Trevor Ringland

Letters to editor

Letter: Like many institutions within our society the law has been divided

An inquest into the February 1992 Clonoe incident last week concluded the SAS weren't justified in using lethal force against a heavily armed IRA machine gun gang that minutes earlier had attacked a police station. Pictured here is the aftermath, including an abandoned getaway car and the hijacked lorry used by the gang. Picture: Pacemaker Belfast Archive.

Troubles legacy cases to cost £1.3bn on top of mammoth sum already spent

Four Provisional IRA members were killed by soldiers in an ambush in Clonoe, Co Tyrone on February 16, 1992. Minutes earlier, the gang had fired 30 rounds of armour-piercing tracer ammunition into a Coalisland RUC station, from a Soviet-made heavy machine gun mounted on the back of a stolen lorry

Letter: A ruthless terrorist cannot be an innocent victim

Four Provisional IRA members were killed by soldiers in an ambush in Clonoe, Co Tyrone on February 16, 1992. Minutes earlier, the gang had fired 30 rounds of armour-piercing tracer ammunition into a Coalisland RUC station, from a Soviet-made heavy machine gun mounted on the back of a stolen lorry

Letter: Too many people using legacy matters to maintain hatreds

The former H Block at the Maze prison near Lisburn has been at the centre of political controversy for over a decade. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

Letter: Placing blame for violence back where it belongs

Morning View

Editorial: ​Labour buckles again on legacy, now on Adams

Letters to editor

Letter: Always bear in mind the aspirations of republicans

If the Casement Park development is still substantially more expensive than originally planned, we must at least see a facility that is shared when needed with other sports

Trevor Ringland: ​An interdependent model allows us to embrace diversity

Letters to editor

Letter: The four unionist parties and Alex Easton should at last co-operate

We should kick the expression 'power sharing' and replace it with what David Trimble emphasised, namely 'responsibility sharing', writes Trevor Ringland

Letter: Pro-Union position must be attractive to electorate

The BBC's Stephen Watson interviews Rhys McClenaghan and Hannah Scott live just before the Olympic homecoming ceremony for Northern Ireland athletes on Thursday October 3 2024. But there were no TV reports later on the event, or reports on the BBC home page. Taken from BBC NI Newsline

Ben Lowry: A fine NI Olympic celebration yet to some people it didn't exist

The celebration of Northern Ireland Olympians will take place at the SSE Arena, but there is no date for it yet

At last! A plan to celebrate the Olympic athletes from Northern Ireland

Morning View

Editorial: Millions more spent on Finucane but judge murders won't get scrutiny

An open top bus parade would have given us a chance to recognise the NI medal winners' huge achievement. Clockwise from top left, Daniel Wiffen, Rhys McClenaghan, Jack McMillan, Hannah Scott, Rebecca Shorten and Philip Doyle.

Trevor Ringland: NI’s Olympic medal winners didn't get bus tour they deserved

Daniel Wiffen, Rhys McClenaghan, Jack McMillan, Hannah Scott, Rebecca Shorten and Philip Doyle

Ringland: 'Let's celebrate NI's Olympians within days - or arrange it ourselves'

Rhys McClenaghan of Team Ireland performs his routine during the Artistic Gymnastics Men's Pommel Apparatus Final on day eight of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 03, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Naomi Baker/Getty Images)

Fresh call for Northern Ireland's athletes to get open-top bus tour

DUP MP Jim Shannon has backed the idea of giving Northern Ireland's Olympians the full-scale open bus treatment.

Adam Kula

Thousands lined the streets of Coleraine to welcome home Gold Olympian Hannah Scott, pictured here, to her home town on August 14, 2024: pictures Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council

Call for Northern Ireland's Olympic athletes to get open-top bus treatment

Morning View

Editorial: Gold for competitor previously rejected as a woman mars Olympics

Ireland's Daniel Wiffen poses with his gold medal after winning the men's 800m freestyle final in Paris

All of our successful NI athletes deserve recognition: Ringland

Hannah Scott celebrates Team GB’s Olympics win in the women’s quadruple sculls last week. There are 38 athletes from NI at this year’s Olympics and new heroes are currently being created in Paris

Trevor Ringland: We should ensure sport is at the core as we build our society

Trevor Ringland, left, has paid tribute to Dean Pittman, right, US consul general. During his time in Northern Ireland, he worked with everyone no matter what their background, leaving his calming imprint, writes Mr Ringland

Letter: NI has been fortunate to have US help – particularly Dean Pittman

Today’s poll is a chance to elect people who will promote Northern Ireland. We are enjoying a much more peaceful and prosperous society

Trevor Ringland: Collins and Robinson will be strategic in promoting UK

A soldier comforts a girl after the 1972 IRA bomb blast at the News Letter in Donegall Street, Belfast in which seven people were murdered. A compensation scheme would reinforce the idea that there was no alternative to over 3,500 deaths

Trevor Ringland: Paying families of terrorists implies there was no alternative

Morning View

Editorial: Syd Millar’s lifetime of service to rugby leaves a shining legacy

Syd Millar, as International Rugby Board chairman, in France before the 2007 World Cup. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Rugby great Syd Millar's vision 'helped to shape the modern game'

Syd Millar played a key role in making the Peace International rugby match happen in Dublin in 1996. Photo:INPHO/Morgan Treacy

Syd was a key player in helping rugby stand for peace on island of Ireland

Syd Millar in 2007 as International Rugby Board chairman pictured with Nelson Mandela and the famous Webb Ellis Cup in France. (Photo by Tertius Pickard-Pool/Getty Images)

Tribute highlights Syd Millar as 'greatest rugby person of all time'

​Syd Millar should be celebrated as “the greatest rugby person of all time” according to former Ireland international Trevor Ringland.

