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Editorial: DUP's Stormont protocol boycott harming public services - and it's going to get worse

EVEN before the DUP began its ill-judged retreat from its responsibilities at Stormont, our public services were in a poor state.

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Editorial: Orange Order must send out clear message on attitude to women

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Aidan McAnespie case show legacy bill should be reviewed

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Editorial: Irish language belongs to all

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Editorial: Full facts around Omagh bombing must be made public

Editorial: An Ireland of welcomes

01 Feb, 2023

THERE has been widespread shock and disgust at an attack on a makeshift camp in north Dublin where a small group of homeless people of different nationalities had been living.

Editorial: Three years on, Brexit's sunlit uplands remain a mirage

31 Jan, 2023

A particularly fertile imagination was always necessary to buy wholeheartedly into the Brexit fantasy and it is telling that the third anniversary of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union passed today with barely a whimper.

Editorial: Rates loophole another costly example of Stormont's dysfunction and lack of stability

31 Jan, 2023

THIS week marks the first anniversary of Paul Givan's resignation as first minister, a move which collapsed the Stormont executive as the DUP escalated its opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol.

DUP's bizarre attitude towards Joe Biden

30 Jan, 2023

The bizarre nature of what passes for political debate in the absence of a functioning Stormont executive has been epitomised by suggestions that any decision by US president Joe Biden to drop tentative proposals for a trip to Belfast can somehow be presented as a triumph for the DUP.

Editorial: Getting train travel back on track

28 Jan, 2023

IT should go without saying that high-quality transport infrastructure is essential to the efficient functioning of any modern economy and society.

Editorial: Less police equals less policing

27 Jan, 2023

THE headline on the PSNI press statement was devastating in its brevity: "Less police equals less policing.

Editorial: Richly deserved Oscar nominations for Irish films An Irish Goodbye, The Banshees of Inisherin, An Cailín Ciúin and stars Colin Farrell, Paul Mescal, Brendan Gleason, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan

26 Jan, 2023

DREAMS don't only come true in the movies – they can come true in real life, too.

Editorial: 'Enough is Enough' for deadly A5

25 Jan, 2023

THE sorrow and frustration felt in Tyrone over the death toll on the A5, widely regarded as the north's most dangerous road, has been given a potent new voice and renewed focus by the 'A5 Enough is Enough' campaign.

Editorial: Churches should set out legacy proposals

24 Jan, 2023

THE British government remains tin-eared to concerns from all sides as it continues to press ahead with its profoundly flawed Troubles legacy legislation.

The Hooded Men deserve their apology

23 Jan, 2023

It has been well documented that republicans, loyalists and the forces of the state were all guilty of ignoring the basic human rights of ordinary citizens throughout The Troubles.

Leo Varadkar's polite fiction eases DUP plight

21 Jan, 2023

If any doubts were remaining that a protocol deal between the EU and the UK is close to completion, they have probably been dispelled by the latest intervention from Leo Varadkar.