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Mary Kelly__The Irish News |
It’s only January 7, but I’ve already gone back on one resolution. I promised I would wean myself off doom-scrolling through Twitter/X, to stop...
New Year’s Eve can be a melancholy time. If you look back at the news of the past 12 months, it’s easy to think things are getting worse. War...
I can’t remember the last time I felt so offended on behalf of the Irish nation. Even Thierry Henry’s handball, which cost the Republic its place...
In darker moments, I’ve considered how much better the world would be if certain people weren’t in it. There’s the minor league of those we’d...
There must have been around 100 people around the bus stop on Belfast’s Dublin Road last Thursday evening, when the rain was torrential and...
It was brave of the chief executive of Commonwealth Games NI, Conal Heatley, to suggest that the Ulster banner – beloved of loyalists – should...
It was surely risible for David Campbell of the Loyalist Communities Council to claim that young men in loyalist areas turned towards...
A new award-winning documentary, ‘Housewife of the Year’, reaches local cinemas later this month. It tells the story of how Ireland saw women...
The people have spoken... And never has the rest of that legendary phrase by American political consultant Dick Tuck been more apt. In this moment...
Today feels like a sort of Apocalypse Day. Americans are going to the polls to vote for their next president and the world is holding its breath....
You’ve got to hand it to the Trump campaign team for how well they are able to catch the attention of the hapless media. First he is pictured...
It’s hard being a news junkie right now when every bulletin just brings images of horror from Gaza, Lebanon and Ukraine, while national politics...
The first casualty of war is truth, according to Aeschylus, father of Greek tragedy. And nowhere is that more evident than the Israeli war on Gaza....
The news that Westminster is to debate a proposed bill to enable assisted dying in England and Wales will come as a relief to many people, while...
FLYING is never an enjoyable prospect these days, but some airlines seem to enjoy making the experience so much worse, by requiring cabin baggage...
Back in the eighties, Pat Finucane was the sort of solicitor you hoped would be around at the Belfast magistrates’ court when you had turned up...
RTÉ has launched a helpful podcast, Our Lives in the North, presented by Derry-born journalist Una Kelly. It aims to show people in the south what...
Sometimes it takes an outsider’s view to make you look at something familiar with fresh eyes. Last week, we hosted a group of journalists from...
It‘s nice that DUP MLA Edwin Poots has recognised his wee country is changing. Maybe he just needed to get off the farm in Lagan Valley and move...
One of the perils of journalism is a tendency to see the negative side of life a little too often. It came to mind many years ago when I saw the...
Well, wasn’t that a sight to behold in Belfast city centre on Saturday afternoon when racists proudly waved the Irish flag alongside their...
Is there anything more depressing than hearing someone who works in education argue passionately that there is “no community benefit” in a...