Your invitation to the launch of my new book The Birthday Boys…
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Why write? For a privileged few, journalists, columnists and the like, the answer is to pay the bills. For an even more fortunate élite of best-selling authors, writing can provide a very pleasant lifestyle. It is a dream of many …
Summer’s over. Now It’s Time to Make Homelessness Prevention a Government Priority
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Kate McCauley is the Chief Executive, Housing Rights As the Northern Ireland Assembly returns from summer recess, Ministers and MLAs have an opportunity to make a fundamental shift in how we respond to homelessness. The change is simple in principle …
‘It’s all here to be told’: Ulster’s role in the American declaration of independence
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The Linen Hall library in Belfast hosted a panel discussion as part of its USA-NI 250 exhibition programme, marking the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. The event, “The American Declaration of Independence: American and Ulster Contexts, Links and Legacies,” was …
Drumcree? Again?
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When the Drumcree dispute erupted over parades down the Garvaghy Road, most observers already believed that N. Ireland was on the road towards peace. John Hume and Gerry Adams had been involved in the Hume-Adams talks, which had been …
Queen of Country Dolly Parton dies aged 80…
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Country music is massive in Ireland and the death of Dolly Parton is a major blow for her millions of fans over here. Could anyone not be a fan of Dolly Parton? Has there ever been a more talented, good-natured, …
High Court rules Parades Commission Erred in Blocking Drumcree March
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From ‘The Belfast Telegraph‘ A decision to bar the Orange Order from part of the flashpoint Drumcree marching route is to be quashed, a High Court judge declared today.The outcome was reached after the Parades Commission conceded a procedural error …
“We recognised that sometimes its signature was written in pencil”
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is getting kudos from standing up to Trump in the US Canada trade negotiations. From the FT: Donald Trump has said he will increase tariffs on Canadian cars and automotive parts to 50 per cent …
Chambré Weekly Bulletin- 24/08/2026
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What you need to know Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously once said that “a week is a long time in politics” and nowhere is that seemingly truer than in Northern Ireland. This week, Robbie Butler was confirmed as Health …
Why Stormont’s failure to revenue raise is costing us all
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In June 2000, during a debate over departmental funding from Westminster, a former MLA gleefully remarked that the “injustices of direct rule were over” and that, with the Assembly now in control of its own affairs, local politicians “no longer [had] to go cap-in-hand to Northern Ireland …
Lough Neagh – One of the biggest ecological disasters to face the Island of Ireland…
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Philip O’Neill is a slugger reader from Belfast. We all like a good cause, an opportunity to put a right a wrong whether it be in sport, work, or even globally where we can donate to Concern or MSF and …