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The riots of the past week share one common denominator-dissident republicans and their back to the future strategy. Condemnation is wasted on these Neanderthals. These politically myopic morons manipulate naive, foolish and alienated young people and fill their heads with sectarianism, hatred, and a nonsensical political ideology more suited to fascists than freedom fighters. To [...]

A few weeks ago, Newry Chamber recognised the legendary retailer Louis Boyd with a life-time achievement award along with two founding directors of the Credit Union, Arthur Morgan and Peter Connolly; who between them clocked up an impressive 94 years of service. These awards were long overdue as was the recognition of Pat Hume -who [...]

In the days when the BBC used to play God Save the Queen at the end of an evening; there was always a dash to turn off the TV in our border household; lest our neighbours heard it.
Now Queen Elizabeth II will officially come to Ireland- with the proposed visit occurring before the end of [...]

The leaked media reports about the much anticipated Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday are unhelpful and unwarranted or as Martin McGuinness has said only serve to ‘heap anguish upon anguish’ for the families of victims. The decision to delay the publication of the report until after the election was most likely intended to spare the [...]

It’s an odd world when Coronation Street is postponed because it may upset people who were digesting the impact of the recent Cumbrian killings. This type of nonsense only increases the blur between reality and soap life as too many people already think that the characters in soap-land are real. Television schedulers postponing Coronation Street [...]

Should he stay or should he go? This is the question on the media’s lips, if not others. The target is Cardinal Sean Brady. Anyone who knows Sean Brady will know that he is a sincere, genuine and caring individual. Anyone who does not know does not seem to care. He stands accused of a [...]

After this week, politics is better than poker! After three years as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown in the final moments of his premiership gave us a glimpse of the family man. People liked it but as with much of his stewardship it was too little, too late. It was very clear that Labour was only [...]

Well this was always going to be an election that changed much or nothing. The verdict on the British election is that the public wanted change but not necessarily the Tories. The sponsors of ‘project’ Cameron have to be disappointed if after five years of saying nothing about policy and looking good on a bike; [...]