Chambré Weekly Bulletin- 06/07/2026
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What you need to know ‘Progress made’ on bid to agree Stormont budget On Thursday (2 July), Executive parties met NI Secretary Hilary Benn and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby in a fresh attempt to agree a Stormont …
Casement Park To Be Scaled Back?
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Casement Park’s redevelopment may be reaching its endgame at last. On Friday it was reported that the GAA has decided that the Stadium will not be built to the hoped for 34,000 capacity due to a shortfall in funding and …
Open Sunday – discuss what you like…
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The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.
Open sunday – politics free zone…
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In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.
My father sang toward America. I moved toward it.
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I don’t know what caused me to fall in love with America: Old Glory, the bunting, the cowboy hats or the country music sung by Mel Tarner. But I do know where and when it was: early 90s, aged eight …
Not Scots, and Barely British: Rethinking Ireland’s Founding Role in America
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This 4th July, both Irish states will fete America’s founding. But the cherished narrative of Presbyterian Scots-Irish frontiersmen as the backbone of the Revolution obscures the Gaelic Irish written out of the record, the Protestant migration unionists prefer to forget, and the political convenience shaping how both traditions remember.
PSNI Urged to Use New Powers to Tackle Flying of Paramilitary Flags
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It is well known that Northern Ireland has an issue with the flying of paramilitary flags, one which our police service has been struggling with for many years. Last week the Belfast Telegraph reported… East Belfast Alliance MLA Peter McReynolds …
Choyaa: The Donaldson scandal leaves Northern Ireland politics with profoundly uncomfortable questions…
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Just over two years ago, Jeffrey Donaldson was view by many as the embodiment of mild-mannered respectability. His reputation as a pragmatic operator had been reinforced by his role in brokering the DUP’s return to the Executive after the Protocol …
Australia versus Ireland Rugby teams announced…
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Wallabies team 1. Angus Bell (50 Tests) – #940; Hunters Hill Rugby Club 2. Josh Nasser (11 Tests) – #979; Easts Rugby (Brisbane) 3. Allan Alaalatoa (88 Tests) – #896; West Harbour Juniors 4. Jeremy Williams (25 Tests) – #973; …
England’s white working-class inquiry: the disadvantage is familiar, the structure that sorts it is not…
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An inquiry into white working-class underachievement in England published its report this week. Northern Ireland will be tempted to read it as a study of its own working-class Protestant boys. The disadvantage transfers, the category does not, and the structure …