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From ‘legacy’ to ‘progress’... words that have a completely different meaning in Northern Ireland

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Gail Walker

It's time to lift the unofficial curfew on women and the vulnerable by making our streets safer after dark

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02.11.2025 3

Gail Walker

No matter the complexities of the case, eight years in jail for brutal murder of your mother hardly sends the right signal

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26.10.2025 3

Gail Walker

Blue Lights has once again skewered an age-old story that Belfast told the world… and ourselves

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19.10.2025 10

Gail Walker

Blue Lights' brilliant female characters' tense and emotional storylines dominate the action this time - making it the best series yet

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19.10.2025 4

Gail Walker

These two are hand-in-hand in thinking shooting and bombing was alright. Who’s on the other side of the argument? The rest of us

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12.10.2025 40

Gail Walker

NI's Jonathan Anderson has revived Dior's fortunes — we should engage creative geniuses like him to fashion our future here

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05.10.2025 10

Gail Walker

How taxi drivers went above and beyond to try and save my life: ‘I told him to drive away...'

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28.09.2025 4

Gail Walker

Cabbie who fled scene of Southport massacre very different to brave taxi drivers I met during the Troubles

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28.09.2025 5

Gail Walker

We'll never make progress on legacy while we're still fighting the Troubles – but giving people a platform to tell their stories would be a start

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21.09.2025 5

Gail Walker

Gloating by some over Charlie Kirk’s murder exposes moral vacuum in society... people here know too well where that can lead to

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15.09.2025 5

Gail Walker

Playing the 'working-class card' was never going to save Angela Rayner — ordinary people saw through it immediately

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07.09.2025 10

Gail Walker

Think what you like – when Rylan is commenting on it, you know the migrant crisis is for real

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31.08.2025 4

Gail Walker

Century-long secrecy rule over 1994 tragedy is a disgraceful decision... but it’s just one of many by officialdom

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24.08.2025 20

Gail Walker

A Belfast citizen's heroic campaign to clean up the city and protect its heritage — and what the response from officialdom tells us

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10.08.2025 9

Gail Walker

Lionesses' Euros triumph shows why it's time to start closing the gender pay gap in football

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03.08.2025 10

Gail Walker

There’s an onus on O’Neill and Little-Pengelly to turn up together and defuse flashpoints... and to stop ducking interviews

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27.07.2025 4

Gail Walker

How remarkable that in 100 years not a single political figure has emerged who can unite us and end the sectarian summers

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20.07.2025 7

Gail Walker

Bryson is only half-right — it’s tough for working classes on both sides of sectarian divide

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13.07.2025 9

Gail Walker

No man would politically survive the kind of emotional collapse that Rachel Reeves had in Commons

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06.07.2025 10

Gail Walker

Furore over Sir Van Morrison lyrics about Belfast pub-turned-paramilitary haunt is just bogus outrage… there’s nothing surprising about it

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29.06.2025 6

Gail Walker

Sir Van Morrison is a musical genius — thinking he needs to be told what he can and can't write about is nonsense

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29.06.2025 7

Gail Walker

Why we all should be grateful to these two NI entrepreneurs for their brave legal bid

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22.06.2025 2

Gail Walker

Tattle Life was vile to NI’s female influencers – let's hope the lynch mob have sleepless nights as the net closes in

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22.06.2025 3

Gail Walker

Beauty pageants are easy targets while real discrimination against women still goes unchallenged

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08.06.2025 9

Gail Walker

Welcome to the 21st century – things are not getting better, they’re decaying

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01.06.2025 20

Gail Walker

Given government’s attitude to public spaces, we’re between rock and hard place when it comes to protecting Giant’s Causeway

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01.06.2025 8

Gail Walker

Dad of murdered schoolgirl was extraordinary... I’ll never forget his fearless statement the first time I met him

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25.05.2025 30

Gail Walker

Dad of murdered Jennifer Cardy suffered for years... his voice on justice still deserves to be heard

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25.05.2025 20

Gail Walker

Damages don’t make up for NI family being wrongly called ‘dine and dashers’ — their good name is sullied

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18.05.2025 20

Gail Walker

PSNI pixelating image of suspect it wants our help identifying not only illogical, it’s stupid

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11.05.2025 10

Gail Walker

Belfast drug kingpins need to know they're going to jail for 20 years... but leadership is lacking

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04.05.2025 5

Gail Walker

A needle bin won’t solve Belfast’s spiralling drug problem... jailing the kingpins is the only answer

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04.05.2025 3

Gail Walker

Ordinary people paying respects to Pope Francis understand things academics and naysayers forget

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27.04.2025 3

Gail Walker

Why a trip to Augusta by our leaders might have been a shrewd move

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20.04.2025 8

Gail Walker

Picture this – a Stormont that actually worked to improve the lives of people here

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13.04.2025 10

Gail Walker

It shouldn’t take a rat biting a vulnerable woman for Belfast City Council to clean up its act

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06.04.2025 30

Gail Walker

Trolls targeting politicians on social media is reminder how few people it takes to disturb the peace

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30.03.2025 30

Gail Walker

Waging psychological warfare on politicians on social media is a minority ‘sport’ but it's a reminder how few people it takes to disturb the peace of individuals or communities

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30.03.2025 5

Gail Walker

The persistent idea that disabled people are a burden is fabrication in order to justify discrimination

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23.03.2025 4

Gail Walker

Why was man responsible for young dad’s death allowed behind wheel again to commit other offences?

