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East Antrim: Ukip can take advantage of anti-EU sentiment
- Politics
- April 13, 2016, 06:00
Expect to see the presence of Nigel Farage in some of the towns of East Antrim, such as Larne and Carrickfergus, during the Northern Ireland Assembly(...)

John Bruton: Home rule could have led peacefully to independence
- Opinion
- April 8, 2016, 01:00
Home Rule, already law, could have led this part of Ireland peacefully to the same fully independent position Canada enjoys today, had it not been der(...)

Addiction, not debt, the scourge on streets of Belfast
- Social Affairs
- April 8, 2016, 01:00
Catherine Kenny’s life ended in the doorway of an empty shop last month in Belfast on Donegall Place just metres from the city’s majestic City Hall. (...)

Eamonn McCann: A more liberal interpretation of the North’s abortion law
- Opinion
- March 31, 2016, 01:58
The Stormont Executive, last Friday evening, Good Friday, published its Guidance for Health and Social Care Professionals on Termination of Pregnancy (...)

The 1916 Proclamation is neither a sacred text nor a democratic constitution in embryo, but a hastily-improvised and fragmentary speech. Largely wri(...)

Northern secretary allocates €54m for integrated education
- Irish News
- March 23, 2016, 22:11
Northern secretary Theresa Villiers has provided British government funding of £43 million (€54.3 million) to support a number of shared and integrat(...)

View from the North: Mixed opinions on the meaning of 1916
- Irish News
- March 19, 2016, 01:00
History is not just history in a place like Lurgan. The Co Armagh town has not fully emerged from the Troubles and the vast majority of Protestants an(...)

Stormont to decide if gay men can give blood in North
- Crime & Law
- March 16, 2016, 13:10
Former Northern Ireland health minister Edwin Poots has succeeded in an attempt to overturn rulings that his ban on gay men giving blood was irrationa(...)

Adrian Ismay: Postmortem to decide if death treated as murder
- Irish News
- March 16, 2016, 01:00
A postmortem will be carried out on Wednesday on the remains of a prisoner officer injured in a dissident republican bomb attack in Belfast this mont(...)

‘Get out there and turn the tide,’ UUP election candidates told
- Politics
- March 13, 2016, 11:57
Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Mike Nesbitt says his party is fighting to win as many seats as possible at the Assembly elections on May. Howeve(...)