Patrick Van Dort

A computer generated image of how the redeveloped Casement Park will look. Image: Ulster GAA

Casement Park row: IFA challenged on ‘lack of ambition’

​PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne revealed news of the data leak last week

Trevor Ringland: There was always an alternative to violence

Letters to editor

Letter: Teaching Shane Paul O'Doherty at university was an honour

Paramilitaries who have been arrested and tried benefit in many ways, writes Shane O'Doherty

Shane O'Doherty: Everyone benefits when criminals are brought to justice

Letters to editor

Letter: There is no-one better to challenge our hatreds than Trevor Ringland

Letters to editor

Rev David Clements: ​Too many failed by legacy processes

Letters to editor

Trevor Ringland: Across this Island we need to challenge our hatreds better

Flowers at the scene of the IRA bombing at Teebane crossroads, between Omagh and Cookstown, in 1992. A roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 construction workers who had been repairing a British Army base in Omagh. Eight of the men were killed and the rest were wounded

Letter: Time to face up to our sick past and get serious about the future

Ireland's Jonathan Sexton celebrates with team mates. Ireland are the Grand Slam champions

Ireland's grand slam heroes 'up there with the best' ever: Trevor Ringland

The Carson statue in Stormont. In 1913, Sir Edward Carson said constitutional outcomes should never be promoted “by any means other than those… of persuasion”

Trevor Ringland: We have a long way to go to recognise the failures of our past

Belfast solicitor Trevor Ringland

Ringland challenges thinking behind Ireland's Future rally in Dublin

Letter to the editor

The united Ireland debate is over

The Queen visits Crumlin Road jail in Belfast in 2014. She was a aware of the difficulties in Northern Ireland but sought to overcome them

The Queen wanted us to live in peace in our shared home place

With Seamus Mallon and others, David Trimble helped create a framework which could bed down the peace

David Trimble wanted a future which wasn’t determined by those who hate the most

Ireland's Johnny Sexton celebrates following the third rugby international between the All Blacks and Ireland in Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, July 16, 2022. Photo: Andrew Cornaga/Photosport via AP

Praise for Ireland after ‘amazing’ series win over New Zealand

People mourn outside of the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas.

Sympathy and hope that such a tragedy unlikely in NI

News Letter editorial

Expert critics of Gerry Adams Supreme Court ruling seem to have been vindicated

International friendly, Windsor Park, Belfast on 24/3/2018 - Northern Ireland vs Korea Republic. Photo: ©INPHO/Presseye/William Cherry

Anthem debate detracting from Northern Ireland fans' success: Ringland

Range of unionists flatly reject Leo Varadkar's call for Irish unification

Sinn Féin criticism of Trevor Ringland as an envoy for NI "was begrudging"

Hard to think of a better Northern Ireland envoy in the US than Trevor Ringland

Letter to the editor

Trevor Ringland carries with him in the green and white of Ireland all our hopes

If Trevor Ringland can shed a different light on some republican myths, he will have done all of us a service

Trevor Ringland is a man of integrity who makes many more friends than enemies

News Letter editorial

Trevor Ringland is an inspired choice as an envoy for Northern Ireland in the US

Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill

Criticism at 'arrogant and disrespectful' appointmernt of US Special Envoy

The UK government is under pressure to apologise for state wrongdoing. But it is not for the UK alone to be issuing apologies. It is also for the Irish government, the IRA, loyalist paramilitaries and those in politics whose language fed the hatreds

Trevor Ringland: The worst events of the Troubles did not happen in isolation

Two sporting greats from Northern Ireland seen in 2012, Dame Mary Peters who won Olympic gold as a pentathlete and the former Ireland rugby international Willie John McBride. Picture by Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye

Trevor Ringland: A sports museum would show what NI is capable of doing

The aftermath of the IRA large van bomb detonated in the centre of Coleraine by the IRA in 1992. No-one was killed in the blast, unlike the 1973 IRA bomb in the town in which six people were murdered. Trevor Ringland says that not only should the 1,423 unsolved Troubles killings lead to a review, but also cases in which people were seriously injured

Trevor Ringland: All relatives of the Troubles dead deserve the same review that...

19/05/98: David Trimble, U2 frontman Bono, and John Hume on stage at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast to promote a YES vote in the referendum

Trevor Ringland: Ignoring mass murder is not how 1998 deal was sold to us — if i...

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