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Tom CollinsThe Irish News |
THINGS move so quickly these days that, for all I know, Andy Burnham is currently standing outside Downing Street talking about a brave new era in...
IF you were on the cusp of being the richest man in the history of the world, would you be tweeting about race in Belfast? I thought not. Yet Elon...
SHORT-termism is the curse of modern politics. We have a system where decisions about our future are decided by career politicians, many of whom have...
YOU know the drill. Something new comes along and doomsters announce that civilisation is under threat. Can you tell what elicited the following...
I WAS once taken to task by a sales rep shocked that Queen’s University had done nothing to mark the fact that Philip Larkin, one of the most...
THE former owner of what was the Londonderry Arms Hotel in Carnlough once said that “democracy is the worst form of government”, adding the rider:...
IT’S no longer a matter of if, but when. The break-up of the United Kingdom is an inevitability. It was barely holding itself together, but the...
FRIDAY marks the anniversary of Robert Prevost’s election as Pope Leo XIV. It was a truly remarkable event in the life of the Catholic Church. For...
THIS far into Keir Starmer’s term as prime minister, one thing is certain. Acting with ‘integrity’ is much easier said than done. Unlike some of...
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...
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