Opinion

If, as the seasoned Daily Telegraph journalist Peter Foster reports (see story link below), the EU has rejected UK proposals for a frictionless border in the event of regulatory and customs divergence, it means one of four things.

People of all football loyalties, and indeed people with no interest in that sport at all, have cause to celebrate the career of Arsène Wenger.

Grandchildren? Don’t you just love them? What would you not do for the little darlings with their funny, sweet ways, silly jokes and the unconditional love they show to adored grannie and grandpa?

When Arlene Foster said that she might leave this part of the world in the event of a united Ireland, her comments were greeted by many people with consternation.

The name Alistair Burt won’t be familiar to many of our readers. The Tory MP for North East Bedfordshire is Minister for the Middle East.

The decision announced yesterday by the Ulster Rugby Supporters Club (URSC), that they will not stage a protest before Ulster’s crunch match with Glasgow at the Kingspan Stadium on Saturday night, is a wise one.

Two hundred northern nationalists signed an ‘open letter’ to Leo Varadkar on December 11, 2017.

In a recent interview published in the German news magazine Der Spiegel, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement, former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams was reported as taking the view that in the context of what is judged as social oppression, in certain circumstances the use of force can be justified.

The Prime Minister has been facing prolonged and angry criticism for not involving Parliament in the decision for the UK to join the USA and France in air attacks on Syria, following president Assad’s alleged illegal use of chemical warfare on his own people as the vicious civil war rages on.

On October 13, 2015 – the 21st anniversary of the CLMC ceasefire announcement – the UVF, UDA and Red Hand Commando issued a joint declaration of intent.

Even though Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were ultimately cleared of all charges at the recent rape trial, there was a sense of inevitability about Saturday’s announcement that their Ulster and Ireland playing contracts had been cancelled.

Tuesday’s reunion at Queen’s University of the people who negotiated the Belfast Agreement was a reminder that Northern Ireland can draw on powerful international support.

As time marches on, it becomes increasingly difficult to preserve beautiful or interesting things from the past.

These days life seems to be full of momentous events. President Trump with Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron may be ganging up to do battle against Assad, Putin and Iran over that chemical attack in Douma, Eastern Ghouta; former American President Bill Clinton was here this week trying to tell Ulster folk just how wonderful it was and how fortunate we were to have the Good Friday Agreement; then came Mary Lou McDonald wanting to ``build a united Ireland which can be a home to Arlene Foster’’. Honestly you couldn’t make it up.

Gerry Adams’s relationship to the Provisional IRA — whether or not he was ever a member — is one of the longest running controversies in modern Irish politics.

Ireland is one of the most unfriendly nations in Europe with regard to Israel, both at an official level but even more so at a political and local level.

The prime minister said yesterday that the Syrian regime seemed to have been behind a chemical attack on civilians, and that such attacks “cannot go unchallenged”.

On a recent visit to New York, I fulfilled a long held ambition to walk over the famous Brooklyn Bridge.

Mr Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein) has made some interesting statements in the media this week.