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WHILE Micheál Martin remains taoiseach, the Irish government will refuse to discuss reunification – much less prepare for a referendum....
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
It was Harold Macmillan who reportedly offered “events, dear boy, events” as the reason governments tend to run into difficulties or have plans...
Criticism, when rooted in misunderstanding or fear, often misses the very point it claims to defend. The controversy stirred over a proposed Fleadh...
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...
ONE response Stormont could take to the criminal barristers’ strike that began last week would be to establish a public defender office. Scotland...
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...
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...
While it is always important to encourage and develop international sport, it needs to be recognised that the Commonwealth Games is a relatively...
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...
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...
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...