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Kneecap and Boris Johnson have a lot in common irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/…

Fintan O’Toole: Kneecap and Boris Johnson have a lot in common

Kneecap have every right to make political interventions but they have to recognise they are not mere performance. The fun of “putting it out there” stops when what is out there is violence

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Kneecap and Boris Johnson have a lot in common irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/…

Fintan O’Toole: Kneecap and Boris Johnson have a lot in common

Kneecap have every right to make political interventions but they have to recognise they are not mere performance. The fun of “putting it out there” stops when what is out there is violence

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sluggerotoole.com/2025/03/26…

MI5 ‘s blanket “Neither Confirm Nor Deny” on Stakeknife is absurd and under pressure to change from...

John Ware has form as a leading investigator into the Troubles for BBC Panorama, including the Stakeknife record and responsibility for the Omagh bomb.  His relentless account in the Irish News of...

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BBC News - Famine graves set to be publicly marked bbc.com/news/articles/c62g7j…

Belfast: Hidden famine graves set to be publicly marked

Belfast City Council is planning to recognise the burial ground thousands of people who died during the Irish famine in Belfast.

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The UK government has found itself in confrontation with the courts over the future of legacy law,...

Sir Declan Morgan, Chief Commissioner, Legacy Commission The Sean Brown case is a perfect example of  what can happen when a the legal vacuum is left by the delay in cancelling one Legacy Act  and...

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Willingly or not the BBC is implicated in this suit if it allegedly happened on air. Did Nolan ask for or need permission? irishnews.com/news/northern-…

Seriously ill woman being sued by Stephen Nolan describes libel case as ‘unnecessary and unwanted’

BBC broadcaster suing woman fighting serious illness for defamation

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Why is NI the UK outlier on testing? Hand it over to accredited private garages! ://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/five-years-after-11m-contract-signed-vehicle-testing-lanes-at-new-centre-to-be-ripped-up-and-replaced-R6TMFKKOUNCVJF53IDXSI426WY/
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Shrimsley misses key points. Is it right that a single judge has the discretion to choose the harshest penalty against le Pen? And doesn't electing state judges in the US make them vulnerable to politicisation?
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What is the CofE still concealing about abuse? Welby's abject interview only deepens the mystery of its extent. The Church is still failing to take responsibility quite deliberately not because they are "overwhelmed."
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Oh God! The "John Lewis retail experience". What can possibly go wrong? Stick to the USP- great service from the partners, seldom equalled elsewhere theguardian.com/business/202…

Secondhand Prada and cooking lessons? John Lewis gambles £800m on store makeovers

The retailer plans a dramatic rethink of the chain, to include spas, boutiques and talks by authors, after deciding ‘shops are here to stay’

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Sam Mc Bride doesn't have to re-invent the wheel all on his own. North and South project aims to present unbiased information on unification question irishtimes.com/politics/2023…

North and South project aims to present unbiased information on unification question

Surveys examine state of public opinion in the Republic and Northern Ireland

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I was ignorant of this Victorian era burial ground on the Grosvenor road for workhouse people. Of course it should be commemorated. Also shockingly ignorant that "thousands" were Famine victims. Is this clearly established?
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The EU Commission replies to Trump's tariffs on behalf of Ireland. But with the vulnerably high level of US investment and with a strong Irish American lobby, I bet Irish ministers would privately like to argue their own special case, like Martin in the Oval.
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Oh no Samir. Not more "analysis" than goals on post- Lineker MoD. The show gives a fair view of play with goals only online. Casual fans don't want to spend all day watching matches live.
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Alliance's niche should be to support the GFA settlement for both nationalities to co- exist equally and reject the binary choice as too divisive. The present stance is a cop-out.
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This mitigation of Windsor Framework conditions requires writing EU law into British law. Starmer is set a huge problem. He won't want it to set a precedent for the terms of a re-set for smoother trade with the UK
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The rule of law is democracy’s last defence — that’s why populists attack it - on.ft.com/42dOsyp via @FT
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The most pathetic ( I.e. full of pathos) plea I've read for a better Stormont. No one loses votes for stalling government in this " mandatory" coalition, only for rare concessions in identity politics And yet there is no alternative.. irishnews.com/opinion/i-dont…

I don’t expect perfection... I just want Stormont to do better

In the absence of a jointly agreed Programme for Government, we are always going to have epic-scale incompetence, incoherence and overspending

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Ireland fears EU response to US tariffs could hit tech sector irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/…

Ireland fears EU response to US tariffs could hit tech sector

European Commission preparing a range of responses to Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ announcement

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The proposed new Man U stadium designed by Foster looks like a beached jellyfish. With even staff's free lunches being cut to save money, can they really raise the private revenue to match public funding for wider S Mcr regeneration?
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