There’s something about Church of Ireland people that I tend to like. The late Canon Eric Elliot, for example, whom I knew reasonably well, was as modest and Christian a man as you could encounter.
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Mild manners don’t hide bigotry or revisionism
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Pulpit thumpers replaced by op-ed writers
Well, pulpit-thumping priests may be less usual these days but there’s no shortage of finger-pointing columnists and editorial writers.
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No surprise that Heath is a British hero
John Kelly is angry. His brother Michael was killed on Bloody Sunday in Derry and he’s now heard that a commemorative stone is to be erected in Westminster Abbey to the late Ted Heath, prime minister at the time.
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Changing tunes on the Easter Rising
When the seemingly-defeated men of 1916 were led away, we’re told, the public mood against them was strong.
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Underpinning prosperity as well as the peace
I’m already settled with my teapot and mug in the Cultúrlann when Inez McCormack joins me. She’s on her way to
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Lessons learned from cross border cooperation
You could have predicted it would come from John O’Dowd, couldn’t you?
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