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Morning View

Editorial: The Middle East war is now a new political wedge in Northern Ireland

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that having a referendum on an important matter that you may not win 'is fraught with risk'

Varadkar: Border poll not a good idea at the moment because it would be defeated

The Caleb Foundation has ‘lobbied extensively’ on the growth of Sunday marathons in Northern Ireland. The foundation works to defend of the sanctity of the Lord’s Day. Concerns are two-fold: the disruption to churches and, secondly, the rights of Christians who feel unable to compete on a Sunday

Wallace Thompson: 25 years of defending our priceless evangelical heritage

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Independent Orange Order founder was dubbed 'a Fenian Protestant'

NIFL CEO Gerard Lawlor. Photo: Phil Magown/Press Eye

Switch to summer football wouldn't affect parading season: NIFL chief

Letters to editor

Letter: Making sense of changing attitudes towards religion

Micheal Martin said everybody 'is entitled to have their perspectives on the future constitutional position of Northern Ireland'

Ireland’s deputy premier Micheal Martin 'surprised' at NI Secretary's comments

Ian Sproule

Dublin urged to help inquest into the murder by the Provisional IRA find answers

Letters to editor

Letter: We Ulster Protestants have no shortage of people who have sold out

Letters to editor

Letter: Behaviour at parade a disgrace

Letters to editor

Letter: The great need of the hour is for the Protestant people to return to God

Thousands of spectators attend the annual Sham Fight and Royal Black Preceptory parade last year on July 13. Scarva has much to teach us if we listen to the Biblical message. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye.com

Letter: Scarva is rapidly becoming a carnival, a Protestant Mardi Gras

Girdwood facility in north Belfast. Photo from Google.

Football teams from Protestant areas intimidated out of 'shared space' facility

Letters to editor

Letter: Can families expect Mr Finucane to attend Teebane and Kingsmill?

Morning View

Editorial: Integrated and shared schooling is not the same thing

Findings show young people in NI believe integrated education is the way forward
Young people support desegregating society in Northern Ireland, with more than 40% saying they plan to leave the region to work or study, according to new research.

A peace wall in west Belfast – most young people surveyed say they live in segregated areas

Majority of NI youth in survey want more shared or integrated education

Letters to editor

Letter: Who will read Irish signs in Olympia Leisure Centre?

An image of the development area with city to scale, and right in close up

Major expansion of Londonderry city's Waterside district mooted

Letters to editor

Letter: We have been betrayed by Britain, and failed by unionism

Ballot boxes being opened at the recent council election count in Northern Ireland. The non-voting issue is a societal problem, but particularly a unionist one. It feels like we are clutching in the darkness struggling to know who we are

Letter: A crisis in Protestant identity and faith is behind non voting

Letters to editor

Letter: Unionism needs to be pluralist, not turn voters away from it

Thousands of runners at the start of the Belfast City Marathon last Sunday. The promoters of the marathon, who politely listened to, but then dismissed, evangelical representations against the change from Monday to Sunday, will be delighted that so many Christians are participating and that some churches are openly encouraging the runners as they pass by. Picture By: Arthur Allison/ Pacemaker Press.

Wallace Thompson: Sunday race a reminder that we live amid spiritual weakness

Letters to editor

Letter: I look forward to the BBC reinstating its live coverage of the Twelfth

Eavann Mallon in Belfast, who was born on 14th April 1998, the same month the Good Friday Agreement was signed. Ms Mallon grew up near Dungannon, Co Tyrone, and went to a Catholic primary and secondary school. Eavann said she realised there was still division in Northern Ireland when her primary school took part in an outreach scheme where they met with children from the local Protestant school

Division still present in ceasefire generation, say women born in April 1998

Linfield lift the League Cup trophy after the final at Windsor Park that was played last Sunday. While society is becoming increasingly secular, it is particularly sad to note the extent to which those from the loyalist community have repudiated their rich evangelical Protestant heritage. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Letters: Cup final is a reminder that respect for Lord’s Day has evaporated

Actor Liam Neeson has said he thinks a united Ireland “will happen” if all sides are appeased

Liam Neeson: A united Ireland will happen if everyone is appeased
Liam Neeson has said he thinks a united Ireland “will happen” if all sides are appeased.

