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THRIVING communities are the life blood of a society and a number of ours were given much-needed shots in the arm this week. As we reported yesterday,...
The pressures on our health service are well known. The reasons for that pressure, however, are not always clearly understood. While part of the...
America finally votes tomorrow, after an incendiary election campaign that has at times felt more like an outlandish Netflix fantasy-drama than it has...
A window into the intense and sometimes shocking challenges facing our health and social care system has been opened by a study focused on GPs working...
It is a long time since John Alderdice was centrally involved in Northern Ireland politics. If the former Alliance party leader is remembered for...
While most children here are now enjoying their mid-term break this week, there are as many as 3,500 others across the world whose lives have been...
In a novel but entirely unconvincing approach to solving Belfast’s record-breaking traffic congestion, infrastructure minister John O’Dowd...
It is almost impossible to comprehend the horrific scale of the sadistic offences committed by Alexander McCartney, the Newry man whose vile and...
STORMONT’S scrutiny committees are an essential part of the apparatus of government. They are supposed to hold ministers and their departments to...
The shelves of Stormont’s government departments are already creaking under the accumulated weight of the volumes of expert reports gathered over...
ENDA Dolan was already a gifted student, a talented sportsman and a promising guitarist before he was killed at the age of 18 by a drunken driver in...
What will Israel regard as victory in its wars in Gaza and Lebanon? As its army kills thousands in both conflicts, the deaths of various Hamas and...
THE appalling level of violence taking place against women is among the most serious issues facing our society, and it demands the firmest possible...
IF Sinn Féin hoped the fully-justified furore over the slew of self-inflicted scandals which have engulfed it in recent weeks would have started to...
While every effort must be made to preserve what can be demonstrated to be constructions of historical value, any attempt to blatantly intimidate...
We might reasonably expect the Department of Education to make educated decisions. However, in publishing an indicative list of schools which may...
Undaunted by the overwhelmingly negative reaction to one of its ministers meeting the Loyalist Communities Council last month, a second DUP minister...
Yesterday’s visit by Professor Raphael Bengoa evoked a strong sense of déjà vu all over again. It is almost exactly eight years since Prof Bengoa...
THE case of Michael McMonagle is a hugely disturbing one, and the decision by Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald to order what she described as a...
How do you translate personal popularity into party success? That’s the challenge facing Claire Hanna, the new leader of the SDLP as she sets out to...
THE gear-grinding monotony of commuting in and out of Belfast has reached new depths. Analysis by a traffic data company has confirmed what...
IT is clear that attempts by loyalist elements to intimidate Irish language enthusiasts as they maintain a low-key presence outside what are perceived...
When Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati said yesterday that his country was going through one of the most dangerous stages in its...
It is too early to say if Mike Nesbitt’s second coming as leader of the Ulster Unionists represents a new beginning for the party, or if it just...
It is a measure of the changing climate in Irish politics that the former Fine Gael taoiseach Leo Varadkar delivered a speech last week which would...
IT can be all too easy to throw stones and cast aspersions but, as we know, sport has a great and perhaps unrivalled power to unite. All across the...
THE level of threat presented by XL Bully-type dogs means it is entirely appropriate that their ownership should be covered by the strictest possible...
The crude anti-immigration posters which appeared in the Newtownabbey area represent a blatant threat to a vulnerable group of people and need to be...
AFTER the chaos unleashed by last week’s pager and walkie-talkie bombings in Lebanon, Israel has now returned to one of its more conventional...
In a welcome shift from the dispiriting tone of British government announcements in recent days, Derry and Strabane has been given a welcome injection...
While there were reasonable hopes that the arrival of a new Labour government in London would have positive consequences for all the people of...
HOPES of a home winner may have landed in the rough at the end but there’s little doubt we can look back on the Irish Open as a huge triumph. Over...
Many factors have contributed to the appalling list of mistakes surrounding the Casement Park debacle, which clearly represents a grave indictment of...
The British government has done what it should have decades ago and ordered a public inquiry into the 1989 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane....
The pain of losing a loved one through suicide is a grief which has touched far too many of us. Just over 200 deaths by suicide are registered each...
The Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) is the most recent of a long line of attempts to address the hugely...
Simon Harris and Keir Starmer are politicians with similar instincts, and it was entirely appropriate that they emphasised the importance of...
It will be all change for public transport this weekend as passengers finally get their first experience of Grand Central Station in Belfast. The last...
The circumstances surrounding the death of the Newry care home worker Anu Okusanya are deeply alarming, and impossible to separate from the wider...
It is difficult to imagine a more damning indictment of the actions and inactions of government, elements of the construction industry and others than...
The deeply alarming upsurge in racist intimidation and violence during the summer has so far been mainly centred on the greater Belfast area, where a...
Anyone who sat for hours in a digital queue may already have reached the painful and expensive conclusion that ticket prices, rather than any on-stage...
The weekend marked the 30th anniversary of the IRA’s announcement of a “complete cessation” of violence, a hugely significant statement which...
There is no doubt that the Provisional IRA ceasefire of August 31 1994, followed weeks later by a similar announcement by loyalist paramilitaries, was...
WHILE no-one in Ireland should rely on tropical weather during the summer, even by our standards this has been a dismal few months. In recent days it...
Jon Boutcher spoke for the overwhelming majority this week when he hit out at “cowardly” voices seeking to bring crowds onto streets for...