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Ben Lowry: The Tories seemed surprisingly upbeat in Birmingham, perhaps feeling freed from the bu...

​This week I was at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.

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I would not have set up a Pat Finucane inquiry, says Tory Northern Ireland spokesman

​The Tory spokesman for Northern Ireland has explained why he opposed the decision to order a public inquiry into the...

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Ben Lowry: A fine Northern Ireland Olympic celebration yet to some people like our first minister...

​It was a pleasure to be at the SSE Arena on Thursday night for the celebration of the Northern Ireland Olympians and...

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Conservative leadership hopefuls defend their approach to Northern Ireland

​Three of the four Tory leadership candidates have said that they are committed to a Northern Ireland within the UK, ...

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The world's oldest English language daily newspaper, the Belfast News Letter, is about to turn 287

​As regular News Letter buyers and followers will know, you are reading the oldest English language daily newspaper.

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Ben Lowry: It is still too early to say if the Labour government will be positively bad for union...

​The Labour Party will gather just across the Irish Sea in Liverpool next weekend for its annual conference.

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Ben Lowry: Wow for Northern Ireland that we have such stunning golf courses as Royals Co Down and...

​On Thursday morning I drove down to Royal Co Down for the Irish Open.

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Northern Ireland this weekend basked in weather hot even by Mediterranean standards but is now ba...

​Summer in Northern Ireland, if it arrived at all, seemed to end in the middle of August.

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Ben Lowry: The cost to taxpayers of lavish public sector pensions in Northern Ireland is a loomin...

Not infrequently the quality of governance at Stormont has been subject to fierce scrutiny in this newspaper.​

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Ben Lowry: The gloom of September and the rapid move away from summer has been banished by this s...

The temperature recorded yesterday in Northern Ireland of 27.2 Celsius is highly unusual.

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Oil prices in Northern Ireland stay low, despite the onset of autumn

It is a hot weekend in Northern Ireland, but when cool autumn weather returns it might not cost a fortune to turn on ...

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Ben Lowry: Unionists support the Turk Cypriots yet might have backed the Greeks

​The island of Cyprus has been divided now for 50 years – more entirely divided, indeed, than Northern Ireland.

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