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Lindy McDowell

Lindy McDowell, Belfast Telegraph

The UUP’S spin doctor is right to spurn new pact

His may not exactly be a household name. But in unionist politics (small u — and large) Alex Kane has long been a central figure.
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Inside Lindy McDowell

How courts are too lenient on drug addict Pete

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

If Pete Doherty lived in Northern Ireland there’d be talk that he was a tout ...
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How family affairs are a real test for DUP and Sinn Fein

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

As break-ups go we’re hardly Brad and Angelina.
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Aid response to Haiti makes little appeal

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

The terrible tragedy in Haiti brings out the best and worst in people.
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The real scandal is the attack on Officer Heffron

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

The comedian Billy Connolly used to joke about how he’d once been told that the ultimate Country and Western song would include the following elements — family, drama and tragedy.
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Why should we all jump on the ban wagon?

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

In one day this week, stories in the headlines included calls to ban the burka, to ban cheap booze, to ban elderly drivers on the road and to ban butter (it’s bad for your arteries.)
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Why Iris scandal is a drama set to keep on running

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

It has been, as they say on the TV reality shows, a roller-coaster of emotions.
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How it’s all change at the top in local politics

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

You win some, you lose some …
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Why are drinks on us in the loyalists’ last chance saloon?

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Anywhere else, a week is a long time in politics. In Northern Ireland a whole year zips by and we’re still doing warm-up stretches on the starting blocks.
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How Cardinal and Helen defied evil in different ways

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

It’s a human thing that when someone of outstanding stature who has played a pivotal role in our history passes on, we stretch for the superlatives to describe them.
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Anything else you’ve failed to recollect, Gerry?

Friday, 1 January 2010

During the RTE interview in which he revealed that his paedophile father had sexually assaulted members of his family, Gerry Adams was asked if he himself had been a victim.
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Why it’s time for Ulster Scots to cut oot waste?

Wednesday, 16 December 2009

What’s the Ulster Scots word for recession? Is there even one?
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Stormont is fiddling while policing is the burning issue

Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Up at Stormont they’re still obsessing about policing and justice. On the streets it’s also an issue — but only in a much, much more literal sense.
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Is it any wonder jail boss opted for early release?

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

The news that the governor of Maghaberry prison, Steve Rodford, has resigned after a mere 18 weeks in the job brings a whole new meaning to the concept of early release. Even by Northern Ireland standards …
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You should want to be in the big picture, Ma’am

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

There was a time when Her Majesty the Queen firing a salvo warning the meejah to wind its collective neck in would have dominated the news agenda for days.
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Why were these thugs allowed to put the boot into my husband?

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Twice now, within as many weeks, my husband has been targeted by loyalist paramilitary thugs.
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Love can turn sour, Martin

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

All the world loves a lover. But in Northern Ireland even hate figures get a high approval rating.
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How the terrorists continue to hold all of us hostage

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Reports on the weekend dissident attacks have pointed up the “symbolism” of the attempted bombing of the Police Authority headquarters in Belfast.
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Why brave Margaret is my kind of leader

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

If Margaret Ritchie were to become the new leader of the SDLP she would be the only female leader of one of our bigger political parties (Dawn Purvis’ wee PUP does not measure up).
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Further evidence of our skewed values in 2009 ...

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

One woman’s escape from the jungle dominates the headlines. Another’s barely makes the inside pages.
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Why new tests are just not the right answer to transfer puzzle

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

I remember the day I sat the first part of my 11-plus. I was thinking about it at the weekend watching TV footage of the class of 2009 exit their exam halls.
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