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Jenrick defection shows British politics is now a competition in sewer-swimming

yesterday 6

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Tom Kelly

Burrows faces challenge of declining support for both UUP and the union - The Irish News view

yesterday 6

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No-one expects a land of milk and honey, but surely we can do better than this?

yesterday 6

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Deirdre Heenan

Returning, remembering and having to say goodbye

yesterday 6

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Noel Doran

Who controls the airwaves in a united Ireland?

WHILE Micheál Martin remains taoiseach, the Irish government will refuse to discuss reunification – much less prepare for a referendum....

saturday 10

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Brian Feeney

Stormont’s talent for dodging the difficult choices

UNDER the 2015 Fresh Start agreement, the DUP and Sinn Féin set up a commission on flags, identity, culture and tradition. This delivered its final...

saturday 10

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Newton Emerson

Ignore the charity appeal from Stormont – they don’t deserve a penny more

THIS week’s charity appeal is on behalf of the Stormont Executive. Do you know that for only £189 million, Mike Nesbitt could balance the health...

saturday 10

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Patrick Murphy

Pheasants, five-a-side and finding truth at the bottom of a glass

We had a visitor to the field out the back the other day: a pheasant, beautiful and colourful, and with the slight change in the weather, and the...

saturday 10

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Fabien Mcquillan

The age of hypocrisy and the art of carrying on

The first episode of 2026 has been fraught, with reasons to despair while watching global politics unfold. Just the other day I switched on my...

saturday 10

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Brónagh Diamond

Flag row shows unionism still incapable of embracing change

‘In the absence of consensus it is important we stick with the status quo.’ The words of DUP minister Gordon Lyons earlier in the week as the...

16.01.2026 6

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Chris Donnelly

From Carson to Craig and now to Burrows?

The Ulster Unionist Party is in the process of changing leader for the fifth time since 2017, following Mike Nesbitt’s decision to step down for a...

16.01.2026 7

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Cormac Moore

Conor McGinn: Bills, boats, beds and ‘events’ will dictate Keir Starmer’s fate

It was Harold Macmillan who reportedly offered “events, dear boy, events” as the reason governments tend to run into difficulties or have plans...

16.01.2026 3

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Conor Mcginn

Traditions can thrive when allowed to share a stage - The Irish News view

Criticism, when rooted in misunderstanding or fear, often misses the very point it claims to defend. The controversy stirred over a proposed Fleadh...

15.01.2026 2

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Let’s meet for that coffee and fill the cup for 2026

I keep checking the date and referencing Christmas. This day a month ago, it was still 10 days away. Christmas is now firmly in the rearview mirror...

15.01.2026 3

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Lynette Fay

When the market fails, should the state defend you in court?

ONE response Stormont could take to the criminal barristers’ strike that began last week would be to establish a public defender office. Scotland...

15.01.2026 1

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Newton Emerson

My new year resolution is not to write about the Executive – what’s the point any more?

I USUALLY make a couple of gentle resolutions at the start of each year. None of them particularly demanding, so I won’t be preparing for park...

14.01.2026 5

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Alex Kane

Competing with the TUV to be the tough guy will get Gavin Robinson nowhere

REMEMBER the New Decade, Same Approach con job, signed on January 9 2020, which revived the Executive on January 11? We’re exactly six years into...

14.01.2026 50

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Brian Feeney

Latest row about emblems speaks to an argument which is flagging - The Irish News view

While it is always important to encourage and develop international sport, it needs to be recognised that the Commonwealth Games is a relatively...

14.01.2026 2

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The cost of delay is being paid by patients - The Irish News view

The two stories sit uncomfortably beside each other on our front page, yet together they tell a single, troubling truth about the state of our...

13.01.2026 1

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Palestine Action hunger strikers expose sham of British justice

It was as recently as 1998 that judicial murder was abolished in the United Kingdom. Although the death penalty was suspended in 1965 and abolished...

13.01.2026 20

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Tom Collins

Do yourself a favour and delete your X account now

As long as technology has been around, it has been used by men to degrade women. Some man somewhere will find a way to sexualise a woman, whether...

13.01.2026 80

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Aoife Moore