HeyJaredTom Collins
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Tom Collins: The Drumcree disgrace just confirms that Northern Ireland is unfit for purpose (opens the original)
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If unionism wanted to prove beyond all doubt that Northern Ireland, as a political entity, is beyond salvation, it could have done no better than to resurrect the conflict on Garvaghy Road in Portadown. For some time there has been a concerted effort by some within unionism to undermine the Good Friday Agreement, to jeopardise the peace process, and to put nationalists in their place. âCroppies lie downâ has always been part of that mindset and always will be. Well, the croppies are not for
Tom Collins: In a world that needs role models, Ed Sheeran has been shown to be a coward (opens the original)
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AND so the troubled troubadour has repented. Opening a concert in Philadelphia â the city of brotherly love â Ed Sheeran broke his silence on the genocide in Gaza after a troubled week which upended his US tour. He told concertgoers: âMy heart has been broken by the scale of devastation and loss of civiliansâ lives, of childrenâs lives.â Well. More joy in heaven over one sinner that repents, and all that. I suppose we must take Sheeranâs sincerity at face value. His about-turn sure
Tom Collins: Dollar by dollar, pound by pound, our freedoms are being taken away from us (opens the original)
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ONLY people of a certain age will know who Dorothy Parker is, and those who do are likely to remember her more for her quips and wise-cracks than her politics. She coined the line âMen seldom make passes at girls who wear glassesâ, and she co-wrote the screenplay of A Star is Born. But Parker was more than just a witty member of the infamous Algonquin Club who wrote for the New Yorker. She was an astute observer of the American scene and a campaigner for human rights â not least a champion
Tom Collins: The West must stop Trumpâs bid to sell out Ukraine (opens the original)
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ITâS said to be darkest before dawn. Really? Itâs something Iâve taken on trust, Iâm sure some readers have tested the truth of it; but, true or not, as a metaphor it works. At one time or another weâve all nearly given up just before the point where things turn around. The people of Ukraine must be praying they are at that point. Four and a half years into the Soviet invasion of their country â 12 years from the annexation of Crimea â there is no end in sight to the horrors of war
Tom Collins: Why Andy Burnham canât be trusted on Ireland (opens the original)
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Andy Burnham turned up in Belfast last week. Better if he hadnât, to be honest. He was like the Sorcererâs Apprentice in overdrive. The mess he left heading home to the newly-formed âUnited Kingdom of Greater Manchester and Northern Irelandâ merely demonstrates how far out of his depth he is. Since the appointment of Willie Whitelaw as the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in 1972, successive British ministers have shown a total lack of understanding about this fake state, it
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