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Leaders must clear the way for change
Dear Sir, - Many thanks for your front page article "Bobby Sands, no hero but terrorist says Robinson".
Published: 13:00 16th May
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First Minister accused of weaving around the issues
DEAR SIR - I read the article with First Minister Peter Robinson in your newspaper with great interest
Published: 13:00 16th May
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We should not move backwards
DEAR SIR - Regarding the recent article 'Council passes motion supporting same sex marriage' - as a Fermanagh student studying in Dundee I was online reading the news from back home as I do every week and I came across this from Ballinamallard's very own DUP Councillor Bert Johnston, talking about same-sex marriage... "With all my being, I oppose this motion; it's iniquitous."
Published: 13:00 16th May
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A person's sexuality is not a choice
DEAR SIR, - I would like to explain to Rev Robinson why (although I fully believe that he is entitled to his own opinion, and I fully believe in freedom of speech), I believe his letter and attitudes are potentially harmful to LGBT people in Northern Ireland, in Fermanagh, in no doubt his home village of Kesh and perhaps unknowingly to him, within his own congregation. I also wish to expose several inaccuracies to his argument.
Published: 13:00 16th May
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Young people given the chance to have their say
When it comes to issues that can shape government thinking, young people from Fermanagh and adjoining counties are being given the opportunity this week to have their say.
Published: 13:00 16th May
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Who do you think you are kidding, Mr.....?
I'm told there is a "Dad's Army Appreciation Society". You know, fans of that old comedy set in the Home Guard at Walmington-on-sea during the Second World War.
Published: 09:30 16th May
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Till death us do part?
I sat in the front room of my home last week with my brother and parents. As we chatted a hearse drove slowly by and I saw the words DAD written in flowers on the side of it.
Published: 09:30 16th May
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DUP Councillor says priest was right to guide flock on 'sin of Sodomy'
DEAR SIR - In a letter to Impartial Reporter (2.5.13 Tara Coyle makes what most would consider an erroneous and dictatorial statement when she accuses the Aghadrumsee priest of lecturing voters to vote for the DUP.
Published: 14:00 9th May
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In praise of opposition to Sinn Fein motion
DEAR SIR - I would like via your paper to commend our Elected Representatives who opposed the Sinn Fein motion on same sex "marriage".
Published: 14:00 9th May
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Shale gas payments
DEAR SIR - There's an old proverb ' Beware Greeks bearing gifts' based on the wooden horse of Troy legend.
Published: 14:00 9th May
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Help stop this latest blight on our landscape
The discovery of ash dieback disease, which has been spreading throughout Europe, now in Fermanagh, could have serious implications for our landscape.
Published: 14:00 9th May
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Who cares, anyway?
I read this week that a couple of amateur surveyors from Wales have been climbing some of Britain's highest peaks to see if they should be classified as mountains or hills.
Published: 09:30 9th May
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When people shout stop!
Last week I wrote a column about how much I regretted that I didn't make a complaint about a hospital when I was neglected at one of the most vulnerable times of my life; twenty three years later very little had changed.
Published: 09:30 9th May
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What are you complaining about?
In the old Monty Python sketch, a man walks up to the complaints desk in a big store.
Published: 09:30 2nd May
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When nobody shouts stop
Twenty three years ago this week I went into labour. Nothing unusual about that as I was nine months pregnant. When the pains started on the Friday morning I went to my local doctor and he told me to go directly to the hospital. I did. Fifty miles later I entered the Regional Hospital in Galway now called University College Hospital.
Published: 09:30 2nd May
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A decision that will be watched closely
Health Minister Edwin Poots is to make his decision shortly on the future of children's heart surgery.
Published: 09:30 2nd May
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Death blow to children's heart surgery
Dear Sir, - I have just heard today, Thursday 25th April, that Mr Poots, the Health Minister, has dealt the death blow to children's heart surgery at the Royal.
Published: 09:30 2nd May
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Definition of a victim needs resolved
Dear Sir - On Friday 19th April 2013 to a packed gathering of innocent victims and survivors of Terrorism and our Country's elected representatives, Innocent Victims United (an umbrella organisation with 15 member organisations, supporting several thousand direct victims and survivors of Terrorism in the South/West of Northern Ireland) launched 'A Charter for Innocent Victims.'
Published: 09:30 2nd May
