Tom Kelly: Civic nationalism insults unionism by excluding it

KWEISI Mfume is a name not well known here in Ireland but he was once President of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, which played a major role in the Civil Rights Campaign of the 1960s in the United States.

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Claire Simpson: A Brexit blessing? We'd settle not to be cursed

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Newton Emerson: Parties turn up for Stormont talks - and nobody notices

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Patrick Murphy: The Irish are gloriously inconsistent about war and independence

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Alex Kane: It is blindingly obvious that Theresa May needs to go

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Alex Kane: It is blindingly obvious that Theresa May needs to go

Alex Kane 18 Jan, 2019

One thing is certain: indeed it has been certain since June 24, 2016.

Newton Emerson: Stormont must learn lessons from the welfare reform crisis

Newton Emerson 17 Jan, 2019

As if there is not enough going on, an echo of our last political crisis is growing louder.

Allison Morris: The DUP have got their way but at what price to their precious Union?

Allison Morris 17 Jan, 2019

Even Theresa May’s most ardent critics could not have predicted the thrashing she took in Westminster on Tuesday, when 432 MPs, including 118 members of her own party, voted against the Withdrawal Agreement she’d spent weeks trying to sell.

Brian Feeney: Theresa May must be replaced by someone who can get cross-party cooperation on Brexit

Brian Feeney 17 Jan, 2019

Yesterday Dominic Grieve tabled two bills at Westminster to prepare for a second referendum and to carry out the vote.

Brian Feeney: Sinn Féin councillors make eejits of themselves over cartoonist

Brian Feeney 16 Jan, 2019

Sinn Féin’s Belfast city councillors made complete eejits of themselves last week.

Jim Gibney: Recognition for heroic leadership and bravery

Jim Gibney 16 Jan, 2019

Heroes are not born. They emerge from the circumstances of their lives and their times – circumstances which are extraordinary, challenging and in some cases life-changing and life-threatening.

Anita Robinson: Important to find contentment in a world of constant striving

Anita Robinson 15 Jan, 2019

Why does practically every newspaper and magazine find it compulsory to publish a slew of self-improvement features in the first bleak weeks of a new year, when money and waistbands are equally tight and our basic animal instinct is to hibernate on the sofa on a diet of comforting stodge and do nothing till the days lengthen?