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Ed Curran

Hillsborough Agreement raises more questions than it answers

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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Inside Ed Curran

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.
Comments: 8

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?
Comments: 14

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?
Comments: 102

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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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
Comments: 8

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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