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Cross-Border partnerships are common everywhere, but if a ‘united Ireland’ destination board is slapped on it, unionists will simply say no
The health service is collapsing “in slow motion” because Stormont is distracted by orange-green arguments, according to Dr Alan Stout, chair of...
FINE Gael is due to present its blueprint for a united Ireland this weekend, while the taoiseach has announced an Irish government body to consider...
The lack of a Stormont village is felt across the political spectrum. But there are better solutions than relocating it
SINN Féin could respond to the DUP’s antics by forcing an early election. Whether it should is an intriguing question, for nationalists and...
THE government has tried bribing Stormont to agree a budget by offering an extra £1.5 billion over three years. Now it is skirting with the...
THE large rally in Portadown on Saturday to support the town’s district lodge was an impressive display of street politics and a striking contrast...
If next week’s poll shows a further fall or has the UUP still in the lead, there will be panic inside the party
SINN Féin is to run three of its MPs, Chris Hazzard, Pat Cullen and Paul Maskey, in the Assembly election next May. The move shows how much of a...
Riots drove out three-quarters of Ballymena’s Roma population. One in three left Northern Ireland altogether
HOSPITAL campaign groups are absolutely right – but they may not like where their argument leads them. As The Irish News reported on Monday,...
AN unprecedented nurses’ strike in 2019 finally forced Sinn Féin and the DUP to end a three-year collapse of devolution. Nurses are balloting again...
The UDA waives the charge if someone finds religion so it has reportedly been spying on churches for confirmation
SOME of the most revealing images to emerge from the latest Drumcree dispute were of the ‘Let Them Home Festival’ in Edgarstown, Portadown, held...
THERE is a difference between civil disobedience and setting yourself above the law. Sinn Féin may need to make that distinction clearer over its...
The normalisation of ultra-short-termism has entrenched financial irresponsibility
The UUP is walking a trickier tightrope at Drumcree than is generally realised. Leader Jon Burrows has set his party apart from the DUP and the TUV,...
WHY did the PSNI apparently tell the Parades Commission it was not expecting disorder over a Garvaghy Road parade, despite warning of disorder every...
THE Drumcree dispute “brings into question how this whole peace process works”, Michelle O’Neill said on Sunday, while standing on the Garvaghy...
Political leadership on all sides means supporting talks that are open to the possibility of a walk
THE myth of the Northern Ireland brain drain has been debunked by a report for the Department for the Economy, which regulates our universities. The...
It should be possible to learn fascinating lessons by comparing outcomes either side of the Border
IN Northern Ireland, uniquely in the UK, everyone facing a criminal prosecution is put on trial twice. Their first trial is in a magistrates’ court,...
DONALD Trump’s comments on a united Ireland are embarrassing for the DUP, despite the denials of leader Gavin Robinson. Senior party figures have...
Nationalists may be more liberal by conviction but they have less immediate experience of immigration, which tends to be concentrated in unionist...
THERE is always a chance the UK could break up by accident, but any plan to leave requires ending dependence on its money. Taxes in Northern Ireland...
THE latest PISA international education results put England in the top 10 countries worldwide, with the other three parts of the UK falling steadily...
Some of the complaints heard from Israel this week have been of British colonial arrogance. This tired cliche misses the point
UNDER a proposed law from Alliance, parents could face up to two years in jail for having “ordinary” conversations with their children about...
PORTADOWN District Orange Lodge is to apply for a parade along the Garvaghy Road on September 27, not a traditional date for this traditional route....
Dissident republicans have seized on Burnham’s statement as proof Sinn Féin has been naive
THE main reason Stormont keeps running out of money is its policy of pay parity – matching England’s public sector pay rises. This is “the...
How many voters will thank unionist parties for stirring the Drumcree dispute back up again? The DUP and the TUV must think it is a decisive number,...
If parading regulation unravels, Drumcree would not be the only reawakened flashpoint
SOME politicians and journalists have portrayed the row over the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine as an argument over who should decide where health...
There are two stories behind the resignation of UUP health minister Mike Nesbitt: the decades-old one about Stormont parties backing health reforms in...
Citizenship is mocked by near-identical forms of non-citizenship for non-citizens
DARRYL Wilson, a DUP councillor in north Antrim, has raised an important and rarely considered problem with disability benefits – the burden...
SINN Féin is back-pedalling from its hints two weeks ago of walking out of the Executive in frustration at the DUP. Michelle O’Neill and finance...
Annoying the party when it threatens devolution would be a far more helpful contribution
RELATIONS have finally broken down between Northern Ireland’s farmers and Andrew Muir, the Alliance agriculture and environment minister. An angry...
IF Belfast can be kept clean during the Fleadh, with huge crowds in the city centre, why is it filthy the rest of the time? In a social media post,...
Some on social media ask why the July 12th celebrations cannot generate atmosphere more like the Fleadh
PART of a legacy of hosting the all-Ireland Fleadh in Belfast should be debunking the excuses normally used against pedestrianising even small areas...
THE latest LucidTalk poll has major implications for unionism, with the DUP falling three points to 15%, one point behind the UUP. Sinn Féin is also...
Reform should not be treated as the alternative to controlling costs. We should have both
ONE hundred people could take over the Ulster Unionist Party. I always marvel at this when I notice Northern Ireland’s far left setting up or...
Police, politicians and community workers have called for parents to take responsibility for their children following serious disorder in west...
Is the new Labour Party government just as doomed as Keir Starmer’s?
Andy Burnham has caused some confusion by saying he wants the UK to have both a written constitution and a German-type “Basic Law”. Germany’s...
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