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The slow-creep of fascism is coming our way

The eldest son is a vice-principal of a school in east Donegal and he must have been really stuck during their recent careers day exhibition when he...

26.10.2024 10

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That old British hypocrisy is still going strong

I was watching ‘Bombing Brighton: The Plot To Kill Thatcher’ on the BBC this week. It’s already been done a million times so I am not going to...

12.10.2024 20

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Smell the roses, drink the wine and love the family

Edmund Coyle was born in the little village of Carrigart in Co Donegal but for some odd reason after his father died, his mother took himself and his...

28.09.2024 10

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Follett, Clarkson and those halcyon days of yore...

After studying philosophy and politics at University College London, Ken Follett went back to Wales to work on his local newspaper. Not finding the...

14.09.2024 10

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Lies, untruths and why the so-called golden era had its problems too

Alain Delon died on August 18 at the ripe old age of 88. He was the most famous French actor of his generation. It is said his life mirrored some of...

31.08.2024 10

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Celebrating the story and the stories of a great Derry woman

My wife says I have an awful habit: that I keep putting things off, I’m a procrastinator. And she’s right. I had heard that Marie White wasn’t...

20.08.2024 10

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Topping the Olympic table for hypocrisy and amorality

Is everyone lying and only Israel can be relied on to tell the truth? Is that it? Amnesty lying? Médecins Sans Frontiéres? UNWRA? The International...

07.08.2024 10

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Joe Biden bowing out will be bad news for Ireland

Back in the day, the SDLP leader John Hume had a habit of dropping in to my office at the Derry Journal. I was the editor there at the time. He would...

02.07.2024 9

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Blair may have started Labour slide to the right, but Starmer has completed it

In the space of about 10 days I read Tony Blair’s A Journey, the memoir of the Labour Party’s longest serving prime minister, and followed that up...

04.06.2024 30

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A lament for those who left our shores

The doorbell rang and my mother told me to go answer it. Standing outside was a man with a great tan and a strange accent: “Does a Pat McArt live...

28.05.2024 20

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Was Martin McGuinness compromised by British intelligence?

It was getting close to lunch time and Martin McGuinness told me he that as he was heading straight for Belfast, he was going to get a quick bite in...

04.04.2024 9

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Would there be the same outcry over funding for a new ice bowl? Not a chance

Born in Leeds to an Irish father, the acclaimed actor Peter O’Toole always considered himself an Irish citizen and remained proud of this heritage...

02.03.2024 10

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