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If the simple majority clause of the Belfast Agreement has to be respected, as we are so often told, then so too should the secretary of state’s right to make a decision on any border poll without setting out prior conditions

Owen Polley: UK would be stupid to set out the criteria for a border poll

Irish commentators like Fintan O'Toole should take their wagging forefingers out of British faces. Does the continual Brexit bashing in Republic's media conceal a secret wish that the UK will have to do a humiliating u-turn and return cap in hand to the EU?

Eoghan Harris: Pointless southern Brit-bashing about Brexit only benefits SF

SDLP grandee Seamus Mallon and David Trimble in 1999, flanked by Irish taniste of the day Mary Harney and taoiseach Bertie Ahern; this columnist writes that the tolerant and accommodating nationalism of those days has been replaced by a harsher vision of unionists as an obstacle to be overcome

Nationalist-unionist detente of 1998 is dead - unionists are just an obstacle

Director of the London-based think tank Policy Exchange, Lord Godson giving a reading at the funeral of former Northern Ireland first minister and UUP leader David Trimble, who died last week aged 77, at Harmony Hill Presbyterian Church, Lisburn. Picture date: Monday August 1, 2022.

Trimble biographer: Death has finally brought him respect he deserves

David Trimble brought unionism in from the cold. He also forged a unique bond with the then Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, which was to prove crucial. The pair are seen together, above, at the unveiling of a portrait to Trimble

Eoghan Harris: Six reasons why David Trimble was a unique unionist leader

Professor John A. Murphy, seen aged 90 alongside a bust of his younger self, was an Irish patriot, a proud Corkman, a GAA devotee, and an Irish language speaker who denounced republican violence. When he heard of the murder of Edgar Graham he sobbed

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Remembering a much loved historian who despised the IRA

Far from backtracking on his Armagh centenary service snub, President Higgins doubled down on it with a remarkably partisan speech in Co Sligo

Neil McCarthy: President Higgins is in a sentimental Irish republican bubble

Eoghan Harris

Allison Morris to take legal action against writer Eoghan Harris

Ruth Dudley Edwards, @RuthDE, the author and commentator, who writes a column for the News Letter every Tuesday. She is author of 'The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions' and her most recent book is 'The Seven: the lives and legacies of the founding fathers of the Irish republic'

Ruth Dudley Edwards: The silencing of Eoghan Harris is fresh blow to free speech

Ruth Dudley Edwards, the author and commentator, who now writes a column for the News Letter every Tuesday. She is author of 'The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions' and her most recent book is 'The Seven: the lives and legacies of the founding fathers of the Irish republic'

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Truth is the weapon to use against republicans