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Suzanne Breen

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Burrows versus Butler: Why a potential race for leadership of UUP would be one very gripping contest

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25.11.2025 3

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Just who are these ex-prisoners benefitting from £1m handout? War has been over for 30 years

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24.11.2025 9

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Splashing a million pounds of our money on a gang of thugs is beyond sick

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24.11.2025 10

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Westminster debates on NI matters can be poorly attended – but Troubles legacy captures attention more than most

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20.11.2025 4

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Code of omerta in south Armagh and Army intelligence role cast shroud of silence in Robert Nairac search

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17.11.2025 20

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The DUP’s days of gesture politics are over... its only focus is stopping Jim Allister

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13.11.2025 5

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Forget the ‘pan-nationalist front’… opposing Gaza genocide should not be about green or orange

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10.11.2025 30

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Forget the ‘pan-nationalist front’…opposing Gaza genocide should not be about green or orange

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10.11.2025 5

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Why Nigel Farage could be a headache for unionist parties in Northern Ireland

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28.10.2025 4

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Ireland won over not by spin but by a woman with the courage of her convictions

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26.10.2025 4

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Only a fool would write off Naomi Long or Alliance, but opponents are smelling blood

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26.10.2025 4

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No saint, but this was a colossus of NI journalism - his rows with Dublin editors are legendary

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23.10.2025 7

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Ed Moloney – a colossus of journalism who was not afraid to go it alone or ruffle feathers

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23.10.2025 100

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Nothing honourable in pompous Prince Andrew’s scandal-ridden ‘sacrifice’

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20.10.2025 10

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A ‘battle a day’ at Stormont? Muir fires back for Alliance but no sign of war of words ending

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16.10.2025 4

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Muir fires back for Alliance but no sign of war of words ending

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16.10.2025 9

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Mike Nesbitt has steadied the UUP ship, but he now sounds ready to pass the baton

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14.10.2025 10

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Naomi fronts up, she never hides her face like cowardly mob skulking outside her home

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13.10.2025 30

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Alan McQuillan made calls without fear or favour – and backed me at one of the hardest points of my career

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09.10.2025 4

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The SDLP is serious about Irish unity, but party will still struggle to hold onto seats

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06.10.2025 4

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Irish language policy shows Belfast has changed... the old power dynamic is never coming back

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06.10.2025 40

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TUV reluctant to line up behind ‘unionism’s best friend in Britain’

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04.10.2025 8

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Alliance’s critics may have a point… what the party does next will be worth the watching

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03.10.2025 3

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It’s a sick joke that the system that sought to silence Kneecap star turns a blind eye to war criminal Tony Blair

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29.09.2025 8

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‘The harder the line, the warmer it was received’: Debate reflects toughening of opinion among grassroots unionists

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26.09.2025 4

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Political punches thrown at DUP conference and we will soon see how they landed

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22.09.2025 10

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Hounding Heather Humphreys about Orange parade a bad look for Irish unity

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22.09.2025 8

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Paedophile’s ‘best pal’ Mandelson and spineless PM Sir Keir Starmer are both unfit for office

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15.09.2025 7

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Logical response to Charlie Kirk’s murder is for US right to reconsider gun stance… but there’s no chance in this environment

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13.09.2025 5

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No collective mourning over Charlie Kirk murder, only a fierce blame game in deeply divided US

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13.09.2025 10

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Why Sinn Fein is split on whether Mary Lou McDonald should make Irish presidential bid

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29.08.2025 10

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Victims campaigner’s courage following loss of wife in Shankill bomb is an example to everyone

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25.08.2025 20

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‘This is a real kick up the a*** for us’: Poll suggests Alliance surge has faltered – but they have a plan

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22.08.2025 20

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Would PSNI really be willing and able to enforce bonfire commission's decisions if paramilitaries flex their muscles?

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19.08.2025 4

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Hate-filled bonfire displays will continue until we stand up to bully boys

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19.08.2025 7

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Some might say he’s rugby royalty… but Chris Farrell is a lowlife in the eyes of anybody with a shred of decency

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18.08.2025 10

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Everything has changed for TUV... and not in the way its opponents predicted

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17.08.2025 10

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TUV’s rise is impressive but a well-oiled party machine is needed to push on

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17.08.2025 8

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Eastwood's relationship with Labour MP has long been an open secret in political circles

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15.08.2025 6

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There was only ever one winner when it came to Justin McNulty’s face-off with SDLP

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14.08.2025 10

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DUP owe an apology over their hypocrisy in castigating David Trimble for engaging with Sinn Fein

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11.08.2025 4

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Troubles victims’ champion facing big in-tray as long vacant role is finally filled

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07.08.2025 10

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Forget sensitivities and call Ian Rutledge out for what he was: An evil monster

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04.08.2025 8

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Big hitter Jon Burrows has the skills and talent to become future leader of UUP

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31.07.2025 10

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Three beautiful souls, their futures together stolen in an instant

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28.07.2025 4

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Giving the vote to 16-year-olds won’t swing a border poll – but it will make one much more likely

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21.07.2025 8

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Sports camp row: East Belfast GAA children do us proud – no part of NI should be off-limits for them

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18.07.2025 10

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Unionist unity is back on the agenda, but such a pact will not be easy to cement

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17.07.2025 9

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Poisoning kids for a hollow victory on bonfires is toxic logic

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14.07.2025 5

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Even Britain won't be united in mourning this staunch opponent of the republican movement

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10.07.2025 10

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