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I was sitting a home on Saturday night when I got an unexpected phone call from Eamonn…
This week Good Relations Week in the North celebrates 30 years of effort to promote…
The 2021 Centenary Anniversary presents a golden opportunity to announce that Northern Ireland has finally…
Approached by a local member of Sinn Fein to engage in ‘difficult conversations’, I queried…
Despite significant progress over many years, it is undeniable that there are no easy solutions…
The Arlene versus Michelle version of social distancing cannot continue to cause a political vacuum.…
Among the statues of supremacists which have fallen in recent days, that of King Leopold…
Our lack of an agreed ‘Legacy’ is now a legacy of ‘the troubles’. The ‘troubles’…
Walk back down the path through all of those processes that have been about addressing…
Unionism is ready for the ‘new normal’. As for our republican coalition partners, are they…
When Prime Minister David Cameron MP, said these words on 15 June 2010 in the…
AN ESCAPE FROM THIS VIRUS WILL DEMAND PLANNING AND PATIENCE In Holywood the local…
On RTÉ’s Morning Ireland today, Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty said that, prior to…
A massive decision looms large over the leaders in planning for a twelve month phased…
On Thursday, the Radio Ulster Talkback programme debated the question of whether in this period of…
