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FOR the second time in less than a month, hundreds of schools have been targeted by threatening emails with the apparent aim of spreading fear and...
RECENT polling has brought into sharp focus a fault line which has been running through unionism for many years. The problem is that the divide does...
The health service is collapsing “in slow motion” because Stormont is distracted by orange-green arguments, according to Dr Alan Stout, chair of...
AT a stage when the future of our devolved structures is under an intense spotlight, it is hugely disturbing that the DUP is attempting to link its...
THE sight of the British proconsul going out to the gates of his vice-regal lodge at Hillsborough to greet the Sinn Féin delegation for talks on a...
QUITE some time ago – long before the fallout from Drumcree – I suggested that unionism was in the process of dividing into two very distinct...
THE jailing of Russell Brand for rape and sexual assault offences first and foremost represents justice for the women who have carried the trauma from...
IF you walk the concourse of any stadium on the day of a big rugby match, there are people everywhere selling earpieces. Inflation might have had a...
THE entry in the priest’s diary was stark: “Ledwidge killed. Blown to bits. At confession yesterday and Holy Communion this morning. RIP.” Small...
THE PSNI called me at the weekend to inform me of a threat made by an individual. The content is so harrowing that it is not publishable. The less...
GIVEN that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have separately sat in Irish governments for almost a century, and have effectively been in coalition together...
In Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel Normal People, the character Marianne attends a pro-Palestine march in Dublin while at Trinity College....
TWENTY-five years ago this month, myself and 19 others from civic society and political parties gave policing in the north a rebirth by joining the...
I decided for now to ignore the intriguingly slow speed of the gutter cleaning man who I’d just fed with toast, and get a bit of writing done. I had...
Last weekend Barnam’s Cafe on Belfast’s Lisburn Road closed its doors for the final time after decades of serving generations of families. It was...
IS it just me, or is the festive season starting earlier every year? I nipped into the supermarket for a wee bag of sweets for the trick-or-treaters...
FINE Gael is due to present its blueprint for a united Ireland this weekend, while the taoiseach has announced an Irish government body to consider...
It is time for Britain to have two different types of poppy – or better still, two entirely separate emblems to remember its war dead. Tomorrow, as...
NEXT Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of what was the inauguration of Ulster Resistance. On November 10 1986 about 3,000 men, by invitation only,...
AS the Executive parties arrived separately for another round of budget talks with Secretary of State Chris Bryant yesterday, they should have done so...
MICHEÁL Martin and the Alliance Party have parted company – and all because of reconciliation. It has been a bad few weeks for the reconcilers....
ONE hundred years ago, Cumann na mBan activists Sighle Humphries and Fiona Plunkett initiated the Easter lily emblem to commemorate the 10th...
BREXIT accelerated campaigning for Irish unity, with growths in support and demand for a border poll in 2030. Yet five years ago that trajectory...
THE decisive outcome of the US midterm elections represents a triumph for the Democratic Party, a humiliating setback for Donald Trump, and a welcome...
UNIONIST unity is back on the agenda. Then again, it never really went away. What has been debated for more than two decades has returned in the form...
SINN Féin could respond to the DUP’s antics by forcing an early election. Whether it should is an intriguing question, for nationalists and...
A QUARTER of a century after the creation of the PSNI, there is still much to celebrate in the transformation of policing in Northern Ireland –...
AT the time of writing, it’s not clear whether Carla Lockhart’s resignation from the DUP will drive the party to pull Emma Little-Pengelly from...
I don’t think many people were surprised by the speed with which Northern Ireland returned to the past over the last month. Personally, I’ve...
For any family waiting to bring their loved one home, 20 years is an almost unimaginable length of time to endure uncertainty, grief and unanswered...
IT’S been a long two years, but here we are at last at the mid-point of Donald Trump’s second term as American president. Unlike his first term,...
I’VE been in and around politics for years, and it takes a lot to shock me. However, there has been an outbreak of brass-neckery around Dublin...
WHILE Ciara Mageean had spoken openly and courageously about her cancer diagnosis, there was still an overwhelming sense of shock and sadness...
WHEN the acclaimed novelist Eoin McNamee, who is director of the Oscar Wilde Centre at Trinity College in Dublin, was asked in an Irish Times...
I was reminded in recent days of the Oliver Cromwell quote to the Rump Parliament: “You have sat too long for any good that you have been doing...
THE announcement by Taoiseach Micheál Martin that a new government body will be tasked with scoping out the models and challenges for potential...
A small, thin, dapper man arrived in an old, neat van to clean the gutters, and his smile as he came into the house was infectious. I liked him...
There are few official-looking envelopes capable of ruining your afternoon quite like the reminder that your car is due its MOT. You can be having a...
THE government has tried bribing Stormont to agree a budget by offering an extra £1.5 billion over three years. Now it is skirting with the...
IN the space of a couple of hours recently, I came across two articles featuring prominent figures from the unionist community with regard to the...
BRENDAN Behan was only half right. He said that the first item on a republican agenda was a split. The other half of his observation might have been...
GAVIN Robinson’s promise of “profound consequences” as a result of Sinn Féin leaders joining the Garvaghy Road residents to block the Orange...
Keynote rulings on consecutive days from the High Court and the Parades Commission have helped to restore at least some common sense to the debate...
Ask yourself this: what was Alliance’s position on Drumcree? Could you articulate it if you were asked? Before writing this article I tried and...
More than a generation after the new dispensation was ushered in on Good Friday 1998, the public space across the north – be it Stormont, Belfast...
THERE can only be enormous concern at figures showing that reports of animal welfare concerns almost trebled in the space of a year. The USPCA...
THE large rally in Portadown on Saturday to support the town’s district lodge was an impressive display of street politics and a striking contrast...
A COUPLE of months ago, I noticed that two upper-middle-class northerners from a Protestant background had been to Leinster House for a meeting with...
THIS day last week, between 3.30 and 4.30pm, the House of Commons ran the Church Appointments (Repeal of Discriminatory Provision) Bill through all...
RTÉ has had a committed all-Ireland audience since its launch 65 years ago this December, and it is beyond disappointing that those who live north of...
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