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So what is the strange coincidence that the rioting and burning of migrants’ homes has happened in towns like Ballymena, Portadown, Coleraine and...
The role of government in a modern economy includes the provision of public services, either directly through a government agency or by outsourcing...
Let us not be shocked that racism has reared its ugly head in Ballymena, nor indeed that it is widespread in Northern Ireland. Some of the...
Let’s not sugar coat what has happened in Ballymena and Larne. It was brutal, violent thuggery steeped in racism. There’s no surprise because...
While no one is suggesting that our devolved institutions are in imminent danger of facing another and probably terminal suspension, it is clear...
Let’s start by stating the facts. Protecting women was the furthest thing from the minds of the marauding rioters intent on conducting a pogrom...
The Newtownards Road in east Belfast is somewhere I knew well at an earlier stage in my journalistic career, and it would be fair to say that back...
This time last week I was strutting my stuff in the Ballroom of Romance in Glenfarne, Co Leitrim. It was just one of the highlights of visiting...
We might think England has little to teach us about dealing with riots but that is far from the case, on racist riots in particular. When he was...
Having Genghis as a chauffeur is a doorway into a different dimension. I recently dislocated my shoulder and can’t drive (legally) so my wife...
WHEN Greta Thunberg first came on the scene in 2018 sitting outside Sweden’s Parliament buildings wearing her iconic yellow coat and holding a sign...
Once upon a time in a land far away (well, not really that far) there was a big house on a hill and those who believed they were important in that...
My mother’s uncle emigrated to Canada in the early part of the 20th century. He was in his teens. By all accounts his family initially got a few...
Leader’s Questions in the Dáil has always been a robust encounter between the taoiseach and the opposition benches. However, since the election in...
I was very struck by David Adams’s column in Tuesday’s Irish News: ‘The truth is that we can’t handle the true story of the Troubles.’ And...
Among the most depressing aspects of the escalating racism crisis which has been sweeping across a range of unionist districts in Co Antrim and...
Wimbledon fast approaches. This time of year, I become a tennis fanatic – more than a super fan, I become an authority. I do exactly the same thing...
Like most families, I grew up with close relatives working in the NHS. Whilst my Mum and her siblings were employed as nurses and support workers,...