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DUP's video link claims dismissed

DUP claims that meeting Irish government ministers by video link rather than in person could help protect the environment were dismissed by Sinn Fein today.
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Inside Politics

DUP closes the door on ‘disloyal’ councillor

Friday, 19 March 2010

The DUP has closed the door on a former councillor who regrets quitting the party, it emerged last night.
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DUP likely to assume justice post

Friday, 19 March 2010

The DUP looks set to gain chairmanship of the Assembly scrutiny team which will monitor the new Justice Minister.
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The Ghost that cries for justice

Thursday, 18 March 2010

The only image most of us have of Jean McConville is of the sallow and tired face of a mother in black and white.
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David Ford: This is an opportunity for parties to move forward together

Thursday, 18 March 2010

In his first in-depth interview since the Assembly voted to trigger the transfer of Policing and Justice powers, David Ford tells Noel McAdam that delays in cases coming to court here are unacceptable and says that Alliance will drop its self-styled ‘opposition’ role after the crucial vote in just over three weeks
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Obama in pledge over ongoing peace process

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Barack Obama made a St Patrick’s Day pledge that America will remain “as supportive as possible in advancing the Northern Ireland peace process”.
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Investment on the menu at St Patrick's Day breakfast in America

Thursday, 18 March 2010

The long-standing political tradition of celebrating St Patrick’s Day far away from Ireland was fully observed by Northern Ireland’s top movers and shakers yesterday.
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SDLP secure Obama meeting

Thursday, 18 March 2010

The SDLP last night secured an eleventh hour meeting with the US President after it appeared the party leader would not get ‘face time’ with Barack Obama.
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First Ministers off to White House for talks with Obama

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

The First and Deputy First Ministers are due to meet with President Barack Obama today in the culmination of a series of meetings with US political and business leaders to coincide with St Patrick’s Day.
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Brown rejects EU criticism of efforts in tackling debt

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Gordon Brown last night rejected criticism from the EU Commission that the UK is not doing enough to tackle its spiralling deficit.
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Why did UTV’s Fearghal McKinney turn his back on television for politics?

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

For a man who’s hoping to persuade thousands of people to go to the polls to vote him into Westminster, Fearghal McKinney has made what, on the face of it, seems to be a strange confession.
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Marked divisions around issue of national identity

Monday, 15 March 2010

The findings of this poll highlight the marked divisions that exist in our community around the issue of personal national identity and that these divisions become even more marked when views on the sovereignty of Northern Ireland are sought.
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United Ireland poll: We are not at peace with ourselves

Monday, 15 March 2010

For both unionist and nationalist politicians, the new Belfast Telegraph poll contains reasons to be less than cheerful.
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Belfast Telegraph exclusive poll on United Ireland

Monday, 15 March 2010

New poll findings highlight a diversity of opinion over whether the province will still be part of UK in 2021
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Gordon Brown goes online to court the female vote

Monday, 15 March 2010

Gordon Brown wooed female voters yesterday by promising a new legal right for mothers to choose where they have their babies, including home births for those who want them.
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Arlene Foster: I’d stand aside at election for unionist unity

Monday, 15 March 2010

Arlene Foster claims she is willing to stand aside at the upcoming election to allow an agreed unionist candidate a clear run at winning back the Fermanagh/South Tyrone seat.
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I would sack Osborne, says Tory leader Cameron

Saturday, 13 March 2010

David Cameron has said he would be prepared to sack George Osborne from his government despite the close friendship between the men, the Tory leader insists in an interview tomorrow.
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Clegg warns Liberal Democrats to expect tough election

Saturday, 13 March 2010

Nick Clegg last night warned the Liberal Democrats that they faced the "biggest fight of our political lives" in the general election.
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Court bars BNP from accepting new members

Saturday, 13 March 2010

Emergency reforms to the membership of the British National Party (BNP) are discriminatory against non-white people and must be brought into line with UK law, a court has ruled.

Lady Hermon: UUP wrong on Hillsborough

Saturday, 13 March 2010

An internal rift between North Down MP Sylvia Hermon and the UUP leadership has deepened after she launched a scathing attack against the party’s stance over the devolution of policing and justice.
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CPS to decide on MP expenses case

Friday, 12 March 2010

The Crown Prosecution Service is to announce whether it will bring charges against another politician over the expenses scandal.
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• Brown gets right dunking over his cookie coyness

It is, I think, correct and fair to refer to Gordon Brown as a balloon, a numptie, a phoney, a nutter, a clot, a clown, a poltroon, an incompetent, a blusterer, a blowhard, a hypocrite, a mountebank, a cad, an oddball, a misfit, a bungler, botcher, blunderer, bumbler, duffer, galoot, fool, failure, nincompoop, wally, a five-star featherbrained drivelling dullard and, arguably, a jobbernowl.

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• We do not need to be told the truth. We need truth to be told

Why Bloody Sunday? There have been bigger death tolls. Fifteen Catholics in McGurk’s Bar in the New Lodge in Belfast the previous month. Eighteen Paras at Warrenpoint in 1979.

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• Why Church must confess all for sake of my abused friend

For evil to succeed it is only necessary that good men either do nothing ? or that they get the victims of evil to sign vows of silence promising never to reveal details of the terrible abuse they suffered.

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• Why this little pop tart fills me full of dread for our daughters

If you go on Lady Gaga’s website you can buy a T-shirt that says ‘I’m A Free Bitch’. The T-shirt isn’t free, however. It costs £19.99. I’m not sure what a ‘free bitch’ is, but I think it might be a prostitute that you don’t have to pay for.