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Brian FeeneyThe Irish News |
WHEN you hear that a government – usually the US or its glove puppet, the UK – has ‘sanctioned’ somebody, what does that mean? The term was...
MICHEÁL Martin’s government had it coming. People seem to have forgotten the protests by farmers about Mercosur which reached a crescendo in...
THE Easter holidays seem to have brought it home to the north’s hospitality trade that they face serious difficulties competing with their...
WHAT’S in a name? The media everywhere has to be careful with nomenclature, not least in the US where the White House clown has banned certain...
WHERE are we with the growing energy crisis? As usual, as Seamus Heaney said, “sucking the hind teat”. That is, as explained in a glossary of...
Alex Kane set the cat among the unionist pigeons a couple of weeks ago with his piece on March 18. As a reminder to people, he wrote that “the past...
HAVE left-wing and progressive political parties finally learnt something from history? Results in recent elections, particularly in France and Italy,...
GAVIN Robinson – he’s the charisma-free DUP leader, in case you don’t know – took Reform’s Robert Jenrick for a walk on the Shankill last...
WELL, it’s over, the ordeal in Washington that is. Micheál Martin survived. Better than that, he emerged unscathed. Opposition parties criticised...
THERE’S a new book out tomorrow from Will Hutton, author and journalist, formerly principal of Hertford College Oxford. Thirty years ago he wrote...
THURSDAY week ago, after it emerged a French frigate was at Limassol in Cyprus and Spanish, Italian, Greek and Dutch ships were on the way to help...
THE DUP love Britain being at war. It’s their chance to maximise their notions of loyalty, of patriotism, to urge the British government to go...
AS you probably know, the Republic will take over the presidency of the EU Council in July. At present Cyprus holds the position, which lasts for six...
My colleague Alex Kane has argued that it is time for a rethink by nationalists on Irish unity. He correctly described the 2019 conference ‘Beyond...
UNFORTUNATELY, much as many people would like it to be so, the present crisis afflicting the British Royal Family (they prefer capitals) does not...
SUNDAY coming marks the 50th anniversary of a turning point in Britain’s approach to the Troubles. From March 1 1976, Special Category Status was...
THE Romans called it ‘mos maiorum’, an unwritten rule or code of behaviour, an ancestral custom which was followed automatically and...
BEING attached to declining Britain carries many penalties for the north: no, or slow income growth, growing child poverty, lack of investment, poor...
On July 18 1912, as the British prime minister Herbert Asquith and Irish nationalist leader John Redmond travelled along Sackville Street (now...
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