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Chris Donnelly

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Casement Park and Brandywell controversies spell trouble for Sinn Féin - Chris Donnelly

08.03.2025 30

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Chris Donnelly

With dramatic change now the norm, planning for Irish unity is more urgent than ever

25.02.2025 10

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Chris Donnelly

There is a special needs crisis in our schools and children are suffering

10.02.2025 10

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Chris Donnelly

Chris Donnelly: Amid the chaos and farce, did the Dáil witness the birth of a left-wing alternative government last week?

27.01.2025 10

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Expecting a political solution to flags and emblems is a forlorn hope

14.01.2025 10

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My person of the year? It has to be the UN’s Francesca Albanese for calling out Israel’s actions in Gaza

Janus was the god of beginnings and transitions in Roman mythology. He was depicted as having two faces: one looking back to the past and one...

31.12.2024 6

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Our education system is loaded against the poorest and most vulnerable children

The Sunday Times in Britain published its latest league table for post-primary schools earlier this month. The top 50 schools in the ‘Parent Power’...

17.12.2024 4

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Sinn Féin still has job to convince voters it is a party of government

When the counting centres are finally closed, signalling an end to the 35th Dáil election, it is almost certain that the only major change will...

02.12.2024 4

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Time for unionists to join their nationalist neighbours on common ground of remembrance

The Boston College Library in the US is home to a collection of Bobbie Hanvey photographs taken to record the historic moment in 2002 when the...

18.11.2024 3

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America is no longer the global good guy of The West Wing

For many years, I was glued to the West Wing television series. Its iconic opening music and setting captured the awe and prestige of its subject...

04.11.2024 2

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Sinn Féin needs to build a sharper, more professional operation

Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald announced a complete overhaul of governance procedures after the Michael McMonagle story began to unfold earlier this...

22.10.2024 2

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Chris Donnelly

Casement opposition yet another example of unionism’s scorched earth mentality

The British government has failed to live up to its promise to deliver a new Casement Park as part of the Euro 2028 tournament, and everyone here is...

23.09.2024 3

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The problem with children and phones runs much deeper than schools – Chris Donnelly

The education minister’s decision to promote mobile phone-free schools is to be welcomed and chimes with the sentiment of many educationalists and...

09.09.2024 2

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The UUP serves little purpose and is fast running out of time

After Americans had voted in the war hero, General Eisenhower, to be his successor in the White House in 1952, Harry Truman famously remarked,...

26.08.2024 1

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Working class protestant communities have been let down by their supposed leaders

A 35 minute drive south of the city of Chicago can be found the town of Chicago Heights. The town was once heavily Italian due to the waves of...

12.08.2024 2

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Feting Netanyahu shows there are no ‘good guys’ in the US presidential race

That the butcher of Gaza was even invited to speak before the United States Congress nine months into his murderous campaign waged on the wretched...

29.07.2024 2

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Bonfire rituals won’t halt the changes happening in our society

The extent of the remarkable and irreversible changes taking place in our society can sometimes be hard to fully appreciate. Last week, the...

16.07.2024 3

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