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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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Trust me: if the Noughties were anything to go by, we're Dome-d
Monday, 4 January 2010
One little five-letter word sums up the last decade - greed. One element of life has gone missing - trust.
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Ed Curran: Why our airports would benefit from a bit of blue sky thinking
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
It’s Christmas time and the exiles are returning in their planeloads to the
land of their birth.
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Why the argument over Digital Britain is one Nelson must win
Monday, 14 December 2009
It's the year 2012 and time for your local evening television news on Channel Three. "Oh sorry, I made a mistake," says the announcer. "There isn't any news tonight and there won't be in future.
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Why Martin only had to say the word to make a good impression
Monday, 7 December 2009
Which current Stormont minister has impressed you the most? Which Stormont minister has disappointed you most? Those were the actual words of the questions asked of people in the Belfast Telegraph/Inform Communications poll.
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Clear the decks as the good ship Stormont heads for the shallows
Monday, 30 November 2009
We are rapidly reaching another watershed in the peace process not helped by the prospect of a general election. As the ballot boxes loom in 2010, Stormont's main parties retreat into their shells.
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The war in Helmand cannot be lost on the streets of Wiltshire
Monday, 23 November 2009
What would have happened to Northern Ireland in the 1970s if repetitive, round-the-clock TV news had been available to record all British Army deaths in Ulster?
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Big beasts prepare to battle it out in the survival of the fittest
Monday, 16 November 2009
It's nearly hibernation time for the folks on the hill at Stormont.
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Why defining identities is more than Armalites and Ulster Scots
Monday, 9 November 2009
If you think you're a unionist or a nationalist can you define what you mean?
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Why Maze stadium decision is a blow for integrated sport
Monday, 2 November 2009
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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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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