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16.03.2025 30

Gail Walker

There is a magic money tree after all but ordinary people need not apply... it’s only for missiles and weapons

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09.03.2025 5

Gail Walker

Stormont needs to bin plan to replace hardworking cleaners with robots… they'd never get into its dark corners anyway

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02.03.2025 10

Gail Walker

Our working class communities being throttled by major builds should ask the planners ‘who do you think you are?’

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23.02.2025 10

Gail Walker

As questions grow on Letby, the myth of British justice being the envy of the world is fast being rumbled

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09.02.2025 10

Gail Walker

The risk of the Executive collapsing again would be terrible if we’d even noticed it’s been back for a year

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02.02.2025 30

Gail Walker

Stormont politicians ‘dressing down’ is a way of pretending the buck doesn’t stop with them

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26.01.2025 20

Gail Walker

Pope’s memoir is a testament to his faith in ordinary people — one more reason why it will ruffle feathers among church elite

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19.01.2025 3

Gail Walker

My 2025 predictions: Michelle leads the Twelfth parade and Emma joins Kneecap at Feile

05.01.2025 30

Gail Walker

An end to violence against women, respect for animals, let's rebuild some of our destroyed heritage... my new year wishes for 2025

29.12.2024 10

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From ‘legacy’ to ‘progress’... words that have a completely different meaning in Northern Ireland

Gail Walker

It's time to lift the unofficial curfew on women and the vulnerable by making our streets safer after dark

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No matter the complexities of the case, eight years in jail for brutal murder of your mother hardly sends the right signal

Gail Walker

Blue Lights has once again skewered an age-old story that Belfast told the world… and ourselves

Gail Walker

Blue Lights' brilliant female characters' tense and emotional storylines dominate the action this time - making it the best series yet

Gail Walker

These two are hand-in-hand in thinking shooting and bombing was alright. Who’s on the other side of the argument? The rest of us

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NI's Jonathan Anderson has revived Dior's fortunes — we should engage creative geniuses like him to fashion our future here

Gail Walker

How taxi drivers went above and beyond to try and save my life: ‘I told him to drive away...'

Gail Walker

Cabbie who fled scene of Southport massacre very different to brave taxi drivers I met during the Troubles

Gail Walker

We'll never make progress on legacy while we're still fighting the Troubles – but giving people a platform to tell their stories would be a start

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Gloating by some over Charlie Kirk’s murder exposes moral vacuum in society... people here know too well where that can lead to

Gail Walker

Playing the 'working-class card' was never going to save Angela Rayner — ordinary people saw through it immediately

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Think what you like – when Rylan is commenting on it, you know the migrant crisis is for real

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Century-long secrecy rule over 1994 tragedy is a disgraceful decision... but it’s just one of many by officialdom

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A Belfast citizen's heroic campaign to clean up the city and protect its heritage — and what the response from officialdom tells us

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Lionesses' Euros triumph shows why it's time to start closing the gender pay gap in football

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There’s an onus on O’Neill and Little-Pengelly to turn up together and defuse flashpoints... and to stop ducking interviews

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How remarkable that in 100 years not a single political figure has emerged who can unite us and end the sectarian summers

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Bryson is only half-right — it’s tough for working classes on both sides of sectarian divide

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No man would politically survive the kind of emotional collapse that Rachel Reeves had in Commons

Gail Walker

Furore over Sir Van Morrison lyrics about Belfast pub-turned-paramilitary haunt is just bogus outrage… there’s nothing surprising about it

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Sir Van Morrison is a musical genius — thinking he needs to be told what he can and can't write about is nonsense

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Why we all should be grateful to these two NI entrepreneurs for their brave legal bid

Gail Walker

Tattle Life was vile to NI’s female influencers – let's hope the lynch mob have sleepless nights as the net closes in

Gail Walker

Beauty pageants are easy targets while real discrimination against women still goes unchallenged

Gail Walker

Welcome to the 21st century – things are not getting better, they’re decaying

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Given government’s attitude to public spaces, we’re between rock and hard place when it comes to protecting Giant’s Causeway

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Dad of murdered schoolgirl was extraordinary... I’ll never forget his fearless statement the first time I met him

Gail Walker

Dad of murdered Jennifer Cardy suffered for years... his voice on justice still deserves to be heard

Gail Walker

Damages don’t make up for NI family being wrongly called ‘dine and dashers’ — their good name is sullied

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PSNI pixelating image of suspect it wants our help identifying not only illogical, it’s stupid

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Belfast drug kingpins need to know they're going to jail for 20 years... but leadership is lacking

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A needle bin won’t solve Belfast’s spiralling drug problem... jailing the kingpins is the only answer

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Ordinary people paying respects to Pope Francis understand things academics and naysayers forget

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Why a trip to Augusta by our leaders might have been a shrewd move

Gail Walker

Picture this – a Stormont that actually worked to improve the lives of people here

Gail Walker

It shouldn’t take a rat biting a vulnerable woman for Belfast City Council to clean up its act

Gail Walker

Trolls targeting politicians on social media is reminder how few people it takes to disturb the peace

Gail Walker

Waging psychological warfare on politicians on social media is a minority ‘sport’ but it's a reminder how few people it takes to disturb the peace of individuals or communities