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Denis Bradley

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Denis Bradley: Let’s be honest – governments talk to paramilitaries. Time to get it out in the open

08.03.2025 6

The Irish News

Denis Bradley

A kaleidoscope of images one strange Derry weekend

08.02.2025 10

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Denis Bradley

Would it have been better to have had an early border poll?

At the time of the Good Friday Agreement, there was a sense that the people of the north were in need of a rest. It was not hard to detect that we...

04.01.2025 3

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Denis Bradley

The scale of our addiction problem is frightening and we all need to be talking about it

Sigmund Freud said that a psychiatrist was someone who taught people to stand on their own feet while lying on a couch. Some wag within the...

07.12.2024 3

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Denis Bradley

Sally Rooney, Pope Francis and a world hungry for hope, love and faith

I fell over Sally Rooney. The aisle of the bookshop was so packed with her new novel, and I so busy gawking around me, that I almost landed in the...

02.11.2024 2

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Denis Bradley

Is the Catholic Church really capable of change?

Is the Catholic Church willing or even able to reform itself? Questions that are difficult, maybe impossible to answer at this juncture. If you had...

05.10.2024 4

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Denis Bradley

Follow the money if you want to achieve results

Making Northern Ireland work continues as a political mantra even though we are increasingly living in the reflections of the two states, England...

07.09.2024 2

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Denis Bradley

Removing the constitutional thorn in our flesh

A picture may be worth a thousand words but politically, a good metaphor or simile is best of all. Without verbal images that point the way to...

03.08.2024 5

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Denis Bradley