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Tom Collins: Dignity in the face of injustice is inspiring

There is an optimistic note at the end of Seamus Heaney’s lament for the dead of Bloody Sunday.

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Newton Emerson: Protocol poll findings a calamity for DUP

Newton Emerson

The latest LucidTalk poll has found two-thirds of unionist voters and 81 per cent of DUP voters want the party to collapse Stormont if the protocol is not “scrapped”.

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26 Jan, 2022

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Editorial: Schools need support as Covid cases surge

Yesterday marked a positive day in this long and wearying pandemic, as more restrictions were eased.

Editorial: Public will deliver verdict on Beattie

26 Jan, 2022

ON becoming Ulster Unionist leader in May last year, Doug Beattie pledged to pursue progressive policies and create a "union of people".

Editorial: Welcome unity on flags

25 Jan, 2022

IT is rare for our political parties to take a united position on flags, much less to be in agreement on two flag issues on the same day.

Alarm over road deaths

24 Jan, 2022

Serious traffic accidents can happen suddenly and devastatingly in any part of Ireland, north or south, as the weekend tragedy which left two young men dead on the Ravenhill Road in Belfast demonstrated starkly.

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Great betrayal of a century ago continues to haunt people of Ireland

On January 16 the Irish state marked the final act of the British colonial Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in handing over Dublin Castle – the seat of British administration and control – to the Provisional Government

What the electorate needs is conciliation not posturing confrontation

26 Jan, 2022

There has been much outrage at Baroness Hoey’s recent published opinions.

Baroness Hoey's comments have advanced cause of united Ireland

25 Jan, 2022

In 1932 Basil Brooke, later Lord Brookeborough and prime minister of Northern Ireland, said the following: “I appreciate the great difficulty experienced by some of them in procuring suitable Pr...

Current bunch of DUP representatives should hang their heads in shame

24 Jan, 2022

Why is Jeffrey Donaldson being allowed to hold devolved government to ransom – almost at will? Since last September the so-called leader of the most negative party in British and six county politics has threatened to collapse the devolved institutions if he and his cronies do not get their own way.

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Newton Emerson: Protocol poll findings a calamity for DUP

Newton Emerson

The latest LucidTalk poll has found two-thirds of unionist voters and 81 per cent of DUP voters want the party to collapse Stormont if the protocol is not “scrapped”.

Tom Collins: Dignity in the face of injustice is inspiring

There is an optimistic note at the end of Seamus Heaney’s lament for the dead of Bloody Sunday.

Brian Feeney: Attacking Sinn Féin has got the SDLP nowhere

26 Jan, 2022

SPEAKING in a panel discussion at the weekend, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it would be difficult to persuade a lot of unionist people, “who had serious hurt and pain because of what the IRA did”, to vote for a united Ireland. Well, that seems pretty obvious.

Deaglán de Bréadun: Differences put aside in heartening display of unity

26 Jan, 2022

ONE of the more reassuring and heartening images to emerge in recent times showed leaders of the DUP and Sinn Féin, as well as other northern politicians, lined up outside Parliament Buildings at Stormont.