Thursday 23 May 2013
THE gay marriage Bill (News, May 21) confuses equality and sameness. True equality will only emerge when the fundamental differences between homosexual and heterosexual relationships are openly celebrated and respected.
AS a happily married couple, we can see no way in which the introduction of same-sex marriage would diminish our own union.
NO one can know whether the tornado that hit Oklahoma would have happened without climate change (News, May 22).
A RECENT letter (Write Back, May 21), signed 'Commuter', claimed that it was a flawed idea for Translink to renovate and reuse the railway terminus at the Waterside in Londonderry.
THE recent bad weather has had a weighty impact on Northern Ireland's health and wellbeing.
MARRIAGES are entered into for a wide variety of reasons – love, sex, procreation, economic support. It is a civil social contract between two people and between those two people and the society in which they live.
Looks like the lunacy of wind farms is working. These environmental eyesores are not cost-effective. Result: dearer electricity.
I AM responding to your correspondent's query (Write Back, May 20) about the disparity of prices between P&O Ferries' Larne-Cairnryan route and our Dover-Calais route. There are three main reasons.
RONAN O'Gara retires with 128 caps for Ireland, 1,083 international test points and three Lions tours.
A LOT of publicity has (rightly) been given to the 'bedroom tax', but this already exists for private tenants through the Local Housing Allowance.
THE Labour Party has historically boycotted elections in Northern Ireland and undemocratically suppressed non-sectarian Labour Party electoral politics.
FIFTEEN years ago today, the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement was overwhelmingly approved by a referendum of the people.
So here it is again – the annual Orangefest, the so-called 'cultural' festival in which bitter politics and religious fundamentalism corrupt and disfigure any cultural beauty that ever was part of this festival. The sound of the pipe, the thud of the lambeg, the sight of Highland dancers all rendered a sideshow to what is ultimately a historical hate-fest. Ulster-Scots culture must divorce itself from Orangeism, which has fed off it to churn out its bitter sectarian message for years.
Fifteen years ago today, the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement was overwhelmingly approved by a referendum of the people.
BRIAN O'Driscoll's decision to sign on for another year for Ireland is a testimony to this unique sporting hero.
IT would appear that, for the higher echelons in the Catholic Church, like Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the wages of sin have been changed to spending a vacation somewhere hot, but not too hot.
AS Amazon and other large multinationals continue to push the tax rulebook to the limit, are they not aware of the impact their actions could have on small businesses?
BRENDAN O'Brien writes, "May God bless Professor Hawking for supporting the academic boycott of Israel" (Write Back, May 15).
SOME letters have appeared in your paper regarding a new train station for Derry/Londonderry. But they are not accurate.
THE PSNI is to buy nine drones for the huge security operation at the G8 summit in Fermanagh in June and, afterwards, to combat terrorism and crime.
Hangover star takes 87-year-old to premiere
Nasa chief Charles Bolden has inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.
The charity Help For Heroes has been swamped with donations, leading to its website crashing, after Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered while wearing one of its tops.
US jurors sided with billionaire Donald Trump and against an 87-year-old grandmother who took him to court alleging that the star of the US version of The Apprentice cheated her in a skyscraper condominium deal.
George Best was the finest footballer of them all, according to England World Cup winner Ian Callaghan.
They know each other inside-out as a result of having squared up so often in the past. As well as having gone head to head on such a regular basis, most of the protagonists are Irish training camp regulars. In addition, many of them have been Test match colleagues.
Newcastle moved a step closer to a return to the Aviva Premiership after claiming a nine-point lead over Bedford in the first leg of their Championship final, with fly-half Jimmy Gopperth doing most of the damage.
Former Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan did her bit to protest against the skin trade by showing off some flesh of her own.
Twilight's legacy shows no sign of stopping, after the film and its stars lead the Teen Choice Awards with nine nominations.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have vowed not to appear in sex scenes with other people in their films, according to reports.
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