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A few years ago I toyed with the idea of going to a coach. A…
Bertie Ahern the former Irish Prime Minister summed up much of the Nationalist petulance around…
The post-election negotiations have yet another issue on the agenda – the position of chair…
The campaign proper has begun. For all its downsides, the intensity of an election campaign…
The election on March 2nd has the potential to be a defining moment in the…
The conversation that Colin Davidson had with Brian Rowan during the Four Corners festival on…
The Irish artist Colin Davidson paints as carefully with his words as he does…
Mike Nesbitt’s vision of “partnership not domination” on eamonnmallie.com has been welcomed by a swathe…
I’ve been struck by the ramping up of regressive rhetoric in the days since the…
What’s happening? What do you think? What next? In that place we call ‘out there’,…
“Another ceasefire moment” remarked a keen observer of what happens politically in Northern Ireland when…
We can’t keep doing what we have always done. The current crisis in our health…
We were told that the election – now just a few weeks away – would…
As local politics stumbles incoherently towards Northern Ireland’s centenary, it seems an appropriate time to…
Two Fermanagh voices: Gordon Wilson forgives the IRA killers of his daughter Marie; Arlene Foster…
