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Editors Viewpoint
Editor's Viewpoint: Digital exclusion bad news for us
Culture, Arts and Leisure Minister Nelson McCausland is to be commended for
his tough stance over the snub to Northern Ireland in the Government's plans
for a new Digital Britain.
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Inside Editors Viewpoint
Editor's Viewpoint: Underhanded affair
Friday, 20 November 2009
Was it just the hand of Henry or a more sinister hand that ended the Republic
of Ireland's World Cup dreams?
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Editor's Viewpoint: Why thrift is the key this Christmas
Thursday, 19 November 2009
The festive season is a time of delight for retailers with takings in the
run-up to Christmas accounting for a major proportion of their annual income.
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Editor's Viewpoint: The sex factor
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Throughout the ages men have always wanted to control the behaviour of women.
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Editor's Viewpoint: Divisions over celibate priests
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
The decision of Londonderry cleric Fr Sean McKenna to leave the priesthood
because he is in a relationship with a woman has raised again the issue of
celibacy within the Catholic Church.
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Editor's Viewpoint: A market leader
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
The annual Christmas market brings a little bit of cosmopolitan Europe to Belfast. Spanish paella, Polish stew, German beer and Dutch pancakes are just some of the treats in store, sitting alongside continental arts and crafts.
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Editor's Viewpoint: Realism at last in house prices
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Statistics can be used to show virtually anything and there will be some who
will point to the latest house price survey as proof that a recovery is
under way in the property market.
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Editor's Viewpoint: A costly mistake
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
The 20 metre stretch of viaduct at Malahide which collapsed into the sea three
months ago halting rail services between Belfast and Dublin was a very
costly hole.
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Editor's Viewpoint: Well done, Ireland
Monday, 16 November 2009
The Ireland rugby team who performed so superbly last season by winning the
Grand Slam and the Triple Crown again acquitted themselves well by a gritty
and thrilling draw with Australia at Croke Park yesterday.
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Editor's Viewpoint: Attacks on elderly are total disgrace
Monday, 16 November 2009
The bravery of the east Belfast woman who fought off the attackers ransacking
her home two days ago is worthy of the highest commendation.
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Stormont has let our children down
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Around 7,000 primary school children have been sitting the first paper of the new entrance examinations today, and this is something which should not have been necessary.
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Well done, Denisa
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Northern Ireland made headlines not long ago for all the wrong reasons when immigrants here were forced to flee from their homes because of racist attacks. Today there is a heart-warming story with the news that Denisa Stanova, a young Slovakian woman living in south Belfast, has won the "Face of Northern Woman" competition and has been signed up by a local modelling agency.
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Editor's Viewpoint: Let's all mobilise to end litter blight
Friday, 13 November 2009
Today this newspaper is launching a zero tolerance blitz on litter.
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Editor's Viewpoint: Hope for everyone
Friday, 13 November 2009
Most of us have dreamt at one time or another of scoring a cup-winning goal, discovering a cure for cancer or making a life-changing invention. Sadly, most of those dreams will remain just that.
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Editor's Viewpoint: We must aid this 'lost generation'
Thursday, 12 November 2009
His language was not that expected of a government minister, but Sir Reg Empey
was making a valid point when he described some of the young unemployed
people in the province as "vampires" - they lie in bed to
mid-afternoon and then run around all night.
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Editor's Viewpoint: Inclusive symbol
Thursday, 12 November 2009
It is a measure of the problems that exist in our society when the poppy is
seen as a symbol of division.
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Editor's Viewpoint: We should accept Baggott's verdict
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Chief Constable Matt Baggott is learning fast that heading the PSNI is a far
different task from his previous job in charge of police in Leicestershire.
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Editor's Viewpoint: Good luck to them
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Les Scadding is a very, very lucky man. Not because he and his wife won £45m
on the Euromillions lottery but because he is alive.
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Editor's Viewpoint: A living tribute to our health service
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Edward Thoburn is one of the luckiest men alive. The injuries he received when
he fell 40 feet out of a tree should have killed him.
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Editor's Viewpoint: A lotto bother
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Unlike Edward Thoburn, Maghera man Mickey Gormley wants it to be known that he
is NOT one of the luckiest men alive.
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Editor's Viewpoint: Pull out the stops to end gridlock
Monday, 9 November 2009
Belfast has had more than its fair share of setbacks due to natural causes,
but now the traffic flow will be restricted for the next week or so by the
collapse of part of Cromac Street.
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