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More stick and less carrot is needed from the Pope with Trump

More stick and less carrot is needed from the Pope with Trump

HAS the Catholic Church’s first American pope been sufficiently outspoken against America’s war on Iran? Described as mild-mannered and...

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Who are the true inheritors of the men and women of 1916?

Who are the true inheritors of the men and women of 1916?

MIRROR, mirror on the wall, which is the fairest Easter Rising commemoration of them all? The question arises from tomorrow’s marches and speeches...

04.04.2026 10

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What Sinn Féin thought was a stepping stone to a united Ireland is actually a barrier

WHEN Sinn Féin recently branded the DUP as having a “wreckers’ agenda” in the Executive, the party appeared to be finally accepting what this...

28.03.2026 10

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Killing in God’s name – America’s 20th century Crusade

IT is something of an embarrassment to have to tell the rest of the world that our system of government is essentially based on the 16th century...

21.03.2026 30

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Britain is a sinking ship and the bad news is we are its passengers

AS the Second World War was ending, Hitler was reported to have ordered non-existent troops into battle. Keir Starmer is no Hitler, but he too appears...

14.03.2026 20

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Don’t worry Donald, I won’t mention the war

WHEN Micheál Martin gives Donald Trump a bowl of shamrock around St Patrick’s Day, should he mention the war? Indeed, should he even bring...

07.03.2026 40

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Here’s an idea – performance related pay for MLAs

DEAR Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly. You have rightly said that people are angry at the proposed £14,000 annual pay rise for MLAs, but...

28.02.2026 20

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The GAA has been exposed as naked over its Allianz links

HANS Christian Andersen was not one of the founders of the GAA. The Danish author died nine years before the seven men met in Thurles in 1884 to...

21.02.2026 50

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Only by stripping all ‘royals’ of their pantomime titles will Britain enjoy true democracy

Could a member of the English royal family be heading for jail for the first time since Charles I was imprisoned in 1647, prior to his execution? The...

14.02.2026 60

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The moral of the Peter Mandelson story is that New Labour is just the same as Old Conservative

08.02.2026 30

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Paul Givan wants to take our schools to Trump-land

31.01.2026 10

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Welcome to the second Plantation of Ulster

24.01.2026 30

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Ignore the charity appeal from Stormont – they don’t deserve a penny more

17.01.2026 30

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We have returned to the Dark Ages with Donald Trump

11.01.2026 40

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Stormont is not working and the SDLP needs to stop going it alone

03.01.2026 20

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Why I’m ashamed to be a member of the GAA

27.12.2025 20

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100,000 children will wake up in poverty this Christmas

20.12.2025 20

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How unionism took a wrong turn at O’Neill’s crossroads and ended up lost

13.12.2025 20

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Watch out, we’re keeping an eye on you, Mr Putin

07.12.2025 50

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There is more humanity in the heartless Tories than at Stormont

30.11.2025 20

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Patrick Murphy: All Stormont has delivered is a better class of sectarianism

23.11.2025 20

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Taoiseach and new president on collision course over neutrality

15.11.2025 20

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Patrick Murphy: The poppy symbolises British aggression abroad and neglect at home

08.11.2025 20

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What exactly will a border poll be asking us?

02.11.2025 10

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Don’t let Irish fall victim to Stormont’s battle a day

25.10.2025 20

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Patrick Murphy: Will a united Ireland stop the poor being poor and the rich being rich?

18.10.2025 10

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Welcome to the most Irish of presidential races

11.10.2025 20

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Patrick Murphy: The bloody truth nobody wants to admit about the Troubles

04.10.2025 20

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Trump has made China great again and may make Ireland poorer

27.09.2025 20

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Patrick Murphy: A feast of American Football is coming to Croke Park. Meanwhile, Gaza’s children still starve to death

21.09.2025 20

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Can Jim Gavin make it one-in-a-row for Fianna Fáil in the game of political football?

13.09.2025 20

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Stormont isn’t working, but ah sure, what can you do about it?

06.09.2025 10

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Neutral Ireland is dead and gone and Michael Collins would be all for it - apparently

30.08.2025 30

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Donald Trump has just put a border poll on the long finger

16.08.2025 20

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The GAA has become part-time sporting body and part-time concert promoter. Its members deserve better

09.08.2025 20

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Palestinian statehood is a right, not a cause for political posturing

02.08.2025 20

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Struggling Stormont can’t fix poverty — but it can claim 70p for milk

26.07.2025 20

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It’s time for Ireland to stop the US planes and ban the Israeli bonds

19.07.2025 20

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Patrick Murphy: What’s the point in the Twelfth of July and why exactly is the Orange Order marching?

12.07.2025 40

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As a patriotic member of the EU, Ireland is sleepwalking into war

05.07.2025 10

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Anti-poverty strategy is just garbage dressed as government

29.06.2025 30

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Ireland’s rich history shows we are a nation of immigrants

22.06.2025 20

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As Sinn Féin’s power has grown, so too has the north’s child poverty

15.06.2025 30

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Tiochfaidh ár gondola, Newry, Mourne and Down Council’s £44m high-wire act to nowhere

08.06.2025 20

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Lough Neagh’s slow death and Stormont’s slurry politics prove Einstein wrong

01.06.2025 20

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The Celtic Tiger is an endangered species in an Ireland caught between Trump and the EU

24.05.2025 20

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Stormont’s sectarian systems are only hindering Irish unity

18.05.2025 20

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It’s not anti-semitic to condemn Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza

10.05.2025 10

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How can Sinn Féin preach Irish unity while presiding over an education system that prevents it?

03.05.2025 20

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Hark now, hear the signs of Stormont’s sectarian autumn season

27.04.2025 20

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