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OPINION – ANDRÉE MURPHY: Ireland’s seat on UN Security Council should be platform for persecuted Palestinians

Last week Ireland was elected as a temporary member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and has the term for two years. The attempt to secure election has dominated the agenda of the Irish Department for Foreign Affairs (DFA) for the past two years. Fine Gael likes to be at the top table of […]

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OPINION – DR MICHAEL DONNELLY: Pandemic lockdown laws the envy of the Special Powers Act

In the week when Liverpool won the Premiership and northern Greens may help elect a rotating Taoiseach, the health minister appointed a management consultant to investigate the RQIA, our care homes regulator. Nine RQIA board members resigned after claiming they were not consulted on key decisions taken during the coronavirus pandemic. The person appointed to carry out […]

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OPINION – JUDE COLLINS: A rule of thumb for judging whether statues should stand or fall

Here, guess who said this: “We deny that it is a crime, or a wrong, or even a peccadillo to hold slaves, to buy slaves, to keep slaves to their work by flogging or other needful correction. We wish we had a good plantation well-stocked with healthy negroes in Alabama.” Right first time: John Mitchel, […]

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OPINION – LIAM MURPHY: Belfast has always had a proud anti-slavery tradition

Recent world events have deflected our attention from the Coronavirus pandemic. In a queue for a local Glengormley grocery  store, I recently overhead two women discuss the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. “It would put ye in mind o’ here in 1969,” one of them said.  “Aye, and I’ll tell you what, thon […]

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Tugtar cead d’iarrthóirí tearmainn bheith ag obair

Bhí sé mar sprioc ag Theresa May agus í i gceannas ar an Home Office timpeallacht dhoicheallach a chruthú d’iarrthóirí tearmainn. D’éirigh lena plean. D’éirigh go geal leis. De réir ‘A Prison Without Walls’, tuarascáil a scríobh an t-eagras Housing4All anuraidh, tá an córas iarrtha tearmainn ceaptha d’aon turas le daoine a fhágáil ar an […]

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OPINION: Migrant families, aslyum-seekers, hit hardest by loneliness and poverty in this time of Corona

THERE are many good things happening in the community. People are using their time to find out how they can support those who are in need. Of course, this has been the norm here in Northern Ireland for a long time but in the Corona times people have become more active in helping others despite […]

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