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Tireless campaigns by Irish language activists beginning to bear fruit - The Irish News view

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Message must go out that abuse will not be tolerated in any form - The Irish News view

07.03.2025 20

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Trump demeans every aspect of the distinguished post he holds - The Irish News view

04.03.2025 8

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Aim of ending paramilitarism remains a goal worth striving for - The Irish News view

01.03.2025 7

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Facts give lie to claims that Ireland, land of welcomes, is full - The Irish News view

19.02.2025 6

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All emergency workers deserve to be treated with respect - The Irish News view

11.02.2025 10

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Donald Trump tariffs: Ireland must be part of a robust EU response - The Irish News view

05.02.2025 80

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The focus must remain on improving all people’s lives - The Irish News view

04.02.2025 10

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‘Postcode lottery’ in mental health services must end - The Irish News view

01.02.2025 20

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As with Trump’s United States, it’s vital we maintain links with rival superpower China - The Irish News view

31.01.2025 9

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Ireland stands behind its principled and measured president - The Irish News view

30.01.2025 20

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Omagh bomb victims need to hear the whole truth - The Irish News view

29.01.2025 10

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We must all stand up against thugs like Cathal Crotty - The Irish News view

27.01.2025 10

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Nobody should get distracted by the ‘Stormont brake’ pantomime - The Irish News view

25.01.2025 9

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Donald Trump can learn much from principled Pope Francis - The Irish News view

23.01.2025 10

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Portadown peace wall: An important mind shift towards breaking down all our barriers - The Irish News view

21.01.2025 30

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Israel shows its bloodlust right to the bitter end - The Irish News view

18.01.2025 10

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It turns out a programme for government can be achieved swiftly - The Irish News view

17.01.2025 10

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Katie Simpson: Proper examination of Jonathan Creswell failings is badly needed - The Irish News view

16.01.2025 30

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Even AI may be powerless to stop Starmer’s government from crashing into more economic and political potholes - The Irish News view

15.01.2025 10

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The UK must dismantle its new Brexit tourism border - The Irish News view

10.01.2025 6

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Elon Musk’s dangerous influence on our politics - The Irish News view

09.01.2025 7

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Can we dare to hope for progress - at last - on regulating flags and emblems? - The Irish News view

In yet another example of the Executive’s dysfunctional nature, a report from the Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition has sat...

08.01.2025 9

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Sean Brown: On legacy, the old game of delay and distraction remains the same - The Irish News view

Before it came to power, Labour pledged to right the manifest wrongs of the wretched legacy act launched by the charlatan Boris Johnson in that...

05.01.2025 10

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Ambulance queues and overcrowded hospital wards a symptom of deeper malaise - The Irish News view

In the latest example of what has become a grim festive tradition, ambulances have once again queued outside our hospitals. Hundreds of patients...

01.01.2025 5

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Peaceful demonstrations must not be allowed to lead to violence - The Irish News view

Groups from every shade of political opinion are entitled to organise public demonstrations, as long as they observe reasonable guidelines and...

31.12.2024 5

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We all have a role to play in improving our grim accident record - The Irish News view

Many families across Ireland, north and south, are experiencing an exceptionally difficult seasonal period because they have lost loved one on our...

28.12.2024 4

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Micheál Martin must seize chance to prioritise unity debate - The Irish News view

All the weekend indications were that negotiations have effectively been completed and Micheál Martin will be returning as taoiseach early in the...

23.12.2024 7

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Unionists have pulled the Stormont brake, but there’s no need for it to create a crisis - The Irish News view

The Ghost of Brexit Past has yet to be properly exorcised, as developments at Stormont demonstrate. It was confirmed last night that by pulling...

22.12.2024 9

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Instead of unlawfully snooping on journalists, why wasn’t the PSNI pursuing the Loughinisland killers? - The Irish News view

The scandal that the PSNI conducted an unlawful snooping operation against journalists and a worker at the Police Ombudsman’s office in relation to...

20.12.2024 6

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Femicide rates need to be taken seriously and punishment must fit the crimes - The Irish News view

The degree of violence against women is running at horrendous levels across our society, with the murder of Karen Cummins in Co Down representing...

