Bernadette McAliskey

1 week ago | impartialreporter.com | Bernadette McAliskey

Kealan Dillon, Dixie Robinson and Cathal McGinty, of Dungannon Swifts, celebrate after their team's victory at Windsor Park, Belfast. Photo by Oliver McVeigh. C’mon, the Swifts! Europe, here we come! Congratulations to Dungannon Swifts on their historic victory! Neither sea borders nor Border polls were on the conversation menu in Dungannon this week.

2 weeks ago | impartialreporter.com | Bernadette McAliskey

Cardinals from around the world attending the funeral mass of Pope Francis. Photo by Ronan McGrade. As the world continues to accelerate its rate of descent into chaos, the political winds are changing so much by the hour that in politics a day is a long time, and a week, a lifetime. Pope Francis took his leave of the world on Easter Monday, taking the world by surprise despite his frailty and a general awareness he was nearing the end of life’s journey.

4 weeks ago | impartialreporter.com | Bernadette McAliskey

The USA will be celebrating the Declaration of its independence next year. The DUP Minister for Communities has announced funding of £250,000 for organisations to mark the big occasion, strengthen the links between N. Ireland and the USA and the role played by immigrants from here in founding the USA, building its power and providing leadership to its population. Further information on how organisations can apply for funding will be announced in the coming months.

1 month ago | impartialreporter.com | Bernadette McAliskey

The fear and deep concern of impending poverty felt by people with disability and long-term illness hasn’t gone away, you know. The ‘clarity’ provided in Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement has simply added to it by widening the Labour Party’s self-proclaimed claimed ‘moral duty’ to raiding the family purses of the most economically disadvantaged children and adults in our society.

1 month ago | impartialreporter.com | Bernadette McAliskey

People living west of the Bann River are always at a significant disadvantage when high-powered public jobs come up for grabs, if that colloquial phrase isn’t too harsh a word in the context. No implication of lack of due process is implied, it . is just that such jobs are almost always based in ‘Greater Belfast’, usually in the more easterly environs of the metropolitan area, without much evidence of need for that to be the case.