This election raises questions for the out-going Executive, but also questions for the out-going Opposition. Much Opposition criticism of the Executive appears to deny the basis…
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This week, the DUP are playing the same Project Fear card they played last May, and in every Election they have ever fought. Since they entered…
Picture by @AntrimLens The days before an election usually follow a similar pattern. As the finish line draws ever closer, nerves are frayed, nails are bitten…
The campaign proper has begun. For all its downsides, the intensity of an election campaign does have the habit of distilling issues and giving definition to…
The arrival of the visiting party leader was much anticipated. The talks leading up to it had not been without their problems. Political parties possess a…
This was a curious General Election campaign in Northern Ireland. Curious in the sense that those charged with respective leadership in their parties when called upon,…
As charades go, the current attempts by our political leaders to continue with the Haass process, is up there with the best of them!…
Loyalism needed unionism to save itself from itself. To bring facts to the “phantom fears”, to cut a path towards open, positive and welcoming…
Harry Midgley was a now largely forgotten politician who was active in Belfast from the 1920s until the 1950s. Midgley’s political journey took him…
At a time when the SDLP doesn’t quite know what it is, the late Eddie McGrady should remind the party of what it once…
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