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Money Stormont ‘spent’ on cycling and walking won’t actually be spent until next year – but it says that’s fine

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12.08.2025 4

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Sam Mcbride

Why the other Stormont could help unlock Casement conundrum...and influence international sport

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11.08.2025 3

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Sinn Fein has much to gain from going out to bat for cricket

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11.08.2025 8

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10.08.2025 10

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10.08.2025 2

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The unlikely slogan Sinn Féin might soon be using: Keep Northern Ireland

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04.08.2025 10

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The unlikely slogan Sinn Féin soon might be using: Keep Northern Ireland

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04.08.2025 10

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03.08.2025 20

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Opinionated and outspoken, Deirdre Heenan an intriguing potential candidate in Irish presidential race

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28.07.2025 20

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Opinionated and outspoken, Deirdre Heenan an intriguing candidate in Irish presidential race

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28.07.2025 4

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27.07.2025 4

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Two incidents illustrate the futility of the unionist unity being pushed by DUP, and why it would weaken rather than strengthen unionism

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20.07.2025 6

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Norman Tebbit had rage, but many missed that he also recognised the need for rapprochement

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14.07.2025 20

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Scarred by conflict, Norman Tebbit knew the price of peace

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14.07.2025 5

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MLAs voted to accidentally tie their own hands – now they’re going to do what they hate: take unpopular decisions

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13.07.2025 8

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Why controlling rather than eradicating bonfires could help loyalism, and society

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07.07.2025 6

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29.06.2025 4

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Unity or the Union? Both sides have a good argument, but rarely is it made in a sensible way

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28.06.2025 30

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The case for either unity or the Union should be based on facts, not tribal thinking... our future depends on it

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28.06.2025 10

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22.06.2025 20

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A far-sighted DUP would realise migrants might decide a border poll… but party appears more worried about appeasing paramilitaries

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17.06.2025 8

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State funding has become a perverse incentive to riot

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16.06.2025 10

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Incoherent DUP vulnerable if voters realise it lobbied for more migration while presenting very different message

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15.06.2025 40

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Incoherent DUP vulnerable if voters realise it lobbied for more migration while presenting a very different message

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15.06.2025 4

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The cross-border service doing more to break down barriers than all the north-south bodies combined

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09.06.2025 10

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Sir Ken Bloomfield was a titanic figure who helped reshape NI in ways unthinkable for our sorry civil service

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08.06.2025 10

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Sir Ken Bloomfield was a titanic figure who helped reshape Northern Ireland in ways unthinkable for our sorry civil service

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08.06.2025 10

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Dismayed by Gerry Adams’ libel victory in a Dublin court, BBC now considering geoblocking Republic

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02.06.2025 6

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01.06.2025 20

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As Adams’ trial began, Denis Donaldson’s daughter sent us a statement we can only now print, revealing an intriguing rift

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01.06.2025 10

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Gerry Adams is a man of towering ambition who’d no moral qualms about securing his goal through murder

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31.05.2025 60

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Kneecap are not above the law – even if they are from Belfast

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27.05.2025 40

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25.05.2025 4

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Revealed: Winston Irvine’s host of top-level referees, some of whom wanted to hide their identity from the public

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24.05.2025 6

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UK-EU deal drastically softens Irish Sea border but also reduces NI’s supposed ‘best of both worlds’

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20.05.2025 20

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18.05.2025 9

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Forget Brits out – Sinn Féin’s hapless ministers can’t even get cars out of a tiny Belfast street

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12.05.2025 20

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Forget Brits out - Sinn Féin's hapless ministers can't even get cars out of a tiny street

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12.05.2025 3

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Stormont is listing buildings but won't give money to repair them, so they're collapsing at accelerating rate

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11.05.2025 10

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NI’s irreplaceable built heritage is crumbling at an alarming rate, with a broken system hurting both owners and buildings

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11.05.2025 5

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Why stars are aligning for a new flag of Northern Ireland

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05.05.2025 30

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Unionism is making a familiar mistake over Nigel Farage... UK might not survive another divisive PM

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04.05.2025 4

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Irish nationalists should be cheering Nigel Farage’s rise – he’s their most likely route to a border poll

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04.05.2025 4

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Tribal unease and practical ineptitude is a lethal mix for Sinn Féin

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28.04.2025 5

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After years of sometimes tasteless loathing, DUP’s dignified response to the Pope’s death is significant

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22.04.2025 10

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Hardliners won’t decide Northern Ireland’s future, the open-minded will

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21.04.2025 10

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The man without whom Good Friday Agreement could not have survived was on the very verge of falling, file shows - then within days the world changed

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20.04.2025 4

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David Trimble, man without whom Good Friday Agreement could not have survived, was on the very verge of falling before horrific events of 9/11 saved him

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20.04.2025 5

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I thought Donald Trump’s tariffs would help NI’s economy, but I was wrong

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14.04.2025 20

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