Ben Lowry
Editor at Belfast News Letter
Editor of the News Letter, the world's oldest continuously published daily English language newspaper. All views expressed are my own
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1 week ago |
newsletter.co.uk | Ben Lowry
Published 31st May 2025, 13:27 BSTNorthern Ireland has had easily its sunniest ever spring, after an exceptional spell of weather that smashed records. Thank you for signing up!Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast News Letter, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting...
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1 week ago |
newsletter.co.uk | Ben Lowry
A Wolf Tones concert at the West Belfast Festival. Young people across Ireland now chant Ooh ah up the Ra. Ireland has in fact become ever more anglophobic, as it becomes markedly less Catholic than it wasFor years now there has been fevered talk of about a new Ireland. It has been a regular point of discussion on the BBC, particularly on BBC Radio Ulster Talkback and on the View.
Ben Lowry: It has been such extraordinary weather in Northern Ireland that I almost welcome the rain
2 weeks ago |
newsletter.co.uk | Ben Lowry
Published 24th May 2025, 12:43 BSTI never thought I would welcome rain in Northern Ireland. Thank you for signing up!Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast News Letter, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... And I cannot pretend that as it is drizzling as I write this on Friday evening I am thrilled about it.
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2 weeks ago |
newsletter.co.uk | Ben Lowry
Simon Harris loftily sought opinions on legacy in Stormont this week while his government is suing the UK on the matterPresident Donald Trump’s encounter with his South African counterpart in the White House this week was extraordinary. Thank you for signing up!Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast News Letter, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
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3 weeks ago |
newsletter.co.uk | Ben Lowry
When you get good weather in Northern Ireland in late May, you see almost the best possible conditions you can get in this part of the world. Thank you for signing up!Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast News Letter, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting...
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I predicted years ago that the coming Loughgall inquest (basically a public inquiry) would turn on SAS. Some said I was exaggerating, but the recent Clonoe inquest did just that. Here's @JeffDudgeon 's devastating 3000 word critique of that finding https://t.co/NfvuYCYT5G
Today in 1987 the SAS ambushed & killed eight Sinn Fein-IRA terrorists as they carried out a bombing & shooting attack on Loughall RUC station in County Armagh. Sinn Fein-IRA’s largest death toll in a single incident. https://t.co/YjrFvIKfGD
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