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THE loss of councillor Paul Doherty to the SDLP is a blow, of that there is no doubt. For the first time in west Belfast, the party has no elected...
Another weekend has ended in heartbreak on our roads. Four more lives have been lost in devastating collisions in Co Tyrone and Co Antrim, leaving...
In a new role with OCO Global, a Belfast headquartered economic development and inward investment business, I have been reflecting on how the rules of...
IT is clear that those who forced a delivery driver to transport a device to a police station in Belfast on Saturday night were entirely reckless as...
THERE is a blandness to many of the newer, large commercial and residential centres across Ireland, north and south, which verges on the depressing,...
THE fiasco around the new Belfast maternity hospital now stands as a monument to political failure, which has real-world consequences for everyone...
FOR the first time since 2019, Sinn Féin came north to hold its ard fheis. More than 1,500 delegates attended the ICC in Belfast over the weekend....
LAST Thursday, Queen’s University invited me to make a keynote lecture to mark becoming Honorary Professor of Practice in Politics and Public...
IN June 2016, Mid and East Antrim council employed contractors to enter the majority nationalist village of Carnlough on the Antrim coast in the...
THERE was a genuinely lovely news story this week about a man from Co Down sacrificing his personal best at the Boston Marathon to help a fellow...
ALTHOUGH senior managers in Ulster University must carry responsibility for the proposed loss of 450 jobs there, the source of its difficulties lies...
SINN Féin ministers have been diplomatically restrained about the growth in UK defence spending in Northern Ireland. They do not like it, for obvious...
SPANISH prime minister Pedro Sanchez hosted a big conference in Barcelona last weekend. It was attended by more than 20 political leaders from around...
AS I’m nearing 40, I find myself starting sentences with “Back in my day...” Just as my Ma does, and my Granny did before her. As a child, I...
WHEN it comes to identity, everybody has an opinion on what Protestants are. We are talked at, not listened to. Everyone wants a Protestant on their...
THE blatant and aggressive use of flags to mark out territory across many of our towns and cities is one of the most depressing illustrations of our...
ONE hundred years ago, on April 18 1926, censuses were taken across the island of Ireland. Although they were the first since partition, and were...
NEWS that Justice Minister Naomi Long intends to change the law so that PSNI misconduct investigations can continue after officers have resigned or...
INSTEAD of spreading animal waste on the land and having it run into our lakes and rivers, we could use it to produce electricity, biomethane...
KATE Nash walks towards the Houses of Parliament holding a large white duvet with the words ‘The English don’t know their history’ written in...
THE major damage caused by an arson attack on the former Antrim Arms hotel in Ballycastle not only represents a significant setback for the entire...
NOTHING that Donald Trump does has moral authority, because everything that he says and does is underpinned by his narcissism and psychological...
THIS obsession on the airwaves and in the press here with the ins and outs of the agonies of the British Labour Party, and its prospects in the local...
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Ulster University is the author of its own misfortune, though that will be no comfort to the 450 people whose...
Politics is probably the only job where you can publicly fail for years but return every five years after a review. The review will point out that you...
I WENT to see a play at the weekend with a group of women friends. You know, the women in your life you finally realise are your people, because you...
A REVILED US lawyer who died nearly four decades go might not be expected to have a central influence on one of the main Irish sporting events of the...
WHEN Keir Starmer became British prime minister after his comprehensive general election victory in July 2024, there was every indication that, with...
WHAT a week! Just when you thought Donald Trump couldn’t sink any lower into the amoral pit of his mind, he posts an image of himself looking like...
All the recent fuss over Mrs Davison meant I had taken my eye of the ball when it came to parenting: it’s only by the grace of God that I came out...
MOJACAR is a small but, according to the guide books, impressive town in southern Spain where a lot of Brits used to congregate. Years ago I recall...
AN important social housing project at a north Belfast interface is being held up by lack of sewage capacity. The Duncairn site between Tiger’s Bay...
IF there were a united Ireland tomorrow, it would probably have one of the most incompetent governments in Irish history. An odd prediction, you say,...
FROM the wealth of cooking shows on television, Great British Menu has always been my favourite. For those unfamiliar, it’s a high-stakes...
WHEN you hear that a government – usually the US or its glove puppet, the UK – has ‘sanctioned’ somebody, what does that mean? The term was...
John Swinney’s SNP are favourites to secure an outright majority in Scotland come the parliamentary election in May. A YouGov poll just days ago put...
There can be few stories more ridiculous than the M&S shopping bag saga given oxygen through the media this week. The story was based on comments...
ULSTER University is one of our most important institutions at every level, and there can only be enormous concern over the revelation that it is...
THERE’S something jarring about the idea of Eddie Hearn swaggering into Croke Park on Friday morning. It is to be overcast in Dublin but, still,...
THE sight of ambulances queued up outside hospital A&E units, unable to hand over patients requiring emergency care, has been a cause of major...
WHAT if Stormont’s Good Jobs Bill is a bigger issue for the public sector than for the private sector? In an open letter this week, 22 business...
WHEN the Good Friday Agreement was signed, my then boyfriend – now husband – and I were sitting in our house on the Falls Road watching people put...
MICHEÁL Martin’s government had it coming. People seem to have forgotten the protests by farmers about Mercosur which reached a crescendo in...
WE’RE just three weeks away from the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and English local council elections on May 7. And maybe, depending on how...
IT is telling that among the most strident criticism faced by Donald Trump in recent days has been from those involved with Christian groups which...
In a place where allegiances are parsed and identities contested, a boy from Holywood has achieved something remarkable beyond his six major...
MORE than 30 years ago I undertook research examining the system of public appointments in the north. It highlighted serious concerns about the...
As we track the rising cost of fuel and energy, it’s worth remembering the far greater human price being paid elsewhere. Families across the Middle...
As the National Living Wage increased again on the April 1, the response from all sides was familiar. Ministers make the announcement saying that work...
As fuel stocks continue to be eroded, and inventories are not sufficiently supplemented due to continued blockages in the Strait of Hormuz, we will...
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