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Tom CollinsThe Irish News |
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Ulster University is the author of its own misfortune, though that will be no comfort to the 450 people whose...
IT is Easter Sunday in Florence, and like thousands of others I’m walking towards the Duomo – that great whited sepulchre topped by...
EASTER Tuesday 1916 and the British counter-offensive is underway, with the Shelbourne Hotel occupied by the army and martial law imposed. The rebels...
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...
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...
IT started with picnic baskets – plastic bags filled with Tupperware in all probability – and a long, slow walk to Lough Neagh down Castor Bay...
A DESPOTIC supreme leader clinging to power; a rabid religious fundamentalist ruling class; the suppression of dissent, with citizens butchered by the...
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...
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...