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Brendan Hughes: Big challenges but low bar of expectations for next Northern Ireland secretary

For a role long seen as a poisoned chalice, it is perhaps refreshing that someone appears to actually want to be appointed as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

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Brendan Hughes: Stormont funding pressures piling up in absence of Executive

The UK government may not have stepped into the breach this time, but no action is increasingly not an option

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Brendan Hughes: Gen-Z singing 'up the Ra' a depressing sign of a society still divided

In many respects Stormont has failed to show leadership

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Brendan Hughes: Party transfers offer quick boost but whole season still to play for

While defections can give parties the short-term hit of a positive headline, they do not mean all will be rosy in the long run

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Brendan Hughes: Michelle O'Neill's call to respect differing views not matched by Sinn Fein

Ms O'Neill's call for people to be "mature enough" to "agree to differ" fails to match her own party's actions

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Brendan Hughes: David Trimble did the heavy lifting but others reaped the benefits

While Stormont has faltered, relative peace envisioned by the Good Friday Agreement has endured

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Brendan Hughes: Northern Ireland will not make or break chances of Tory leadership contenders

Just 0.03% of Northern Ireland's population will have a say on who becomes the UK's next Prime Minister

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Brendan Hughes: Arlene Foster's blinkered royalism will do UK no favours in Scottish independence debate

For those wishing to maintain the Union, following the tact of Dame Arlene would be ill-advised

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Brendan Hughes: Bonfire clean-up bill hard to fathom in a cost-of-living crisis

Bonfires may be considered culturally important to unionist areas, but melting the window frames off your neighbour's house does nothing to serve your community

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Brendan Hughes: A year since the DUP's leadership turmoil, let's see how the party is faring

In many respects Sir Jeffrey's leadership has steadied the ship, but many of the challenges from a year ago remain unresolved

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Brendan Hughes: BBC axing live Twelfth coverage reflects changing times

Perhaps even more so than changing demographics, the BBC move is a response to changing viewing habits and budget pressures

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Brendan Hughes: A blank cheque for Casement Park hard for Stormont to justify

The worry for fans is that Casement now becomes caught up in a wider dispute over the restoration of Stormont

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Brendan Hughes: US delegation and UK funding distract from partygate and Stormont stalemate

After a week of distractions, another week begins in a similar vein

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Brendan Hughes: DUP approach to its cherished Union a web of contradictions

"The Irish Sea border must go," the DUP says - but it would be happy to maintain a sea border in other ways

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Brendan Hughes: Emma Little-Pengelly comeback shows DUP gearing up for electoral battles ahead

Looking at the bigger picture for the DUP, the decision to co-opt Emma Little-Pengelly makes sense

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Brendan Hughes: Don't be surprised if election manifesto plans are quickly forgotten

It's understandable that few voters actually read election manifestos

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Brendan Hughes: Boris Johnson partygate sees DUP and Sinn Fein find common ground

The parties have the same aloofness over the PM being fined for breaking Covid laws - but for different reasons

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Brendan Hughes: A review of Stormont parties' Assembly election broadcasts

Parties have become better over the years with these broadcasts, but some are more successful than others

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Brendan Hughes: Nationalism fails to grow support for Irish unity amid Brexit mess

Sinn Féin's focus is outmaneuvering the DUP, which is increasingly making unionist fears of a border poll its pitch to voters

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Brendan Hughes: Unionist unity on Brexit NI Protocol was only ever publicity stunt deep

Any remaining semblance of a shared stance fell away with the UUP pulling out of anti-Protocol rallies

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Brendan Hughes: Don't expect the Stormont Executive to be restored anytime soon

Pressing issues such as securing a multi-year budget will have to be parked once more

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Brendan Hughes: Assembly candidate selections show DUP electoral problems

Opting for only two candidates in Lagan Valley demonstrates a nervousness as the election draws nearer

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