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The look on the Trump family's faces was a picture - here's to speaking truth to power

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Edna O’Brien knew what she was talking about

21.01.2025 20

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Mary Kelly: As the hospital crisis gets worse, reform plans just gather dust

15.01.2025 10

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Goodbye Twitter/X – your poison will not be missed

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...

08.01.2025 4

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Forget the hype and enjoy a happy new year

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...

01.01.2025 2

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Ireland is right to call out the slaughter of innocents

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...

24.12.2024 8

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Syria and its people need time to recover from evils of Assad

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...

18.12.2024 2

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The Troubles are over. Why is public transport still so bad?

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...

10.12.2024 40

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An agreed new flag for Northern Ireland? What about a blue moon...

It was brave of the chief executive of Commonwealth Games NI, Conal Heatley, to suggest that the Ulster banner – beloved of loyalists – should...

04.12.2024 8

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Why are unionist politicians wedded to an education system that tells kids they are failures?

It was surely risible for David Campbell of the Loyalist Communities Council to claim that young men in loyalist areas turned towards...

27.11.2024 5

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When the ‘Rose of Tralee for mammies’ defined Ireland’s view of women

A new award-winning documentary, ‘Housewife of the Year’, reaches local cinemas later this month. It tells the story of how Ireland saw women...

19.11.2024 5

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The people have spoken... and Democrats need to listen and learn

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...

12.11.2024 2

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It would be poetic justice if women were the undoing of the Donald

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....

05.11.2024 1

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Would you like a criminal conspiracy with your burger?

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...

29.10.2024 3

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The news these days may be grim – but it’s better than toxic social media

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...

22.10.2024 3

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An eye for an eye just makes everyone blind in Middle East

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....

16.10.2024 1

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Assisted dying debate is long overdue – but my brother’s final months show proper palliative care is too patchy

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...

08.10.2024 2

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EasyJet’s hard line baggage policy caught me out too

FLYING is never an enjoyable prospect these days, but some airlines seem to enjoy making the experience so much worse, by requiring cabin baggage...

01.10.2024 20

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If it believes in the rule of law, unionism should support the Finucane family’s quest for truth

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...

18.09.2024 6

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I thought the Angelus on TV was a bit strange and the Rose of Tralee still remains an object of wonder

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...

10.09.2024 1

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Our shocking peace walls and how others see us

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...

03.09.2024 2

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Edwin Poots is right about reaching out – but he needs to persuade voters in loyalist areas too

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...

20.08.2024 3

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Once upon a time and never again

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...

13.08.2024 2

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Anti-immigrant hate-fest shows ignorance and stupidity know no borders

Well, wasn’t that a sight to behold in Belfast city centre on Saturday afternoon when racists proudly waved the Irish flag alongside their...

07.08.2024 5

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Creating a space we can all inhabit

Is there anything more depressing than hearing someone who works in education argue passionately that there is “no community benefit” in a...

30.07.2024 5

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