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Tom Collins: Time to make Derry a university city

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Tom Collins: Time to make Derry a university city

Newton Emerson: Protocol train is about to leave the station

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Newton Emerson: Protocol train is about to leave the station

Patricia MacBride: DUP has backed itself into a corner

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Patricia MacBride: DUP has backed itself into a corner

Brian Feeney: DUP dupes have betrayed Irish people north and south

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Brian Feeney: DUP dupes have betrayed Irish people north and south

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Deaglán de Bréadún: Major row injects fresh life into political scene

Deaglán de Bréadún: Major row injects fresh life into political scene

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ON June 16 1997, I was just four months into a three-and-a-half-year reporting term in Belfast.

Nuala McCann: Yes, Kate, we're still running up that hill

Nuala McCann: Yes, Kate, we're still running up that hill

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Kate Bush has finally broken America.

Fionnuala O Connor: Hideous war a mere backdrop for poses by brazen Johnson

Fionnuala O Connor: Hideous war a mere backdrop for poses by brazen Johnson

21 Jun, 2022

HARD-pressed Volodymyr Zelensky can hardly be expected to factor in that the British prime minister is up to his ears in scandals, with threatening by-elections on Thursday.

Chris Donnelly: Enduring legacy of Covid in schools

Chris Donnelly: Enduring legacy of Covid in schools

20 Jun, 2022

“YOU must be slowing down now.

Tom Kelly: The protocol is fixable but a capricious government is not

Tom Kelly: The protocol is fixable but a capricious government is not

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LAST week, this columnist received an invitation to a garden party hosted by the Secretary of State, Brandon Lewis.

Jake O'Kane: Cavehill - home to fossilised rabbit droppings, Belfast truffles, 16th century cannon shot and ancient arrowheads

Jake O'Kane: Cavehill - home to fossilised rabbit droppings, Belfast truffles, 16th century cannon shot and ancient arrowheads

18 Jun, 2022

MY memory, or what remains of it, seems to work best visually.

Mary Kelly: We're living in a parallel world where truth is no longer expected from those who govern

Mary Kelly: We're living in a parallel world where truth is no longer expected from those who govern

18 Jun, 2022

SOMETIMES you realise you've become accustomed to living in a parallel world where truth is no longer expected from those who govern.

Newton Emerson: Tight deadlines bring risks for DUP

Newton Emerson: Tight deadlines bring risks for DUP

Newton Emerson 18 Jun, 2022

The bill to disapply the protocol has come with tight deadlines for the DUP to return to Stormont.

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