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The Irish News remains a distinctive voice in Irish media, where hope and history rhyme

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...

26.09.2023 10

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Tom Collins: The Irish News remains a distinctive voice in Irish media, where hope and history rhyme

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...

26.09.2023 10

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The decline and fall of the unionist empire

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...

22.09.2023 10

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Tom Collins: The decline and fall of the unionist empire

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...

22.09.2023 9

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Tom Collins: Will someone please tell the NIO Irish unity is a legitimate aspiration?

Some conversations stick with you.

15.09.2023 10

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Will someone please tell the NIO Irish unity is a legitimate aspiration?

Some conversations stick with you.

15.09.2023 20

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Tom Collins: Time for DUP to wise up and get back to work

Every now and then a phrase comes into my head that I can’t get rid of – the verbal equivalent of an ear-worm.

09.09.2023 20

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North-west needs its own university

Colum Eastwood was speculating this week about what might be in the programme for government should Stormont get up and running.

24.08.2023 10

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Tom Collins: North-west needs its own university

Colum Eastwood was speculating this week about what might be in the programme for government should Stormont get up and running.

24.08.2023 9

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Listowel's partitionist attitude is knit into the fabric of a country which clings to united Ireland rhetoric

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.

18.08.2023 8

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Tom Collins: Listowel's partitionist attitude is knit into the fabric of a country which clings to united Ireland rhetoric

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18.08.2023 8

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The Tories have wrecked Britain and Starmer doesn't look capable of fixing it

09.08.2023 10

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Tom Collins: Long-running Irish government farce undermining unity

Few eyebrows will have been raised north of the border at this week’s revelations that the Irish government bungled the Boundary Commission...

29.07.2023 7

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Long-running Irish government farce undermining unity

Few eyebrows will have been raised north of the border at this week’s revelations that the Irish government bungled the Boundary Commission...

27.07.2023 8

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Will this summer's European heatwave waken us to climate change dangers – or are we outsourcing our concerns to Just Stop Oil?

Has anyone seen Russians watering horses at Lough Neagh recently? No? Phew.

20.07.2023 9

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Tom Collins: Will this summer's European heatwave waken us to climate change dangers – or are we outsourcing our concerns to Just Stop Oil?

Has anyone seen Russians watering horses at Lough Neagh recently? No? Phew.

20.07.2023 7

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Bring out the Pimms, the bonfire's burning

I was in the imperial capital last week.

13.07.2023 7

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Tom Collins: Bring out the Pimms, the bonfire's burning

I was in the imperial capital last week.

13.07.2023 5

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Delusional Donaldson just keeps on digging

Well, you’ve got to admire his industry.

30.06.2023 20

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Tom Collins: Delusional Donaldson just keeps on digging

Well, you’ve got to admire his industry.

30.06.2023 20

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Time Orange Order distanced itself from slaver King Billy

I once spent a fruitless evening at the House of Orange when it was on Belfast’s Dublin Road.

22.06.2023 7

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Tom Collins: Time Orange Order distanced itself from slaver King Billy

I once spent a fruitless evening at the House of Orange when it was on Belfast’s Dublin Road.

22.06.2023 7

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When was the union lost?

At some point the history of our times will be written, and the author will have to address one very important question.

15.06.2023 2

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Tom Collins: When was the union lost?

At some point the history of our times will be written, and the author will have to address one very important question.

15.06.2023 10

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Do Sinn Féin have Arlene Foster on a retainer now she's in the PR business on GB News?

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...

08.06.2023 6

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Tom Collins: Do Sinn Féin have Arlene Foster on a retainer now she's in the PR business on GB News?

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...

08.06.2023 4

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Losers' consent is just another veto

The phrase ‘losers’ consent’ was a new one on me when it popped up this week.

25.05.2023 4

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Tom Collins: Losers' consent is just another veto

The phrase ‘losers’ consent’ was a new one on me when it popped up this week.

25.05.2023 7

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Tom Collins: Facing the morning after the night before

We’ve all had the experience of waking up the morning after the night before.

22.05.2023 7

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Facing the morning after the night before

We've all had the experience of waking up the morning after the night before.

19.05.2023 9

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Tom Collins: Eurovision is all kinds of everything

I will admit to having attended the Eurovision Song Contest twice – in a professional capacity of course.

12.05.2023 10

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Eurovision is all kinds of everything

I will admit to having attended the Eurovision Song Contest twice – in a professional capacity of course.

12.05.2023 20

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Troubles must never be a PR opportunity

While I fully recognise the enormous value Queen’s provides to society here, “something is rotten in the state of Denmark” when the...

27.04.2023 10

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Tom Collins: Troubles must never be a PR opportunity

While I fully recognise the enormous value Queen’s provides to society here, “something is rotten in the state of Denmark” when the...

27.04.2023 10

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Tom Collins: Back-slapping won't secure Good Friday deal dividend

I teased my mother something rotten.

21.04.2023 6

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Well, maybe next time Mr President

Older readers will perhaps remember Tim Smith, Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield (the constituency once represented by that towering figure of...

13.04.2023 2

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Tom Collins: Well, maybe next time Mr President

Older readers will perhaps remember Tim Smith, Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield (the constituency once represented by that towering figure of...

13.04.2023 4

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DUP failure to lead feeding extremism

Donaldson has a choice. He can lead, be pragmatic, and accept that the UK’s sovereign parliament has made its determination on the...

30.03.2023 5

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Tom Collins: DUP failure to lead feeding extremism

Donaldson has a choice. He can lead, be pragmatic, and accept that the UK’s sovereign parliament has made its determination on the...

30.03.2023 4

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Tom Collins: SNP's in-fighting puts independence at risk

On Monday the Scottish National Party comes down to earth with a bang.

30.03.2023 6

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SNP's in-fighting puts independence at risk

On Monday the Scottish National Party comes down to earth with a bang.

24.03.2023 4

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Failure of leadership will doom the BBC

I’m sure you are familiar with the saying “greater than the sum of its parts”.

17.03.2023 6

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An Irish lament for our unsung heroes

A friend once told me: "You know you're getting old when you are seated closer to the front of the church at funerals.

10.03.2023 7

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The case of Sir Jeffrey and three little pigs

When they were young my children had a handful of storybooks they would come back to again and again.

24.02.2023 10

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Small earthquake in Chile, not many dead

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.

09.02.2023 2

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Bullingdon boys and those Brexit blues

THIS week and next mark the anniversaries of events that signal the decline and fall of the British empire.

27.01.2023 10

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Gentle giant must now rest in peace

CAN you steal a dead body? I doubt that is something many of you have had sleepless nights worrying about.

20.01.2023 20

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Pope Francis can be his own man at last

I was driving past Sprucefield when Joseph Ratzinger's election as pope was announced.

13.01.2023 6

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2023 - abandon hope all ye who enter here

And here we are on the cusp of another new year.

30.12.2022 6

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