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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.

WE SAY: Jekyll and Hyde loyalist bands

SATURDAY sees the annual Brian Robinson Memorial Parade celebration on the Shankill. And celebration it most certainly is, going by the past footage, which shows the event to be rambunctious and supremacist in nature, with many bands giving it their kick-the-Pope best.

WE SAY: Sinn Féin bowing to populist pressure

FIRST Minister Michelle O’Neill has been defending her decision to green-light the banning of puberty-blockers by Health Minister and soon-again-to-be UUP leader Mike Nesbitt.

WE SAY: Old unionist guard wins the day – again

“I MUST also acknowledge that some did not agree with the direction and path I set for the party and the vision I promoted. I hope they can see that in the long term only an inclusive Ulster Unionist Party, promoting a positive message, can secure our future. I hope the new leader is given the freedom to act.”

WE SAY: Supporting newcomer small businesses to drive economic uplift

THERE are many reasons to decry the loyalist racists whose recent actions have left a stain on our city.

Gallery: Hannahstown a hive of fun and energy

Boxing: Quinn to fight for Commonwealth honours on the June 28 'Belfast Brawl'

Gaelic Games: Vital fixtures for clubs as hurling heads towards the split

Gaelic Games: Gleeson to take time before deciding his future with Antrim

THE WEEK IN VIEW: Lies, damned lies and stupidity

SQUINTER: Live and dangerous! Not any more as GB News pull the plug

DÚLRA: We’re going raven bonkers in the city centre

HEALTHWISE: Spread it around: Margarine gets the nod over butter

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