Courts must protect women

Main leader It is impossible to ignore the wider significance of the separate cases which came before our courts in the space of 24 hours last week involving the cruel murders of Emma Jane McParland, Patrycja Wyrebek and Jennifer Dornan.

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Editorial: Voters deliver clear message to Johnson

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Editorial: Lessons to learn for Education Authority

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Editorial: Reality check on protocol debate

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Editorial: Health service must show lessons being learned

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.

Action needed over drug and mental health death toll

20 Jun, 2022

It can only be regarded as profoundly shocking that six young men who were all from the homeless community in Belfast have died in the space of little over two weeks as the result of drug overdoses.

£2 litre of fuel demands urgent action on cost of living

18 Jun, 2022

EVEN by the dismally Trumpian standards of Boris Johnson and his lacklustre cabinet, this has been a week in which the government has got its priorities entirely wrong.

Editorial: Covid cases reason for caution

17 Jun, 2022

ANECDOTAL evidence would suggest that while the Covid pandemic no longer dominates news headlines or public discourse, cases are certainly on the rise again.

Editorial: Only talks will resolve protocol row

16 Jun, 2022

THE EU's announcement of legal action against the UK Government over its plan to ditch large parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol was inevitable as soon as the bill was published this week.

Editorial: Ballymurphy compensation rights another injustice

15 Jun, 2022

AN agreement on compensation for relatives of people shot dead by British soldiers in what became known as the Ballymurphy Massacre has finally rectified another injustice more than 50 years on.

Editorial: Boris Johnson taking a reckless gamble over protocol

14 Jun, 2022

Proposed legislation ditching parts of the Northern Ireland protocol shows Boris Johnson's reckless disregard for not only international law but also the relationships that underpin the Good Friday Agreement.

BBC decision on July 12 coverage was fair

13 Jun, 2022

The Orange Order has a major presence in our divided society, and, even if its membership has been declining dramatically, it retains a firm ability to influence discussions within the Protestant and unionist tradition.

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