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Lindy McDowell

Lindy McDowell: Unfair? So is hitting a man over the head

Ronnie Biggs is now set to die in jail.
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Lindy McDowell: Is there a risk Susan might go off Boyle?

Saturday, 4 July 2009

Singer and internet sensation Susan Boyle was in Belfast this week with the X Factor tour. Onstage she sang the same two songs she sang during the competition.
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Lindy McDowell: Jacko’s send-off will be in worst possible taste

Saturday, 4 July 2009

On the gates of Kensington Palace this week, Diana’s faithful fans had hung new bunches of flowers in green plastic bottles and cards to mark what would have been her 48th birthday on July 1. Handmade posters carried poems and cut out photographs and pleas for a proper statue.
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Lindy McDowell: Omagh - the last precious tear of a dead daughter

Saturday, 4 July 2009

She was just 15. She had given up her Saturdays to work as a volunteer in the local Oxfam shop. If ever there was an example of the innocence and goodness of a terrorist victim compared to the hate-filled savagery of the monsters who stole her life away it was Lorraine Wilson.
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So, are all the loyalist guns really gone?

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Having taken the guts of 15 years since they first announced their ceasefires to reach the point of some sort of arms decommissioning, there’s almost a poetic justice that the loyalist paramilitaries’ ‘historic’ announcements were entirely overshadowed by the news of the death of Michael Jackson.
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Lindy McDowell: Why being an exec at the Beeb is a piece of cake

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Call this coincidence? In the same week that the BBC promises to cut down on on-screen effing and blinding the corporation releases details of executive expenses guaranteed to make a saint swear.
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Lindy McDowell: Farrah and Ryan, a real Hollywood love story

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Ryan O’Neal had what the gossip columns would call a tempestuous relationship with Farrah Fawcett.
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Lindy McDowell: How Jacko gave his kids the childhood he never enjoyed

Saturday, 27 June 2009

It is, of course, the kids you feel for most. It always is. A few weeks back a paparazzi hit pay dirt with pics of Michael Jackson’s two oldest children — pics that were instantly beamed round the world.
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Lindy McDowell: Rania or shine, Sarah Brown has always proved a winner

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

In Number 10 she has entertained Carla Bruni, Michelle Obama and this week the beautiful Queen Rania of Jordan.
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Lindy McDowell: PM won’t win Mr Popular vote

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

In an excoriating attack on the Government he believes failed his son, Graeme Moore the father of one of the Iraq hostages says: “It is quite extraordinary to think that the Prime Minister can make the time and effort to telephone both Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan, the two judges on Britain's Got Talent, to check on the health of a TV show contestant.
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Lindy McDowell: Why our teens are putting their faith in internet instead of prayer

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the masses. These days it’s Facebook, Bebo and Twitter.
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Lindy McDowell: Is Esther Rantzen addicted to headlines?

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

It is a bit tricky to explain why, in a city just named as The Friendliest Place in the Universe (or some such nonsense) hooded yoof would choose to hurl stones at a tourist bus.
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Lindy McDowell: How the PSNI let Romanian attacks spiral out of control

Saturday, 20 June 2009

Northern Ireland — where we may not be so hot in community relations, but are world leaders in making a crisis out of a drama. This week’s locally produced headline for global consumption and revulsion ... Romanian families (including new born baby) seek sanctuary in church after being forced from their homes by racist thugs.
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Lindy McDowell: How Mandy did put his money on victory for Omagh families

Saturday, 13 June 2009

Don’t know what it says about this place but Gordon Brown’s new Cabinet contains no less than three secretaries of state for Northern Ireland. One current, two former.
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Lindy McDowell, Belfast Telegraph

Omagh families took the law into their own hands and won

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

What happened in Belfast this week will reverberate around the world.
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Why the blame game? It could all still come to the Boyle...

Wednesday, 3 June 2009

Susan Boyle — where did it all go wrong? No sooner had the world’s favourite Scottish spinster been tucked up in her bed in The Priory this week, than the massed legions of rent-a-quote experts, counsellors, psychiatrists and psychologists were being trolleyed out to explain to us all how it had come to this.
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Lindy McDowell: Why is society still pandering to the loyalist paramilitaries?

Saturday, 30 May 2009

Another week of horror in Northern Ireland, and the newspaper editorials and airwaves have once again been reverberating with the age-old cry that we must — we really must — do something about sectarianism.
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Lindy McDowell, Belfast Telegraph

Why MPs need a reality check, not a blank one

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

I have a question: is anybody actually running the country these days?
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Lindy McDowell: How Joanna Lumley is leading the charge

Saturday, 23 May 2009

Some Ghurkhas say they regard Joanna Lumley as a goddess for spearheading the campaign for their right to stay in the UK.
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Lindy McDowell: Why Caitriona lost marks over school trip row

Saturday, 23 May 2009

In common with many parents I completely, utterly understand why Caitriona Ruane would choose to take her little girl with her during a recent official trip to Cyprus.
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Lindy McDowell, Belfast Telegraph

How UUP shot itself in foot over brigadier

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Two reports at the weekend gave us some insight into the New Force that is the Ulster Unionist Party after its recent linkup with the Tories.
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