An election that was entirely avoidable has cost Unionism the majority at Stormont for the first time in the history of Northern Ireland. All the causes…
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This was a day when so much changed. There was a photo-finish in terms of seats and the share of the vote. The DUP just got…
Two weeks out from Stormont’s next big day on January 16th, it is far too early to be talking about bottom lines. In the plays and…
Where is Ulster without the Scots? Where are unionists without soft nationalists and cosmopolitan Protestants? These are the gaps that have widened since June 23 2016.…
DUP Education Minister Peter Weir MLA visits an Irish medium school; the First Minister accepts the decision of Sinn Fein Michelle O’Neill MLA regarding the use…
The hurt of being de-selected by the UUP had not totally dissipated when I met the late David McClarty MLA shortly after his election success as…
In 1921 the founding father of Northern Ireland Edward Carson implored unionist legislators to govern the nascent state with justice and equality for the Catholic minority.…
Once again Unionism is found wanting. Papers printed column upon column of solemn praise and affection for the modest man and monumental writer from Omagh, Co. Tyrone…
To look for meaning in difficulties has never been strong within unionism. To focus blindly on what has happened rather than the opportunities presented by…
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…
Rodney Edwards of the The Impartial Reporter interviewed the First Minister Peter Robinson back in March of this year. The Fermanagh journalist asked the DUP leader…
It did not take long for the pacts, pop-up policies and promises of the General Election to fall off the agenda as the Assembly slips into…
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…
The Red Sky controversy which has rumbled on for the last two years may never be brought to a satisfactory conclusion. Nevertheless, it has exposed what…
Rev Kyle Paisley has provided a commentary of my Belfast Telegraph interview; I feel it important to respond to this article because I find it astounding on…