YOU ask yourself why it was that DUP Minister for Communities Gordon Lyons met with the LCC after Education Minister Paul Givan came under fire just a few days earlier and the answer comes back: Why wouldn’t he?

THEY may be better known for their exploits in the boxing ring, but Tommy McCarthy and Tyrone McKenna have been branching out recently and now they have written and starred in a comedy short they hope will pack a punch.

NEXT Tuesday an event will take place to commemorate the dramatic events which took place 50 years ago during and following the burning of Long Kesh on 15 October 1974.

IRISH Unity is the big idea that will positively transform society on this island. Its popularity is growing and the economic, political and social arguments in support of it are advancing each day. The recent interventions by former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar are an example of this. In June at the Ireland’s Future event in Belfast he said that the goal of a united Ireland had to be more than a “political aspiration.” It needed to become a “political objective”.

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