Opinion

The Sinn Féin president has said she doesn’t believe George Hamilton’s replacement should come from within the PSNI.

The Labour Party will be fortunate if its total losses to the new Independent Group of MPs stays at only seven, the number who broke away yesterday.

I want to commend the contribution in Friday’s News Letter (‘Our loved ones were not killed in war, they were civilians murdered by IRA terrorists,’ February 18) for the number of salient points that was covered in it by the undersigned Enniskillen families.

A few times a year I get invited to speak to visiting groups of academics, PhD students and political/government representatives from ‘conflict zones’ around the world about Northern Ireland; mostly to do with what lessons can be learned from our ‘peace process’.

The Walls of Derry are one of the most important historic landmarks in Northern Ireland.

In reply to Shoshana Appleton’s letter (‘We should not be surprised at hostility to Israel in Ireland,’ February 12), with reference to the Proposed bill that would make it illegal for anyone in Ireland to buy goods or services from Israel’s settlements in the West Bank:

Sinn Fein yesterday dismissed the Stormont talks as a ‘sham’.

The divisions within the Conservative and Labour parties are so deep and so bitter, that I still have a hunch that the matter of Brexit will go out to the public again in some shape or form.

Some years ago I did not have a TV, and on the whole I did not miss it.

Being unable to attend Townsend Street Presbyterian Church on Thursday evening, I watched the film about a homosexual’s conversion to Christianity on YouTube.

A plaque to the singer Ruby Murray was unveiled on the Donegall Road yesterday, close to where she was born on Moltke Street.

The act of premeditated murder committed by the Provisional IRA in Enniskillen on November 8 1987 (known as The Poppy Day Bomb) continues to affect every aspect of our lives some 31 years later.

An interesting split emerged last night in the House of Commons.

The Labour Party in Northern Ireland (LPNI) has noted the decision of the SDLP to enter a formal partnership with Fianna Fail.

It is 35 years since Belfast barrister and unionist politician Edgar Graham was murdered.

The reaction of both Sinn Fein and the DUP to the current Brexit crisis is a betrayal of the interests of the electorate of Northern Ireland.

The threat to oceans from plastic, at one end of the environmental spectrum, and climate change, at the other, are part of the same kind of neglect.

The embattled Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has become the latest whipping boy in the seemingly interminable saga of Brexit.

Re the 60-page explanatory presentation on the draft Withdrawal Agreement published by the European Commission: