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David Davison was someone I had never heard of up until now, but I felt like I had known him all my life. Suddenly I was finding out so much about him...
ABOUT five miles from Derry city is Inch Wildfowl Reserve, which is one of the best places in Europe to bird-watch as it is a major stopover for...
I turned 25 this week. It is around this age that people start to ask the same questions: what do you do, who are you with, where do you live? The...
HOUSE prices in Northern Ireland rose almost 10% over the past 12 months, six times faster than the UK average, according to the latest figures from...
MIRROR, mirror on the wall, which is the fairest Easter Rising commemoration of them all? The question arises from tomorrow’s marches and speeches...
WHERE are we with the growing energy crisis? As usual, as Seamus Heaney said, “sucking the hind teat”. That is, as explained in a glossary of...
ON that first Good Friday, almost 2,000 years ago, Jesus of Nazareth was – to the passers-by – just another criminal who had fallen foul of the...
YOU might well ask what driving to Dublin has to do with the DUP and minimum alcohol pricing. Well, it was a long time ago but when you get out of...
IN the early 1950s, my father was stopped whilst on his bike, cycling across the Westland Road in north Belfast, by a motorcycle cop given the...
WHY is the Education Authority (EA) asking teachers if they are loyalist or republican? The explanation lies with Northern Ireland’s unique laws on...
“Come you masters of war, you that build the big guns…” In common with many people, I first listened to Bob Dylan’s music as a teenager:...
Critics of the World Cup going to Russia in 2018 were rarely, if ever, labelled ‘anti-Orthodox’. Those opposed to Qatar hosting the 2022...
ALMOST 50 years ago, the acclaimed Co Tyrone writer Benedict Kiely, who came from a firmly nationalist background, published one of his most discussed...
My view – and it has been my view for a long, long time – is that partition is the primary cause of the conflict. It is also the primary reason...
Alex Kane set the cat among the unionist pigeons a couple of weeks ago with his piece on March 18. As a reminder to people, he wrote that “the past...
A FEW months ago, I was in a shop with my daughter. An agitated man was bouncing on his heels, swinging his arms back and forth. His partner was...
Arnold Schwarzenegger swung into town yesterday but his visit carried more than just the usual celebrity sparkle. For many students gathered to hear...
MOST people know the legend of the Gordian knot, tied by King Gordius of Phrygia, which it was prophesied only a future conqueror of Asia could untie....
MIKE Nesbitt looks set to be the fifth health minister to have attempted to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol and failed. He announced last...
The explosion which killed ten people at a petrol station in Creeslough, Co Donegal, in October 2022, was a tragedy of shocking proportions, which had...
IN the modern media landscape, with a massive range of platforms constantly updating their output, it is difficult to convey the scale of the impact...
After a long discussion at the toaster in our kitchen, it was clear that Genghis did indeed want me to help him kidnap Mrs Davison from her care home...
Last week I attended the annual Queen’s University Fashion Society showcase where student designers presented work shaped by identity, place and...
WHEN Sinn Féin recently branded the DUP as having a “wreckers’ agenda” in the Executive, the party appeared to be finally accepting what this...
THE DUP has blocked the introduction of minimum alcohol pricing by UUP health minister Mike Nesbitt, claiming that evidence for its effectiveness is...
HAVE left-wing and progressive political parties finally learnt something from history? Results in recent elections, particularly in France and Italy,...
I HAD to do a double take this week when I read a headline declaring that child marriages are to be banned here, because I never realised we had that...
IN the Oval Office on St Patrick’s Day, Taoiseach Micheál Martin defended Keir Starmer following Donald Trump’s disparaging of the British prime...
If you grew up in the 1990s or 2000s, you may have heard the term ‘dead language’ used when talking about Irish. While Irish speakers have always...
WHILE the debate about flags has a range of complexities, and is surrounded by basic doubts over what is legal and illegal, there are some key...
There is nothing Belfast City Council can do to to stop property developers and landlords bulk-buying houses and converting them into HMOs (Houses of...
I WAS listening to the “How to Unite Ireland?” podcast last week and its interview with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, where he spoke at length about...
THERE was a time – and it seems an extraordinarily long time ago – when politicians from Northern Ireland visiting the White House over the St...
GAVIN Robinson – he’s the charisma-free DUP leader, in case you don’t know – took Reform’s Robert Jenrick for a walk on the Shankill last...
In an age when so much public life feels hurried, transactional and fleeting, it is worth pausing to consider the quiet, steady example of people like...
MY granny was a very practical woman who believed that a dose of common sense was the answer to most problems in life. And for her generation, which...
USUALLY when politicians or governments continue doing the wrong thing, despite multiple sources telling them they’re wrong, we assume incompetence....
The withdrawal of civil proceedings against Gerry Adams in a London court on Friday came after the judge in the case raised the possibility that the...
There was a time when the views of members of the minority nationalist community in Portadown, in common with many of their counterparts across the...
SOME aspects of the annual St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Washington can be open to parody, but there were developments during last week’s...
WELL, it’s over, the ordeal in Washington that is. Micheál Martin survived. Better than that, he emerged unscathed. Opposition parties criticised...
IN November 2024, the Executive found a spare £17 million for a one-off winter fuel payment for pensioners who had lost the benefit when the...
IT is something of an embarrassment to have to tell the rest of the world that our system of government is essentially based on the 16th century...
I WAS supposed to join my brother and his wife to take part in the St Patrick’s Day parade in my home town of Letterkenny, but as I looked out my...
THERE is something oddly revealing about the queues that form whenever a new chain restaurant opens in the north. Over the past year we have watched...
UNIONISM has historically had a problem with regard to claiming people and land. It raises its head each time the loyal orders demand the right to...
NEGOTIATING a meeting in front of cameras with Donald Trump must feel like handling nitroglycerin for any politician summoned to his gilded White...
THERE has never been a better time to be an Irish person in England. Gone are the days of signs in London guest house windows reading ‘No Blacks, No...
It was appalling in every way that dozens of west Belfast residents, including pensioners and young children, were forced to evacuate their homes for...
I HAVE a lot of time for this Irish government, not least for the support it gives to a variety of Northern Ireland community groups that are...
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