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Badly missed this week is the late Dr Éamon Phoenix, Irish News chronicler and a man who helped us understand that history was not about the...
Badly missed this week is the late Dr Éamon Phoenix, Irish News chronicler and a man who helped us understand that history was not about the...
There is no shortage of metaphors for the decline and fall of the north east of Ireland since it was misappropriated by unionists in the early part of...
There is no shortage of metaphors for the decline and fall of the north east of Ireland since it was misappropriated by unionists in the early part of...
Some conversations stick with you.
Some conversations stick with you.
Every now and then a phrase comes into my head that I can’t get rid of – the verbal equivalent of an ear-worm.
Colum Eastwood was speculating this week about what might be in the programme for government should Stormont get up and running.
Colum Eastwood was speculating this week about what might be in the programme for government should Stormont get up and running.
What is it to be Irish? If reports from Listowel are to be believed, you don't qualify if you come from north of the border.
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Few eyebrows will have been raised north of the border at this week’s revelations that the Irish government bungled the Boundary Commission...
Few eyebrows will have been raised north of the border at this week’s revelations that the Irish government bungled the Boundary Commission...
Has anyone seen Russians watering horses at Lough Neagh recently? No? Phew.
Has anyone seen Russians watering horses at Lough Neagh recently? No? Phew.
I was in the imperial capital last week.
I was in the imperial capital last week.
Well, you’ve got to admire his industry.
Well, you’ve got to admire his industry.
I once spent a fruitless evening at the House of Orange when it was on Belfast’s Dublin Road.
I once spent a fruitless evening at the House of Orange when it was on Belfast’s Dublin Road.
At some point the history of our times will be written, and the author will have to address one very important question.
At some point the history of our times will be written, and the author will have to address one very important question.
I’m not a fan of abbreviations, but one which sticks in the mind is WWJD – What Would Jesus Do? The phrase came back to me when I was...
I’m not a fan of abbreviations, but one which sticks in the mind is WWJD – What Would Jesus Do? The phrase came back to me when I was...
The phrase ‘losers’ consent’ was a new one on me when it popped up this week.
The phrase ‘losers’ consent’ was a new one on me when it popped up this week.
We’ve all had the experience of waking up the morning after the night before.
We've all had the experience of waking up the morning after the night before.
I will admit to having attended the Eurovision Song Contest twice – in a professional capacity of course.
I will admit to having attended the Eurovision Song Contest twice – in a professional capacity of course.
While I fully recognise the enormous value Queen’s provides to society here, “something is rotten in the state of Denmark” when the...
While I fully recognise the enormous value Queen’s provides to society here, “something is rotten in the state of Denmark” when the...
I teased my mother something rotten.
Older readers will perhaps remember Tim Smith, Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield (the constituency once represented by that towering figure of...
Older readers will perhaps remember Tim Smith, Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield (the constituency once represented by that towering figure of...
Donaldson has a choice. He can lead, be pragmatic, and accept that the UK’s sovereign parliament has made its determination on the...
Donaldson has a choice. He can lead, be pragmatic, and accept that the UK’s sovereign parliament has made its determination on the...
On Monday the Scottish National Party comes down to earth with a bang.
On Monday the Scottish National Party comes down to earth with a bang.
I’m sure you are familiar with the saying “greater than the sum of its parts”.
A friend once told me: "You know you're getting old when you are seated closer to the front of the church at funerals.
When they were young my children had a handful of storybooks they would come back to again and again.
IN the 1930s, sub-editors on The Times newspaper had a competition to see who could write the dullest headline and get it into the paper.
THIS week and next mark the anniversaries of events that signal the decline and fall of the British empire.
CAN you steal a dead body? I doubt that is something many of you have had sleepless nights worrying about.
I was driving past Sprucefield when Joseph Ratzinger's election as pope was announced.
And here we are on the cusp of another new year.