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GERRY ADAMS: Bodenstown Sunday has put down many’s the marker for republican strategy

Like the Easter commemorations earlier this year this Sunday’s Bodenstown ceremony will take place online (www.sinnfein.ie). Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD, who has previously spoken at Bodenstown on three occasions, the last in 2018, will give this year’s keynote address. The Coronavirus restrictions make it impossible to hold the normal event with its […]

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OPINION – ANDRÉE MURPHY: British attempt to favour some victims over others is damningly predictable and devoid of civilised norms

THERE are lots of things this ‘peace process’ has thrown up I didn’t expect but these past few months have surely surpassed them all. Did you think 22 years after the signing the Good Friday Agreement that a former prisoner in a wheelchair would have to be expressing remorse to strangers before he would be […]

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BREAK A LEG AND GET PAID FOR IT: Brassneck Theatre company to fund uni scholarships

THE West Belfast Partnership Board are offering at least two Aisling Bursaries for young people to study the arts thanks to a kind sponsorship from Brassneck Theatre Company.  Now in its 20th year, the Aisling Bursaries are an education bursaries scheme delivered by the West Belfast Partnership Board to enable students to access further and […]

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DÚLRA: City living during lockdown is golden opportunity for our prettiest bird

Right in the heart of downtown Belfast, below one of its tallest tower blocks, sits the nest of one of our most beautiful birds. Dúlra visited the plaza outside BT Tower and the Hilton Hotel this week after a reader who works in an office there said he was always being entertained by the twittering […]

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OPINION- ANDRÉE MURPHY: Dark forces of British military intelligence tearing up legacy agreements

THERE are moments in the legacy debate when the issues at stake are lit up in lights. The past six months must be viewed as critical. We either take the soup or we demand our rights, it is as simple as that. December 2014 should have been when progress was made. All parties – and […]

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OPINION – DR MICHAEL DONNELLY: Time to call inquiry into Covid-19 care home nightmare

We have begun to reflect on the pandemic and what could have been done better, especially in our care homes — though politicians are keen to say that it is too soon. Would 1 August 1916 have been too soon to reflect on the poor leadership at the Battle of the Somme when so many […]

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