Monthly Archives: October 2025

Heather Humphreys’ big missed opportunity: to be the candidate of the whole Irish people

If the opinion polls are right, it looks as though Catherine Connolly will win tomorrow’s Irish presidential election by a distance. I believe Heather Humphreys missed a big opportunity: to take on some of John Hume’s mantle and put herself … Continue reading

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Belfast is not Gaza: we should be grateful for our extraordinary and hard-won peace

As I write, we are waiting for Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released as part of the first phase of the miraculous peace agreement in Gaza brokered triumphantly by President Donald Trump. And I am reading a New … Continue reading

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