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FOR the second time in less than a month, hundreds of schools have been targeted by threatening emails with the apparent aim of spreading fear and...
AT a stage when the future of our devolved structures is under an intense spotlight, it is hugely disturbing that the DUP is attempting to link its...
THE jailing of Russell Brand for rape and sexual assault offences first and foremost represents justice for the women who have carried the trauma from...
GIVEN that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have separately sat in Irish governments for almost a century, and have effectively been in coalition together...
AS the Executive parties arrived separately for another round of budget talks with Secretary of State Chris Bryant yesterday, they should have done so...
THE decisive outcome of the US midterm elections represents a triumph for the Democratic Party, a humiliating setback for Donald Trump, and a welcome...
A QUARTER of a century after the creation of the PSNI, there is still much to celebrate in the transformation of policing in Northern Ireland –...
For any family waiting to bring their loved one home, 20 years is an almost unimaginable length of time to endure uncertainty, grief and unanswered...
WHILE Ciara Mageean had spoken openly and courageously about her cancer diagnosis, there was still an overwhelming sense of shock and sadness...
Keynote rulings on consecutive days from the High Court and the Parades Commission have helped to restore at least some common sense to the debate...
THERE can only be enormous concern at figures showing that reports of animal welfare concerns almost trebled in the space of a year. The USPCA...
RTÉ has had a committed all-Ireland audience since its launch 65 years ago this December, and it is beyond disappointing that those who live north of...
There can be few more frightening experiences than arriving at an emergency department seriously ill or injured, only to face hours of uncertainty,...
IN a weekend statement attempting to justify her decision to resign as a DUP party officer, the Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart again called on her...
WE are going through a difficult stage when a range of groups and individuals seem determined to repeat serious errors of judgment going back to the...
SPEAKING during a debate on the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill in the House of Commons, Secretary of State Chris Bryant insisted it was not about...
APART from the most hardline elements in unionism, there was overwhelming relief across the board when the secretary of state, Chris Bryant, took...
AS the fallout from the Drumcree dispute continues to dominate the north’s political bandwidth, a senior doctor has delivered a sobering reminder of...
The racist rioting which broke out in Ballymena, Co Antrim, in the summer of last year had many deeply alarming aspects, with among the most serious...
The sentencing of Jeffrey Donaldson on Thursday for child sex offences, including rape, confirmed that the former DUP leader is by any standards a...
THE full extent of the upheaval caused by the flawed processes of the Parades Commission is already grimly apparent, and there can be no doubt that...
GIVEN Stormont’s inability to deal effectively with the urgent pressures on public services today, it is perhaps optimistic to expect it to...
After the secretary of state, Chris Bryant, justifiably overturned the Parade Commission’s deeply flawed decision to facilitate an Orange march...
A decade after his blueprint for transforming Northern Ireland’s health system was announced, the public may be surprised by the verdict of...
The official recommendation that pupils and teachers should “wear more clothes” in an attempt to cut heating bills in our schools will cause...
There can only be enormous relief that, after a frustrating series of complex legal delays, the way was finally cleared yesterday for a major upgrade...
Confirmation that the Catholic Diocese of Derry will ask the Pope to have Fr Edward Gallagher dismissed from the priesthood is an entirely appropriate...
THE Drumcree dispute is due back before the High Court in Belfast today after an entirely avoidable period of enormous tension and upheaval over the...
FIRM evidence that criminal groups are making large sums of money by engaging in completely illegal people-smuggling activities on both sides of the...
AFTER all the depressing imagery and angry rhetoric of recent days, it is worth celebrating even small positive developments in community relations....
Although there were many appalling murders during the course of the Troubles which officially remain unsolved, the circumstances surrounding the case...
ANY new visitors to Stormont yesterday would have been forgiven for thinking that the DUP and Sinn Féin were sworn political enemies rather than...
For most people, sport is a welcome distraction from the concerns of everyday life. There is something familiar and reassuring about the routine: the...
A coroner’s verdict that the death of west Belfast man Lee Gannon, after he waited almost four hours to arrive at hospital following a 999 call, was...
Should anyone still be in doubt about the importance of a robust process for dealing with the legacy of our troubled past, they need only read the...
THE circumstances surrounding the temporary release from prison of convicted murder Gary Anderson, and the way in which he was then able to abscond...
There is something almost fitting about a 400-year-old document emerging to muddy the waters of the already complicated story of the increasingly...
Cynicism over our Stormont structures has been running at serious levels for a prolonged period, but it will be in danger of going entirely off the...
THE intense controversy surrounding the hugely successful singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran underlines the scale of global outrage over Israel’s...
Few cases have captured public attention like the tragic disappearance and death of Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe. All parents will have felt...
The memorandum of understanding signed by the first ministers of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales on Monday was essentially a symbolic rather than...
It is difficult to believe it has taken almost three decades for a comprehensive account of the controversial death of Robert Hamill and serious...
Until the weekend, senior unionists would regularly shrug off Donald Trump’s inconsistencies, insist that as US president his views had ultimately...
THERE are a range of compelling reasons to believe that Katie Simpson would be alive today if PSNI officers had carried out their duties properly...
The decision by 12 countries to back new trade sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is overdue, but welcome nonetheless....
THE comprehensive analysis of the state of our health service set out in The Irish News this week leaves little room for doubt about the escalating...
There is nothing wrong with being paid to advertise a restaurant. However, there is something deeply misleading about being paid to praise one while...
It is always regrettable when sporting tournaments are overshadowed by wider concerns, but the decision to withdraw four Israeli athletes from...
IT is difficult to comprehend the mentality of anyone who would deface a memorial to victims of our troubled past. Regardless of the background of the...
Integrated education has an important role to play in a society still emerging from decades of division. That makes the dispute between Education...
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