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Patrick Murphy: North America now resembles the North of Ireland on a grand scale

Patrick Murphy

SO farewell then, Donald Trump, would-be dictator, failed wall-builder and advocate of bleach as a vaccine.

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Newton Emerson: Foster needs to tell DUP Brexiteers to move on

THE DUP is starting to resolve its internal dispute over making the sea border work, as broadly advocated by leader Arlene Foster, versus demanding its abolition, as sought with increasing anguish by the party's hardline Brexiteers.

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Multicultural hate crime

16 Jan, 2021

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Vaccine brings hope to Covid-19 journey but vigilance remains essential

16 Jan, 2021

OUR journey with Covid-19 since last March has at times felt like travelling through an unendingly dark tunnel; yet now there is clear light visible through the gloom, thanks to a highly effective vaccination programme.

DUP should make the 'sea border' work

15 Jan, 2021

THE DUP's Brexit fantasy has entered a new phase.

Publication of shocking mother and baby report is not the end of the story

14 Jan, 2021

Taoiseach Micheál Martin formally apologised in the Dáil yesterday on behalf of the state and wider society for the appalling treatment of thousands of women and children who had the misfortune of finding themselves in Ireland's mother and baby homes.

Executive leaders must present a united message on Covid

13 Jan, 2021

It is year since Robin Swann took on the ministerial portfolio no one else wanted.

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America's decline can't just be blamed on a despotic president

15 Jan, 2021

Over the past four years it has become common to respond to tales of Donald Trump’s corruption, incompetence, mercurial nature and autocracy by asking the question: why is his errant behaviour tolerated in the US?

It seems needs of disadvantaged children come second best

14 Jan, 2021

I have been watching with interest the shifting arrangements for children in our schools at both primary and secondary level.

MLAs should spread climate change spirit by their actions in 2021

12 Jan, 2021

This is my sixth letter urging our DAERA minister to introduce a Climate Change Act in NI.

Regional sports museum would positively promote Northern Ireland

11 Jan, 2021

May 3 2021 the centenary of the state of Northern Ireland.

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Newton Emerson: Foster needs to tell DUP Brexiteers to move on

Newton Emerson 16 Jan, 2021

Patrick Murphy: North America now resembles the North of Ireland on a grand scale

Patrick Murphy 16 Jan, 2021

SO farewell then, Donald Trump, would-be dictator, failed wall-builder and advocate of bleach as a vaccine.

Bimpe Archer: It is not Marcus Rashford's job to make sure children don't starve in the world's sixth largest economy

Bimpe Archer 15 Jan, 2021

I know a lot of people.

Alex Kane: The DUP needs to get the Brexit sea border problem fixed - and quickly

Alex Kane 15 Jan, 2021

The very lateness of the trade deal between the EU and the UK (Christmas Eve) and the cliff-edge negotiations following the UK's threat to break international law, meant it was almost inevitable that a majority of businesses wouldn't have had enough time to absorb the details of the deal, let alone prepare the necessary paperwork required for goods coming/going between NI (still under EU rules) and GB (entirely outside the EU's ambit).