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…
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When US company Cerberus emerged as the successful bidder for Nama’s 850 strong portfolio of property loans in Northern Ireland, it appointed Brown Rudnick as one…
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…
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The problem now for DUP leader Peter Robinson is finding a Health Minister from within his own party ranks who would disagree with Jim Wells’s views on same…
The DUP has launched its Westminster 2015 manifesto. A party unknown for vision has said it will push for a tunnel between Antrim and Scotland. “A feasibility…
On Tuesday Northern Ireland witnessed a rare thing – a public apology from a politician for a grave error. The patience of the offended…
The re-plumbing of logic and straw man beating in the wake of Pastorgate has been an awesome sight. The media got their apology from…
These have been torrid times for Unionism and Loyalism – vilified around the world and mocked by observers for “our” shameful attitude towards Muslims.…
Events of the past few weeks serve as a reminder that, for all their humanising potential, religious institutions and their representatives have too often…
Some people were horrified last week by James McConnell’s remarks about Islam; others were no doubt delighted. Freedom of speech entitles McConnell to say…
After the local and European elections, is Northern Ireland any better off? Nearly 50% of the electorate who opted out of the process probably…
You know you’ve entered the realm of the absurd when you get a telling-off from Jamie Bryson on electoral politics. Yet more absurd being tagged “monotonous”…
As Naomi Long said scathingly on BBC the other day, managing to sound simultaneously polite and caustic, nobody ever accused Peter Robinson of displaying…