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Tom KellyThe Irish News |
I read that Taoiseach Simon Harris came into this world in October 1986. To put this in perspective, I started working with the late Seamus Mallon MP...
Easter is supposed to be a time of renewal. It’s also a time of hope. But as a writer I didn’t feel joyous this Easter. Whilst staying in a hotel...
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”, wrote the author L P Hartley. Those words came to mind whilst watching the BBC...
Alas, poor Leo... who, unlike Yorick, no-one really seemed to know too well. The taoiseach surprised nearly everyone by announcing his resignation....
Martin Luther King didn’t just inspire generations of Americans with his non-violent campaign for civil rights, he also inspired many Irish people...
Seven years on and at a cost of some £40 million, the interim report of Operation Kenova has finally landed. Its content is explosive but not...
Reading the front page of this paper on Friday was disheartening in every sense. The current plight of the people of Gaza should weigh heavily on the...
The recent announcement by the Irish government to literally pump hundreds of millions of euros into the north is making good on the promise by...
The Labour Party has just won two stunning victories in seats previously held by Tories with considerable safe majorities. The top issues were the...
Last week on the Jubilee Line, a young man offered me his seat. I politely declined but thought, there, it’s happened – I have become old....
So Stormont is back. No doubt readers are on edge, holding back pent-up emotion and nervous with excitement. But then again, maybe not. On the plus...
Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, must often ponder why he bothered seeking the leadership of the Conservative Party. After another week...
At the time of writing the DUP leadership are having a date with destiny. The outcome matters little, as the die is well and truly cast. Northern...
Amidst the annual Christmas book hoard, I was given The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel – poet, author, playwright, dissident, statesman,...
At the time of writing, two pieces of news have broken. The first is almost incredulous. It’s reported that the PSNI has forwarded a file on seven...
Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh and welcome to 2024. Over 500 years ago, the French astrologer and physician. Michel de Nostredame, better known as...
Shush... It’s almost Christmas. Maybe it’s an age thing but as the last autumn leaves desperately cling to the trees another year seems to rush...
You know it’s panto season when the attention-seeking cage fighter, Conor McGregor, wants to be president of Ireland. Oh yes, he does... And...
You know it's panto season when the attention-seeking cage fighter, Conor McGregor, wants to be president of Ireland.
You know it's panto season when the attention-seeking cage fighter, Conor McGregor, wants to be president of Ireland.
The former Alliance leader, John Alderdice, is a considered and thoughtful politician.
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As I sit on the Enterprise with my earphones plugged into RTÉ's Claire Byrne show, my mind is bombarded with an apocalyptic and dystopian...
As I sit on the Enterprise with my earphones plugged into RTÉ's Claire Byrne show, my mind is bombarded with an apocalyptic and dystopian...
LAST week the UVF leadership issued a diktat at Remembrance Sunday events that anyone involved with drug dealing could no longer “operate under...
IT was interesting to listen to a band member of Kneecap explain their lyrics and merchandising on Good Morning Ulster last week.
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The late Cardinal Ó Fiaich was maligned by sections of the British and, indeed, Irish media.
The late Cardinal Ó Fiaich was maligned by sections of the British and, indeed, Irish media.
THE mood music is slowly changing.
THE mood music is slowly changing.
ON BBC 's Question Time last Thursday, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Chris-Heaton Harris, said he “enjoyed” his...
ON BBC 's Question Time last Thursday, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Chris-Heaton Harris, said he “enjoyed” his meetings over the...
At the time of writing, a French school teacher has been murdered in the city of Arras, some four and a half thousand kilometres from the...
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The former Labour MP and socialist firebrand Dennis Skinner was known for his acid tongue.
A media friend told me about one of his greatest nightmares during a live outside broadcast.
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Whoever spray-painted “Local houses an (sic) shops only” on the premises of Ahmad Alkhamran was not “mindless'.
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Former British Prime Minister Theresa May didn't get much right as a politician.
Former British Prime Minister Theresa May didn't get much right as a politician.
On Thursday past, I went to the Lyric to watch a rather amazing dramatisation, The Man Who Swallowed a Dictionary.
On Thursday past, I went to the Lyric to watch a rather amazing dramatisation, The Man Who Swallowed a Dictionary.