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Alex Kane: Those who ticked the Northern Irish box will be key to the border poll outcome

Alex Kane

The national identity question on last year's census form was quite straightforward.

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Tom Collins: Border poll will end Kami-Kwasi politics

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

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

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Brian Feeney: Nationalists are not avoiding awkward questions about Irish unity

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Deaglán de Bréadún: Dublin mass protest felt like radical days of old

Deaglán de Bréadún 28 Sep, 2022

IT FELT like the radical days of old in downtown Dublin last weekend.

Nuala McCann: Loss is a stone in a sack that I can't put down

Nuala McCann 27 Sep, 2022

The haggling is all up to you, I tell our boy.

Fionnuala O Connor: Census figures another gunk for unionists

Fionnuala O Connor 27 Sep, 2022

Women in Iran have been taking off their hijab, yelling into cameras on their own phones ‘Why are you beating me?' at random bullying men and the ‘morality police'.

Tom Kelly: Much food for thought in census

26 Sep, 2022

THE recent census figures provide much food for thought.

Chris Donnelly: The rising tide of constitutional change

26 Sep, 2022

IT was only because I agreed to my partner's suggestion to call into an Irish bar just off Sixth Avenue in Manhattan that we ended up getting to experience Lin-Manuel Miranda's masterpiece Hamilton: The Musical this summer.

Jake O'Kane: King Charles should stick the crown on his own head and save us a fortune amid cost-of-living crisis

Jake O'Kane 24 Sep, 2022

IT is estimated that Queen Elizabeth's funeral will cost the public purse approximately £8 million.

Mary Kelly: Census makes a border poll harder to argue against

Mary Kelly 24 Sep, 2022

SO the census has prompted complaints of a sectarian head-count, which is kinda rich when you consider that Northern Ireland was carved out of the nine county Ulster on precisely those terms.

Patrick Murphy: Time for Jeffrey Donaldson to play his wild card

Patrick Murphy 24 Sep, 2022

How good a poker player is Jeffrey Donaldson? He had better be good, because he is engaged in a high stakes game of political poker which, if he loses, will end his political career, cripple the DUP and significantly damage unionism.

Marie Louise McConville: Garth Brooks raised hell at Croke Park - and I'm so glad I was there

Marie Louise McConville 24 Sep, 2022

It's an experience I won't forget for a long time - if ever.

Newton Emerson: Heating oil offer a kick to the DUP

Newton Emerson 24 Sep, 2022

The government's UK-wide offer of £100 to households not on the gas network has been widely branded an insult in Northern Ireland, where over two-thirds of homes depend on heating oil.

Brian Feeney: Census another powerful blow to unionists

Brian Feeney 23 Sep, 2022

The outcome of these census figures which everyone has been waiting for was not unexpected, but the extent of the leap in numbers of the Catholic population since 2011 to overtake the Protestant population decisively was extraordinary.