News & Current Affairs THE ‘SHADOWY FIGURES’ ARE NO LONGER A SECRET – By Brian Rowan By Brian RowanFebruary 7, 2020 They have name passes and telephones. If you look, you can see them – often…
News & Current Affairs A post Brexit Executive – By David McNarry By David McNarryJanuary 27, 2020 At 11pm on Friday 31st January we are out of the E.U. Setting aside the historic…
News & Current Affairs IT HAS BEEN SOME WEEK IN THE POLITICS OF THIS PLACE – By Brian Rowan By Brian RowanJanuary 16, 2020 Late last Thursday night we felt the bite of the winter cold on that Stormont hill…
News & Current Affairs How the TUV plans to nail abuses in Government – By Jim Allister By Jim AllisterJanuary 16, 2020 ‘New Decade, New Approach‘ is the latest claim in relation to Stormont. The Bill which…
News & Current Affairs THE STORMONT SUMS ARE NOT ADDING UP – By Brian Rowan By Brian RowanJanuary 13, 2020 Since last week’s agreement, the talk at Stormont has been about money – the financial…
News & Current Affairs WHY SINN FÉIN IS ARLENE FOSTER’S FIREPROOF AGAINST ANY RHI FLAMES – By Eamonn Mallie By Eamonn MallieJanuary 13, 2020 Northern Ireland has politically landed in a strange place, a place which was not easily…
News & Current Affairs STORMONT: MUCH EASIER TO SHAPE FROM COMPROMISE THAN CHISEL FROM STONE – By Brian Rowan By Brian RowanJanuary 12, 2020 If Thursday was the theatre of this process – that dramatic Smith and Coveney news…
News & Current Affairs STORMONT TALKS: AFTER THREE YEARS – NEW LIGHT THROUGH OLD WINDOWS – By Brian Rowan By Brian RowanJanuary 10, 2020 In the cold on Stormont’s hill on Thursday night we began to witness a thaw; some melting…
News & Current Affairs STORMONT TALKS: A REFEREE WITHOUT A WHISTLE – By Brian Rowan By Brian RowanJanuary 8, 2020 In the early summer of 2019, one of the first documents to leak from the…
News & Current Affairs STORMONT TALKS: IN A TWILIGHT ZONE – By Brian Rowan By Brian RowanJanuary 7, 2020 We are in that phase of negotiation now when everyone is reading everything – trying…
News & Current Affairs STORMONT TALKS: a Tug-of-Words-and-Ways – By Brian Rowan By Brian RowanJanuary 4, 2020 You can allow parties too much time in a negotiation; too much space. That was…
News & Current Affairs “IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK” – By Brian Rowan By Brian RowanJanuary 3, 2020 Step away from the set-piece, arranged party news conferences in the Great Hall of Parliament…
News & Current Affairs AGREEMENT or ELECTION – TAKE YOUR PICK – By Brian Rowan By Brian RowanDecember 30, 2019 With Stormont talks set to resume on Thursday, the heading above spells out the choice…
News & Current Affairs ‘The Politics Show’ on eamonnmallie.com By Eamonn MallieDecember 20, 2019 In an eamonnmallie.com special, Eamonn Mallie, Brian Rowan and Dr. Katy Hayward sit down to…
News & Current Affairs THE POLITICAL NOW IS A VERY DIFFERENT PLACE FOR THE DUP: They need to wake up and smell the coffee – By Brian Rowan By Brian RowanDecember 20, 2019 No negotiation passes without a difficult moment. So, we should not be shocked by Thursday’s…