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TUAIRIM: NÍL A MBRIARTHRA AGUS A MBEARTA AG TEACHT LENA CHÉILE
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OPINION – Andrée Murphy: Devastating impact of post-truth era is only starting to be felt
THE Dominic Cummings spectacle cannot be reduced to our view of two road trips during pandemic lockdown. We must look at the far-reaching implications of what is happening. We are living in an era where truth is not expected to be spoken, exposing lies does not have devastating implications and law can therefore be subverted […]
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OPINION – GERRY ADAMS: In the spirit of Martin McGuinness, let’s do our best to be our best
I REMEMBER Martin McGuinness, in response to a question, telling a journalist that he expected to be dead before he was twenty five. I told the same journalist the same thing. That’s the way it was in the 1970s when Martin and I first met the British government in an effort with others to negotiate […]
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OPINION – JUDE COLLINS: Gerrymandering hasn’t gone away, you know
I DID a Zoom interview last week with Colm Gildernew MLA (yes, Virginia, brother of the more famous Michelle G) on the subject of electoral boundaries. I’d talked to him about this subject a couple of years ago, so it was interesting to see how this most sensitive of topics had developed since. To begin […]
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OPINION: British have torpedoed legacy payments scheme by targeting victims of state collusion
For anyone who cares to peel back the veneer the matter of who funds a payments scheme for the injured isn’t the only issue to be resolved In 2019 Relatives for Justice made a submission to an NIO consultation on the need for a payments scheme for those injured during the conflict. In our response […]
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OPINION: Government resources are finite but I hope it can support the most trusted medium of all in this crisis: newspapers
Unlike many businesses, local newspapers serving communities rocked by the pandemic didn’t have the option of shuttering operations during the lockdown – because they wanted to keep publishing to bolster the community during the emergency. The Belfast Media Group is proud to be among those publishers. In many countries and regions, the media is viewed […]
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