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The days of the nationalist community having their rights ignored are over

The days of the nationalist community having their rights ignored are over

By Pat McArt
The IRA lost the war and now Sinn Féin is losing the peace

The IRA lost the war and now Sinn Féin is losing the peace

By Patrick Murphy
The world is finally turning on Israel’s odious government

The world is finally turning on Israel’s odious government

By Brian Feeney

How the Parades Commission decided a trouble-free Drumcree march was possible

How the Parades Commission decided a trouble-free Drumcree march was possible

Our Saturday columnist offers his inimitable take on the stories making the news this week

By Newton Emerson
I thought buying a house was the hard part until I tried to sort the electricity

I thought buying a house was the hard part until I tried to sort the electricity

By Sophie Clarke
The great Tyrone badger relocation scheme

The great Tyrone badger relocation scheme

By Fabien McQuillan
Drumcree crisis may have consequences far beyond Portadown

Drumcree crisis may have consequences far beyond Portadown

By Chris Donnelly
People-smuggling gangs must face the full force of the law - The Irish News view

People-smuggling gangs must face the full force of the law - The Irish News view

By The Irish News
The peace process is only as strong as the British-Irish relationship

The peace process is only as strong as the British-Irish relationship

By Denis Bradley
Fr Dominic McGrattan: France’s embrace of Pope Leo shows something is stirring in secular Europe

Fr Dominic McGrattan: France’s embrace of Pope Leo shows something is stirring in secular Europe

By Fr Dominic McGrattan
People-smuggling gangs must face the full force of the law - The Irish News view

People-smuggling gangs must face the full force of the law - The Irish News view

There should be no confusion with the small number of asylum seekers who remain in the north totally legally


Chris Donnelly: Drumcree crisis may have consequences far beyond Portadown

Chris Donnelly: Drumcree crisis may have consequences far beyond Portadown

Once protests begin, it may be difficult to stop them spreading to other areas of the north


Fr Dominic McGrattan: France’s embrace of Pope Leo shows something is stirring in secular Europe

Fr Dominic McGrattan: France’s embrace of Pope Leo shows something is stirring in secular Europe

One of Europe’s most secular countries witnessed an extraordinary public expression of Catholic faith


Sarah Creighton: Drumcree is a f*** you to nationalism. Is this really what victory looks like for unionism?

Sarah Creighton: Drumcree is a f*** you to nationalism. Is this really what victory looks like for unionism?

If the Drumcree parade is forced down the Garvaghy Road, our peace process will lie in tatters on the tarmac


Dolores Kelly: ‘Drumcree has opened up the scars. The pain is real’

Dolores Kelly: ‘Drumcree has opened up the scars. The pain is real’

Former SDLP assembly member Dolores Kelly describes how residents of the Garvaghy Road have been retraumatised this week


Ormeau Road shows a better way forward on flags is possible - The Irish News view

Ormeau Road shows a better way forward on flags is possible - The Irish News view

Events of recent days demonstrate how quickly old wounds can be reopened when cultural issues are treated as battles to be won


Newton Emerson: The solution to the next Stormont collapse? Keep calm and carry on

Newton Emerson: The solution to the next Stormont collapse? Keep calm and carry on

London and Dublin need a well-defined Plan B that neither side’s hardliners find appealing


Charlotte Blease: North’s new curriculum is missing a vital subject

Charlotte Blease: North’s new curriculum is missing a vital subject

Give a child an answer and you educate them for a day; teach them philosophy and they’ll be equipped for a lifetime


Search for justice for Martin O’Hagan must be intensified - The Irish News view

Search for justice for Martin O’Hagan must be intensified - The Irish News view

Prominent journalist was murdered by loyalists 25 years ago this week


Alex Kane: No Drumcree mediator can fix a politics built on mutual hatred

Alex Kane: No Drumcree mediator can fix a politics built on mutual hatred

No matter what happens now, I don’t see how collapse of Stormont is avoidable


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‘I don’t want to be the one to drop the ball’: How a sixth-generation farmer is securing the future of her family’s Co Down farm

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