It’s strange the things that cause a stir on social media, as I found out recently when I changed my social media profile pictures to a…
‘Fight With Cudgels’, Goya, 1823 Do they think that little of us? Are we that base and that cheap? Are we that antiquated a society…
He attended RBAI - read Law at Queen’s University, turned his back on all of this, took up a paint brush and a pen and…
Photography by @Antrimlens Thoughts of Steve Stockman The 4 Corners Festival set out five years ago…
It was a day of firsts. The visit of President Clinton was the first time I heard the phrase ‘no stone unturned’. As 9 year olds…
I’ve felt green of late. Not a political conversion, rather, the green of envy. Jealous of the energy, vision and action of the Irish unity lobby.…
The two men sitting at the table said something about how much this place has changed. In the conflict years they were in very different…
In, ‘Get real and love Northern Ireland for what it is warts and all’ published in the Belfast Telegraph (July 17 2015), Fionola Meredith was…
Former Secretary of State, Peter Hain as part of an ongoing series called “Uncomfortable conversations” in mid July 2015 (interviewed on radio the following morning…
A fever and cloud of infection had been hanging over North Belfast - dark and ominous but we hoped it would dissipate. We wanted peace, forbearance…
There’s a backward Belfast, and there’s a bourgeois Belfast. Two Belfasts. Two Northern Irelands. Rory McIlroy versus Bryson Belfast; unbridled optimism versus plangent wallow, nostomania and…
These words currently sit high above Belfast laid out on the side of a mountain, aptly reflecting what some of us are thinking. One wonders if…
There’s no rural-urban split, no conservative Ireland versus liberal Ireland, said Una Mullally and Fintan O’Toole, just modern, democratic Ireland. Ireland’s equal marriage referendum rolled in…
Ever since the Union flag restriction sparked a carnival of reaction and Robinson reversed on the moderate vernacular, destiny swayed with nationalism, it seemed. Nationalists were…
This is an imponderable preoccupying me in recent days as we edge towards polling day in the General Election. In this article I will try to reflect…