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Galliagh security alert: Regardless of who was responsible, frustration and disruption remains

There is understandable frustration at a security alert that forced families in Derry from their homes at the break of dawn. Reports of masked men...

Allison Morris

9 yesterday

Double jeopardy: Sir Jeffrey gambled on Westminster... and it has backfired badly

The optics on the double-jobbing saga are atrocious for the DUP. For the rule-book to be rewritten to enable one MP to hold two positions is hardly...

Suzanne Breen

40 previous day

Governments must act now over gender based violence

A week has passed since the tragic murder of Ashling Murphy, a 23-year-old primary school teacher from County Offaly, Ireland. During this week,...

Rosalind Skillen

7 previous day

There’s no longer any justification for segregating pupils

I don’t imagine any government will abolish the Catholic education system. When Doug Beattie asserts the need for a single education system in...

Malachi Odoherty

10 tuesday

Donaldson’s latest move could prove to be his undoing

A new word entered Northern Ireland’s political vocabulary at the weekend — ‘Jeffreymandering’ trended on Twitter. Already under pressure over...

Suzanne Breen

50 17.01.2022

The issue of male violence must be addressed in school

The murder of Ashling Murphy has highlighted the very real danger to women in our society. Ashling was murdered while out for a run along the Grand...