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Damned for all time: Bloody Sunday killers will go down in infamy

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...

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Tom Collins

Unionism needs to know when to hold ‘em – and know when to fold ‘em

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...

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Brian Feeney

What colour of paint would you like, sir - Bigoted White?

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...

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Mary Kelly

SDLP finding its feet as Stormont opposition

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...

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Ursula Savage

Project Unity isn’t a pipe dream but it needs a more sophisticated sales job

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...

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Tom Kelly

‘When strong leadership was absolutely critical to rescue a system on the brink, we have been lumbered with interim appointment’

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...

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Deirdre Heenan

Israel is out of control, but still the United States won’t intervene

This Sunday, April 28, many Iranians will quietly mark the 73rd anniversary of the election of Mohammed Mossadegh in 1951 as prime minister, the...

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Chris Donnelly

On the right track in Whitehead

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...

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Anne Hailes

Smuggling is the burning issue for any tobacco ban

The greatest concern with any restriction on tobacco sales in Northern Ireland is the smuggling opportunity for organised crime and paramilitary...

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Newton Emerson

Thank God we don’t live in a country where people can murder with impunity

It is good to see foreign policy agreement between Britain and Ireland, particularly over Russia. David Cameron has accused the Russian government...

20.04.2024 8

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Patrick Murphy

The garden’s a misty wilderness – but at least the birds are happy

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...

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Nuala Mccann

‘My Dad was such a prodigious smoker he would have needed a chimney on the top of his head’

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...

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Jake Okane

A rainy night in Galway and my famous black raincoat

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...

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Fabien Mcquillan

Counting the cost of Britain’s delusions of grandeur

Last week UCL Policy Lab and Hertford College, Oxford published a report entitled ‘The World in 2040: Renewing the UK’s Approach to...

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Brian Feeney

The more I hear about a border poll, the further away I think it might be

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...

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Alex Kane

Businesses are paying the price of keeping household rates down

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...

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Newton Emerson

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