Martin Lynch
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How do you write a feelgood musical about the Miami Showband massacre?
- Culture
- February 20, 2019, 12:00
How do you write a happy-clappy, feelgood musical, complete with singalong numbers, when the story includes an atrocity? There’s a slight doubletake (...)

Silos, secrecy and quiet deals: How dysfunction became Stormont’s norm
- Irish News
- January 13, 2019, 16:12
Two years ago, following days of political fever, a tiny group of journalists was called hurriedly to Martin McGuinness’s office in Stormont. There th(...)

The Lyric Theatre at 50: a cultural bridge in a divided city
- Stage
- October 29, 2018, 05:00
Belfast’s Lyric Theatre is 50 years old. What began as a personal crusade and grew into an important cultural movement is now one of Ireland’s leading(...)

Sinn Féiners are now getting used to a leadership that is not only chromosomally different to what went before – but a leadership where the top post h(...)

Sinn Féin meeting that brought political crisis to a head
- Politics
- January 23, 2017, 15:43
Inside the Felons Club in west Belfast the mood was immediately obvious. On a Saturday afternoon in early January several hundred republicans packed (...)