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Patrick Murphy: Nationalism has lost its way

Great news! All our problems have been solved.

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Nationalism has lost its way

Great news! All our problems have been solved.

30.09.2023 10

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To clean up Lough Neagh, we need to clean up politics

Although most commentary compares Lough Neagh’s pollution to a disease, the real problem is that it is just a symptom of a much wider ailment.

23.09.2023 20

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Patrick Murphy: To clean up Lough Neagh, we need to clean up politics

Although most commentary compares Lough Neagh’s pollution to a disease, the real problem is that it is just a symptom of a much wider ailment.

23.09.2023 20

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Patrick Murphy: Unless nationalists start trying to understand unionism, Leo Varadkar will have to live forever if there's to be a united Ireland

How long do you think Leo Varadkar will live? I don't mean that he is looking unwell these days.

18.09.2023 20

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Unless nationalists start trying to understand unionism, Leo Varadkar will have to live forever if there's to be a united Ireland

How long do you think Leo Varadkar will live? I don't mean that he is looking unwell these days.

15.09.2023 10

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Sack the Policing Board and start again

Sack the board. That’s the solution to the policing mess – and when the board has gone, we need a new system of governance to keep...

09.09.2023 10

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Patrick Murphy: Sack the Policing Board and start again

Sack the board. That’s the solution to the policing mess – and when the board has gone, we need a new system of governance to keep...

09.09.2023 8

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Centenary stone illustrates that unionism's core value is self-preserving isolation

Before we begin, let's pause for this week's charity appeal.

01.09.2023 10

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Patrick Murphy: Centenary stone illustrates that unionism's core value is self-preserving isolation

Before we begin, let's pause for this week's charity appeal.

01.09.2023 9

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Patrick Murphy: 'Up the Ra' chants are occupational therapy for the unthinking

It is a sad reflection on modern Ireland that there is significantly more interest in the Wolfe Tones than there is in Wolfe Tone himself.

25.08.2023 8

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'Up the Ra' chants are occupational therapy for the unthinking

It is a sad reflection on modern Ireland that there is significantly more interest in the Wolfe Tones than there is in Wolfe Tone himself.

25.08.2023 9

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Politicians and the Policing Board have failed the PSNI and the public

Most people will regard the PSNI's unintended release of personnel data as somewhere between surprising and astounding.

18.08.2023 9

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Patrick Murphy: Politicians and the Policing Board have failed the PSNI and the public

Most people will regard the PSNI's unintended release of personnel data as somewhere between surprising and astounding.

18.08.2023 7

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Should Saoradh members be denied banking services because of their political beliefs?

What do you think of Nigel Farage? You would presumably say that he is a right-wing, pro-Brexit populist with whom you fundamentally disagree.

05.08.2023 10

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Patrick Murphy: Should Saoradh members be denied banking services because of their political beliefs?

What do you think of Nigel Farage? You would presumably say that he is a right-wing, pro-Brexit populist with whom you fundamentally disagree.

05.08.2023 10

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Sinn Féin's battle for umbrella rights

In the future, when old men gather around the fire on a dark winter's night, they will talk of 850 years of Irish resistance to British rule.

29.07.2023 5

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Once again there is one law for the British and another for the Irish

The civil rights movement was based on the argument that if, as Britain claimed, we were British, we were entitled to British rights.

21.07.2023 8

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Once again there is one law for the British and another for the Irish

The civil rights movement was based on the argument that if, as Britain claimed, we were British, we were entitled to British rights.

21.07.2023 7

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Joe Biden came to Ireland to tell us he supported peace. So why is he sending cluster bombs to Ukraine?

Dear President Biden, Have you heard of Croke Park? It is the home of the Gaelic Athletic Association and Ireland's biggest sports stadium.

14.07.2023 6

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Joe Biden came to Ireland to tell us he supported peace. So why is he sending cluster bombs to Ukraine?

Dear President Biden, Have you heard of Croke Park? It is the home of the Gaelic Athletic Association and Ireland's biggest sports stadium.

14.07.2023 7

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Patrick Murphy: Cromwell gave us 'to hell or Connacht'. Chris Heaton-Harris is offering us 'to hell or Stormont'

Dear Chris Heaton-Harris, Apparently you recently told one of our elected representatives that he was “talking bo***cks”.

