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In the uninspiring surroundings of Court 13 in Belfast’s Laganside courts complex, the outline of a legal thriller has been unfolding over recent days, replete with secret recordings, back-stabbing, claims of insatiable greed, alleged fraud and money laundering.
2 months ago
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Stormont has failed lamentably in meeting its own targets to encourage people out of cars, can’t prove it has spent public money properly — and is not even on course to be lawful, an Audit Office report has found.
2 months ago
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Despite standing in mud deep beneath the earth, in some ways it’s the most opulent place I’ve ever been.
3 months ago
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David Trimble was one of the most intelligent political leaders of his generation who became a senior law lecturer, First Minister of Northern Ireland and who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
3 months ago
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Late Northern Ireland first minister David Trimble believed he was probably autistic — and some of his closest aides agreed, according to a new biography of the former unionist leader published this week.
3 months ago
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On the day that David Trimble died, he had no realisation of how close his life was to its end.
3 months ago
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A few weeks ago, I sat with my young son, high in the Compton Stand at Lord’s Cricket Ground, watching a compelling spectacle.
4 months ago
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Norman Tebbit was divisive in life, and he divided in death. Having revelled in the deaths of some of his enemies, this key ally of Margaret Thatcher may well have accepted some of his enemies would rejoice in his demise.
5 months ago
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Dismayed by Gerry Adams’ libel victory in a Dublin court, BBC now considering geoblocking Republic
6 months ago
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Micheál Martin first crossed the border as a young man desperately curious about a place which, since his childhood, had been an erupting volcano of sectarian slaughter.
8 months ago
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Almost a year after Robert Nairac was murdered, police were sent on a wild goose chase by an Australian clairvoyant who claimed he was still alive.
9 months ago