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Chris Donnelly: The Irish government has a moral and political imperative to plan for the inevitable border poll

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Chris Donnelly

Mary Kelly: The Titanic is being sunk by our planners. We need to be more like the French - instead we build bland apartment blocks

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Mary Kelly

Tom Kelly: Irish migration experience shows we are bound by humanity, not divided by difference

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Tom Kelly

David McCann: Time to start shaping Irish unity debate

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David Mccann

Tom Collins: The Irish News remains a distinctive voice in Irish media, where hope and history rhyme

Badly missed this week is the late Dr Éamon Phoenix, Irish News chronicler and a man who helped us understand that history was not about the past,...

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Tom Collins

Barry White: Irish unity will come down to practicality

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Barry White

Newton Emerson: Is Jeffrey Donaldson's cat dead or alive?

The DUP might struggle with evolution but its leader has a dry appreciation of quantum physics.

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Newton Emerson

Patrick Murphy: To clean up Lough Neagh, we need to clean up politics

Although most commentary compares Lough Neagh’s pollution to a disease, the real problem is that it is just a symptom of a much wider ailment.

22.09.2023 10

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Patrick Murphy

Mary Kelly: Sir Jeffrey says the DUP's talks with the government have made "insufficient progress"; others might call it "diddly squat"

Unfortunately for Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the prime minister has completely run out of fig leaves, so he has none to offer to the DUP to enable it...

22.09.2023 1

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Mary Kelly

Jake O'Kane: When did fast food get so slow?

I lost an hour of my life – a lot of time for someone my age – whilst sitting in gridlocked traffic in central Belfast during the week.

22.09.2023 1

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Jake Okane

Newton Emerson: Can Titanic Loft Lines vision of car-free living work?

21.09.2023 10

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Newton Emerson

Alex Kane: The problem with Northern Ireland is that there is no solution

Writing in 1976, Professor Richard Rose noted: "Many talk about a solution to Ulster’s political problem but few are prepared to say what the...

21.09.2023 2

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Alex Kane

Brian Feeney: Failing Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris has the easiest job in Westminster

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Brian Feeney

Patricia Mac Bride: Grooming and sexual abuse doesn't happen in a vacuum

It’s always the ones you most expect.

21.09.2023 9

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Patricia Mac Bride

Tom Collins: The decline and fall of the unionist empire

There is no shortage of metaphors for the decline and fall of the north east of Ireland since it was misappropriated by unionists in the early part...

21.09.2023 2

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Tom Collins

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