Opinion

Newton Emerson: Do we have ministers prepared to take the unpopular decisions?

Newton Emerson

Sammy Wilson and Conor Murphy have used the word “lies” while arguing over each other's positions on the cost of living crisis.

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Patricia Mac Bride: Emma Little Pengelly as deputy first minister has a certain logic for DUP

Patricia Mac Bride

In a platform piece in this newspaper on Tuesday, the secretary of state Chris Heaton-Harris wrote that if an executive is not formed by October 28, he will come under a legal duty to call further assembly elections.

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Editorial: Scourge of paramilitarism

29 Sep, 2022

THE spectre of paramilitarism has returned to our streets over the last week in the form of disgraceful acts of intimidation by both loyalists and republicans.

Editorial: PSNI budget shortfall alarming

28 Sep, 2022

WE have sadly become accustomed to stories of underfunding of hospitals and schools and the damaging consequences for health and wellbeing in our society.

Editorial: Grim echoes of 1970s

27 Sep, 2022

FOR those old enough to remember the 1970s, there have been some worrying echoes recently of the economic and political turmoil that defined that decade.

Time for DUP to respect other traditions

26 Sep, 2022

The latest census figures have been comprehensively analysed and it is now up to ordinary nationalists, unionists and those who do not identify with either main tradition to decide where the wider debate is going to take us.

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Procedure for electing executive urgently needs to be amended

28 Sep, 2022

Even if he delays calling a new assembly election, the new Northern Ireland Secretary of State will still be unable to prevent future crises resulting in the intermittent collapses of the assembly institutions including the power-sharing executive itself.

Only ballot that would make a real difference is at a border poll

27 Sep, 2022

The cost of living crisis, fuel poverty, the housing plight and a health service that struggles daily to cope – hardly a recommendation for the political partnership at Stormont.

Letters to the Editor: Prospect of a border referendum is now probable

26 Sep, 2022

A statelet artificially created 100 years ago on a purely sectarian headcount to ensure Protestant dominance now finds itself with a Catholic majority.

Corporal punishment in schools not the preserve of teachers of Irish

25 Sep, 2022

John Hyland (Sept 21) appears to be under the impression that the administration of corporal punishment in the Republic’s schools was the sole preserve of teachers of Irish.