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Mary Kelly__The Irish News |
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The strikes last week made some people cast their minds back to the Ulster Workers’ Council strike. But there were really no similarities. Last...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THE horror of the images from Gaza, shown nightly on tv news, is almost to much too bear.
THE horror of the images from Gaza, shown nightly on tv news, is almost to much too bear.
IT’S beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
IT’S beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
I’VE never been the sort of person who gets emotional about a flag.
I’VE never been the sort of person who gets emotional about a flag.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WHEN you grow up in a big family you take your brothers and sisters for granted.
WHEN you grow up in a big family you take your brothers and sisters for granted.
ONE of my brothers is now terminally ill.
ONE of my brothers is now terminally ill.
There is something infinitely depressing about the appalling violence in Israel and Gaza becoming an orange and green scrap over here.
There is something infinitely depressing about the appalling violence in Israel and Gaza becoming an orange and green scrap over here.
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Living here is becoming increasingly like Groundhog Day, where tumbleweed blows across the Stormont lawns and reporters stand outside buildings in the...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
It’s never easy to put your head above a political parapet here in the wee six.
It’s never easy to put your head above a political parapet here in the wee six.