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Thanks Jonathan Ross, for making BBC clean up the airwaves

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:55:35 GMT

It’s an ill wind ... I am hopeful that a new sense of responsibility and concern for public taste will now emerge out of the ashes of the broadcasting standards which you and your friend, Russell Brand, set on fire.

Will the Tories pull unionism out of the political doldrums?

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:46:14 GMT

Shaking hands as I did last week with the Conservative leader, David Cameron, I had the chance to ask him about his aspiration to link his party to the Ulster Unionists.

Dear Peter and Martin, have you no shame as people go to the wall?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:33:04 GMT

Not long to go now before Stormont is on its holidays again. I refer to the 108 folks on the hill.

Dear Barack, I had a dream, too, but it’s hard to rest easy over here

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:00:56 GMT

Dear Barack, I had a dream ...I had a dream during the past momentous week.

It is now time for the US to nail its colours to the mast

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:22:01 GMT

Not since the days of John F Kennedy in the 1960s have we seen anything like it.

GAA patriot games are raising new tensions

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:22:56 GMT

My comments on the GAA a couple of weeks ago drew a surprisingly large response on the Telegraph website.

Look behind you! Stormont is set for performance of the year

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:32:40 GMT

With only 65 days to Christmas, I can reveal that the most expensive pantomime ever held in Northern Ireland is being staged at Stormont.

The travesty of Toulouse

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:33:24 GMT

Patrick Bamford was just another face in the crowd packed into Belfast's Ravenhill rugby ground on Saturday for the European Heineken Cup match. He was much more than that 21 months ago at another game in the south-west France city of Toulouse.

Why it is time for the GAA to start playing on a wider field

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:00:27 GMT

How do you view the GAA today? Not so long ago, such a question might have filled the letters column of the Belfast Telegraph or led to jammed switchboards at the BBC or UTV, if they dared broadcast a match.

Dear Ms Ruane, can anyone stop your education reforms now?

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:53:13 GMT

Testing times — 24,000 10-year-olds are studying hard without knowing what kind of exam or assessment awaits them next year

Why it’s time for MLAs to get real and fight financial crisis

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:00:17 GMT

Hasn't the last week been unreal from start to finish? Billions have been wiped off the stock markets of the world. A great bank has gone bust and others hover on bankruptcy.

Dear Gordon, enjoy your trip but give our Executive a good grilling

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:00:10 GMT

I didn't intend to write to you again so soon after my letter last week. However, since you are coming over to Northern Ireland tomorrow to see Stormont for yourself, I thought I should mark your cards in more detail.

Ed Curran: Dear Gordon, make MLAs see sense and save us from Nolan

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:16:58 GMT

In the midst of all your other woes, I am writing to you about the people who are charged with governing us at Stormont. Remember Northern Ireland? The place you visited before the summer for an investment conference?

Ed Curran: Why is it always raining in Northern Ireland newsrooms?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:46:37 GMT

Well, that was the summer that was. Or should I say: wasn't! I missed the worst of August thankfully through being on holiday in eat-your-heart-out, sun-kissed France, followed by the Olympics in Beijing.

Ed Curran: Why the 2012 London Olympics offer us a real sporting chance

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:38:10 GMT

Those of us who were privileged to be at the Beijing Olympics can be certain we will never see such an extraordinary extravaganza again. No country, not even the United States, not even a Roman Abramovich Russia, could afford what the Chinese did.

Ed Curran: The inspirational night that saw the Olympics soar to new heights

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:30:53 GMT

It was quite frankly the greatest sporting experience of my life. To be in the Olympic stadium on Saturday night around 10.30pm Beijing time and to witness the fastest man on Earth.

Ed Curran: It’s easy to sense China’s iron fist

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:55:40 GMT

With a rattle of thunder and a flash of lightning, Beijing played host to the Olympic Games yesterday in its downtown silk market.

Joy as Campbell rows through to Olympic final

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:07:31 GMT

It was a moment to savour when Northern Ireland’s Alan Campbell guaranteed his place in an Olympic final yesterday afternoon about 20 miles north of Beijing.

Modern Beijing lives up to its promise

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:19:11 GMT

Nothing that the television pictures have transmitted can truly convey the magnitude of Beijing which I saw for the first time today.

Ed Curran: Modern Beijing lives up to its promise

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:13:31 GMT

Nothing that the television pictures have transmitted can truly convey the magnitude of Beijing which I saw for the first time today.

Ed Curran: Why it’s difficult to see clearly through thick fog of confusion

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:50:51 GMT

Air quality in Beijing is a hot topic for international news reportersI’m off to witness the Olympic spectacle in Beijing and only sorry that my trip did not take in the awesome opening ceremony which surpassed any before. It’s clear to the world that no stone has been left unturned in Beijing to enable China to set out its stall.

Ed Curran: It’d be great if these men win like Mary, but there is a bigger prize

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:44:06 GMT

As I pack my bags for Beijing this week, my thoughts drift back to August 1972 in downtown Belfast. I was on my way to interview a woman in her early 30s who was just about to become a star.

Why we should beat the drum to make Twelfth even bigger

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:00:47 GMT

It was old but it was beautiful and its colours they were fine ... but in all the 318 years since the actual Battle of the Boyne, The Sash My Father Wore has never been like this.

Ed Curran: Could the Maze stadium really cost more than the Olympic one?

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:00:32 GMT

I am looking forward next month to attending what the BBC are billing as 'the biggest show on Earth' — the Olympic Games in faraway Beijing.

Ed Curran: Dear Gerry, now is the time for SF to get a facelift

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:00:50 GMT

It's time to take stock of Sinn Fein. For a moment, I wavered as to whether to direct this open letter to you or your colleague, the Deputy First Minister.