Tom Kelly: Common sense has prevailed at Drumcree, but the target of the wreckers will now be Stormont

Tom Kelly: Unionism risks being driven over the cliff by its own fringe

Tom Kelly: The Parades Commission has taken a wrecking ball to power-sharing

Tom Kelly: Cardiff was theatre. The DUP then supplied the farce

Tom Kelly: Not since the days of John Hume and Seamus Mallon have I heard such passion and vision in the SDLP

Tom Kelly: Humour might be the only response to the crisis in our hospital A&Es

Tom Kelly: The Parades Commission chair must go – but loyalism’s tantrum squad should shut up too

Meet Darragh O’Brien, the republican government minister who loves cricket and pipe bands

Tom Kelly: Appeasement has failed. It’s time to root out loyalist paramilitarism once and for all

Tom Kelly: The Fleadh gave us a vision of Belfast reborn through a shared love of music

Tom Kelly: As DUP and Sinn Féin lose their shine, can UUP and SDLP capitalise?

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Tom Kelly: Has Northern Ireland been left out of Burnham’s feel-good factor?

Tom Kelly: The BBC needs to be like Caesar’s wife – beyond reproach

Tom Kelly: There are no good paramilitaries, just thugs, pimps and racketeers

Brendan Smith: ‘I sincerely believe a national unity will come about’

Tom Kelly: 10 years after the stupidity of Brexit, there is hope in the Irish unity debate

Tom Kelly: 10 years after the stupidity of Brexit, there is hope in the Irish unity debate

Tom Kelly: For Starmer, politics is proving a brutal business. But is Andy the answer?

Tom Kelly: It should come as no surprise that we’re the least diverse part of the UK

Tom Kelly: Political sewer-swimming has now become an Olympic sport

Tom Kelly: We will forever be in debt to selfless men like Desmond Rea

Tom Kelly: The new racists forget that the Irish were once the target

Tom Kelly: Is England’s difficulty really Ireland’s opportunity with the rise of Reform?

Tom Kelly: It’s no longer a question of if Starmer will resign, but when

Pat Doherty: The developer who had a Titanic vision for Belfast that others couldn’t see

Tom Kelly: The Good Friday Agreement decommissioned weapons but not our prejudices

Tom Kelly: Heroes come in all shapes and sizes – mine is Richard Moore

Irish News columnist Dr Tom Kelly appointed Honorary Professor at Queen’s University

Tom Kelly: Trump’s messiah complex and Starmer’s personal Gethsemane

Tom Kelly: From our deluded plastic patriots to war games in the White House, violence brings only misery and pain

Tom Kelly: Can Hilary Benn finally cut through the Gordian knot of legacy?

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Tom Kelly: A plumber is exactly what parliament needs right now

Tom Kelly: Unrepentant Blair shows he has learned nothing and forgotten nothing

Tom Kelly: ‘We’ll make a bonfire of our troubles and watch them blaze away’

Tom Kelly: Steve Bannon should butt out of Ireland with his toxic brand of politics

Tom Kelly: Amid all the madness, Pope Leo can keep my glass half full for 2026

Tom Kelly: I can’t stand Eurovision – but I applaud Ireland’s stand against Israel

Tom Kelly: Defending the indefensible and failing with a capital F

Tom Kelly: It’s a case of much ado about nothing at Stormont’s Circus Maximum

Tom Kelly: Eugene Reavey’s testimony lays bare Britain’s murderous role in Troubles

Tom Kelly: The list of Stormont failures now reads like a litany of saints

Carmel and Eamon Hanna: There’s no strength without unity

Tom Kelly: A wake-up call for political leaders on both sides of Irish Sea

Tom Kelly: Only bums on seats will bring about a border poll