Differences between charges over McConville case and Bloody SundayOpinion: Peter Hain’s intervention came amid a flurry of futile debate about dealing with the pastThu May 08 2014 - 12:01
Why did so few mention irrationality at heart of papal canonisations?Opinion: Protests of clerical child abuse victims were drowned outThu May 01 2014 - 12:01
Marijuana tax windfall for schoolsOpinion: Fears for decriminalisation ‘catastrophe’ unfoundedThu Apr 24 2014 - 12:01
Clearing away the mush and gush of the State visitOpinion: Irish elite were celebrating their acceptance into a particular layer of societyThu Apr 17 2014 - 12:00
Controversy over ‘occupied territories’ climb-downOpinion: Battle for funding in Republican presidential campaignThu Apr 10 2014 - 12:01
Why are Catholic schools doing better than Protestant ones?Opinion: Poverty and community key issues in educational performanceThu Apr 03 2014 - 12:01
Peace brings no dividend to the poorest in the NorthOpinion: When it comes to community morale, Catholics doing better than ProtestantsThu Mar 27 2014 - 12:01
If we have to pick a side over Crimea, let it be RussiaObama’s interest in the region is dictated by US strategy for curbing Russian powerThu Mar 20 2014 - 12:01
Review of ‘on the runs’ will run into the groundOpinion: In Northern Ireland the law often comes second to political considerationsThu Mar 06 2014 - 12:01
Ali became the liberals’ favourite, but let’s not forget Smokin’ JoeOpinion: Frazier was discarded from the communal memory after Manila defeatThu Feb 27 2014 - 12:01
Gregory in a twist over success of H-block songOpinion: Campaign against journalist suggests sectarianism is still alive and wellThu Feb 20 2014 - 12:01
Seeger anthem showed civil rights marchers they could overcomeOpinion: Irish Americans with dollars were not keen on solidarity with African AmericansThu Feb 13 2014 - 12:01
Zionist ultras tend to see anti-Semites everywhereOpinion: Majority in Israel and majority of US Jews seem to dissent from extreme positionsThu Feb 06 2014 - 00:00
A network of ‘homes’, where children’s happiness was relentlessly destroyedOpinion: It was said the boys would find ease in heaven as they had certainly done their purgatory on EarthThu Jan 30 2014 - 00:00
How did the Holy See get recognition as a state? It just didOpinion: the cradle of the Catholic Church is a constitutional wraith and a scamThu Jan 23 2014 - 12:01
Sharon and Paisley shared a belief that their people were chosen by GodAmerican sermons related plight of Northern Protestants to that of Old Testament JewsThu Jan 16 2014 - 12:01
Bankers getting a legal high from the authorities’ unwillingness to prosecuteOpinion: It is highly implausible that branch managers were unaware that they were being used to launder drugs moneyThu Jan 09 2014 - 12:01
Northern Ireland taking failure of Haass talks with great equanimityOpinion: DUP unable to deliver as it has little influence over loyalist paramilitariesThu Jan 02 2014 - 12:01
Politicians finding it hard to keep up with the people on gay rightsOpinion: Contrary to perceived wisdom, the people of the North are liberal on ‘moral’ issuesThu Dec 19 2013 - 12:01
The lessons of peace learned in the North may not be that easy to exportOpinion: It is insulting to black South Africans to compare their experience to that of Catholics from the BogsideThu Dec 12 2013 - 12:01
Space for everyone in the history of the Negev – except the BedouinsOpinion: Settlement plan involves erasure of 35 villages and displacement of 70,000 peopleThu Dec 05 2013 - 12:01
If things fall apart in the North, don’t blame the flag protestersOpinion: Working class loyalists have only fond memories and fear of the futureThu Nov 28 2013 - 12:01
It’s not the first time the North’s Attorney General has strayed a little from his briefOpinion: If John Larkin’s views were not conservative on hot-button issues it is likely he would be regarded with less indulgenceThu Nov 21 2013 - 12:01
No place in Mr Poots’s garden for Adam and Steve or Ellen and EveOpinion: Northern Ireland system allows minister to dictate law in defiance of the courtsThu Nov 14 2013 - 01:01
Why disillusioned republicans breached IRA’s code of secrecyThe contradiction that ran through the Provisional movement explains the anger of Gerry Adams’s accusersThu Nov 07 2013 - 12:02
I spy with my little eye something that looks like hypocrisyOpinion: It is surprising that so many people seem surprised by the extent of surveillanceThu Oct 31 2013 - 12:01
It doesn’t do anything for me, but then what do I mean by meaningless?Opinion: Turner Prize at least gives us an opportunity every year to vent our scepticismThu Oct 24 2013 - 12:01
Church and Republican movement both saw themselves as slightly above the lawOpinion: Parallels exist between the way both organisations handled child abuse allegationsThu Oct 17 2013 - 12:01
Let us indeed celebrate Malala, but don’t forget the fate of Saudi Arabia’s womenOpinion: No Western country has called Saudis or Bahrainis to account over their repressionThu Oct 10 2013 - 12:01
It is the everyday harassment that shows the hatred behind official Israeli ideologyOpinion: US Jewish attitudes to Zionist state not as monolithic as some thinkThu Oct 03 2013 - 12:01
Iran’s president showing real magnanimity in extending a hand to ObamaOpinion: There is no evidence of any breach of international agreements by TehranThu Sept 26 2013 - 12:01
Bloody Sunday secrets taken to the graveEvidence allowed Cameron to make much-praised statementThu Sept 12 2013 - 01:00
Haass talks destined to end in fudge as they continue to endorse sectarianismOpinion: waving a flag or backing the Provos’ war is not the only possible identity markerThu Sept 05 2013 - 12:01
Let’s listen not just to Luther King’s dream speech but to all his ideasOpinion: Civil rights leader called for ‘eternal opposition’ to poverty, racism and militarismThu Aug 29 2013 - 12:01
Giving a big Irish welcome to America’s ‘assassination tsar’Opinion: Not so many people seem to care about rendition, torture and wire-tapsThu Aug 22 2013 - 12:01
Bradley Manning’s humanity will stand out, irrespective of what sentence he getsTelling people civilians are being killed seen as a bigger crime than killing civiliansMon Aug 19 2013 - 20:49
Belfast Agreement envisages shared future yet also entrenches religious divisionsOpinion: there is something more serious going on than just yobbos spoiling for a fightThu Aug 08 2013 - 11:59
DUP’s veto on progressive legislation gives Dr Paisley plenty to chuckle aboutVotes in institutions do not count unless one is affiliated to one or other ‘community’Thu Aug 01 2013 - 13:00
Women in the North too have to take the plane to get a terminationIt is still not possible to avail of a service which the courts have decreed is your rightThu Jul 25 2013 - 13:00
Marian Price and the lost documentLAWYERS FOR Marian Price will next week launch judicial review proceedings in the High Court in Belfast asking for her release…Sat Feb 18 2012 - 00:00
A 38-year wait for the truthOn Tuesday, the Bloody Sunday Inquiry will publish its 5,000-page report into the mass killing of protesters in 1972, an event…Sat Jun 12 2010 - 01:00
