Approached by a local member of Sinn Fein to engage in ‘difficult conversations’, I queried the term ‘difficult’: why not conversations? “Maybe they are difficult for…
Author: Terry Wright
‘First clean the inside of the cup and dish and then the outside will also be clean.’ (Matthew Chapter 23 Verse 25) The wording, in this case…
When Prime Minister David Cameron MP, said these words on 15 June 2010 in the House of Commons, they drew applause from many of those gathered…
Victory in conflict is ultimately the prize of leaders but it is built on national collaboration, self-sacrifice, crisis management and the ruins of lives and countries.…
Judging from the tone and number of comments and shares on social media, political unionism is drawing comfort from recently published research based on the response…
Prior to the recent restoration of Stormont there were many who would have welcomed an election and an opportunity either to renew the mandate of current…
You cannot escape the darkness by hiding under the duvet any more than you can take a community forward and address problems on a credible democratic…
Graphic scenes greeted arrivals at the Sinn Féin ArdFheis. Not all Irish republicans support Sinn Féin’s stance on abortion and this was clear at the entrance to the Millennium…
Writing in Autumn 2016 in the Foreword to a Report of the Londonderry Bands Forum, Professor Peter Shirlow, Chair and Director of the Institute of Irish…
So, there we have it. The parties which brokered the Good Friday Agreement have lost the steel in their political spine and made way for abstentionists…
The situation, wherein the leader-elect of the Ulster Unionist Party, like leaders before him, has ruled out electoral arrangements within unionism, only to make what must…
These words are spoken by Tancredi, one of the characters in the Italian novel ‘The Leopard,’ written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampadusa. The story is set…
A framed picture of Sir James Craig with the words: “United we stand, divided we fall” adorned the walls of many buildings housing local offices of…
Whatever grievances may lie behind the turbulence evident in the actions of groups and individuals at sites of contentious bonfires, they cannot justify the indulgent and…
With media focus shifting to the ongoing party leadership tussle at Westminster, the results of recent local government and European elections continue to reverberate, as commentators…