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Gerry Darby, manager of the Lough Neagh Partnership community organisation, has said domestic water charges must be considered to modernise the...
Sinn Féin’s explanation for moving Conor Murphy does not add up. Stormont’s economy minister is one of the party’s six nominees for the Seanad....
The classic cliche about the Alliance Party is that it sits on the fence. This trite insult fails to grasp what an achievement it is to carve out...
One-fifth of Scots would vote to abolish devolution, according to a poll conducted last month for Progress Scotland, a think-tank owned by SNP...
The Department for Infrastructure is not just failing on roads and public transport. Its other main responsibilities, NI Water, planning and flood...
Having to book to use the recycling centre is a pointless nuisance but as soon as one council in Northern Ireland introduced it, the rest were...
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) ended 2024 by appealing to criminals to stop deliberately driving into police cars. There were 40...
Stormont’s consent vote on the sea border is a mechanism created in 2020 by the original Brexit protocol. Although it was always known that the...
The traffic chaos that has snarled up Belfast in recent weeks reflects failures larger and older than lack of money. But it is no coincidence that...
Two men have pleaded guilty to possessing guns and ammunition in suspicious circumstances after they were put under PSNI surveillance following a...
Sinn Féin and the DUP have made it contemptuously clear that Stormont reform is not on their agenda. When the SDLP tried raising the subject in...
I had a visceral reaction to news that Northern Ireland’s teaching unions want a 13.5 per cent pay rise and will strike if they do not get it....
There will be changes “within the ranks” of Sinn Féin following last week’s Irish general election, DUP leader Gavin Robinson has predicted,...
It is considered a scandal that the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen will cost the taxpayer three times more than the building is worth,...
Labour’s plan to reduce welfare spending may or may not come to pass. It has been re-announced this week, yet again, still without much detail or...
The chair and chief executive of the Commonwealth Games board in Northern Ireland want Stormont to design a new flag for the region. While that...
Loyalist Communities Council chairman David Campbell has dipped into the Big Book of Political Cliches, claiming young people in loyalist areas...
When regulation of parades was being coaxed into existence three decades ago, it was considered fortunate that marching is fundamental to...
There was a daunting display of political power outside Lisburn on Monday night. Thousands of farmers gathered in a convention centre for a rally...
One month after the A5 dual carriageway apparently received the final go-ahead, the Department for Infrastructure has received notice of another...
A stark difference of opinion has been revealed by the latest LucidTalk poll. Eighty-one per cent of unionists, including 91 per cent of DUP...
The Shared Island Initiative gets its own page in Fianna Fáil’s 200-page manifesto, amid five pages on a broader “Shared Island Agenda”. This...
The world may have changed since 2016 but President Trump’s first term remains our best guide to how he might treat Northern Ireland during his...
It is a bit much to expect Stormont to take a balanced view of inheritance tax. The tax is not devolved so Stormont sees none of the money, at...
The DUP must win over the unaligned centre ground to secure the union, leader Gavin Robinson has warned his party. The first response from much of...
Extra spending in England means more money for Stormont under the Barnett formula. This week’s Westminster budget means a lot more: £640 million...
Sinn Féin and the DUP are at pains to insist devolution is stable, despite recent scandals in Sinn Féin and ensuing acrimony between both...
You can almost feel the slavery reparations debate drifting balefully towards Belfast, not that slavery will be the issue once it touches our...
The PSNI has engaged in absurd back-pedalling over an intelligence assessment on Sinn Féin and the IRA. Asked last week by Jamie Bryson if a 2015...
In 2015, it became compulsory in England to remain in full-time education or training until the age of 18 – not a new school leaving but a new...
Four-fifths of households in Northern Ireland receive more in benefits than they pay in tax, according to a new report from the Economic & Social...
There is a growing sense that time is running out for interminable loyalist peace processing. DUP ministers are under increasing if somewhat...
Government competitions are an old idea to encourage new thinking and new technology. Many of the great achievements of Victorian engineering began...
The British government is planning to give weight-loss injections to obese people so they can be taken off sickness benefits and obliged to work....
In her inaugural speech as SDLP leader last Saturday, Claire Hanna cited rejoining the EU as a decisive attraction of a united Ireland. Former...
Money is the under-appreciated factor in the Sinn Féin press officer scandal. Michael McMonagle was employed at the party’s central press office...
Announcing that work on the A5 will begin, DUP Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly noted how vesting homes and farmland became a highly...
Sinn Féin’s John O’Dowd may be a minister in a mere regional government, as opposed to a national government, but it is still absurd that he...
Over the next few weeks, people in Northern Ireland will notice familiar products on supermarket shelves being replaced with items from the...
It seems like a small matter and that is the point. Stormont’s inability to pedestrianise a short stretch of road in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter...
In 2013, when the three smaller parties in the executive complained they were being ignored, Sinn Féin minister John O’Dowd said “so what?”...