BELFAST MAYOR Niall Ó Donnghaile is leaving his post a few days early to allow a DUP Mayor to take up office in time for the Jubilee celebrations. The decision was agreed with the DUP 12 months ago, making nonsense of a Belfast Telegraph splash that it is a “snub” to unionists. Free article

THE Bradford West by-election on 29 March saw a spectacular victory for George Galloway and the left-wing Respect Party, winning what Westminster’s newest MP described as “the most sensational result in British by-election history”. Free article

The logical extension of Peter Robinson’s Carson Lecture in Dublin is for him to give the leadership required to free up unionist thinking, to become partners in reconciliation with republicans and not just partners in government Premium service article

Despite our fanaticism for Celtic, it still makes it more appealing to have a competitive Rangers breathing down our necks or vice versa Free article

THE QUESTION I’m most frequently asked is: ‘Where do your ideas come from?’ I have no hesitation in saying that I find my own experience, my own journey, infinitely more interesting than anyone else’s. It took me years, though, to trust in my own background, to believe that the events that had shaped me were important and worth sharing with the world. Premium service article

ALL Sinn Féin members and supporters are being urged to help make the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in Killarney, County Kerry, just days ahead of the vote on the EU Fiscal Austerity Treaty, one of the biggest political rallies of the year at a critical time in Ireland’s history. Free article

A PLAN to help seek a resolution of the situation at Priory Hall has been endorsed by the evacuated residents. A former Supreme Court judge, Justice Finnegan, is to chair a resolution process that is due to include residents, mortgage lenders and Dublin City Council. Free article

IT IS CLEAR from the response she’s getting from people across the Six Counties that the Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure Carál Ní Chuilin MLA is having a positive effect. Free article

CAITHFIDH Fine Gael agus an Lucht Oibre stopadh de bheith ag déanamh leatrom uafásach ar thuismitheoirí aonair. Premium service article

THE independence of the Historical Enquiries Team, the body set up by the PSNI to re-examine all deaths attributable to the conflict in the Six Counties between 1968 and 1998, has been called into question in a report by a senior academic at the University of Ulster. Free article

TÁ LIADH NÍ RIADA ceapaithe mar Oifigeach Náisiúnta Gaeilge. Is as Gaeltacht Mhúscraí atá in Iarthar Chorcaí gurb as Liadh. Is í an té is óige do chlann Sheáin Uí Riada agus tá sé nádúrtha go mbeadh ceangail láidir aici lenar gcultúr agus ár dteanga. Free article

Speaking ahead of an Easter Rising commemoration in Bandon, County Cork, Gerry Adams said that a united Ireland makes economic sense, would create prosperity, and would deliver a better standard of living for future generations. Free article