Last week the BBC news and current affairs programme, Spotlight, broadcast a series of interviews and dramatic reenactments with a man they called “Martin“, the pseudonym of a
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Anti-Irish Prejudice In Ireland Cannot Be Reasoned With. It Can Only Be Defeated
Over the last two decades the linguistic denigration of hibernophone sports teams and their fans by anglophone opponents has become one of the odder aspects of life in modern Ireland. Perhaps such animosities were always present
Brian Nelson, Britain’s Agent Of Terror During The Dirty War In Ireland
The British investigative journalist and author, Ian Cobain, has published a new book examining the United Kingdom’s post-WWII record of covert government actions and cover-ups. Included in “The History
The Tough Guide To The Known Galaxy
Thanks to a recent post on the Cedar Lounge Revolution an accidental trail of hyperlinks led me to a website that I hadn’t seen in years.
Hillary Clinton’s Animosity Towards “That Man”, Barack Obama, And Bill’s Inveterate “Dicking”
Despite a somewhat haphazard campaign to question or undermine the veracity of the latest tranche of leaked emails from the Gmail account of the former United
Casting The Women Of Ireland Beyond The Ninth Wave: We Face This Land
Ireland’s indigenous literature has long regarded the ninth wave, reputedly the outermost one surrounding the shoreline of the country, as a supernatural boundary. When the invading Clann Mhíle, the Irish race,
You Cannot Hate Irish Without Hating Those Who Speak Irish
If you speak Irish in Ireland, and your children speak and are educated through Irish in Ireland, does this make you an ideological opponent of “cultural globalisation“? A Gaelic Donald Trump
The Action Plan for Education 2016-2019 Promises Non-Action On Irish Medium Education
The minority government of Fine Gael and whoever happens to be knocking around the Dáil bar at the time has launched its new four-year strategy for schools
Regional Autonomy For North-East Ulster, A United Ireland For Slow Learners
As the negative effects of the successful Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom continue to ripple across this island nation there has been considerable kite-flying
PSNI Chief Criticises Exaggerated Press Reports On IRA Criminality
The Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI, the UK paramilitary police force in the north-east of Ireland, has rebuked the Irish and British press for exaggerated claims of criminality involving former volunteers of
Mad Max: Fury Road, Crash And Smash Video With No CGI
Over the last decade I’ve almost given up on “genre” movies as each release seems more risible than the last. The need to create tent pole films
Beating The English Language Into The Irish, Quite Literally
Following on from reports that an Irish-speaking employee was forced from his job at a business in Cork because of management demands that he use the English language
Researchers Are Convinced That The Grolier Codex Is A Genuine Mayan Book
After years of doubt and uncertainty researchers investigating the authenticity of the Grolier Codex, a pre-Columbian “book” initially dated to the 13th century CE, have concluded that the artefact is almost certainly genuine, one
That Hillary Clinton Collapse In New York City
It was a disastrous weekend for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party nominee to the White House, as she visibly fell ill at a major 9/11 memorial event in New
Fianna Fáil Says No To Water Charges, Yes To Northern Elections
Despite the electoral trauma of the last decade Fianna Fáil has clawed its way back into second place behind its historic rivals in Fine Gael, in part by
John Kasich Asks, What The Hell Is Wrong With Daniel Radcliffe?
Following the surprise decision of the Libertarian Party presidential nominee, Gary Johnson, to blow his own brains out live on morning television – metaphorically speaking, at least –
What Is Aleppo?
One doubts that Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in the United States, is going to get over this on-air gaffe any time soon. If ever. What
Fired For Speaking Irish In Ireland’s English Only Pub
So in the space of three years we’ve gone from Irish-speaking citizens being arrested by the Gardaí for conversing in Irish to Irish-speaking citizens being forced from a job
Ní Saoirse Go Saoirse Na mBan, A Message From Syria On The 8th Amendment
The International Freedom Battalion (IFB) is one of the more unusual armed groups participating in the Syrian civil war. Primarily composed of left-wing foreign volunteers the minor force has
The Apple Tax Scandal, Business As Usual On Charlie Haughey Island
Staggering. That is the only way to describe the rush of revelations emerging from last week’s decision by the European Commission to condemn the tax avoidance schemes
Hillary Clinton, Not Crooked But Definitely Suspect
The decision by the FBI in the United States to release fifty-eight pages of notes from its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email history as secretary of state
Native American Protesters Gather In North Dakota To Defend Sovereignty Rights
In an unprecedented move thousands of activists from some 200 Native American nations are assembling in an isolated region of North Dakota, a mid-western state on
