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Thank you Pól for some common sense – I hope it’s contagious

Thank you Pól for some common sense – I hope it’s contagious

MY granny was a very practical woman who believed that a dose of common sense was the answer to most problems in life. And for her generation, which...

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An open letter to St Patrick: can you fix our green lough

An open letter to St Patrick: can you fix our green lough

DEAR Patrick I hope you don’t mind me dispensing with the honorific – we live now in more egalitarian times (or so we think). I had thought...

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Public ownership is only viable option for dying Lough Neagh

IT started with picnic baskets – plastic bags filled with Tupperware in all probability – and a long, slow walk to Lough Neagh down Castor Bay...

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World must stand up to Trump’s crimes against humanity

A DESPOTIC supreme leader clinging to power; a rabid religious fundamentalist ruling class; the suppression of dissent, with citizens butchered by the...

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If ever we needed inspiration from St Francis, it is now

THERE are aspects of Catholicism that defy belief, among them the veneration of holy relics, weeping statues and apparitions, as well as much of the...

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This ‘Fat Tuesday’, it’s time to start the fightback

I HOPE you’re enjoying your pancakes today. It’s amazing what pleasures can be had from a simple mix of flour, butter, milk and eggs. At one time...

17.02.2026 10

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Hooray! The DUP has finally embraced the spirit of Irish revolution

10.02.2026 20

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All hail Ireland’s patron saint of female power

04.02.2026 10

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Tom Collins: Time for us all to stand up to Trump and his ‘American Carnage’

29.01.2026 10

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Nothing Jon Burrows says or does will matter unless unionism is ready to change

20.01.2026 10

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Palestine Action hunger strikers expose sham of British justice

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Is that Three Wise Men, or the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

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It’s time we embraced the bleak mid-winter

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What kind of world would Jesus be born into today?

23.12.2025 10

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Northern Ireland is not just failing nationalists but unionists too

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Trump’s white supremacism is the real threat to world peace

09.12.2025 20

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Why Pope Leo must not be afraid to wield the big stick

03.12.2025 10

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Even Keir Starmer must know his time as prime minister is up

19.11.2025 10

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President Connolly must be thorn in side of failing Irish government

11.11.2025 10

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For those still arguing about Irish and Ulster-Scots: catch yersel on

04.11.2025 10

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Why nationalism owes a debt to this useless prime minister

29.10.2025 10

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In praise of Seamus Heaney, a man who gave the north back its dignity

22.10.2025 20

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A tale of two leaders and a union without a future

14.10.2025 10

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Is Claire Hanna cursed to be a modern-day Cassandra?

07.10.2025 20

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It’s time Labour cut its losses and tells Starmer time is up

30.09.2025 10

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Racism was hard-wired into this place by Carson and Craig

24.09.2025 10

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Unfit for office, Trump and Starmer are well matched

16.09.2025 20

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King Donald and the curse of living in ‘interesting times’

03.09.2025 20

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Struggling young people need actions, not words

26.08.2025 10

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We need graduates who can think, not oven-ready chickens for the job market

19.08.2025 10

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Confessions of a grumpy old-age pensioner

12.08.2025 10

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We desperately need more leaders like Daniel O’Connell

05.08.2025 10

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Sucking up to Trump is the new norm in global politics

29.07.2025 20

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Righting history’s wrongs is the challenge for our times

22.07.2025 10

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When are unionists going to show real leadership and confront the thugs and bullies who bring shame to their communities?

16.07.2025 10

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A repressive state marching to the beat of a Lambeg drum

08.07.2025 10

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Labour needs to send its useless prime minister packing

02.07.2025 10

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Warmonger Trump has lit a fuse in the Middle East

25.06.2025 10

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Racism is just a shorter word for sectarianism

17.06.2025 10

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Starmer the Cold War warrior on road to nuclear conflict 

11.06.2025 10

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British attempts to silence Kneecap fit a pattern

03.06.2025 10

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Beyoncé, Kamala Harris’s Halo and Donald Trump’s threat to freedom

27.05.2025 10

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Will Trump’s Saudi love-in help bring peace to Gaza?

20.05.2025 10

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Tough tests ahead for a Pope who wants to ‘build bridges’ 

13.05.2025 20

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Starmer’s march to the right will not end well for Labour 

06.05.2025 10

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The future of the Church and a bloke called Kevin from Dublin 

30.04.2025 10

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If anyone deserves sainthood, it is the truly humble Pope Francis

21.04.2025 10

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Why can’t leaders show same boldness on Irish unity in office as when they leave

16.04.2025 10

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UK government sacrificing north on alter of failed Brexit

08.04.2025 10

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Let’s not pretend the Twelfth is about ‘respect and understanding’

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