention the Fleadh – because it was the most mental thing that has...
I had a fantastic dinner in east Belfast earlier this week. Luna, in Ballyhackamore, served plate after plate of tremendous food, the kind that makes...
IT seems Donald Trump’s depredations in the Middle East since 2025 with war criminal Netanyahu have realigned politics and diplomacy there, but not...
I’VE been releasing short videos on social media that I call “BedTalks”, which sounds, I’ll admit, far more profound than it has any right to....
If it had not been for the violence of the IRA and the sectarian rantings of Ian Paisley, last week’s Fleadh could probably have been held in...
SINN Féin is back-pedalling from its hints two weeks ago of walking out of the Executive in frustration at the DUP. Michelle O’Neill and finance...
The health service is a massive institution, with a crucial role to play for all citizens, from the youngest to the oldest, and across its many levels...
If you’d asked me five years ago if I would ever be back living in Belfast again, I probably would have told you it was unlikely. I’m someone who...
FIFTY years ago, following the horrific deaths of three children on Finaghy Road North in west Belfast, two women, Betty Williams and Mairead...
THERE has been much talk in recent days of building on the stunning success that was the staging of the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Belfast. A city...
RELATIONS have finally broken down between Northern Ireland’s farmers and Andrew Muir, the Alliance agriculture and environment minister. An angry...
UNTIL now, whenever I’ve tried to explain what I mean by a “New” Ireland – tried to describe the kind of all-island state I would love to see...
NEWSPAPERS and social media are all full of justified praise and admiration for the astonishing success of the Fleadh and its hands across the divide....
THE Brexit result in June 2016 was a game-changer for Northern Ireland politics; and that’s because neither Sinn Féin nor the DUP expected Leave to...
IT has been well documented that staff who originally come from other countries make an absolutely crucial contribution to health services across...
THERE is no doubting the strength of feeling in some quarters about the manner in which 51 cows were culled in Co Tyrone. A large number of farmers...
FROM a distance you can see them, the carrion birds flocking over Stormont waiting for the cadaver of so-called regional democracy to be hoisted onto...
THIS last week, while two féiles and one Fleadh were taking over our first and second cities, we were reminded that so many people refuse to move on...
For the past unforgettable week, Belfast has danced with a new rhythm. It was there in the music on the streets, in the fiddle and flute, in the beat...
A TRIP to Belfast for a break felt like a bit of a busman’s holiday, but the Fleadh was simply irresistible. I love music of all kinds, from The...
BELFAST, you beaut! Here’s me sitting writing a column in a caravan in the shadow of Samson and Goliath, feeling like I’m in a parallel universe....
A UNITY referendum is clearly some distance away, and it is very hard to predict the mood across Ireland if constitutional change is the eventual...
JACK Charlton was born in 1935 and grew up in the mining town of Ashington in Northumberland. After being turned down by Leeds United at 15, he went...
The Fleadh may be the best thing to happen to Belfast in my lifetime. That is a fairly sweeping statement, but after spending much of this week...
IN May this year, the British Medical Journal reported that 30 US psychiatrists and other doctors specialising in mental health have signed a...
IF Belfast can be kept clean during the Fleadh, with huge crowds in the city centre, why is it filthy the rest of the time? In a social media post,...
The genocide unfolding in Gaza today is often framed in Western capitals as a sudden rupture — a war that began on a specific date, to be solved...
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