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Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, the debate over Britain’s departure from the European Union refuses to fade. While political attention has...
The loss of more than £62 million in unpaid rates over the past three years is a sobering figure for a Stormont Executive already struggling to...
IT was clear from the first attacks by the US and Israel on Iran at the end of February that this was an entirely unnecessary war, and one from which...
After another bonfire season which witnessed several appalling displays of hate, as well as the destruction of family homes near a pyre, will any...
DEALING with the appalling bloodshed from our past has always been a uniquely difficult task, and it is an enduring regret that it did not prove...
WHILE it may not have seemed the case during some particularly tense periods over the last three decades, the regulation of parades must be considered...
The Casement Park saga has become close to a political and sporting disaster, with the British government, Stormont and the GAA all bearing varying...
AS the climax of the parading season approaches, with the associated bonfires that precede Twelfth celebrations in many areas, there has sadly also...
THE family and friends of Lyra McKee have been living a nightmare since she was shot dead in Derry seven years ago, and the acquittal of three men who...
THERE are many questions which the DUP has yet to address over its disgraced former leader Jeffrey Donaldson, following his conviction for profoundly...
OFFICIAL figures show race hate crimes at their highest recorded level, and the evidence of this shocking intolerance is sadly visible on a daily...
The ramifications of Jeffrey Donaldson’s conviction for his appalling child sex offences are enormous at every level, and will unfold well beyond...
Victims aged in their nineties were among those targeted by the callous gang. Belfast Crown Court heard that the fraudsters would cold-call an elderly...
We have come through a dreadful period when an appalling knife attack in north Belfast was followed by prolonged and carefully coordinated rioting in...
The symbolism involved in the decision by the Policing Board to approve the sale of Crossmaglen PSNI station in south Armagh, regarded throughout the...
The sight of a modern hospital building standing largely empty while millions are spent simply to keep the lights on is one that will provoke...
Keir Starmer’s time in Downing Street has effectively been up for several months, and the dramatic scale of Andy Burnham’s victory in the...
NO serious observer was ever in doubt that the racist rioting which traumatised ordinary citizens across our society earlier this month was plainly...
When The Irish News first reported allegations of abuse at Muckamore Abbey Hospital in 2017, many disturbing questions were raised about the treatment...
WE are by now sadly familiar with stories about the dire state of our health service, with its overcrowded emergency departments and patients...
The debate over the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) is a complex one, but the circumstances in which some unionists vetoed an attempt by...
Few words generate more fear than a doctor telling a patient that cancer is suspected. The days and weeks that follow are often filled with anxiety,...
The real face of both Belfast and modern Ireland was on show at the weekend as massive crowds attended a City Hall rally which sent out a powerful...
The upsurge in racist intimidation and violence across our society following the appalling knife attack in north Belfast earlier this week has created...
The knife attack in north Belfast which left a man in a serious condition in hospital was horrific in every regard, and it is essential that the...
The right to protest is a fundamental democratic freedom. So too is the right to report on those protests. Both principles came under pressure in...
If the decision by the PSNI to remove a blatantly racist banner from a play park at Moygashel in Co Tyrone indicates the introduction of a clear...
Few people would dispute that Northern Ireland needs better infrastructure. Whether it is the long-awaited A5, improvements to the A1, congestion...
There should be no circumstances in which the proposed UEFA Nations League fixture between the Republic of Ireland and Israel can be staged in Dublin...
It should be abundantly clear by now to all the Executive parties that Stormont is not operating at anywhere near the levels the public expects or...
It has been well documented that many significant parts of our cities and towns have been left in an appalling state of dereliction, with entire...
THERE will be widespread agreement with the evidence given to Stormont’s Executive Office scrutiny committee indicating that there is an...
Northern Ireland’s health service has become trapped in a cycle that is financially unsustainable, professionally frustrating and increasingly...
While by-elections regularly produce major political talking points, the results from the contests in Dublin Central and Galway West last week, by any...
IN a short statement accompanying news of the latest search for one of the remaining ‘Disappeared’, relatives of Seamus Maguire described how his...
THE treatment by Israeli authorities of Irish citizens who are part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, highlighting the appalling plight of the people of...
Northern Ireland’s health service has become so accustomed to crisis that another looming dispute can almost risk feeling routine. It is anything...
THE relationship between Ireland and Britain has taken many twists and turns since the Anglo-Irish Treaty ended the War of Independence in 1921, but...
Depressingly, there are too many features of life under Stormont that have been described as emblematic of its failure to deliver for its citizens. A...
The by-elections which take place in the Dublin Central and Galway West constituencies on this day next week are of considerable significance, and in...
There was a time when the Irish language was dismissed by some as a cultural luxury; a worthy pursuit but hardly essential to modern life....
The Irish boycott of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, which began with last night’s semi-final, was a symbolic gesture which also had a practical...
DEBATE around the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) has until now largely focused on its credibility as a...
While many groups have worked strenuously but unsuccessfully for decades towards encouraging the final break-up of the United Kingdom through...
WHEN the chair of the Policing Board, Brendan Mullan, said that the official review into the profoundly shocking case of the murdered showjumper Katie...
Another week at Stormont, another classic game of political ping-pong. You could be forgiven for thinking you’ve seen this all before. This time,...
THE disorder which took place in west Belfast on Monday night, after a gathering which was reportedly in memory of a young man who died in a jet ski...
The end of funding for an academic project researching the origins of our rich variety of place names raises questions which require urgent...
The road which the relatives of the five innocent people shot dead by the British Army on a single dreadful day, in west Belfast 54 years ago, were...
There are regular suggestions that the dark influence of Donald Trump is spreading inexorably across Europe, and is in the process of significantly...
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