Alex Kane: Why Sinn Féin just keeps growing

IN about six months’ time – assuming their pre-cooked arrangements go to plan – Micheál Martin will step down in favour of Leo Varadkar.

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Tom Collins: Time to make Derry a university city

STRIKES are back in fashion.

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Editorial: Lessons to learn for Education Authority

AFTER the Independent Neurology Inquiry exposed alarming failings in the health service earlier this week, it has been the turn of the education system to have its governance put under the microscope.

Editorial: Reality check on protocol debate

Aeneas Bonner 23 Jun, 2022

THERE are fact checks and reality checks and the Brexit debate has received a welcome dose of both in recent days.

Editorial: Health service must show lessons being learned

22 Jun, 2022

"MICHAEL Watt failed us, the Belfast Trust failed us, the Department of Health failed us, the GMC failed every single patient caught up in this scandal.

Editorial: Health service cannot keep waiting

21 Jun, 2022

AS the focus of the NHS shifts to rebuilding services following the Covid emergency, the waiting list crisis stands front and centre.

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Not all votes in Assembly are equal

23 Jun, 2022

The unique feature of Alliance Party ideology is its belief in the existence of a distinctive northern Irish community or ‘third tradition’.

Decision to axe Twelfth coverage should have been done long ago

21 Jun, 2022

The decision by the BBC to axe live coverage of the Twelfth parades is to be welcomed by all right thinking people, and it is a decision which should have been taken a long time ago.

Sorry for bursting Brian Feeney's unification bubble

20 Jun, 2022

In Brian Feeney’s article (May 30), I was delighted to hear that Colin Harvey has had a eureka moment and has finally recognised the complexity of the unification journey, rather than the fantasy island stuff that has been churned out in the recent past.

Why doesn't Sir Jeffrey say what he really wants – a land border

17 Jun, 2022

Feed the crocodile and it will come back for more – sounds familiar.

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Tom Collins: Time to make Derry a university city

STRIKES are back in fashion.

Alex Kane: Why Sinn Féin just keeps growing

IN about six months’ time – assuming their pre-cooked arrangements go to plan – Micheál Martin will step down in favour of Leo Varadkar.

Newton Emerson: Protocol train is about to leave the station

23 Jun, 2022

“We’re going to slow it all down.

Patricia MacBride: DUP has backed itself into a corner

23 Jun, 2022

THERE might have been a chink of light in the Stormont impasse on Monday when the main political parties met to discuss what a programme for government might look like if or when the institutions are restored.

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