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WE SAY: New coalition government has no interest in the North

PERHAPS the most salient point about the shameful failure of the putative new Dublin coalition is its failure to address the unity question.

WE SAY: A health service on life support needs emergency intervention led from the top

WHEN the health of a loved one fails, it's time for a senior medic to step in and break the bad news.

WE SAY: It’s business as usual at No.10

THE decision by the British government to appeal a High Court order for a public inquiry to be held into the brutal murder of Bellaghy GAA official Sean Brown in 1997 is another sickening blow to a family who have spent over quarter of a century overcoming hurdle after hurdle in their battle for truth and justice.

WE SAY: Let’s hope for a reckoning in 2025

OVER three-quarters of a century after the human and political obscenity of the Nakba, the issue of Palestine remains as much an insult to the very concept of peace as it did when the first Arabs were expelled from their homes in a murderous rout.

WE SAY: New start on legacy is possible

WITH the clanging inevitability of Morecambe and Wise repeats on the BBC at Christmas, Michelle O’Neill’s Remembrance Sunday gesture has been thrown back in her face by the unionist media and elected representatives.

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.

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