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You may have noticed I was away for a week. I was on holiday with the family in Brittany and what serene fun it was too. I walked the beaches, padded...
NOTHING reveals how carefully people have read an article quite like the comments underneath it. Following The Irish News’ front-page report that...
SEPTEMBER has really pulled the blinds on summer and said, “Right, that’s enough of that carry on.” There was no school-gate chat this year...
AS Donald Trump arrives in Ireland this weekend, it might be a good time to ask him why America is permanently engaged in war. In every single year...
THE cataclysmic events of September 11 2001, known everywhere by the American dating convention as 9/11, still reverberate today in both the US and in...
THE latest PISA international education results put England in the top 10 countries worldwide, with the other three parts of the UK falling steadily...
THERE are a range of compelling reasons to believe that Katie Simpson would be alive today if PSNI officers had carried out their duties properly...
We know how British people can be Irish. Doug Beattie has provided the exemplar: they simply have to support Ireland in the rugby (somewhat assisted...
British governments did not legally break the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty in their handling of the Boundary Commission, but they broke its spirit. Not...
The decision by 12 countries to back new trade sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is overdue, but welcome nonetheless....
I have to commend Andy Burnham for his comment last week that a border poll was “off the table”. The prime minister’s poor choice of words have...
UNDER a proposed law from Alliance, parents could face up to two years in jail for having “ordinary” conversations with their children about...
THE comprehensive analysis of the state of our health service set out in The Irish News this week leaves little room for doubt about the escalating...
YOU might think the provocative, preposterous demand to march along Garvaghy Road, which has so dismayed most people north and south, is to do with...
IN just over six months’ time – March 19 or 20 2027 – the Assembly will dissolve in preparation for an election on May 6. Although the present...
There is nothing wrong with being paid to advertise a restaurant. However, there is something deeply misleading about being paid to praise one while...
IT’S said to be darkest before dawn. Really? It’s something I’ve taken on trust, I’m sure some readers have tested the truth of it; but, true...
ONE step forward and two steps back should be the tag line for the north. In the month after Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann saw hundreds of thousands take...
It is always regrettable when sporting tournaments are overshadowed by wider concerns, but the decision to withdraw four Israeli athletes from...
THE world changed forever through the 9/11 catastrophes in the United States, 25 years ago this Friday, with the full scale of the consequences still...
AS I write this column, I’ve been frantically making sandwiches for Dad’s 86th birthday. It’s the end of a very stressful week. On Tuesday, his...
TULLAMORE is no stranger to hot air causing a bit of chaos. In 1785, a hot air balloon crashed into the town, sparking a massive fire and destroying...
I have long been of the opinion that the restaurant industry is a fairly ruthless, cut-throat environment. Perhaps I have been too heavily influenced...
Dear Andy Burnham, How dare you come over here and tell us the truth? You arrived last week and said that a border poll was not on the table. ...
When the Troubles broke out in Belfast, the forced exodus of Catholics from certain parts of the city was massive. Areas like the Falls/Shankill...
PRESIDENT Macron was the first foreign leader Andy Burnham met in Downing Street since he became prime minister. Burnham is at the beginning of his...
PORTADOWN District Orange Lodge is to apply for a parade along the Garvaghy Road on September 27, not a traditional date for this traditional route....
AN application has been submitted to the Parades Commission for a republican procession in the centre of the predominantly unionist village of...
HAIL Billy Gamble! My heart goes out to you. I knew nothing about you until last week, when you resigned from the Parades Commission. By that stage...
I SPENT a few days last week at the D’Arcy McGee Summer School in Carlingford. I had intended to write about the beauty of the town, its wonderfully...
In his Commons debut on Tuesday, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged to “stick 100% to the Good Friday Agreement”. This comment was in response...
IT is difficult to comprehend the mentality of anyone who would deface a memorial to victims of our troubled past. Regardless of the background of the...
Integrated education has an important role to play in a society still emerging from decades of division. That makes the dispute between Education...
THE main reason Stormont keeps running out of money is its policy of pay parity – matching England’s public sector pay rises. This is “the...
YOU wait for one prime minister to comment on constitutional change, and then three come along at once. In the past few days, former British prime...
On his first visit to the north in July after his appointment, the new proconsul wouldn’t answer a question from The Irish Times on reunification. ...
PARAMILITARY flags are sadly not an unusual sight in this part of the world and it has long been a source of frustration that authorities are...
When Chris Bryant was first asked about a border poll – he had barely unpacked his suitcase – his response was suitably vague. So vague, in fact,...
AT Westminster, it has long been the convention that if a government fails to pass a budget, it has lost its mandate to govern and should resign. Were...
“I’m away home; I’d rather die,” roared the woman to the entire accident & emergency department of the Royal Victoria Hospital. It was...
Andy Burnham turned up in Belfast last week. Better if he hadn’t, to be honest. He was like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in overdrive. The mess he...
THE Westminster parliament resumes on September 1 and a leisurely week later, on September 7, Stormont resumes business as usual – bickering and...
If Michael Cusack were alive today, he would probably not be allowed into Croke Park. Although he was the first to come up with the idea of a Gaelic...
How many voters will thank unionist parties for stirring the Drumcree dispute back up again? The DUP and the TUV must think it is a decisive number,...
I recently fell down an archive rabbit hole and ended up watching a 1974 BBC report on Belfast’s black taxis. It was a dispatch from another age:...
Belfast in the spring of 1990 was no stranger to marches, rallies and disorder. Amid the ongoing Troubles, protest was an established feature of the...
For years, Culture Night was one of the highlights of Belfast’s calendar. I remember going as a teenager and experiencing a totally different vibe...
Gordon Brown says a united Ireland is inevitable in the long term. Andy Burnham insists a border poll is “off the table”. Leo Varadkar, more...
THE core principle for all parades – whether unionist or republican – is that they shouldn’t occur in areas where local residents oppose them....
I need to preface what I’m about to say with a disclaimer: Power-sharing is a necessary, vital part of the peace process. It reassured the...
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