Opinion

30 Jan, 2023

Are you in favour of a law banning the sale of cigarettes and combustible tobacco?

Yes

63%

31%

Not sure

Total Votes: 484

24 Jan, 2023

Should MPs continue to be able to have second jobs?

Yes

14%

83%

Not sure

Total Votes: 536

16 Jan, 2023

Should all pupils study maths until the age of 18, as per the prime minster’s proposal?

Yes

35%

58%

Not sure

Total Votes: 473

09 Jan, 2023

Are you experiencing stress and anxiety regularly because of money?

Yes

66%

34%

Total Votes: 308

28 Dec, 2022

Should energy companies face more taxes on profits?

Yes

93%

Total Votes: 507

19 Dec, 2022

If academic selection 'disadvantages the already most disadvantaged' should it be scrapped?

Yes

69%

25%

Not Yet

Total Votes: 377

05 Dec, 2022

Is the time right to call an Irish border poll?

Yes

50%

Not Yet

30%

15%

never

Total Votes: 688

28 Nov, 2022

Do you think the Legacy Bill, which offers a form of immunity to those suspected of Troubles' killings, can help Northern Ireland to heal

80%

Yes

16%

Undecided

Total Votes: 605

21 Nov, 2022

Do you expect to have to make cuts to your household spending as a result of the cost of living crisis?

Yes

88%

10%

Neither agree nor disagree

Total Votes: 677

14 Nov, 2022

Do you agree with the nurses’ strike?

Yes

81%

16%

Neither agree nor disagree

Total Votes: 764

9 Nov, 2022

Do you trust the UK Government when it comes to managing the interests of Northern Ireland with respect to the Protocol?

93%

Yes

Neither agree nor disagree

Total Votes: 521

04 Nov, 2022

Should MLAs have their pay cut in the absence of a functioning Assembly?

Yes

89%

Don't care - it won't change anything

Total Votes: 735

28 Oct, 2022

Are you in favour of an Assembly election in December?

52%

Yes

32%

Don't care

16%

Total Votes: 698

22 Sep, 2022

Does the recent census result bring us closer to a United Ireland?

Yes

69%

21%

Maybe

10%

Total Votes: 2464

Deaglán de Bréadún: Border poll politics is a numbers game

Deaglán de Bréadún

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Brian Feeney: Sunak knows Brexit is a disaster but is in a weak position

Brian Feeney

Regardless of denials it's clear the anti-protocol bill has been paused in the Lords.

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Editorial: Grim economic forecast for 2023

14 Dec, 2022

There is no doubt that this has been an exceptionally challenging year in economic terms.

Editorial: Energy payments needed now

13 Dec, 2022

The delay in delivering energy support payments to people in Northern Ireland has been placed into even sharper focus by the current cold snap which has seen temperatures plummet.

Editorial: Tragedy of loss of young life

12 Dec, 2022

CHRISTMAS is, of course, a time for family, a chance to press pause on our busy lives and appreciate the blessings we have in the company of those we love.

Editorial: Winter of discontent

10 Dec, 2022

AT the end of a week which has seen temperatures plummet, the prospect of a winter of industrial discontent and disruption looms large across a swathe of hard-pressed public services.

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Conservative Party is out of energy and ideas and running on empty

14 Dec, 2022

The convulsions that have occurred within the Conservative Party in relation to Europe are reminiscent of the lethal divisions which developed within the Liberal Party over Ireland.

Veterans' perspective sadly missing from Mr Coveney's interview

13 Dec, 2022

Veterans' perspective sadly missing from Mr Coveney's interview I noted your lead article (Thursday December 8) where Simon Coveney's interview centred on the legacy bill that is currently progressing through Westminster. Whilst Mr Coveney focused on victims and survivors, who rightly are an integral...

Sinn Féin has never considered possibility of losing referendum

08 Dec, 2022

The new poll indicating that there is far less enthusiasm from people in Northern Ireland to bring about a constitutional shift must be a devastating blow to Sinn Féin’s plans for a united Ireland.

DUP work the protocol for their own purposes when it suits them

07 Dec, 2022

So, the DUP’s most vociferous critic of the Northern Ireland protocol, Edwin Poots, has now been discovered to have been campaigning for parts of the protocol aimed at the farming community to be kept in place.