I READ a newspaper column by Fintan O’Toole. In it he argued that the handling of the pandemic by the southern state had been a turning point. “If Covid-19 had struck the world even five years ago, one of the first questions on the minds of Irish officials would have been: what is Britain doing?” […]
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OPINION – JUDE COLLINS: RTÉ aping its BBC betters shows how far we have yet to travel
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Happy 90th birthday to the Donegal man whose medical discovery saved millions of lives
SOME things happen by chance. In 1985, two men, one from Japan and the other from Donegal, were awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for the discovery of the anti-parasite drug ivermectin. That was in 1978, but it was a few years later before the two men met. Nobel laureate William Cecil Campbell (known as […]
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OPINION – ELLY ODHIAMBO: Britain’s Natural History Museum must return skulls of African fighters taken as trophies
SCHOOLS should be allowed to independently decide the content of their history syllabus. If some schools prefer to give their primary and high school children an emphasis on Eurocentric history, so be it. This choice should be allowed for schools that are determined to prepare their students by teaching in-depth histories of the world, especially […]
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South Belfast SDLP MLA presses case for local newspapers with Minister Murphy
SDLP MLA Matthew O’Toole has met with Finance Minister Conor Murphy to raise the issue of support for local newspapers. The South Belfast representative had earlier called on the Executive to take urgent action to preserve the vital role of local and regional media in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. The Coronavirus crisis has […]
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50 years on from Falls Curfew, William Burns, cut down at his front door by British soldier, is remembered
WILLIAM Burns (above) was the second person to be killed by the British Army during the Falls Curfew of 1970. The 54-year-old was a member of one of the best-known families along the whole of the Falls Road. He helped run a flourishing family business in Castle Street and, after its sale in 1968, two […]
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OPINION – ANDRÉE MURPHY: Irish government was blind to our heartbreak over Noah
THERE are times when partition hits home in a most sickening way. The past week in the North has yielded unending sadness and trauma with the disappearance of Noah Donohoe and the discovery of his body. Across the north of Ireland our airwaves and social media platforms were convulsed as we physically and spiritually joined […]
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