A twelve year old Dublin boy has asked Queen Elizabeth to return Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland. This is the kind of blunt thinking,…
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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…
Ireland lined up against Romania in front of a Rugby World Cup record crowd at Wembley Stadium – 89,267 spectators. Jamie Heaslip led a reworked Ireland…
Growing up, if I wasn’t in Belfast I was in Bushmills. My father’s hometown where his maternal forbears, the Blairs owned a freehold and farmed livestock.…
Jamie Bryson adores the Union but advocates everything against which the modern Union stands. The man from Donaghadee can call for Union Flags on every lampost,…
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 Maze Long Kesh Development Corporation meets again this Friday but why? You could be forgiven for thinking that it had been wound up in the…
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…
I would not say I knew Desmond Boal. I covered courts infrequently and came away frustrated a lot of the time suspecting Mr Boal made life…
What the hell is going on in Ulster rugby? – Brian Spencer throws down the gauntlet on behalf of supporters The McLaughlin exit…
A few weeks ago I took my Dad and his oldest, bestest friend on a tour of South Armagh. Well, actually it was my…
Coup d’état in Western Europe? Unheard of in modern times: unimaginable and surely not possible? Yet there has been a junta established in a…
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Eamonn Mallie poses the question
By Brian Rowan