Mick Fealty

Rough Beast: One woman’s ordeal at the coarse hands of Provisionalism in the shadow of the peace process

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Máiría Cahill begins and ends with an apt choice of words from Yeats’ famous poem, The Second Coming, both for the title but also a deft epilogue that references “the drowning of innocence” and closes the final chapter of her …

Brian O’Neill

Sit up straight and smile, the rich yanks are in town…

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It is all smiles up at Stormont today for the Senior US Business Delegation event. The Speaker Alex Maskey leads the @USAmbUK Jane Hartley, @USEnvoyNI Joe Kennedy III and party leaders @moneillsf, @J_Donaldson_MP, @naomi_long, and @BeattieDoug into the Great Hall …

Terry Maguire

Codeine – The Real Opium of the Masses…

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In June 2022 the Department of Health (DoH), invited pharmacies with high sales of codeine containing painkillers to a Zoom meeting. Being on the invitation list itself was a cause of concern I thought as I dialled in. I was …

Queen’s Policy Engagement

The importance of urban green and blue space and nature based solutions…

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By Niamh O’Kane & Bakul Budhiraja from the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen’s. Cities are at the forefront of climate change, with increases in extreme weather events, flooding and heatwaves, as well as biodiversity loss and air …

Arnold Carton

Beyond Black and White: The Complexities of Morality…

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Many Protestants of my generation (over 60) will have had a similar upbringing to myself, attending Presbyterian Sunday School each Sunday at 10:30 and then the main church service from 11:30 to 12:30. Despite the fact that attendance was compulsory …

Brian O’Neill

Steve Baker says a United Ireland referendum should need a ‘super majority’…

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The Northern Ireland minister also said he now regrets that the UK’s Brexit vote did not require support of 60 per cent of those who voted. From the Irish Times: Mr Baker, one of the leading figures behind the leave …

Paul Gosling

The other waiting list crisis

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When waiting lists are discussed and shouted about in Northern Ireland, we are usually talking about our disintegrating healthcare system. But there is a second waiting list crisis – that of households seeking social housing. As at March of last …

Brian O’Neill

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.

Brian O’Neill

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.

Frank Schnittger

Rugby Preview: Ulster, Connacht, Munster and Leinster back in action…

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United Rugby Championship: Round I  Zebre vs. Ulster Sat. Oct. 21st. 13.00  Connacht vs. Ospreys Sat. Oct. 21st. 15.00  Munster vs. Sharks Sat. Oct. 21st. 17.15  Glasgow vs. Leinster Sun. Oct. 22nd. 16.00  Right on cue, the URC makes it’s …

Ian Clarke

The opportunity grown up Unionism needs to grasp…

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I submitted this article  six months ago and three or four weeks after the announcement of the Windsor Framework.  The essence of it – from an unapologetically pro-union perspective –  was that  Jeffrey Donaldson had stalled very quickly in his …