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Pat McArt

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The moral price to be paid for a bowl of shamrocks

The moral price to be paid for a bowl of shamrocks

I WAS supposed to join my brother and his wife to take part in the St Patrick’s Day parade in my home town of Letterkenny, but as I looked out my...

21.03.2026 10

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Pat Mcart

DUP should realise ‘you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar’

I tried checking it out on ChatGPT and couldn’t find it, but I am pretty sure that somewhere in the files of the Derry Journal, there is a quote...

07.03.2026 20

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It’s time to stop buying the Hollywood version of the world

MY mother and father were salt of the earth types, both reared on remote hillside farms in rural Ireland at a time when educational opportunities were...

21.02.2026 10

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Some odds and ends from our troubled years

08.02.2026 10

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We all pay for the choice Americans made in electing Trump

24.01.2026 10

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The working class need to wise up and stop being played for fools

11.01.2026 20

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God, the master plan and how things can only get better

27.12.2025 20

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This week showed again there is little to admire about British justice

13.12.2025 30

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The story of the Derry woman who refused to play the hypocrite game

30.11.2025 30

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Why we are all being gaslit in the ‘biased BBC’ debate

15.11.2025 10

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How the election of Catherine Connolly shows that some in Dublin still don’t want a culchie about the place

02.11.2025 10

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Pat McArt: Thank God I grew up in the age before phone cameras

18.10.2025 10

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‘I hear you Irish don’t like America any more. Is that true?’

04.10.2025 10

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So, tell me… what are you going to do for us?

21.09.2025 10

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According to AI, I’m a cert for a Nobel Prize this year

06.09.2025 10

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Gavin Newsom is beating Trump at his own game — and it’s working

24.08.2025 20

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It’s like déjà vu all over again

09.08.2025 10

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A trip west show how partition has made us lose something ‘up here’

26.07.2025 20

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Pat McArt: It can be a minefield out there as a broadcaster

12.07.2025 30

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How do you know a politician is lying? His lips are moving...

29.06.2025 20

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I pity the poor immigrant

15.06.2025 10

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A story of Gary Lineker, Gaza and double standards

01.06.2025 10

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Tough at the top? Try surviving at the bottom

18.05.2025 10

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Take it from me, it’s not how you start in life, it’s how you finish

03.05.2025 10

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In an age of space tourism for the rich, how long before the downtrodden rise up?

20.04.2025 10

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Why do you never seem to meet a unionist when you’re abroad? 

05.04.2025 10

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Burn your books – dumbing down is the only road to success these days

22.03.2025 10

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How to get it right – and very wrong – at a funeral

08.03.2025 10

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My rows with John Hume and a lament for the passing of ‘the local rag’

22.02.2025 10

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That ‘golden era’ when sins of the flesh dominated our lives

09.02.2025 20

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Pat McArt