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What colour of paint would you like, sir - Bigoted White?

It is hard to understand the mentality of people who are so offended by the sight of Irish translations on street signs that they go home and get a...

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When nods and winks were enough to get you killed

It was 40 years ago – a lifetime, and yet almost every detail is still crystal clear. April 12 1984. The phone in the hall at my parents’ home was...

16.04.2024 9

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Israeli people must rid themselves of Netanyahu for sake of peace

The Palestinian man was searching through the rubble of what had been his home, finding the remnants of a US food parcel dropped from the sky in a...

10.04.2024 6

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Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented - Donaldson bombshell fits every category

It was a Good Friday like no other. I first got word via texts from my two London-based kids asking if the “rumours about Jeffrey Donaldson facing...

02.04.2024 20

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Does Simon Harris have a hard act to follow in Leo Varadkar?

It’s never a good look to get a job when you’re the only candidate. Maybe Simon Harris is happy he didn’t face a contest to be taoiseach, but...

26.03.2024 50

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Injustice inflicted on Victoria Square residents demands remedy

Every so often, something comes to the public ‘s attention that is so manifestly unfair that it calls to the heavens for justice. The treatment of...

19.03.2024 20

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Don’t hold you breath waiting for an apology from the British government

No-one should hold their breath waiting for an apology from the British government for the appalling crimes of the agent Freddie Scappaticci. This is...

12.03.2024 8

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Why did the GAA let Casement become derelict?

I’m not sure what’s been happening to Sir Jeffrey. First he stood on platforms with Jimbo Allister et al, shouting about British sovereignty and...

05.03.2024 30

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Listen to the people in Rafah and say it’s wrong to criticise Israel

Is there any chance that Sir Keir Starmer will relax a bit now that he’s had two by-election victories – and would have had a hat-trick this...

20.02.2024 10

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It’s more a case of God Help America than God Bless it

There surely comes a time in everyone’s working life when you feel like you’ve had enough of the daily grind and enthusiasm becomes harder to...

13.02.2024 9

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Sinn Féin and DUP need devolution to work this time

Two years late, and with a fed-up populace doing its best to give it a fair wind, the Northern Ireland Assembly finally cranked into being on...

06.02.2024 10

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Same old movie in loyal Ulster, but a different ending?

So who knew that Sir Jeffrey was capable of displaying such raw emotion in that passion-filled speech at Westminster? His voice rising to a trembling...

30.01.2024 4

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The hope of the GFA has not been fulfilled

The strikes last week made some people cast their minds back to the Ulster Workers’ Council strike. But there were really no similarities. Last...

23.01.2024 10

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There are no ‘good guys’ on the global stage

It’s hard not to wonder if geopolitics has any moral compass when the US and UK launch a retaliatory attack on Yemeni rebels in defence of...

16.01.2024 9

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Post Office scandal is compelling viewing

When you’ve spent a lifetime in the news industry, it is sobering when you realise that the most important stories, no matter how many headlines...

11.01.2024 4

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Let’s hope it’s good riddance to the Tories in 2024

It’s a new year, so let’s start thinking positive thoughts. 2024 should be the year that one of the most corrupt and useless British governments...

02.01.2024 9

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Where else have the Duppers to go except Stormont?

It takes time to realise that Northern Ireland is not the centre of the universe. But all those years of being in the headlines, having visits by US...

19.12.2023 10

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Horror of Gaza suffering almost too much to bear – Mary Kelly

THE horror of the images from Gaza, shown nightly on tv news, is almost to much too bear.

12.12.2023 7

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Horror of Gaza suffering almost too much to bear – Mary Kelly

THE horror of the images from Gaza, shown nightly on tv news, is almost to much too bear.

12.12.2023 10

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Jeffrey may be in no hurry to restore Stormont, but ask striking public sector workers, those on waiting lists, or Troubles victims – Mary Kelly

IT’S beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

05.12.2023 30

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Jeffrey may be in no hurry to restore Stormont, but ask striking public sector workers, those on waiting lists, or Troubles victims – Mary Kelly

IT’S beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

05.12.2023 9

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Stupidity is the only ideology of these rioting 'patriots' – Mary Kelly

I’VE never been the sort of person who gets emotional about a flag.

28.11.2023 10

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Stupidity is the only ideology of these rioting 'patriots' – Mary Kelly

I’VE never been the sort of person who gets emotional about a flag.

28.11.2023 6

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Maybe Peter Robinson was secretly jealous he could never be one of the 'Chuckle Brothers' - Mary Kelly

I THOUGHT the return of David Cameron was the strangest moment in politics last week, until the news came that Peter Robinson has written a self-help...

21.11.2023 10

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Maybe Peter Robinson was secretly jealous he could never be one of the 'Chuckle Brothers' - Mary Kelly

I THOUGHT the return of David Cameron was the strangest moment in politics last week, until the news came that Peter Robinson has written a self-help...

21.11.2023 10

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Pantomime baddie Braverman sacked after shameless Trumpian pitch to dregs of British society – Mary Kelly

SUELLA Braverman was apparently originally named Sue Ellen, after the drink-addled wife of the villain JR Ewing in Dallas, and you’ve got to...

14.11.2023 9

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Pantomime baddie Braverman sacked after shameless Trumpian pitch to dregs of British society – Mary Kelly

SUELLA Braverman was apparently originally named Sue Ellen, after the drink-addled wife of the villain JR Ewing in Dallas, and you’ve got to...

14.11.2023 9

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The slaughter in the Middle East needs to stop now

THE news from the Middle East has become so terrible that it seems pointless for presenters to warn that the images you’ll see could be...

07.11.2023 5

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Mary Kelly: The slaughter in the Middle East needs to stop now

THE news from the Middle East has become so terrible that it seems pointless for presenters to warn that the images you’ll see could be...

07.11.2023 6

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'We were six siblings, now we are five. We will feel Patrick's loss forever'

WHEN you grow up in a big family you take your brothers and sisters for granted.

27.10.2023 4

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Mary Kelly: 'We were six siblings, now we are five. We will feel Patrick's loss forever'

WHEN you grow up in a big family you take your brothers and sisters for granted.

27.10.2023 3

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Let's pay migrant workers properly for their vital work

ONE of my brothers is now terminally ill.

24.10.2023 5

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Mary Kelly: Let's pay migrant workers properly for their vital work

ONE of my brothers is now terminally ill.

24.10.2023 4

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Mary Kelly: Israeli revenge will only fuel more violence

There is something infinitely depressing about the appalling violence in Israel and Gaza becoming an orange and green scrap over here.

19.10.2023 7

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Israeli revenge will only fuel more violence

There is something infinitely depressing about the appalling violence in Israel and Gaza becoming an orange and green scrap over here.

17.10.2023 9

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Mary Kelly: If politics is a quagmire here, across the water it's surreal

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10.10.2023 10

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If politics is a quagmire here, across the water it's surreal

Living here is becoming increasingly like Groundhog Day, where tumbleweed blows across the Stormont lawns and reporters stand outside buildings in the...

10.10.2023 10

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We're in zombies-land and it's in your head, Jim

I don't know if rugby crowds sing The Cranberries' hit Zombie for any ideological reasons, but the song's title surely sums up the current...

02.10.2023 10

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Mary Kelly: We're in zombies-land and it's in your head, Jim

I don't know if rugby crowds sing The Cranberries' hit Zombie for any ideological reasons, but the song's title surely sums up the current...

02.10.2023 10

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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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