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The symbolism involved in the decision by the Policing Board to approve the sale of Crossmaglen PSNI station in south Armagh, regarded throughout the...
IT has been a week of extraordinary news developments. Another British prime minister falling by the wayside less than two years since assuming office...
SIMON Harris dropped a surprise on all of us two weeks ago with the announcement that Fine Gael would produce a blueprint on Irish unification by its...
THE one decision that did more than any other to drive Keir Starmer from office was means-testing the winter fuel allowance. It caused a disaster in...
AS the summer term ends, school sports days are once again bringing parents, grandparents and children together on playing fields and playgrounds....
“I’M back! I’m back!” Actually, would you ever just go away? Full disclosure, I’d love to see the back of Cristiano Ronaldo – except when...
IT’S exactly 10 years to the day when the first results of the Brexit referendum from the north-east of England began to indicate a victory for...
MY father used to say that you could think you knew a person well, yet you would rarely know them well enough to know what was going on when their...
JEFFREY Donaldson will forever be remembered for his precipitous fall from grace on Good Friday 2024, when the news gradually emerged of his arrest...
THINGS move so quickly these days that, for all I know, Andy Burnham is currently standing outside Downing Street talking about a brave new era in...
The sight of a modern hospital building standing largely empty while millions are spent simply to keep the lights on is one that will provoke...
THE child in the corridor rocked back and forth, banging his head off the wall. I wasn’t much older than him, yet I could feel his distress acutely,...
THREE months before Jeffrey Donaldson was arrested on charges of child sexual abuse, I asked him if he would take a friend’s child on work...
Keir Starmer’s time in Downing Street has effectively been up for several months, and the dramatic scale of Andy Burnham’s victory in the...
POLITICS is a brutal business, and Keir Starmer is discovering just how personal it can be for someone in the top job. He’s now in an impossible...
MANY years ago, when I was a student, I went to see One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The film left an indelible print on my brain – it is...
When Nigel Farage dropped in to the offices of The Irish News for a chat some 13 years ago, I struggled to maintain a fixed grin as he set out in...
ONE of the first lessons I learned when I started working as a journalist is that no two people experience Belfast in quite the same way. Spend enough...
UUP leader Jon Burrows can now claim – just about – to have the support of a majority of his party’s assembly members. There are eight UUP MLAs,...
IT’S that time again, when we see hordes of people packed together, some standing outside praying, while watching a big screen – and I’m not...
So far, so good for Andy Burnham in his bid to oust the terminally mundane Keir Starmer. Long before the Harrington-wearing ‘king of the north’...
NO serious observer was ever in doubt that the racist rioting which traumatised ordinary citizens across our society earlier this month was plainly...
When The Irish News first reported allegations of abuse at Muckamore Abbey Hospital in 2017, many disturbing questions were raised about the treatment...
The charging of Hadi Alodid over the attack on Stephen Ogilvie in north Belfast last week has brought the Common Travel Area between Ireland and the...
AN industrial dispute in Newry is more bad news for Sinn Féin’s Good Jobs Bill, currently held up in the Executive by the DUP. Forty staff at...
AS the dust settles on yet another round of violence here, let’s consider the “legitimate concerns” of those who took to the streets. We’re...
WE are by now sadly familiar with stories about the dire state of our health service, with its overcrowded emergency departments and patients...
LET me tell you something about me and Belfast. I love this city. I’ve had three opportunities to work and live elsewhere, but I’ve always chosen...
IN this paper on Saturday, Pat McArt warned about the gradual erosion of free speech and civil liberty. As he wrote: “Rights and freedoms are rarely...
The debate over the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) is a complex one, but the circumstances in which some unionists vetoed an attempt by...
I was back in Belfast last week for my birthday on June 9. My twin sister still lives here; I come home often from Sweden, where I work. This year,...
As the eyes of the sporting world turn once again to the United States for the World Cup, the global media is full of colour, noise and escapism. But...
At the risk of engaging in overstatement, Fine Gael’s latest intervention in the Irish unity conversation may well turn out to be a game changer. On...
Few words generate more fear than a doctor telling a patient that cancer is suspected. The days and weeks that follow are often filled with anxiety,...
IF you were on the cusp of being the richest man in the history of the world, would you be tweeting about race in Belfast? I thought not. Yet Elon...
AN ‘acceptable level of violence’ – that’s what we were told to hope for. In 1971, British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling had such little...
HUNDREDS of column inches have been filled over the past week since a brutal attack in Belfast left a man with life-threatening injuries and a...
THE spectacle of some politicians providing a veneer of cover for the racist rioters last week was unedifying but unsurprising. The attempted murder...
THE long and troubled history of Belfast and its hinterland is epitomised by the way in which adjoining streets have been at the centre of two of the...
The real face of both Belfast and modern Ireland was on show at the weekend as massive crowds attended a City Hall rally which sent out a powerful...
‘WHAT on earth are you two giggling at?’ Fionnuala was peeking into the living room where Dermot and I were on the sofa eating blue sour sweets...
Most mornings I find myself sharing a bus journey to work with visitors arriving in Belfast, suitcase in hand and eager to explore the city. And...
OF all the things we are good at in this part of the world, we are probably best at hypocrisy. The racist violence on our streets and the political...
THE lesson of violence in Northern Ireland is that the British government will give in to it, and so it has proved with the latest wave of racist...
THE explosive resignation letter of Britain’s Defence Secretary John Healey on Thursday brought an ongoing row in the British Cabinet to a head. At...
The upsurge in racist intimidation and violence across our society following the appalling knife attack in north Belfast earlier this week has created...
ONE of the privileges of working at Queen’s University is belonging to a community that draws students and staff from well over 100 nations. Every...
I grew up in Larne, a port town that has seen better days. Economic anxiety, fierce community loyalty, and the sense of being looked past by those...
The elephant has raised its head once again. The sound of the dog whistles brought the pogromists back on to our streets this week to visit misery on...
ANDY Burnham has said it again. The Manchester mayor has told Westminster’s The House magazine that he wants to scrap Labour’s ban on running...
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