I'm loathed to reference a story from the Irish News when it's not clear for how long it will remain freely available online [edit: it's gone], but this one's quite revealing. I earlier mentioned that the cowards of the Real IRA shot two off-duty police… more »

The republican splinter-group the Real IRA has an objective to get soldiers re-deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland. With more attacks on the RUC/PSNI we believe we can reach the stage where British soldiers are brought back onto the streets to… more »

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez recently called for governments to recognise Colombian terrorists (and friends of the IRA) FARC to be recognised as "an army". Sound familiar? Today Colombians will take to the streets to march in protest against FARC… more »

Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has announced that the 4 regional health-boards will be merged into a single Northern Ireland health board as part of plans to save "more than £53 million by April 2011" and reduce the number of staff by about 1,700,… more »

While I recently mentioned that Everything Ulster had hit the big time, it came as something of a surprise to find that the site has been nominated for Best Political Blog in the 2008 Irish Blog Awards. Being up against the likes of Slugger O'Toole, t… more »

Apparently there was some kind of sporting event in Dublin today, but that was overshadowed by the events at Windsor Park where Crusaders were robbed of the CIS Cup by a mediocre Linfield team. Linfield were a man up for the duration of the game (I di… more »

A heart-warming act of friendship in Ballymena today as Northern Ireland's First Minister Ian Paisley and the prime minister of the Republic Bertie Ahern got all cozy and loved-up during a visit by the latter to the former's constituency. Paisley desc… more »

Britannia has featured on the tails side of 50-pence piece since the introduction of the coin in 1969. I was driving home late last night when I heard Stephen Nolan's guests discussing Gordon Brown's public protestations about how he cherishes his Bri… more »

"Do you support a Bill of Rights which is unique to Northern Ireland, which imposes an array of socio-economic commitments upon the Assembly which are incalculable in scale, incapable of being costed and will require substantial funding which will almost… more »

Over Christmas the PSNI caught 600 people drink-driving. 2 of those were off-duty PSNI officers. Unlike Officer Geraldine Donnelly , who was caught before new policy came into effect, these 2 officers "if prosecuted", are likely to lose their jobs. I… more »