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Last month the Belfast Telegraph ran a three-day series of ‘Inside MI5’ articles on its front and inside pages. The paper reported it was the first…
A fortnight on from the Twelfth, you still hear a clear determination to end this marching standoff in the north Belfast. “A blueprint has been agreed,”…
Easter, 1916 - a terrible beauty was born. It had a dark and little seen twin; a terrible ignorance of the people of the North. South…
Edward ‘Ned’ Daly The weather on Saturday, like the events of that week, remain remarkably unseasonal. “It is astonishing that, thus early in the Spring, the weather…
The seven signatories of the Irish Proclamation Maurice Joy wrote in her account of Easter Monday 1916 that Dublin that morning “seemed as peaceful as any…
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…
Ulster Rugby doesn’t do identity or politics. CEO Shane Logan has the mouths of the players and he has them bridled shut. Ulster Rugby is part…
In the current talks on dealing with the past the UK government is asserting a veto determining what will and will not be disclosed; this under…
The Irish fans went to Cardiff not knowing what to expect. France is the team that could beat New Zealand one week and lose to Italy…
Ireland undervalued Italian rugby. In pre-game trash talk Stephen Ferris said Ireland was a train hurtling towards the French fifteen and the quarter finals; the Italy…
In a weekend of contested narratives, in the North it was the talks and in the South it was the State funeral for Thomas Kent,…
Two and a half years after dying amidst the worst thunder storm England had experienced in years, his rotting body was unceremoniously pulled from its resting…
The Flight of the Earls is often seen as the defining moment at the end of Gaelic Ireland, of the death of a civilisation born before…
“And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid, and some…