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Patrick MurphyThe Irish News |
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...