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Patrick MurphyThe Irish News |
The gimmicky replacing the gormless – that would appear to be a reasonable summary of events in Downing Street this week, as Britain witnessed its...
The first steps to a united Ireland will happen not in Dublin. They will be taken in Belfast and until nationalists realise that, Irish unity will...
WHILE the sham fight at Scarva next Tuesday will re-create the Battle of the Boyne in a light-hearted manner, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that...
WILL the price of Irish unity be the loss of Irish independence? The question arises as Ireland assumed the presidency of the European Union (EU) this...
A UNITED Ireland used to be a common nationalist aspiration. Now it has become a competition between nationalist parties to see which of them can...
OF all the things we are good at in this part of the world, we are probably best at hypocrisy. The racist violence on our streets and the political...
HURRAH! Ireland is preparing to go to war. The Dublin government presumably hopes to re-write Rupert Brooke’s poem and solemnly state that there...
A united Ireland might have a border in it. That appears to be Sinn Féin’s position as outlined by First Minister Michelle O’Neill in an...
As JANE Austen might’ve written, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a failed Assembly must be in need of a solution. Adapting her opening...
WHAT a sad society we live in when there are those among us who deface or destroy street name signs because they are in Irish or in English. Our...
THE collapse of Britain’s economy and society has now been reflected in its politics. That’s the main lesson from the English local government...
SINN Féin have finally accepted what the rest of us have known for years – Stormont is not working. The problem has arisen because, they say, the...
ALTHOUGH senior managers in Ulster University must carry responsibility for the proposed loss of 450 jobs there, the source of its difficulties lies...
IF there were a united Ireland tomorrow, it would probably have one of the most incompetent governments in Irish history. An odd prediction, you say,...
HAS the Catholic Church’s first American pope been sufficiently outspoken against America’s war on Iran? Described as mild-mannered and...
MIRROR, mirror on the wall, which is the fairest Easter Rising commemoration of them all? The question arises from tomorrow’s marches and speeches...
WHEN Sinn Féin recently branded the DUP as having a “wreckers’ agenda” in the Executive, the party appeared to be finally accepting what this...
IT is something of an embarrassment to have to tell the rest of the world that our system of government is essentially based on the 16th century...
AS the Second World War was ending, Hitler was reported to have ordered non-existent troops into battle. Keir Starmer is no Hitler, but he too appears...
WHEN Micheál Martin gives Donald Trump a bowl of shamrock around St Patrick’s Day, should he mention the war? Indeed, should he even bring...
DEAR Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly. You have rightly said that people are angry at the proposed £14,000 annual pay rise for MLAs, but...
HANS Christian Andersen was not one of the founders of the GAA. The Danish author died nine years before the seven men met in Thurles in 1884 to...
Could a member of the English royal family be heading for jail for the first time since Charles I was imprisoned in 1647, prior to his execution? The...
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