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We were sitting in English class the day after it happened. Our teacher had just introduced us to the poetry of Seamus Heaney. Even for a group of...
The present crisis in unionism offers the opportunity for a new beginning. You might say there’s only a crisis in the DUP, and the DUP isn’t...
It is hard to understand the mentality of people who are so offended by the sight of Irish translations on street signs that they go home and get a...
Last week saw the Assembly’s second Opposition Day in as many months as the SDLP took control of the agenda with the aim of holding the Executive...
The taoiseach, Simon Harris, said that people of his generation were more familiar with Paris or Berlin than Belfast or Derry. At one level, this...
As widely predicted Robin Swann announced yesterday that when the General Election is called, he will step down as the Health Minister. At a time...
This Sunday, April 28, many Iranians will quietly mark the 73rd anniversary of the election of Mohammed Mossadegh in 1951 as prime minister, the...
For playwright Michael Cameron it began on a rail journey to Portrush. For me it began over lunch a couple of months ago. It was then that Michael...
The greatest concern with any restriction on tobacco sales in Northern Ireland is the smuggling opportunity for organised crime and paramilitary...
It is good to see foreign policy agreement between Britain and Ireland, particularly over Russia. David Cameron has accused the Russian government...
Last year’s hydrangea flowers are rich pickings for our birds. Sometimes laziness has its own reward. I closed the back door on the garden last...
Plans to ban anyone born in or after 2009 from legally buying cigarettes easily passed their first hurdle in parliament this week. Championed by PM...
I had to go drinking at Molly’s with the male members of my wife’s family last Saturday night. Her cousin Shane was getting married, and this was...
Last week UCL Policy Lab and Hertford College, Oxford published a report entitled ‘The World in 2040: Renewing the UK’s Approach to...
The more I hear the border poll lobby talk about the need for a border poll, the more I’m persuaded it will probably take much longer to call...
The Number 7 cafe in Craigavon’s Rushmere Centre – an institution in the town – has made headlines by publicising its £71,000 rates bill for...