Mary McAleese throws the head up over lack of progress on GAA integration…
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For those not familiar with the situation, Gaelic games are split into three organisations: The main GAA The Ladies Gaelic Football Association Camogie (the female version of hurling) For years they have been trying to merge the three organisations into …
What on earth is going on with Royal Mail?
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It’s rarely out of the headlines. We seem to get one postal delivery a week. First and Second class? Forget that, nothing gets delivered on time unless it’s a parcel or other timed delivery service. Or does it? Have a …
Trump arrives in Ireland tomorrow…
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The Great Orange One arrives in Ireland tomorrow, causing a diplomatic headache for the Irish government. DFA are as smooth as the yard of silk but this visit will stretch even their legendary powers of diplomacy. President Catherine Connolly is …
Hanna: If we keep voting for the same politics, we shouldn’t be surprised when we keep getting the same outcomes.
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Claire Hanna MP is the Leader of the SDLP For too long, politics here has spent most of its time either looking to the past or dealing with the present, but rarely planning for the future. Reduced Assembly terms have …
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband imposes West Bank Sanctions…
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To some of us the choice of Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary by Andy Burnham was a surprising one. If you had to pick someone who was likely to get on with President Trump, a green energy, windmill-loving lefty like …
Something worth coming home for
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By Elizabeth Clarke MBE is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, a school governor, charity volunteer and mum of five. My son is thinking about moving to Australia next year. Part of me wants to tell him to go …
Health Reform: Do we have the right patient at the right place and the right time?
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Emergency general surgery left Enniskillen in December 2022, weeks after Stormont fell and with no minister in post to answer for it. Nearly four years on, the Trust says outcomes improved, its own consultants dispute the figures, and the regulator has quietly reversed the recommendation it once called urgent.
When there is no blind alley to go down, Northern Ireland always manages to construct one.
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A Garvaghy Road march in current circumstances would achieve little beyond sectarian turbulence. But the Parades Commission’s flawed decision-making has left it damaged goods too — and the way out is new appointments and a cultural accord governing all parades, protests and public events.
“If reasonable people don’t address reasonable voters reasonable concerns then unreasonable people will, and unreasonably…”
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I like this: Best comment on the FT I’ve seen for a while. Explains a lot of the last 14 years. I would probably edit to “ if reasonable people don’t address reasonable voters reasonable concerns then unreasonable people will …
Chambré Weekly Bulletin- 07/09/2026
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What you need to know The Assembly returns on Monday after an eventful summer recess that included two emergency committee meetings, one new health minister, and no Executive budget. Andy Burham, already back in the chamber at Westminster, promised to …