Brian O’Neill

The Covid enquiry exposes the dysfunction at Stormont….

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In today’s Beltel, Sam McBride has a lengthy piece on the Covid enquiry. Some extracts From the article: After just four hearings of the Covid Inquiry in Belfast, already layer after layer of Stormont’s deep secrecy has been penetrated. The …

Brian O’Neill

Tories face heavy losses in English local elections…

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It is not looking to be a good year for the Conservative Party. Heavy losses in the English local elections are an omen of what is to come in this year’s general election. Here are the results so far: I …

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The Yousaf Parable – lessons from the SNP in government for Stormont’s liberals…

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David Morrow previously worked at Stormont and has a Masters in Public Policy. He is writing in a personal capacity. It’s been a busy 2024 for devolved governments, and it’s not just the return of Stormont. In Scotland, the SNP …

Brian O’Neill

Concerns Over Costs of Irish Unity Exaggerated, Potential Benefits Underestimated…

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I know what you are thinking. Its been at least a whole day since we have had a post on reunification. But lest you get the DT’s Professor John Doyle and Professor Brendan O’Leary come along to kick their highly …

Andy Pollak

The Football Association of Ireland: A Tragicomic Farce Unfolding…

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This post is about football: not Gaelic football, but football as it is played by many millions of men and women around the world, the ‘beautiful game’ as it is played by Brazil and France and Argentina, at Real Madrid …

Brian O’Neill

2 Days Before Deadly Crash, Teen Campaigned to Improve Notorious A5 Road…

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Yet more deaths on our roads. This time with the horrendous twist that one of the victims featured in a campaign to improve the A5 road just 2 days ago. From the BelTel: The two young people killed in a …

Brian Walker

The Courts and the PSNI are challenging the UK Government on national security. Victims groups should give the Legacy Commssion a chance

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Chief ICRIR Commissioner Sir Declan Morgan, former Lord Chief Justice  We have just reached a watershed in investigating the Troubles. In a momentous and  highly controversial  development the cumbersomely named Independent Commission on Reconciliation and Information Retrieval (ICRIR) – which …

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Poll showing voters reject €20bn Unification Cost underscores accurate economic data’s importance in the reunification debate…

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Ben M is a slugger reader from Dublin John Fitzgerald, an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics in TCD, recently published an analysis of unification that highlighted a “worst case” scenario for it economically. In this, he postulated NI …

Brian O’Neill

Historic Milestones: Belfast’s First Gay Lord Mayor, Derry’s First Black Lord Mayor…

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At times, you do wonder if this place will ever change, but when you zoom out from the day to day, there have been some dramatic changes. It is not that long ago since we had the ‘Save Ulster From …

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We need urgent action to save the historic Belfast Assembly Rooms…

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John Gray is Chair of Reclaim the Enlightenment and Convenor of the Assembly Rooms Alliance. Readers may have noticed a recent flurry of publicity with regard to Belfast’s historic Assembly Rooms. Now an online petition at https://chng.it/TQbMwYjdgj has been launched …

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