Robin Livingstone

Robin has been with the Andersonstown News and subsequently the Belfast Media Group for over 30 years. He began his career in journalism with the company writing cinema and TV reviews as a freelance before becoming a staff reporter and going on to be appointed editor of the Andersonstown News in 1993. He became Group Editor of the Belfast Media Group with responsibility for all titles in 2016. He's the author of The Road, a memoir about growing up in Belfast.

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Robin Livingstone: When did the DUP give Ulster Resistance their notice?

IT'S remarkable how many people I speak to who have no idea that Ulster Resistance weapons are still swirling around out there. There’s a sort of vague sense that the armed wing of the DUP was somehow part of the exhausting decommissioning process of the early noughties and that the massive arms shipment brought in from Lebanon in 1988 was covered in concrete or dropped into Beaufort’s Dyke from a squadron of Chinooks.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Online balaclavas can be a problem as well

I DON’T mind if people wear balaclavas on social media. As multiple DUP members said in the wake of BalaclavaFest in Scarva, people cover their faces for a host of reasons.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Scarva is a path to a difficult future

THE Ireland Palestine Solidarity Committee is walking past Scarva on Saturday afternoon. The march gets under way in Lurgan at 8.30am and makes the 30-odd journey to Omeath to draw attention to Israel’s continued genocide in Gaza.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: When did they turn the heat up at Windsor?

AS a sort of starter before the main summer course of bonfires and parades, the vexed issue of Catholics at Windsor Park is back on the agenda.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Save the Children – why won't unionists just say the words?

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Here and in Scotland, that Celtic penalty row is about much more than a referee's call

“THIS might be the worst VAR decision decision I’ve seen”.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Making any plans this summer?

I THINK those who erected the Bobby Sands statue in Belfast should have applied for planning permission. Why they didn’t is anybody’s guess. Perhaps they were concerned about it being knocked back by City Hall, although I can’t see that having happened.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Be careful what you wish for, brethren

LOYAL Ulster is getting more and more vocal these days about the pressing need to stop the promotion of terrorism.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: We all claim Rory – and that’s the trouble

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ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Weaponising culture isn’t a two-way street, it’s a motorway at rush-hour with one lane closed

I CAN’T say for sure if the Irish language has been hijacked by violent republicanism. Personally don’t think it has, but I can’t – even as someone with as fine a Planter name as mine – put myself in the shoes of a Protestant or unionist who thinks it has. I’m going to accept that’s how they feel about it if people who I know to act in good faith tell me so. Although of course I retain the right to exercise extreme scepticism in the case of bucketmouths, louts and microphone-chasers.

Robin Livingstone

Latest Stories

Robin Livingstone: When did the DUP give Ulster Resistance their notice?

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Online balaclavas can be a problem as well

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Scarva is a path to a difficult future

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: When did they turn the heat up at Windsor?

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Save the Children – why won't unionists just say the words?

Here and in Scotland, that Celtic penalty row is about much more than a referee's call

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Making any plans this summer?

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Be careful what you wish for, brethren

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: We all claim Rory – and that’s the trouble

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Weaponising culture isn’t a two-way street, it’s a motorway at rush-hour with one lane closed

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: The council, the press and the Toby jugs

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: A Christmas toy story

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: That Gerry Adams IRA evidence in full

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: This one calls for a committee Columbo

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: DUP: Why the hell didn’t the Chucks come with us?

Soccer: Reds enjoy back-to-back wins after victory at Ports

Gaelic Games: Lámh Dhearg host Senior Awards night at Beechlawns

CELTIC STORIES: German pints and derby drama in what may be a season-defining week for the Hoops

Soccer: Cliftonville earn huge win over title chasing Linfield

Trócaire condemns acts of war in the Middle East

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: DUP: Why the hell didn’t the Chucks come with us?

SQUINTER: I'm back in Dougie’s good books

DÚLRA: Five-star peregrines look down on us from above

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