Editorial: Suicide figures alarming
NEW figures showing suicides at their highest level since 2015 should be a cause of enormous concern across government and wider society.
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Alex Kane: Sinn Féin's rivals must do more than whinge
Alex Kane
When Leo Varadkar replaces Micheál Martin as taoiseach on December 17 it will, I think, trigger what is going to be a very long election campaign: in which the main target for Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil (singly, as well as in coalition) will be Sinn Féin.
Newton’s Amnesty Bill assertions cannot go unchallenged
In attacking me for my opposition to the government’s current legacy legislation, Newton Emerson (November 26) makes a number of assertions which cannot go unchallenged.
Patricia Mac Bride: Disunited UK seems intent on wreaking vengeance
Patricia Mac Bride
Writing in the Scottish Newspaper “The National” this week following his keynote address at the Ireland’s Future event in the Ulster Hall last week, SNP President Mike Russell said that Scotland and Northern Ireland live in constitutional Hotel California.
Newton Emerson: London shouldn't let this Stormont crisis go to waste
Newton Emerson
The only thing wrong with the secretary of state’s threat to fix Stormont’s budget is that he will not carry it out.
Editorial: DUP intransigence punishes the most vulnerable this winter
AS the calendar turns to December, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the DUP's muddle-headed intransigence is why pensioners, young families, the sick and other vulnerable people will be cold in their homes this Christmas.
Deaglán de Bréadún: Rejoining Commonwealth could allay unionist concerns on united Ireland
Deaglán de Bréadún
IT is always gratifying to discover that a highly-respected academic broadly concurs with one’s own thinking on a particular subject.
Brian Feeney: DUP fully aware of protocol advantages
Brian Feeney
Michael Russell, president of the SNP speaking at the Ulster Hall last week, lamented that while both Scotland and the north of Ireland were dragged out of the EU against their express will, Scotland has no special arrangements to mitigate the economic, personal and societal losses that have followed.
Editorial: Civil servants face impossible choices
Aeneas Bonner
IT would be difficult not to have some sympathy for Jayne Brady, head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, who has been attempting to explain the invidious position that she and other senior officials find themselves in.
Victims stand in cold and lonely place seeking lady justice
Legacy issues in Northern Ireland regarding killings during the Troubles are showing double standards.
Nuala McCann: Hard to say goodbye to the objects that bind you with love
Nuala McCann
It’s amazing what some folk will pay for an old pair of shoes.
Editorial: All-Ireland economic strategy needed
It is increasingly clear that in getting Brexit done, recent Conservative governments have contributed significantly to the undoing of the British economy.
Fionnuala O Connor: Be thankful we don't all speak like Maggie Thatcher
Fionnuala O Connor
None of us is better than anyone else; you can believe this with heart and soul and remain ignorant of your own privilege.
Ukraine constitutes biggest threat to peace and security in Europe
At the end of the Second World War the Soviet Union occupied Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland and eastern Germany.
Deirdre Heenan: We need to be honest with the public over hospital changes
Deirdre Heenan
Not surprisingly there has been anger, dismay, fear and confusion since it was announced by the Western Health and Social Care Trust that emergency general surgery was to be removed from South-West Acute Hospital (SWAH).
Justice at last for Aidan McAnespie's family
It will be widely accepted that the then serving British soldier David Holden should have been duly convicted shortly after he killed the innocent civilian Aidan McAnespie on the Tyrone/Monaghan border in 1998 and sentenced to a significant jail term.
Tom Kelly: Threatening big stick measures won't work
Tom Kelly
Many, many moons ago, when loyalists tried to destroy power-sharing, wreck the economy and intimidate the public of Northern Ireland, the then Labour prime minister Harold Wilson asked: “Who do these people think they are?” He went further, saying they were 'sponging' off the British taxpayer.
