Ulster-Scots – Courtesy Of The Irish Tax-Payer
The Ulster-Scots Agency or Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch was set up as part of the negotiations surrounding the Irish Peace Process ofContinue Reading
Month: June 2013
Game Over Man, Game Over!
Michael Taft’s view on yesterday’s confirmation that Ireland is pretty much in a perpetual recession: “A good friend of mineContinue Reading
Sinn Féin, The SDLP And The Québec Comparison
Several commentators, including myself, have recently speculated about the possibility of Sinn Féin and the SDLP maximising the regional NationalistContinue Reading
The Double Bono
Forget about the sense of aristocratic entitlement that apparently pervaded the membership of Ireland’s financial corporations. The heads of theContinue Reading
Patterns Of War
With all the media focus on the rise of a global Big Brother via the Orwellian ambitions of the UnitedContinue Reading
Laughing All The Way To The Bank
One law for us, another law for them. That is the lesson to be learned from the latest revelations surroundingContinue Reading
The SNP – Scottish-Lite
Scottish blogger Tocasaid has some rightfully strident views on the apparent refusal of the SNP government in Scotland to submitContinue Reading
The Terror Season
Welcome to the so-called “marching season” in the British Occupied North of Ireland.
Thoughtcrime Does Not Entail Death – Just Surveillance
Thanks to the big splash in today’s Guardian newspaper we now have more evidence of just how far we have travelledContinue Reading
Cherish The Children?
The understandable outrage over the duplicitous denials by the Fine Oibre coalition government that educational services for special needs childrenContinue Reading
Ireland’s Forests Saved?
A miracle on Kildare Street? A popular campaign in Ireland seems to have actually succeeded in getting the establishment powersContinue Reading
Pobl Caerdydd
Didn’t get a chance to post this over the weekend but the best of luck to Pobl Caerdydd, the newContinue Reading
G8 Protesters Are “Anti-British”
Only in Ireland! Billy Hutchinson and the PUP, the political front of the British terror faction the UVF, staged aContinue Reading
Afghanistan – The Self-Defeating War
In Afghanistan the United States and its international allies have staged a formal handover of military and security control inContinue Reading
Clueless – The International Press In Belfast
With so much of the news from the conflict in Syria being filtered through the International media one is struckContinue Reading
Bóthar an Choinicéir – A Walk Down Memory Lane
Some long-time readers know that I’m a bit of an architecture buff and reading a recent post by exiled IrishContinue Reading
The Hidden Irish
Veteran former newspaper editor and journalist Gerard O’Regan has a somewhat tongue-in-cheek article in the Irish Independent headlined: “It’s pointlessContinue Reading
Irish, Irish, Irish – Out, Out, Out!
The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) is a thirty year old independent human rights organisation based in IrelandContinue Reading
Scotland’s Missing Scottish Question
There is an excellent article on Bella Caledonia by Wilson McLeod examining the failure of the SNP-led Scottish Government toContinue Reading
Fighting In Tongues
It’s been announced that Derry is to get a new Irish language community radio station, Raidió G, which will beContinue Reading
June Summer Solstice Session At Séamus Ennis Cultural Centre
Another quick post, this time on behalf of the Séamus Ennis Cultural Centre which is holding a Summer Solstice Session in JuneContinue Reading
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