I doubt if many people track US president Donald Trump and DUP leader Arlene Foster more assiduously than I do. The two leaders have many traits…
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Two Fermanagh voices: Gordon Wilson forgives the IRA killers of his daughter Marie; Arlene Foster compares Sinn Féin to crocodiles. On November 8 1987 a huge…
I’ve long taken the view that any power-sharing agreement on this corner of the island would be unlikely to survive a turn of the tide in…
The signal that the politically nuclear option was about to be used was in that speech by Gerry Adams on Saturday. What was interpreted by some…
In the course of this article I will try and set out for you the reader where I understand Northern Ireland to be politically right now…
‘The lady is not for turning.’ The arguments being prosecuted by Arlene Foster’s advisors for this stance – there can be no tolerance of any diminution…
For all that was said at Stormont on Friday, this is not where the real talking is happening. Rather, Parliament Buildings was the place for the…
Is there still room for manoeuvre – some way out of the political corners and crisis or is collapse now inevitable? That word inevitable doesn’t really…
In September 2013 I asked: why did unionism turn away from the passing of Seamus Heaney? In October 2015 I asked why unionism turned its face…
The first cuckoos of spring… again? Like the first cuckoos of spring and with elections imminent, appeals for unionist unity and pacts are in…
Alex. Kane opines