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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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26.09.2023 10

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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 to...

22.09.2023 8

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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 to...

22.09.2023 8

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Unionists have cranked up the Lundyometer again, and this time DUP founder Wallace Thompson has been found off the scale for treachery

It’s never easy to put your head above a political parapet here in the wee six.

08.09.2023 9

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Mary Kelly: Unionists have cranked up the Lundyometer again, and this time DUP founder Wallace Thompson has been found off the scale for treachery

It’s never easy to put your head above a political parapet here in the wee six.

08.09.2023 7

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Distinct lack of political nous in Simon Byrne's PSNI

Another day, another PR disaster for the PSNI

01.09.2023 10

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Mary Kelly: Distinct lack of political nous in Simon Byrne's PSNI

Another day, another PR disaster for the PSNI

01.09.2023 10

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Too much heat, not enough light on Nolan show

I'm not a big fan of the style of programmes hosted by Stephen Nolan.

25.08.2023 9

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Mary Kelly: Too much heat, not enough light on Nolan show

I'm not a big fan of the style of programmes hosted by Stephen Nolan.

25.08.2023 9

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Mary Kelly: If only there was a brave leader who could knock a few DUP heads together

HALF of Europe was on fire, and still the climate change deniers were talking about arsonists, while the Israeli right wing government voted to...

30.07.2023 6

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If only there was a brave leader who could knock a few DUP heads together

HALF of Europe was on fire, and still the climate change deniers were talking about arsonists, while the Israeli right wing government voted to...

28.07.2023 9

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Mary Kelly: Carla Lockhart filling the gap left in the DUP since Ruth Patterson's departure

The personal attacks on Carla Lockhart on social media are despicable and entirely misogynist, as are those faced by many women in the public eye.

16.07.2023 30

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Carla Lockhart filling the gap left in the DUP since Ruth Patterson's departure

The personal attacks on Carla Lockhart on social media are despicable and entirely misogynist, as are those faced by many women in the public eye.

14.07.2023 10

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Mary Kelly: Why are the DUP and Orange Order still going on about Drumcree?

Happy 75th birthday to the NHS, but don’t count on it reaching its 100th, unless politicians can finally start work to address the failings that...

09.07.2023 8

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Why are the DUP and Orange Order still going on about Drumcree?

Happy 75th birthday to the NHS, but don’t count on it reaching its 100th, unless politicians can finally start work to address the failings that...

08.07.2023 7

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Mary Kelly: Is anyone really surprised that the DUP abstained on the Boris Johnson partygate vote?

Hands up who was surprised to discover the DUP crew at Westminster abstained in the vote on the Boris Johnson partygate report, which found the former...

25.06.2023 9

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Is anyone really surprised that the DUP abstained on the Boris Johnson partygate vote?

Hands up who was surprised to discover the DUP crew at Westminster abstained in the vote on the Boris Johnson partygate report, which found the former...

23.06.2023 8

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Mary Kelly: Why does the NI centenary stone look uncannily like a headstone...?

The health service here is on its knees, GP surgeries are closing through lack of doctors, a hospital has lost nine consultants in the past year,...

11.06.2023 7

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Why does the NI centenary stone look uncannily like a headstone...?

The health service here is on its knees, GP surgeries are closing through lack of doctors, a hospital has lost nine consultants in the past year,...

09.06.2023 6

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Catholic Church decline irreversible unless discrimination against women stops

Why is it still not even worth raising the possibility that Mother Church should maybe stop discriminating against half the population?

02.06.2023 7

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Mary Kelly: Catholic Church decline irreversible unless discrimination against women stops

Why is it still not even worth raising the possibility that Mother Church should maybe stop discriminating against half the population?

02.06.2023 7

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Mary Kelly: What's the hurry for a border poll?

That old French saying, 'Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose', could have been coined to sum up the post-election...

29.05.2023 10

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What's the hurry for a border poll?

That old French saying, 'Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose', could have been coined to sum up the post-election...

26.05.2023 7

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SDLP decline shows that 'good guys' don't always come first

The party of Hume is nervously looking ahead to another election that could be yet another tanking

12.05.2023 10

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Mary Kelly: SDLP decline shows that 'good guys' don't always come first

The party of Hume is nervously looking ahead to another election that could be yet another tanking

12.05.2023 10

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Mary Kelly: The coronation will be all about the sort of flummery that the Brits excel at

A lot of our neighbours here will enjoy the coronation. Maybe we’re not ready to say 'long live the king',  but 'live and let...

07.05.2023 20

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The coronation will be all about the sort of flummery that the Brits excel at

A lot of our neighbours here will enjoy the coronation. Maybe we’re not ready to say 'long live the king',  but 'live and let...

05.05.2023 4

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Mary Kelly: There might be 50 shades of grey, but in politics it's now all black and white

In today's post-Brexit, post-Trumpian world if you don’t agree with me then you are my mortal enemy and wrong about every view you hold on...

01.05.2023 9

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Mary Kelly: Now, where's that tin of Brasso for the DUP...

Ian Óg Paisley polished his own brass neck when he took part in an event at Queen's to celebrate the Good Friday Agreement - the one that...

24.04.2023 10

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Mary Kelly: Young people should be taught about the Troubles - we don't want history to repeat itself

Was anyone really all that surprised at the Sunday Times poll which found that a quarter of young people in the Republic had little or no knowledge of...

09.04.2023 6

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Young people should be taught about the Troubles - we don't want history to repeat itself

Was anyone really all that surprised at the Sunday Times poll which found that a quarter of young people in the Republic had little or no knowledge of...

07.04.2023 5

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25 years after the bright optimism of the Good Friday Agreement, what next for our mothballed Assembly?

A trip to the Lyric to see Owen McCafferty's play Agreement at the weekend was a journey into a past that at one time inspired a hope anyone who...

03.04.2023 20

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Mary Kelly: 25 years after the bright optimism of the Good Friday Agreement, what next for our mothballed Assembly?

A trip to the Lyric to see Owen McCafferty's play Agreement at the weekend was a journey into a past that at one time inspired a hope anyone who...

03.04.2023 20

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Mary Kelly: Whatever the privileges committee decides about his future, Boris Johnson is a busted flush - and he knows it

To prove he knew it was serious, BoJo even had his hair cut, though still mussed at the top, giving him the look of a sheepdog that had escaped before...

30.03.2023 5

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Gary Lineker BBC Twitter row a distraction from Tory immigration policy

When the comedy W1A launched on BBC2 back in 2015, staff muttered that it wasn’t a satire, it was a documentary. The debacle over Gary...

18.03.2023 5

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Donaldson circling the wagons with his Windsor Framework committee

Sir Jeffrey hasn’t had an easy week. First, Ian Og rushes out to warn that Rishi’s Windsor Framework doesn’t cut the mustard, then...

11.03.2023 5

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Unionists' tendency to turn a gift horse into a tin of dogmeat is legendary - and their Westminster chums are getting fed-up with it

It seems Rishi may have pulled off a deal that manages to placate the backwoodsmen in his party, as one-time ERG leading light Steve Baker gulped back...

04.03.2023 5

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DUP's Abominable No Men hold the key to success of Rishi Sunak's NI Protocol deal

Last week it looked like Tuesday was going to bring me an unexpected birthday surprise with the announcement that Rishi Sunak had managed to pull off...

25.02.2023 6

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Rishi Sunak could learn from the DUP about evading tough questions

A Scottish reporter has been gathering plaudits on social media for his persistent questioning of PM Rishi Sunak.

21.01.2023 10

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