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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Operation Brightside
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After the conclusion of last week’s episode of ‘Blue Lights,’ nerves were fraying on the loyalist Mount Eden estate as residents fretted about a possible paramilitary feud. (SPOILER ALERT!!) The shooting last week of Chris Corrigan’s Jim Dixon sent shockwaves …
Is Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf going to jump before he gets pushed?
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There are reports this morning that Humza Yousaf will quit as First Minister of Scotland. This follows the Green Party’s removal of support last week and a planned vote of no confidence. He has called a press conference for 12pm …
SDLP councillor Jason Barr resigns from party…
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Jason Barr is a councillor on Derry City & Strabane District Council. This morning he resigned from the SDLP and plans to continue as an independent. He posted a statement on Facebook this morning: Today I have resigned from the …
Andrew Muir – State should apologise to the LGBT community…
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DAERA Minister Andrew Muir has given a wide-ranging interview with Liam Tunney in the Beltel. Still, the bit that is being highlighted is his comments about the past treatment of the LGBT community. From the article: A recent BBC documentary …
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