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The DUP couldn’t have chosen a worse moment to get tough on immigration

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NJust how do Sinn Féin, DUP and UUP propose to save Lough Neagh?

08.06.2025 10

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Newton Emerson: SDLP new Ireland motion shows Brexit is not the nationalist force it once was

05.06.2025 10

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Gerry Adams defamation verdict won’t have a chilling effect on journalism - and here’s why

05.06.2025 10

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Time to intimidate the housing intimidators

01.06.2025 10

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Let’s not be imprisoned by outdated thinking on sentencing

29.05.2025 10

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The contrast between Kneecap charges and flag-festooned Northern Ireland is absurd

29.05.2025 30

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Kneecap charge exposes the legal fudge in terrorism laws

24.05.2025 10

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Mike Nesbitt may turn out better at politics than people think

23.05.2025 10

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EU-UK deal is a gift to unionists. Shame they can’t all see it

22.05.2025 10

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Why can’t the public be recruited to inform on polluters?

15.05.2025 10

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Why not give everyone in Northern Ireland the right to vote in the South’s presidential elections?

15.05.2025 10

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Anyone got any ideas how to spend £30m in Newcastle?

10.05.2025 9

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The DUP and Sinn Féin have given up on devolving taxes

08.05.2025 8

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Northern nationalists identify an unlikely source of hope: Nigel Farage

08.05.2025 9

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Kneecap row shows a bit of crying keeps everyone happy

03.05.2025 7

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Could the next Fianna Fail leader be good news for a united Ireland?

01.05.2025 8

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It would be some irony if the two parts of Ireland taught the UK lessons in devolution

01.05.2025 10

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What exactly is the point of the British-Irish Conference?

27.04.2025 10

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Why not make City of Derry airport a pioneer in electric aircraft?

25.04.2025 8

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Downsizing is fine in theory. In reality, it’s rearranging property deckchairs on the Titanic

24.04.2025 7

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Do unionists not realise they may have won the sea border battle?

20.04.2025 10

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Only judges may be willing to turn down city centre noise

18.04.2025 9

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Latest controversy to engulf Stormont is over the definition of ‘controversial’

17.04.2025 10

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Newton Emerson: Lessons for nationalists and unionists in Grand Central Irish signs row

11.04.2025 8

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Stormont may be scared of water charges, but British ministers should also admit they muddied waters

10.04.2025 10

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UK has to pick a side between the US and the EU - and Northern Ireland is stuck in the middle

10.04.2025 10

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Luckily for the DUP, Sinn Féin does not want a crisis over Irish language signs at Grand Central Station either

05.04.2025 6

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‘Funding for you, funding for me’ approach is a rail way of widening division

03.04.2025 7

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Underinvestment in water is harming the environment and economy, but no politician dares mention a solution

03.04.2025 10

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Stormont pickets, cross-border tickets and a story of students and stags

30.03.2025 7

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The £1 billion conundrum linked to division, Stormont reform and Alliance’s dream of a united society

27.03.2025 5

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The big story from Northern Ireland no one is talking about

27.03.2025 6

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What’s the point of devolution if Stormont is afraid to act?

22.03.2025 8

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Stormont must get to work to help the long-term unemployed

20.03.2025 6

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At home the DUP spurns Irishness, but when abroad it embraces it

20.03.2025 10

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Titter of wit needed about Ulster Scots heid buck cat

15.03.2025 6

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Belfast is a city drowning in its own filth

13.03.2025 10

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Unionists are enjoying the pile-on over the Republic’s defence freeloading

13.03.2025 8

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Slow dancing with the DUP and speeding up construction

08.03.2025 8

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Instead of begging, could Stormont not find a way of borrowing more cash?

07.03.2025 8

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It would be pathetic if the united Ireland cause was frustrated by bill for disability benefits

06.03.2025 20

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Whatever happened to the citizens' assemblies we were promised?

28.02.2025 10

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A British defence spending bonanza will present Sinn Féin with a dilemma

27.02.2025 10

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Delays, developers and ‘down with this sort of thing’ – the week that was in the news

22.02.2025 8

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How to make 50:50 recruitment acceptable to all

21.02.2025 10

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Newton Emerson: Sinn Féin voters in the Republic and unionist voters in Northern Ireland agree on something

20.02.2025 30

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If anything, the GAA’s estimate of its €2.87 billion economic and social value too conservative

16.02.2025 10

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Maybe Stormont just needs a nudge in the right direction

14.02.2025 30

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Moral panic about build-to-rent apartments overlooks their obvious advantages

13.02.2025 10

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