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This is where you can come for my take on the big Stormont stories and the politicians making the news
16:58 UK time, Tuesday, 21 May 2013
"The hollowing out of Northern Ireland's Britishness is a progressive process, whereby the British state divests itself of responsibilities and strips the province of evidence of its British character".
Not my words, but those of the Education Secretary Michael Gove, in his pamphlet "The Price of Peace" written 13 years ago.
15:40 UK time, Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Mike Nesbitt makes it clear he's not criticising Siobhan O'Dowd's novel "Bog Child" which he hasn't read, just the teaching booklet
15:39 UK time, Tuesday, 21 May 2013
UUP leader quotes from teaching booklet on novel "Bog Child" referring pupils to Danny Morrison, Richard O'Rawe and Bobby Sands' writings
15:33 UK time, Tuesday, 21 May 2013
In shared future debate, UUP's M Nesbitt says he's appalled by teaching booklet for secondary school children dealing with hunger strikes
12:27 UK time, Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Ann Travers tells BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback she feels gutted and punched in stomach by SDLP over threat veto Special Advisers' Bill
11:21 UK time, Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Main cause deaths NI 2012: Cancer 4100, Circulatory Disease 4000, Respiratory Disease 2000, Alzheimers/Dementia 1400 (a new high)
11:17 UK time, Tuesday, 21 May 2013
14,800 of us died last year 4% more than 2011, but infant deaths at 200 were lowest ever. Statistics here http://t.co/R30thI1yg8
11:07 UK time, Tuesday, 21 May 2013
David Ford has announced the appointment of Tom McGonigle as the new Prisoner Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
15:28 UK time, Monday, 20 May 2013
I was going to tweet more Dracula jokes, but @BBCGarethG and @StepWalkTV tell me I'm just being a pain in the neck
14:48 UK time, Monday, 20 May 2013
Looks like we're really getting our teeth into the film business - FM and DFM say Universal Pictures' Dracula will be filmed in NI
17:42 UK time, Friday, 17 May 2013
Inside Politics 6.05pm Martin McGuinness hints at moves towards smaller Assembly and enhanced north south cooperation
17:40 UK time, Friday, 17 May 2013
Inside Politics 6.05pm Deputy First Minister says "important discussions" underway with DUP on Welfare Reform
17:38 UK time, Friday, 17 May 2013
Inside Politics Radio Ulster 6.05pm Martin McGuinness regrets the use of words "So What?" in Shared Future fall out
12:27 UK time, Friday, 17 May 2013
After Dunmurry ambush NI Conservatives' Trevor Ringland says Home Secretary call for whole life terms for police murders should apply to NI
16:23 UK time, Thursday, 16 May 2013
So were FM and DFM's recent investment trips value for money? Costs breakdown published here http://t.co/h9T1adVnUj
19:38 UK time, Thursday, 9 May 2013
Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers have been promising us ambitious plans on a shared future in recent weeks, but providing nothing in the way of detail.
On Thursday, we were summoned to Stormont Castle and presented with a list of initiatives.
16:13 UK time, Monday, 29 April 2013
Theresa Villiers' speech earlier on Monday is the latest in a series of comments from the secretary of state about an economic package under negotiation with the Stormont Executive.
London ministers hope this deal will be agreed within the coming weeks, prior to the G8 summit due in June.
16:14 UK time, Thursday, 25 April 2013
Anyone who watched the question and answer session between reporters and the Northern Ireland first and deputy first ministers at the Titanic centre in Belfast earlier this week won't need me to tell them that relations between the top two at Stormont and our local newspapers are far from smooth.
Peter Robinson objected to the Executive having to "sift" its message through the medium of newspapers who, he argued, regard themselves as an alternative form of "opposition".
23:35 UK time, Monday, 22 April 2013
Might some aspects of the Eames Bradley report on the past have been implemented by now if it hadn't been for the team's most controversial suggestion?
That's a thought which flashed through my mind for two reasons.
23:39 UK time, Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Mark added analysis to:
In terms of the official etiquette, Baroness Thatcher's funeral was a ceremonial, not a full, state, funeral.
But watching the coffin being borne on a gun carriage along the Strand, flanked by military bands, it certainly felt like a major state occasion.
BBC journalist since 1980s. Reporter for Spotlight, Ireland Correspondent covering IRA ceasefire and Good Friday Agreement, United Nations Correspondent in New York, Stormont Political Editor since 2001.
Covered stories in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Israel.
Author of Flash Frames -12 Years Reporting Belfast and co -author of Man of War, Man of Peace: a biography of Gerry Adams
Once worked as a trainee reporter for Indian newspaper "The Hindu".
Educated in Oxford before going to university in Cambridge to study history
Liverpool and Oxford United supporter.
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