Patricia Mac Bride: Jeffrey Donaldson needs a plan if he is to avoid electoral disaster

Patricia Mac Bride

Jeffrey Donaldson needs a plan.

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Newton Emerson: New Stormont rules will neuter threats to resign

Newton Emerson

Stormont is about to get new rules, just in the nick of time.

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British government must tell Brexit truths

IF a week is a long time in politics, then the five years since the UK's disastrous decision to leave the EU feel like an eternity.

Lessons from sports hardship fund must be learned

23 Jun, 2021

IT is beyond question that the Covid pandemic presented public servants on these islands with unprecedented challenges.

Vigilance still needed as the fight against Covid continues

22 Jun, 2021

While the north's Covid vaccination programme has rightly been hailed as a success, medical experts have warned we still have a long way to go before the pandemic ends.

Collapsing Stormont would be another catastrophic DUP error

21 Jun, 2021

Concerns over the survival of our power-sharing administration are growing after the astonishing meltdown experienced by the DUP, still marginally Stormont's largest group, over recent days.

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Using our national language as a political football is unbecoming

There is something very immature in Sinn Féin constantly going on about an Irish language act.

Hospitality industry should respond to need rather than greed

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As the lockdown in the north started to open up the one thing that was very apparent was the prices in the pubs, hotels and guest houses

Sinn Fein is bankrupt when it comes to promoting goal of Irish unity

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Arlene Foster’s resignation will trigger nominations for her post and that of deputy first minister in the executive.

In post-Brexit Britain reality doesn't remotely match promises made in the run-up

17 Jun, 2021

The more we learn about Britain’s proposed new trade deal with Australia the more it becomes evident that ‘no deal’ would be a better outcome.

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Newton Emerson: New Stormont rules will neuter threats to resign

Newton Emerson

Stormont is about to get new rules, just in the nick of time.

Patricia Mac Bride: Jeffrey Donaldson needs a plan if he is to avoid electoral disaster

Patricia Mac Bride

Jeffrey Donaldson needs a plan.

Deaglán de Bréadún: New generation of southern voters less concerned about Sinn Féin's past

23 Jun, 2021

SENATOR Joe McCarthy (1908-57), who had Irish roots in Borrisokane, County Tipperary, and the Rahoon district of Galway City, made his name with “The Red Scare” whereby he claimed in the 1950s that democracy in the US was in danger of being undermined by communists.

Brian Feeney: If unionists can't agree to live on equal terms then it's over for Stormont

Brian Feeney 23 Jun, 2021

There are buckets of ink being wasted on wondering whether Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is a ‘moderate' in the DUP, or even more laughably, ‘on the (non-existent) moderate wing of the DUP'.

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