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Ed Curran
Why Maze stadium decision is a blow for integrated sport
So the Maze stadium is dust. I should have listened to my great friend Malcolm Brodie in the first place. After he read my column supporting the Maze project, he told me I was up a gum tree. It would never happen, he said.
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Inside Ed Curran
Ed Curran: Why Robinson is right to step back from a deal he cannot sell
Monday, 26 October 2009
Peter Robinson is correct to be concerned about the transfer of policing and justice powers from London to Belfast. This is one of those defining issues which illustrate the gap in understanding between unionists and nationalists.
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Will health service suffer most in Executive’s cuts?
Thursday, 22 October 2009
The Stormont well has finally run dry. When the Northern Ireland Executive
meets today it will be staring down a deep, dark, empty hole. The alarm
bells should be ringing in every home in Northern Ireland, but I doubt if
they are.
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Dear Hillary, I for one am grateful you and Bill meddled in our affairs
Monday, 19 October 2009
Thanks for coming - Ed meets Hillary Clinton at the City Hall. Her interest in Northern Ireland was crucial to helping us resolve our differences
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Will Cameron prove to be the saviour of the Ulster Unionists?
Monday, 12 October 2009
Rallying cry - David Cameron could help to revive the fortunes of his UUP allies
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Ed Curran: How media pressure has led to the sun setting on PM's career
Monday, 5 October 2009
So the Sun has gone and done it. The paper wot won it for Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair has bid goodbye to the chances of Gordon Brown.
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Ed Curran: Is the Stormont ship of state sinking fast before our eyes?
Monday, 28 September 2009
Another week passes and the good ship Stormont sails into even more dangerous
waters. Where it is heading nobody can be sure. The captain looks unhappy
and the crew are somewhere below deck locked in their respective cabins. Not
one, but several icebergs are floating on the horizon.
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Ed Curran: Stormont is paralysed, with both sides now further apart than ever
Monday, 21 September 2009
It's been a bad week for Ireland, north and south.
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Dear Peter and Martin, you’ve failed most of the tests so far...
Monday, 14 September 2009
So your extra long holiday is over and you’re back for a new term at
Stormont-on-the-Hill
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... and Stephen, you should show a little respect
Monday, 14 September 2009
Who is the First Minister of Northern Ireland — Peter Robinson or Stephen
Nolan? Where is the seat of political power — Parliament Buildings, Stormont
or Nolan’s BBC studio in Ormeau Avenue?
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Why we cannot airbrush Libyan legacy from history
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Perhaps, in the light of the controversy over the release of the Lockerbie bomber, we should revise the words of Flower of Scotland thus...
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If we can’t agree on our childrens’ education, what hope is there?
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
A 10-year-old girl listens as her parents explain to me how she hopes to gain
entry into a grammar school in Northern Ireland.
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Ed Curran: PSNI is out of step with the need for more street patrols
Monday, 31 August 2009
What are we to make of the Police Service of Northern Ireland? Not a lot by
its own admission.
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Ed Curran: Why we should remember Paul and all those lost summer days
Monday, 24 August 2009
August Bank Holiday Monday exactly 30 years ago was simply glorious. It
promised a rare respite from the dismal weather of that summer.
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Ed Curran: Dear Matt, it won’t be all plain sailing at the helm of the PSNI
Monday, 17 August 2009
Big responsibility — can new Chief Constable, Matt Baggott, win over the
public as well?
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Ed Curran: Why it is time for us all to get on the starting blocks for Olympics
Monday, 10 August 2009
On this day a year ago I was on my way to see the greatest show on earth. The
Olympic Games in China promised an experience never to be forgotten.
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Will they all still love the Orange Order until the Twelfth of Never?
Monday, 13 July 2009
The Orange Order is changing its tune at last.
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Why the pupils at Stormont on the Hill are not such a class act
Monday, 6 July 2009
Dear Caitriona, I am writing to you in your capacity as Education Minister to
give you a flavour of the June end of term reports at the new school on the
hill at Stormont.
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Why Murray really needs some True Brit to win at Wimbledon
Monday, 29 June 2009
The further Andy Murray progresses at Wimbledon, the more British he becomes.
I was struck by this phenomenon last week as I sat on the Centre Court
watching the young Scotsman's early victories.
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Golf resort has got the new Northern Ireland down to a tee
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Every now and then, Northern Ireland springs a surprise as it did for me last
weekend right on the border with the Republic.
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How we need political lions to tackle that Anglo-Irish divide
Monday, 15 June 2009
Is there a lesson in Northern Ireland politics to be learnt from the British
and Irish rugby team? It plays under a unified banner — the Scottish
Thistle, the Welsh Prince of Wales Feathers, the English Rose and the Irish
Shamrock. The team has an illustrious history of unified glory going back
many decades.
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