Bravo to all who have transformed the Maze prison and those who were responsible for organising the Balmoral Agricultural show.

Fifteen years ago today the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement was overwhelmingly approved by a referendum of the people.

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The Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Edwin Poots, recently halted the current consultation processes for the proposed closures of statutory residential care homes to ensure that meaningful engagement took place.

From now on I will be supporting UKIP.

It would appear that the Alliance Party’s Stewart Dickson MLA is unsure about the direction in which he or his party really wants to travel.

Alex Kane (‘Us and them’, News Letter, May 20) makes some interesting observations with regard to the recent census figures.

The letter from Samuel Morrison (News Letter, May 17) was as predictable as it was doom laiden.

The slogan ‘a shared future’ is constantly used by our politicians, so let’s examine how this concept can be applied to education.

Paula Bradshaw (Letter, May 17) exhibits all of the key traits of Alliance representatives when talking about the creation of a shared society in Northern Ireland.

Dementia has been very prominent in the news recently and it’s good that the government finally seems to be taking this issue seriously, especially during Dementia Awareness Week (May 19-25).

In the latest ‘Together Building a United Community’ proposals from the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) there remains very little detail, but also a particular concern that a “united community” concerns only bringing together “Protestants” and “Catholics”.

On Tuesday co-First Minister Robinson branded his critics in the Assembly “a tribe of Jeremiahs”.

Jonathan Bell is right to say, on Radio Ulster, that Sinn Fein’s and the SDLP’s opposition to the National Crime Agency operating in this part of the United Kingdom raises questions about those parties’ commitment to law and order.

Watching the news item of Peter Robinson berating those political opponents in Stormont today, I was grieved to hear him liken the complaints of those whose views he so obviously derides and despises, to a “tribe of Jeremiahs who infest the political process”.

The News Letter editorial (May 4) addresses the inability of the Northern Ireland legal system to successfully prosecute ‘dissident republicans’ for their crimes.

Morning View (May 8) rightly pays tribute to the thousands of Irish soldiers from the south of Ireland who served in the British Armed Forces during World War Two. The fact that some 5,000, who had gone absent without leave from the Irish Army to fight for the Allied cause, were subsequently treated as pariahs in their own country is a matter of enduring shame for the Irish state.

Recently I watched a televised true story of a British couple visiting Dubai.

On Friday last, we at Innocent Victims United were humbled to meet with Julie and Brian Hambleton whose sister Maxine, along with 20 other innocent civilians, perished at the hands of republican terrorists on November 21, 1974 in what are known as the ‘Birmingham pub bombings’.

On April 24 the Northern Trust announced that it was set to close all of its residential care homes.