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The UUP is walking a trickier tightrope at Drumcree than is generally realised. Leader Jon Burrows has set his party apart from the DUP and the TUV,...
The last two weeks in the Assembly have been some of the most toxic we have seen since 2007. MLAs have been firing barbs across the chamber. The two...
IN moments of crisis, the unthinkable becomes thinkable once again, as the very words and ideas which tie society together unravel. These are moments...
There can only be enormous relief that, after a frustrating series of complex legal delays, the way was finally cleared yesterday for a major upgrade...
My colleague Brian Feeney writes that “regardless of Parades Commission determinations, or what have you”, there won’t be an Orange parade on...
THE Court of Appeal heard the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition case on Monday, exactly 58 years to the day since the RUC batoned peaceful civil...
Confirmation that the Catholic Diocese of Derry will ask the Pope to have Fr Edward Gallagher dismissed from the priesthood is an entirely appropriate...
If politics is the art of compromise then it would appear many of our MLAs are philistines. Stormont, rather than the streets, is now the theatre of...
Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Step forward An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, TD for the Rebel County of Cork, inheritor of the mantle of Easter Rising...
There are many uninformed people when it comes to the politics of this place. It’s not hard to be, given its complicated history, disparate groups,...
IF you were creating a mould to build an inter-county footballer, you might not use Rory Grugan’s frame but you’d pay good money to harvest his...
I HAD a baby six weeks ago, and I left the hospital days later feeling well-rested, basking in a newborn glow and in the possession of a free manual...
WHILE most people will sympathise over the dilemmas facing Chris Bryant, there is little in his CV which suggests he was ever qualified to take charge...
THE Drumcree dispute is due back before the High Court in Belfast today after an entirely avoidable period of enormous tension and upheaval over the...
I’M sitting here watching Carla Lockhart, the DUP MP for Upper Bann, at a self-styled community event. She’s there to support the Orange Order and...
AT around 3am on Sunday September 27, bright lights illuminated the residents who were gathered on Garvaghy Road in advance of the Orange Order parade...
WHEN Fionnuala set me down and explained exactly what the badger scheme was, I felt a mix of embarrassment and relief. How could I have thought my...
Back in August, after a long time saving, searching, bidding, catastrophising and crying, I finally got the keys to my first home. It is small, needs...
ON September 8, the British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. He said it...
DRUMCREE Church is where the Presbyterian Young Irelander John Mitchel was married in 1837. His bride, Jenny Verner, was the daughter of James Verner,...
I WAS walking on Shipquay Street in Derry in late November/early December 2016 when I met a well-known local character. We were shooting the breeze...
WHY did the PSNI apparently tell the Parades Commission it was not expecting disorder over a Garvaghy Road parade, despite warning of disorder every...
RELIGION was supposed to matter less by now. That, at least, was one of the confident predictions of modernity. As societies became richer and better...
THE fallout from Drumcree is a large enough crisis to be both a scary reminder and a positive opportunity. Which of those it turns out to be depends...
FIRM evidence that criminal groups are making large sums of money by engaging in completely illegal people-smuggling activities on both sides of the...
At about 6.30am last Sunday, the political process seemed to be only minutes away from receiving its Last Rites. Had the PSNI decided to physically...
AFTER all the depressing imagery and angry rhetoric of recent days, it is worth celebrating even small positive developments in community relations....
NORTHERN Ireland is redesigning what children will learn for the next generation. The new proposed curriculum gives digital technology a prominent...
IT was often said you knew you were in a war zone if Kate Adie appeared, and in 1996 she reported from Drumcree. The Garvaghy Road was locked down....
THE Drumcree dispute “brings into question how this whole peace process works”, Michelle O’Neill said on Sunday, while standing on the Garvaghy...
ARE we winning yet? Is this the great, glorious victory we’ve always wanted? I remember Drumcree in 1998. An Orangeman lived across the street from...
AFTER all the turmoil of recent days, two key questions remain unanswered. One, which Michelle O’Neill kept asking rhetorically, is: “What has...
Although there were many appalling murders during the course of the Troubles which officially remain unsolved, the circumstances surrounding the case...
Why are we obsessed with importing national and international mediators and envoys to sort out our problems? George Mitchell may have got the parties...
YOU have to feel for them, the Orange Order. To be the victims of such discrimination must be awful. For instance, since 1999, the Orange Order and...
ANY new visitors to Stormont yesterday would have been forgiven for thinking that the DUP and Sinn Féin were sworn political enemies rather than...
If unionism wanted to prove beyond all doubt that Northern Ireland, as a political entity, is beyond salvation, it could have done no better than to...
Three white coffins in Rasharkin at the height of the Drumcree dispute should have been enough to push us toward “Never Again”. It should also...
NOTHING summed up pre-2025 football better than Peadar Mogan playing corner-back for Donegal. Peadar Mogan is an exceptional footballer and an...
WE are well used to claims from a variety of sources - some fringe figures and others who are actually elected representatives - that a rising tide of...
For most people, sport is a welcome distraction from the concerns of everyday life. There is something familiar and reassuring about the routine: the...
Let me be blunt. This current Parades Commission is a complete failure. The commissioners have turned a process lapse into a judgemental catastrophe....
THE nature of politics here – that each action by one side has to be countered by an equal and opposite reaction by the other –meant that whatever...
We live in the age of “cancel culture”, where conscientious consumers can cut off someone’s revenue stream with a boycott faster than the...
I have a pretty limited knowledge of the flora and fauna in the countryside, you will not be surprised to hear, but I have made it my business to...
Reports regarding the damage to Belfast’s ‘Big Fish’ have been hard to miss this week. When I was at university I used to grab a coffee and sit...
FAR be it from this column to disagree with the torrents of wisdom which flow from the political parties at Stormont. However, it is hard to take...
THE myth of the Northern Ireland brain drain has been debunked by a report for the Department for the Economy, which regulates our universities. The...
THE DUP’s Gavin Robinson was quickly out of the traps to repudiate Donald Trump’s remarks on Irish unity. He posted on X that “Northern...
THE first PSNI officer to forcibly remove a resident or protester from the Garvaghy Road will spell the end for any prospect of establishing the...
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