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Ed Curran

Swashbuckling Sir Reg finally delivers a shot across the bows

No matter how much positive spin is placed on the transfer of policing and justice powers to Stormont, concerns remain. Will what has not worked in the past be any better in the future?
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Inside Ed Curran

How terror trip taught me a lesson in airline safety

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Imagine flying across the Atlantic and coming to the conclusion that you might have a suicide shoe-bomber sitting beside you. It happened to me a week ago on what I can only describe as the most frightening flight of my life.
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Why the lack of transparency at the BBC is tarnishing its crown

Monday, 8 March 2010

The BBC has announced it is changing direction - but will it make any difference? It is important to note that the BBC is not saving £600m. The money is merely going to other core areas of broadcasting.
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Answer to parades row could lie in downtown New Orleans

Monday, 1 March 2010

I am standing in the eye of Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster to befall the United States.
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Where does joint co-operation end and joint authority begin?

Monday, 22 February 2010

What role did the Taoiseach Brian Cowen and his Foreign Minister Michael Martin play in the Hillsborough talks?
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Our leaders should learn from Mandela's brave leap of faith

Monday, 15 February 2010

If I had my way, I would have all 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly attend a special screening of the film Invictus in the Great Hall at Stormont.
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Hillsborough Agreement raises more questions than it answers

Monday, 8 February 2010

The Hillsborough deal is done, but is it really a done deal? I ask that question upon reading the agreement because the arrangement for the transfer of justice and policing is about the only certainty I can find within its carefully crafted wording.
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Dear Gordon, Big Brother wants a deal now ... get us out of here

Monday, 1 February 2010

Did my ears deceive me on a dark and dismal Northern Ireland night last week? I could have sworn I heard you screaming from an upstairs bedroom window at Hillsborough Castle: “I’m the Prime Minister — get me out of here.”
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Why we’ve only ourselves to blame for political nightmare

Monday, 25 January 2010

The spectre of Martin McGuinness as First Minister and Sinn Fein as the strongest party is surely starting to focus minds at Stormont.
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McGuinness as First Minister? Carson would turn in his grave

Monday, 18 January 2010

The question is not for whom will you vote. The really big issue facing Northern Ireland as the General Election looms is will you vote at all.
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Can two beleaguered leaders weather their political storms?

Monday, 11 January 2010

As I stood in the weekend snow and read the words inscribed on the plaque which marked the official opening by the Mayor of Castlereagh last May of the Lock Keeper’s Inn on the banks of the River Lagan, I couldn’t help but think of Peter and Iris Robinson.
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