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

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The DUP and Sinn Féin have given up on devolving taxes

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Northern nationalists identify an unlikely source of hope: Nigel Farage

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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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Harmony reigns at the Stormont executive after Hilary Benn hits a nerve on public service reform

09.02.2025 10

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Has Trump just brought the paramilitary gravy train to a screeching halt?

06.02.2025 6

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Stormont can’t deal with falling pupil numbers, how will it cope with a falling population?

02.02.2025 10

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The cruise ship business could be Belfast’s for the taking – but can we get it right?

31.01.2025 10

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Architecture of the Belfast Agreement is dying of disinterest

30.01.2025 20

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What will be the ‘consequences’ of the failure of the Stormont Brake?

26.01.2025 10

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Why not let the money follow the patient to help save our failing NHS?

24.01.2025 10

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DUP’s first attempt to use the Stormont brake ends in humiliation

23.01.2025 10

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Welcome to the new happy, clappy Sinn Féin

19.01.2025 10

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Why do our young people not want to leave home?

17.01.2025 10

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Starmer’s political image increasingly at odds with a public mood turning against liberal causes

16.01.2025 10

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Integration, immigration and lobster liberation – the week that was in the news

11.01.2025 10

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