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Denis BradleyThe Irish News |
I fell over Sally Rooney. The aisle of the bookshop was so packed with her new novel, and I so busy gawking around me, that I almost landed in the...
Is the Catholic Church willing or even able to reform itself? Questions that are difficult, maybe impossible to answer at this juncture. If you had...
Making Northern Ireland work continues as a political mantra even though we are increasingly living in the reflections of the two states, England and...
A picture may be worth a thousand words but politically, a good metaphor or simile is best of all. Without verbal images that point the way to...
I think I may have been traumatised by the number of times I am hearing the word trauma. You can’t look at television, listen to the radio or read a...
Keir Starmer came to Derry a few years ago and visited the seat of the high kings. The trip took place a few years before he became leader of the...
Jim Allister, with his usual oratorial competence, while standing in his usual position at the rear of the Assembly chamber, reminded us that people...
I squirm every time I hear a guest thanking the presenter for having them on their programme. I don’t know when this habit began, mostly but not...
There was an interesting meeting recently between the tánaiste, Micheál Martin, and Superintendent Gerry Murray, the chairman of the Catholic Police...
“We are living in a society that is driving people mad.” That is only one of many pithy remarks he made during his 94 years. I suppose most of us...
Shame on the Alliance Party. It is continuing to avoid, even run away from, the dilemmas that have broken the back of other political parties. It is...