09.07.2023 5

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Cromwell gave us 'to hell or Connacht'. Chris Heaton-Harris is offering us 'to hell or Stormont'

Dear Chris Heaton-Harris, Apparently you recently told one of our elected representatives that he was “talking bo***cks”.

08.07.2023 7

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Patrick Murphy: What exactly is the Orange Order celebrating?

Today marks the start of the marching month of July.

03.07.2023 10

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What exactly is the Orange Order celebrating?

Today marks the start of the marching month of July.

01.07.2023 10

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Patrick Murphy: President Michael D Higgins is right – we can't be neutral about Irish neutrality

Boris Johnson may have misled parliament but the Irish government appears intent on misleading the whole country.

26.06.2023 7

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President Michael D Higgins is right – we can't be neutral about Irish neutrality

Boris Johnson may have misled parliament but the Irish government appears intent on misleading the whole country.

23.06.2023 7

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We cannot let the dead rest in peace

While most civilised political debates centre on the living, in this part of the world our arguments also include the dead.

16.06.2023 1

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Patrick Murphy: We cannot let the dead rest in peace

While most civilised political debates centre on the living, in this part of the world our arguments also include the dead.

16.06.2023 9

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Patrick Murphy: Never mind the poverty, wave your flag

The recent local election results have been described as ranging from unprecedented to earth-shattering and indeed they were – but not for the...

13.06.2023 10

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Never mind the poverty, wave your flag

The recent local election results have been described as ranging from unprecedented to earth-shattering and indeed they were – but not for the...

10.06.2023 7

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Burying the truth with the past

There are two ways of dealing with the past.

03.06.2023 10

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Patrick Murphy: Burying the truth with the past

There are two ways of dealing with the past.

03.06.2023 8

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Patrick Murphy: A century after the civil war, the winner is Nato

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22.05.2023 5

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A century after the civil war, the winner is Nato

A century after the end of the Irish Civil War (the anniversary falls next Wednesday), those claiming to be the political descendants of the two sides...

20.05.2023 2

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Oh good, we're going to have an election

Oh good, we're going to have another election.

13.05.2023 20

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Patrick Murphy: Oh good, we're going to have an election

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13.05.2023 20

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Patrick Murphy: The £100 million coronation is about pomp and ceremony cementing power and privilege

The culture of crown, coronation and conning the masses is designed to keep everyone in their place

09.05.2023 30

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The £100 million coronation is about pomp and ceremony cementing power and privilege

The culture of crown, coronation and conning the masses is designed to keep everyone in their place

05.05.2023 6

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We've been celebrating the anniversary of the wrong '98

They have been commemorating the wrong anniversary. Instead of celebrating the partition of Protestants and Catholics into two separate groups in the...

28.04.2023 5

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Patrick Murphy: We've been celebrating the anniversary of the wrong '98

They have been commemorating the wrong anniversary. Instead of celebrating the partition of Protestants and Catholics into two separate groups in the...

28.04.2023 5

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Don't mention the wars

Don't mention the wars.

21.04.2023 8

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Patrick Murphy: Don't mention the wars

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21.04.2023 10

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Stormont is the problem, not the answer

Dear Micheál Martin I read with interest your Irish Times opinion piece on the Good Friday Agreement, in which you rightly pointed out that “we are...

15.04.2023 1

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Patrick Murphy: Stormont is the problem, not the answer

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15.04.2023 6

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Patrick Murphy: Modern Ireland is far removed from the ethics and ideals of the Easter Rising

Who are the true inheritors of the ideas and ideals of the 1916 Rising? In what is effectively a competition for historical purity, several...

10.04.2023 5

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Modern Ireland is far removed from the ethics and ideals of the Easter Rising

Who are the true inheritors of the ideas and ideals of the 1916 Rising? In what is effectively a competition for historical purity, several...

07.04.2023 7

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Patrick Murphy: Welcome to an Ireland preparing to go to war

The political future of the north may not quite be the main reason for President Biden’s forthcoming visit to Ireland.

04.04.2023 6

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Welcome to an Ireland preparing to go to war

The political future of the north may not quite be the main reason for President Biden’s forthcoming visit to Ireland.

03.04.2023 2

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Patrick Murphy: Donaldson's Stormont decision will define the future of unionism

Unless Jeffrey Donaldson can transform unionism's historical obsession into a politically constructive future, he will become just another name in...

30.03.2023 5

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