Some of the groups involved in the St Patrick's Day parades of 2023

St Patrick's Day 2023: The list of flute band parades happening

Tanya Williams-Powell, grand daughter of Thomas Niedermayer who was murdered by the IRA, speaking at Stormont during a European Victims of Terrorism Day event on March 7. Victims feel frustration at the efforts to rehabilitate terrorists. But have gullible church leaders placed ‘jailhouse conversions’ on a pedestal?

Letter: Protestant churches are naive about ex terrorists

Letters to editor

Letter: Protestant churches fail to speak out on how legacy is justifying IRA

The bullet riddled minibus in which the murdered workers were travelling stands at the side of the lonely country road where the massacre occurred at Kingsmill outside Whitecross. Ten protestant work men were shot dead by the Provisional IRA.

Kingsmills shows how the Irish government continues to be evasive on legacy

Letters to editor

Letter: Past religious education seemed to be about rote learning

Kingsmills Primary School Principal Gemma Harrison (in green dress, far right) along with, parents and pupils, who are giving a 'thumbs down' to plans by The Education Authority to close the school in August.

'Closure of primary would impact minority Protestant community’

Principal Gemma Harrison Parents and pupils as The Education Authority (EA) plans to shut Kingsmill’s Primary school in County Armagh in August due to the falling number of pupils and a rising financial deficit.

Kingsmills Primary School: Education Authority plans to close in August

The Education Authority plans to close Kingsmills Primary School in south Armagh in August, but local representatives are objecting.

'Closure of primary would impact minority Protestant community'

Family and friends during the anniversary service of the Teebane bombing outside Cooktown in Co Tyrone on Sunday. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Remembering the Teebane massacre 31 years on

Co-founders of the Four Corners Festival Reverend Steve Stockman and Father Martin Magill

Four Corners Festival to stimulate faith-based debate

Orange Order Grand Master, Robert Saulters. Prime Minister Tony Blair was encouraged to meet with Orange Order leaders in 1998 to "influence positively" Protestant voters who had yet to make up their minds about the Good Friday Agreement.

Government papers: Blair was urged to meet Order leaders

The Lurgan campus of Craigavon Senior High School

Education Authority acting like King Herod

The recent Arins survey found that in a border poll there would be a huge 65-35 margin for staying in the UK

Ben Lowry: Big poll support for UK should bolster London in its unionism

Several thousand Apprentice Boys take part in the annual Lundy parade in Derry on Saturday.

Courts called upon to solve problems caused by a failure of government and polit...

Members of the Apprentice Boys of Derry taking part in the Annual Shutting of the Gates Parade in Londonderry.

Annual Apprentice Boys of Derry parade expects 3000 members

A series of ‘Ireland’s Future’ events have taken place recently

Letters: Ireland’s Future meeting was inclusive and informative

Letter to the editor

Public should speak up against uncosted plan to squander money on Gaelic

Glenn Bradley (second right) speaks during a rally for Irish unification organised by Pro-unity group Ireland's Future at the Ulster Hall in Belfast. Picture date: Wednesday November 23, 2022.

Ireland's Future: More serious consideration given to Irish unity by Protestants

Eamon Phoenix

Eamon Phoenix funeral told how historian treasured his Protestant ancestry

Rev Dr Paul Bailie

Paul Bailie's last segment on 'Thought for the Day' as missionary dead at 54

Police are investigating after the attack on Ballynougher Orange Hall

Attack on Orange hall hate crime in the republican tradition of such hatred

Letter to the editor

Remember how the Protestant minority suffered in Cork

Actor Jimmy Nesbitt. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Jimmy Nesbitt: Debate on NI’s future should be led by people not politicians

News Letter editorial

It is quite wrong to say that GB is losing interest in NI

Letter to the editor

The united Ireland debate is over

In a border poll, voters north and south will mostly make common sense decisions depending on which country seems the more comfortable fit economically, politically and socially

Ruth Dudley Edwards: A border poll will not be decided by people’s religion

Those who wanted to live a quiet ‘Britishness’ in an independent Ireland could do so in the Protestant privacy of their churches, freemasonry, their sporting and dining clubs, the Orange Order and in their social support structure

The decline of Protestants in Ireland was due to many factors

Identity is complex and Brexit has boosted the Irish identity in Northern Ireland and the demand for Irish passports here. Meanwhile, Butmost schools that have become integrated in NI were so-called Protestant schools. But they are not Protestant in the sense that Catholic schools are religiously based

Ben Lowry: Protestant numbers have fallen because they were early to secularism