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		<title>Lessons for UUP but Cameron speech a winner</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[THE Ulster Unionist Conference on Saturday was a major success for a party supposedly dead on its knees a few years ago. Yet the key to that success –the new deal with David Cameron and the Tories – inevitably overshadowed the rest of the event. And it served to highlight the dangers for the UUP [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Ash won the war</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Local rock band Ash do not normally lock onto the political radar, but leafing through the latest edition of music magazine NME I was intrigued to read about Tim Wheeler&#8217;s proudest achievement.   The Downpatrick singer recalled the band&#8217;s 1998 gig in the Waterfront Hall with U2, to back a yes vote in the Referendum, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The emerging cost of devolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The word is that after donating £900 million to the Stormont coffers, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is likely to continue to look favourably on requests for further financial assistance, in the weeks and months ahead &#8211; to underpin devolution and the transfer of policing and justice powers. But with the true cost of devolution having [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Can Peter risk policing devolution during an election campaign?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The deal to break the Stormont deadlock could be built on unsteady foundations. With Peter Robinson sticking to his bottom-line of not giving a date for devolving policing and justice, there is the look of a sticking plaster job about the DUP-Sinn Fein agreement. While the two main parties have defied the critics to find [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>DUP-UUP talks on hold&#8230; again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Talks between the DUP and Ulster Unionists on maximising the unionist vote had been expected this week, but will not now take place. It had been hoped that the discussions would take place on November 13 or 14, but the UUP has confirmed that it proved impossible to find a time to meet. A spokesperson [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>DUP conference misses the Doc and Sammy show&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The odd good joke aside, there was something unusually dull about the DUP’s weekend conference. How times have changed.   Yes it was really well organised.   It was slick and everything a modern, media savvy, political event should be – including the first ever live television broadcast of an Ulster party conference.   Of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>UUP-TUV &#8220;pact&#8221; raises eyebrows</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Sir Reg Empey&#8217;s talks with Jim Allister seems to have left the UUP leader open to jibes that he is never done looking to do pacts and deals &#8211; even with the unlikely bedfellows of his rivals in the TUV. But is at blunder of bigger proportions or commonsense pro-Union politics? Since taking the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brown&#8217;s failure to back Libya victims&#8217; concerns Labour MPs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Apologies. It&#8217;s been a while since the last blog. Excuses include illness and a heavy workload. Time to get back on track&#8230; Chatting to victims&#8217; campaigner Willie Frazer this morning, he informs me that a delegation including him and MP Jeffrey Donaldson will meet with Labour MPs and members of the House of Commons Foreign [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Maze Prison breakout blunder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gerry Kelly&#8217;s appearance on the BBC documentary about the Maze Prison breakout seems to have struck an emotive and negative chord with many in the unionist community, given the reaction flowing into the News Letter this morning. Accusations are also flying around that the BBC glorified the IRA and turned the prison escape into some type [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Arlene wins but DUP will study the vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[THE DUP&#8217;s tactic of fielding Arlene Foster in the Enniskillen by-election worked &#8211; in that it spared it any Dromore-type blushes and saved the seat from the clutches of Sinn Fein. It also increased its share of the first preference vote, from 28.2 per cent in 2005 to just over 30 per cent, this time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting to the heart of the matter at Stormont</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Good luck to Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke this morning. They are up at Stormont doing heart checks and taking blood pressure levels from our MLAs. Given the way the political temperature is rising at Parliament Buildings &#8211; after John O&#8217;Dowd signalled Sinn Fein is in mood for an Executive meeting on Thursday &#8211; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Uh-oh&#8230; here we go..?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The thought of months of the DUP and TUV going head to head in a European election battle, is enough to fill political correspondents everywhere (but especially at the unionist News Letter) with dread&#8230; and we may just have witnessed the opening salvo today &#8211; in a cheeky Jim Allister press release. I have to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New trend at Stormont?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;First Lady&#8221; of Northern Ireland politics, Iris Robinson, is well known for taking care of her image and always being immaculately &#8211; even glamourously &#8211; turned out. So it may have come as a surprise, to some, to see her walking the corridors of power at Stormont, this past week, in tracksuit and trainers. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Weighty rumour&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the summer, £285,000 has been spent refurbishing the Assembly chamber to improve its layout and make it easier for people with disabilities to use the facility. That work is now complete but in the last few  days, a rumour has been going around that some Assembly members are concerned about whether they will be able to squeeze behind [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tories backing a winner?</title>
		<link>https://theinsidetrack.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/tories-backing-a-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The recent announcement that the Conservatives are in talks with the Ulster Unionists to explore whether they can work more closely together &#8211; maybe even eventually merge &#8211; has refocused attention on national parties&#8217; failures in Northern Ireland. For decades Labour didn&#8217;t even organise here, advising their supporters to vote for the SDLP, and while [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Could Sinn Fein ever support the Army?</title>
		<link>https://theinsidetrack.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/could-sinn-fein-ever-support-the-army/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Councillors across the Province will no doubt disagree, but council chambers are rarely the centre of the debate which is meant to be at the heart of democracy.  Across our 26 council&#8217;s, the trivial often takes precedence over the substantial. But on Monday night at Belfast City Council the vote to support a homecoming parade [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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			<media:title type="html">The News Letter has been calling for a Belfast homecoming parade</media:title>
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		<title>Homecoming parade a step away</title>
		<link>https://theinsidetrack.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/homecoming-parade-a-step-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Until now, local soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have been flown back into Northern Ireland by the back door, many receiving little more than a medal in the post as thanks for their service overseas. Last month one Royal Irish soldier, Lance Corporal Daniel Ross, said that soldiers returning to the UK from an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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			<media:title type="html">Major Max Walker, Second in Command of 1 Battalion Royal Irish, has said that his troops would be more than delighted to take part in a homecoming parade if they are invited</media:title>
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		<title>Questions as Eames-Bradley report delayed</title>
		<link>https://theinsidetrack.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/questions-as-eames-bradley-report-delayed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting in for Stephen for a week while the great man takes a break from both our weather and politicians, so apologies if at any point this strays too far from politics over the next seven days&#8230; Several groups have been planning their response to the Eames-Bradley Consultative Group on the past report in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A new Gordon Brown economic package?</title>
		<link>https://theinsidetrack.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/a-new-gordon-brown-economic-package/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hmmm.. there&#8217;s a lot being made of the dissident republican threat this week. But while no one could make light of their ability to build sophisticated explosive devices and orchestrate riots and shootings, the sophistication of their political thinking and communication may have someway to go &#8211; judging by the graffiti sprayed around the Tullygalley [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another political process d-day</title>
		<link>https://theinsidetrack.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/another-political-process-d-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[September 18, 2008 can now be added to a long list of d-days or deadline dates which have marked the political process over the last two decades. This morning Peter Robinson said that if Sinn Fein again blocked the Executive meeting planned for that day, there would be consequences for the future governance of Northern [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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