19.12.2024 7

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We owe it to the victims of La Mon to ensure the dark days of the Troubles never return - The Irish News view

There were many grimly familiar elements to the Police Ombudsman’s report on the police response to the appalling La Mon atrocity which left 12...

13.12.2024 30

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Has John O’Dowd run out of ideas to ease Belfast’s traffic chaos this Christmas? - The Irish News view

After being under pressure for weeks over the acute congestion in and around Belfast city centre, the minister for traffic jams, John O’Dowd, has...

12.12.2024 4

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Jody Gormley’s grace and courage were an inspiration to us all - The Irish News view

Jody Gormley’s life was not as long as it should have been but, in the space of his 53 years, he still made himself an enormous force for good in a...

11.12.2024 4

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After the darkness of the ousted Assad regime, Syria faces a brighter but still uncertain future - The Irish News view

The collapse of President Bashar Assad’s dictatorship in Syria is a welcome development. With Russian support, Assad governed Syria as a...

10.12.2024 4

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Small steps like those taken by Paul Givan can take us far - The Irish News view

Expectations surrounding the Stormont executive have generally been low since its restoration last February, and it would be difficult to identify...

09.12.2024 4

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More urgency needed to fix legacy failures for victims - The Irish News view

It is an indictment of successive British administrations that, more than a quarter of a century after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, a...

07.12.2024 4

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Belfast’s traffic problems are obvious even to Mickey Mouse - The Irish News view

This week has added yet more entries to the already bulging and well thumbed catalogue of haplessness which afflicts our public services. Stormont...

07.12.2024 10

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South Korea: Overturning of martial law a timely victory for democracy - The Irish News view

FOR many decades, South Korea has had a stable democracy and its society has thrived. It is ranked as the 14th largest economy in the world, based...

06.12.2024 5

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Joe Biden’s final chapter overshadowed by controversial pardon of his son Hunter - The Irish News view

It is impossible to feel anything other than a deep sense of sadness about the circumstances surrounding the conclusion of Joe Biden’s long and for...

05.12.2024 4

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Political apathy is an emerging force in Irish elections - The Irish News view

As the final results from the Republic’s general election emerge, attention is turning to the formation of the next government. It is almost...

04.12.2024 5

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Election results confirm a tale of two very different Irelands - The Irish News view

The Democrats in the US, the Tories in Britain. Macron in France, Modi in India and Japan’s Shigeru Ishiba. All have either found themselves turfed...

02.12.2024 4

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Kneecap and the fine art of provocation - The Irish News view

Belfast rap trio Kneecap have had a remarkable 2024, with Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara and DJ Próvaí rocketing from cult concern to cultural phenomenon....

30.11.2024 6

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Even the Christmas tree lights in Broughshane spark division: A call for unity - The Irish News view

It is a dispiriting truism that there is almost nothing that cannot be sectarianised in Northern Ireland. This axiom now extends to events as...

29.11.2024 4

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Selfless acts and human spirit at the heart of our communities - The Irish News view

It’s perhaps easy to focus on society’s problems, but it’s important to also acknowledge notable community spirit when it is demonstrated. Earlier...

29.11.2024 6

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Mike Nesbitt must take control as delays and cost overruns plague Belfast’s new regional maternity hospital - The Irish News view

THE new regional maternity hospital’s difficult birth continues, with the latest delays centred on an unspecified issue with medical gas pipework....

28.11.2024 6

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If there is a will there is a way to end geo-blocking - The Irish News view

The practice of ‘geo-blocking’, where broadcasters restrict access to coverage based on physical location, has long been a source of enormous...

26.11.2024 6

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Flooding problem would be avoidable.. if there was a plan - The Irish News view

There are few events in life more dispiriting than having your home flooded. That such a demoralising occurrence should destroy your house once in...

26.11.2024 4

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Cop29 climate disputes, the scandal of our polluted rivers and broken environmental protection - The Irish News view

Cop29, the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference, has limped to its inevitably acrimonious conclusion as arguments over money boiled...

23.11.2024 4

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Cost of ministerial trips need to represent value for the public - The Irish News view

WE have a long history of our politicians hopping on flights to go and sell our corner of the world in another one. So communities minister Gordon...

22.11.2024 3

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