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Brian Feeney

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Why shouldn’t Sinn Féin act as if they own the north?

yesterday 10

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Keep the civil service away from decisions on Derry

wednesday 8

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Dublin is just making excuses for inaction on Irish unity

02.05.2025 9

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Emma Little-Pengelly should have gone to the pope’s funeral

01.05.2025 10

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Can Mary Lou fix her ‘m’ and get back on track for government?

26.04.2025 10

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The unionist veto is gone but the DUP won’t admit it

22.04.2025 9

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DUP have set their face against any prospect of prosperity for north

19.04.2025 10

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Micheál Martin is determined to delay the big question on Irish unity

17.04.2025 30

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Cara Hunter was right: Unionists have always displayed a coloniser mindset

09.04.2025 60

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Brian Feeney on Friday: Tariffs are just the start for Trump as he seeks to turn back clock in America

04.04.2025 9

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Brian Feeney: Trump’s Nazi-like purge of academics should be an opportunity for Queen’s and Ulster University

02.04.2025 10

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The DUP’s officer board are the biggest block on progress at Stormont

29.03.2025 20

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Starmer’s imperial delusions will cost us dearly in living standards

26.03.2025 30

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From Spain to Co Down, governments will never ‘draw a line under the past’

21.03.2025 20

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Instead of cutting benefits, Labour needs to confront the elephant in the room

19.03.2025 20

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Refusing to meet Trump is the political equivalent of burning your boats

14.03.2025 10

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The British and Irish governments are back making gravy together

12.03.2025 10

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Brian Feeney: Why do unionists never learn the lessons of the past?

08.03.2025 8

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Sorry Naomi, but there’s no point complaining – you just can’t have ‘normal’ politics here

06.03.2025 10

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Naomi Long was rightly outraged at prospect of talks with paramilitary gangsters

01.03.2025 9

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Why is Gordon Lyons ignoring the GAA, Ireland’s largest sporting organisation?

27.02.2025 20

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What is the point of the NIO? Let’s just get rid of it

22.02.2025 30

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The US and EU are about to enter a trade war – time for Ireland to decide which side it’s on

20.02.2025 10

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The fightback for the Legacy Act

15.02.2025 10

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Why will Micheál Martin and Simon Harris not nominate northerners to the Seanad?

13.02.2025 10

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We’re in the end game for Irish unity – it’s just that Dublin won’t play its part

08.02.2025 20

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People who argue for making Stormont work are in denial: It can’t

06.02.2025 40

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Unity is the Irish state’s constitutional imperative, so why aren’t Simon Harris and Micheál Martin planning for it?

01.02.2025 10

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Unity will be strength for Dail’s emboldened Opposition

30.01.2025 20

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Internment and how Britain tried to legalise lawlessness

25.01.2025 10

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Micheál Martin has assembled the most right-wing Irish government in decades

23.01.2025 20

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Claire Hanna shows SDLP is stuck in a time warp

18.01.2025 10

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Brian Feeney: The north can never be ‘a nation once again’

15.01.2025 10

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Jim Allister and Gavin Robinson need to be clear: Do they support Donald Trump?

11.01.2025 7

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Brian Feeney: Britain will do anything to cover up the illegal actions of its security forces

There are two parts to making this a whole picture. Both its components are the NIO. Slipping out on New Year’s Eve that the British government had...

08.01.2025 5

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Brian Feeney: ‘Ted Howell was the most important republican figure in the peace process you’ve never heard of'

Ted Howell, aka Eamon McCrory, who died yesterday after being ill for some time, was the most important republican figure in the peace process...

05.01.2025 5

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Why can no unionist say where they want to be in five years?

Sinn Féin’s most experienced – and some would say most effective – northern politician is heading for pastures new. It’s probably a matter of...

04.01.2025 20

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Devolution is just a charade – Let me tell you who really runs the north

If you asked people who runs the north, the answers you’d get would vary but most would be pretty predictable: Stormont, the executive, Sinn Féin...

02.01.2025 5

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After a tumultuous year, time for DUP and Sinn Féin to get their houses in order

Contrasting fortunes for the north’s two main parties in 2024. A roller coaster for Sinn Féin, ending the year better than they feared and many had...

28.12.2024 2

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The malign consequences of Britain’s obsession with secrecy

There’s a new podcast that’s been running for a couple of months with the BBC’s security correspondent, Gordon Corera, and David McCloskey, a...

21.12.2024 9

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Hypocrisy and double standards from Martin and Harris

Mary Lou McDonald wrote in this paper on Monday: “People want to be part of the conversation on the future of Ireland, on the shape of...

19.12.2024 10

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DUP just displaying their ignorance about Europe

Today the General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) come into force in the EU and here. GPSR are a new set of EU trade regulations which mean that...

13.12.2024 10

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From traffic chaos to the state of Lough Neagh, the evidence of Stormont’s dysfunction is all around us

At least we have some description of what Stormont ministers do, a list of meetings. We’ve a long way to go to reach the level of a list of...

11.12.2024 4

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A border poll is coming – but planning must come first

Those sighing with relief after the Dáil election, believing a border poll is going to be put on the back burner for at least another four years,...

07.12.2024 5

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Sinn Féin out of government, but must press new Dublin coalition on reunification

It’s early days for working out the permutations of coalition in the south but the discussion seems to centre around whether Fianna Fáil and Fine...

05.12.2024 20

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As voters go to the polls, tectonic plates in Ireland are shifting

Whatever the outcome of today’s general election in the south – three or four-party coalition, three parties with a gaggle of Independents, or some...

30.11.2024 10

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What was Gavin Robinson doing beside graffiti at the Royal Victoria Hospital?

You might have seen the picture of DUP leader Gavin Robinson standing beside graffiti on the wall of the Royal Victoria Hospital supporting...

28.11.2024 5

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The old is dying but the new cannot be born

The Italian communist leader and political theorist Antonio Gramsci’s best-known quotation is probably the entry in his ‘Prison Notebooks’ in...

23.11.2024 4

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Brian Feeney: What is it with unionists and northern Cyprus?

It has emerged that the former SNP leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, has requested an investigation into the DUP’s conference clown, Sammy...

21.11.2024 20

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Brian Feeney on Friday: Since Brexit, Britain has turned ever more inwards

This week Sir Keir Starmer jetted off to the Cop29 conference in Baku in Azerbaijan to make a speech for home consumption. He announced he was...

16.11.2024 4

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