Mitchell McLaughin has re-iterated Sinn Fein’s insistence that there will be no disarmament without the restitution of local democracy.

Aha! Our previous report that the Ireland Scotland bid for the 2008 European Football championship has to be amended with the latest development from UEFA. According to UTV and the Republic’s government, the bid, far from getting through, has actually …

For those of you with a nostalgic hankering for news of the last Secretary of State John Reid, he is now happily ensconced in his new role as party chairman of the Labour party giving advice to the Tory party!

Despite the on-going controversy over the failure to fund a new international stadium in Dublin and no clear indication as to whether Croke Park will be made available for the tournament, the joint Scottish-Irish bid to hold the European Football …

Stephen Farry of the Alliance Party is unhappy that the implementation group of Assembly parties may be sidelined by an SDLP proposal to bring in an international figure to broker a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland.

This Newsletter editorial contains a list of reasons why the UUP might be unwise to hitch their wagon to the British Conservative party.

The Archbishop of Glasgow, Mario Conti attacks the idea that existence of Catholic schools is a primary cause of sectarianism.

Brain Feeney has been watching the proceedings of the Policing Board closely, and finds the Unionist performance there wanting: “Watching unionists making such a poor fist of it in public sessions of the board has depressed Protestants and encouraged Catholics …

After a false start here, this discussion is resolving into something very interesting, and worth a read. Though remember this is an unmoderated bulletin board.

The Belfast Telegraph warns that the 50/50 recruitment rule will be impossible to hold if Sinn Fein approval of the PSNI doesn’t come soon: “The 50-50 rule, adopted as the only means of speedily correcting the imbalance in the PSNI, …