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Emergency meetings, mobility scooters and missing civil servants

AN extraordinary amount of politicking surrounded Belfast City Council’s emergency meeting on the hunger strike by Palestine Action remand...

yesterday 7

Newton Emerson

Why I’m ashamed to be a member of the GAA

I NEVER thought I would write this sentence, but I am ashamed to be a member of the GAA. In the mouth of Christmas, Croke Park decided that the...

yesterday 8

Patrick Murphy

George Belfast, cats on leads and the barber shop that time forgot

There was no-one else in the barber shop and I thanked my lucky stars and looked around: three chairs facing the mirrors; a few seats for waiting...

yesterday 7

Fabien Mcquillan

Why we struggle to say we did something well

Boxing Day cinema releases have long been part of the Christmas tradition, and this year is no exception with the release of Timothée Chalamet’s...

yesterday 7

Sophie Clarke

God, the master plan and how things can only get better

IT was years back when I unexpectedly ran into this guy in Dublin that I knew from my school days. I hadn’t seen him in aeons, and I wasn’t very...

yesterday 7

Pat Mcart

Starmer making same mistakes as Thatcher over hunger strikers

At this time of writing, four Palestine Action-affiliated remand prisoners remain on hunger strike in English prisons. On Tuesday, two– Qessar...

yesterday 20

Brian Feeney

Grim familiarity about recent spare of attacks on homes - The Irish News view

It is only through sheer good fortune that we are not approaching Christmas Day with several people either seriously injured or even dead as a...

thursday 10

The Irish News

2025 provides more proof that the Stormont experiment has failed

THIS is the time when businesses and institutions look back over the year and note their achievements, maybe even have parties to celebrate the...

24.12.2025 20

Brian Feeney

Learning to love and be loved in return

AT some point in the run-up to Christmas, I lie down and track back through my life. Right back as far as I can manage to go. Trying to remember...

24.12.2025 5

Alex Kane

What kind of world would Jesus be born into today?

‘What-if?’ can make an interesting parlour game. What if Hitler had been killed in the First World War? What if de Valera had accepted the terms of...

23.12.2025 2

Tom Collins

Christmas memories are priceless – let’s keep it real this year

Our next-door neighbour, Pamela, was great fun and took me everywhere with her. She says I was a well-behaved child, except for the time we went to...

23.12.2025 3