Special measures needed to address ongoing road safety concerns

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Education needs to change to meet the needs of all our children

28 Jun, 2022

Professor Siobhan O’Neill, who is the north’s mental health champion has requested the Independent Review of Education, as a matter of urgency, to end academic selection using transfer tests (‘Review must show way for transfer tests change’).

Society must stop using the word ‘punishment' to describe crimes

27 Jun, 2022

I was very disturbed to read in the media statement of the Police Ombudsman into the case of four young men who in 1979 made false confessions to the police the following terminology: “…a number of punishment shootings… implicated them in a punishment shooting…”.

Not all votes in Assembly are equal

23 Jun, 2022

The unique feature of Alliance Party ideology is its belief in the existence of a distinctive northern Irish community or ‘third tradition’.

Decision to axe Twelfth coverage should have been done long ago

21 Jun, 2022

The decision by the BBC to axe live coverage of the Twelfth parades is to be welcomed by all right thinking people, and it is a decision which should have been taken a long time ago.

Sorry for bursting Brian Feeney's unification bubble

20 Jun, 2022

In Brian Feeney’s article (May 30), I was delighted to hear that Colin Harvey has had a eureka moment and has finally recognised the complexity of the unification journey, rather than the fantasy island stuff that has been churned out in the recent past.

Why doesn't Sir Jeffrey say what he really wants – a land border

17 Jun, 2022

Feed the crocodile and it will come back for more – sounds familiar.

Sir Jeffrey and his wee huff are the biggest danger to the Union

16 Jun, 2022

Maybe now would be a good time for unionist voters to to stop and ask themselves, ‘Are we doing the right thing in fighting the Protocol?’

The plantation of Ireland advocated a form of apartheid

15 Jun, 2022

Reginald Maudling, Britiain’s Home Secretary in the Ted Heath Tory government declared, as he stepped aboard an aeroplane after his first visit to the north of Ireland in 1970: “For God’s sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.”

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