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In yet another example of the Executive’s dysfunctional nature, a report from the Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition has sat...
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...
In the latest example of what has become a grim festive tradition, ambulances have once again queued outside our hospitals. Hundreds of patients...
Groups from every shade of political opinion are entitled to organise public demonstrations, as long as they observe reasonable guidelines and...
Many families across Ireland, north and south, are experiencing an exceptionally difficult seasonal period because they have lost loved one on our...
All the weekend indications were that negotiations have effectively been completed and Micheál Martin will be returning as taoiseach early in the...
The Ghost of Brexit Past has yet to be properly exorcised, as developments at Stormont demonstrate. It was confirmed last night that by pulling...
The scandal that the PSNI conducted an unlawful snooping operation against journalists and a worker at the Police Ombudsman’s office in relation to...
The degree of violence against women is running at horrendous levels across our society, with the murder of Karen Cummins in Co Down representing...
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...
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...
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...
The collapse of President Bashar Assad’s dictatorship in Syria is a welcome development. With Russian support, Assad governed Syria as a...
Expectations surrounding the Stormont executive have generally been low since its restoration last February, and it would be difficult to identify...
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...
This week has added yet more entries to the already bulging and well thumbed catalogue of haplessness which afflicts our public services. Stormont...
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...
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...
As the final results from the Republic’s general election emerge, attention is turning to the formation of the next government. It is almost...
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...
Belfast rap trio Kneecap have had a remarkable 2024, with Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara and DJ Próvaí rocketing from cult concern to cultural phenomenon....
It is a dispiriting truism that there is almost nothing that cannot be sectarianised in Northern Ireland. This axiom now extends to events as...
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...
THE new regional maternity hospital’s difficult birth continues, with the latest delays centred on an unspecified issue with medical gas pipework....
The practice of ‘geo-blocking’, where broadcasters restrict access to coverage based on physical location, has long been a source of enormous...
There are few events in life more dispiriting than having your home flooded. That such a demoralising occurrence should destroy your house once in...
Cop29, the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference, has limped to its inevitably acrimonious conclusion as arguments over money boiled...
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...