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WE SAY: PSNI boss has a choice to make

PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher finds himself at a crossroads – a place which he may or may not know to have a historically important place in the politics of the North.

WE SAY: Roads patience in short supply

THE desire for instant gratification is an entirely human trait – and one of our least attractive. And it’s that trait that lies behind the current round of whingeing and lecturing we’re witnessing about traffic gridlock in Belfast.

WE SAY: More of the same is such a shame

IN best Late Late Show fashion, there was something for everybody in the results of last Friday’s election down South when it came to the main three parties.

WE SAY: Change needed after this election

WHETHER Fine Gael will pay the price the polls suggest for a shockingly incompetent election campaign we won’t know until Sunday or Monday. But regardless of whether leader Simon Harris gets another go at the big job or not, the party’s arrogance and hubris will in future be a political case study in how not to win friends and influence people.

WE SAY: Winter payment must be quick

NEWS that Stormont has cobbled together a package that will allow pensioners in the North to receive £100 towards the cost of winter fuel is welcome – but that welcome comes of course with terms and conditions.

WE SAY: The past can work – if we let it

ANOTHER year, another toxic round of media angst and recrimination over the issue of remembrance.

WE SAY: It would be folly to ignore lessons of Trump triumph

The stunning victory of Donald Trump in the US Presidential election will usher in changes which will affect the entire globe - Ireland very much included.

WE SAY: DUP pretence tells a sorry tale

NEWS that the DUP had been secretly meeting with Sinn Féin while telling their supporters and everyone else who would listen that they weren’t is just another indicator of the jawdropping hypocrisy that was common currency as the peace process progressed.

WE SAY: Halloween danger looms again

ANOTHER Halloween season, another distressing tale of a child suffering serious injuries from a firework.

WE SAY: Yes, we can say two things at once

IT is entirely possible to point out that Sinn Féin need to learn lessons about recent controversies involving party reps and employees and at the same time point out – in week three – that the party is held to a standard so much more rigorous than other parties that it makes the mind boggle.

WE SAY: Community justice has its limits

THE worrying series of incidents that has taken place in recent days in the Suffolk Road area illustrates both the importance of a community spirit that mobilises to protect its most vulnerable and how that community spirit can easily morph into chaos.

WE SAY: UDA/UVF tolerance must end

THERE is something deeply, fundamentally wrong at the heart of this society when it comes to loyalist paramilitaries. And the thing that is wrong seems so deeply embedded that it’s hard to see what can be done to bring us to a place where we are all agreed that murdering drug-dealers can have no place in everyday life here.

WE SAY: Unionism scores predictable own goal with Casement

POLITICAL unionism knows full well what it has to do if it is to reverse the seemingly inexorable drift towards union’s end.

WE SAY: Inquiry will expose the British state's dark forces in Ireland

WHILE the announcement on Wednesday afternoon by Secretary of State Hilary Benn of an independent public inquiry into the 1989 murder of Pat Finucane can never be a cause for celebration, the Finucane family are entitled to at least take a breath and draw quiet satisfaction from this – the single most important victory to date in their long battle for justice.

WE SAY: 25th Aisling Bursary Presentation was triumph of hope and belief

THIS week's Aisling Bursary presentation in the magnificently reimagined St Mary's University College was West Belfast at its very best.

Gaelic Games: Antrim GAA outline a new five-year strategic plan

Jiu-Jitsu: ‘Godfather of Irish MMA’ Andy Ryan hosts masterclass

Basketball: Star edge Maree in nailbiter

NIFL Premiership: Larne strike late to deny Cliftonville long-awaited Inver victory

THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT: Win a copy of Bill Kirk's superb book of Falls memories

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DÚLRA: Council kids leading the green revolution

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