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Gail Walker

Gail Walker, Belfast Telegraph

Michael‘s star shines on despite all the scandals

When it all comes down to it, it's a gang of paramedics hammering on the chest of someone who's collapsed in their home.
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Northern Ireland loves to run on hatred

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Why the uproar at Esther Rantzen's remarks that we are addicted to violence?
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Why MRSA is still more scary than swine flu

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Having almost — but only almost — generated worldwide panic with their daily bulletins and mounting hysteria over Swine Flu only two months ago, the World Health Organisation have now had another try.
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A Brown Witch Project? It’s the old boys’ club that spooks me

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Maybe it's because I'm a ditzy-headed woman but I'm confused about this ‘Is Gordon Brown sexist?' row.
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Why it’s going to be a good election for Apathy Party

Tuesday, 2 June 2009

This Thursday I shall finish work, put on my coat, get in my car and drive some distance to cast my vote in this year's Euro election.
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Peter Robinson's right to stop MPs doing the double

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Isn't it amazing what a little bit of people power can do — even here in old fuddy duddy Northern Ireland?
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Why are the old mums so disliked, but not old dads?

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Well, 66-year-old mum-to-be Elizabeth Adeney’s decision to have a child has certainly caused a storm.
Comments: 6

Why it’s payback time for our high on the hog MPs

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Parliament is being rocked by an expenses scandal as stomach churning as it is decadent.
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The writing is on the wall for would-be MEPs

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Zipping along in the car you see one. Next day there's dozens dancing merrily in the breeze.
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The writes and wrongs of George Best story

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

The furore surrounding Sunday's BBC2 screening of Best: His Mother's Son, written by Terry Caffola, is a timely reminder that the line between the public and the private is a very fine one indeed.
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How talented Susan Boyle exposes our shallow side

Tuesday, 21 April 2009

The reaction to ‘nearly 47-year-old’ Susan Boyle's appearance on Britain's Got Talent has become a global phenomenon.
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Why women have a screen sell-by-date

Tuesday, 14 April 2009

If they were seals, there'd be massed rallies at Belfast City Hall.
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It’s time for politicians to go to work

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

To say it's been ‘a bad few days' for Northern Ireland is a joke. It's been a disaster.
Comments: 7

Madonna has to adopt a defiant stance

Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Why all this moral fingerpointing about Madonna’s wish to adopt a second child from Malawi?
Comments: 11

Jade Goody and Natasha Richardson - dying in the spotlight

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

It's been a harrowing few days. First, we had the death of Natasha Richardson, wife of Northern Ireland's Liam Neeson.
Comments: 10

Jade faces the end with grace

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

As Jade Goody’s life ebbs away and it seems fated that she’ll die in the public spotlight, isn’t it extraordinary how this unassuming ‘ordinary’ girl has changed the very notion of privacy and what is taboo today?
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Your day has definitely come, Martin McGuinness

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Right now, the people of Northern Ireland and the Republic need to see two men standing side by side issuing a joint statement condemning the murders and the murderers of those two soldiers at Massereene.
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Why Jim’s not the only actor round these parts

Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Here we go again ... yet another luvvie lying in the dark with a Provo com-pan-ee (with a Bafta on his left and an Oscar on his right and a little film clip to promote a pile of … er … rubbish).
Comments: 19

Tragic Jade’s final days in the spotlight: are we guilty?

Tuesday, 24 February 2009

There is no doubting the pathos of the Jade Goody story.
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Never mind about Sammy, what planet is Ruane on?

Tuesday, 17 February 2009

So apparently the folks on the hill — or a sub-committee of them anyway — have no confidence in Environment Minister Sammy Wilson because of his refusal to show government ads which imply that climate change is man-made. Ooh, big talk.
Comments: 27

Jade’s agony? It’s for real, you know ...

Wednesday, 11 February 2009

Jade Goody is only 27 years old. It's a sobering thought as we glance at our newspapers and read that her cancer has spread and that now doctors are primarily concerned with prolonging her life rather curing her.
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