The news that the United Kingdom is advertising twenty-one new jobs for the Belfast branch of its Border Force, an immigration and customs control agency,

Irish News And Analysis
The news that the United Kingdom is advertising twenty-one new jobs for the Belfast branch of its Border Force, an immigration and customs control agency,
The Stormy Daniels’ controversy seems to be the gift that just keeps on giving. It has become a veritable box of delights, or horrors, providing
Speaking of right-wing politics, Britain’s leading apologist for its colonial misadventures in Ireland, the novelist Ruth Dudley Edwards, has taken to the pages of the
The left-leaning Guardian newspaper in Britain seems to have a bit of a myopic soft spot for its former columnist, Lionel Shriver. Despite her recent
In 2012, the French far-right party Bloc Identitaire – later renamed Les Identitaires – established a youth wing under the title of Génération Identitaire (GI)
Some readers might be aware of the independent American media website, Channel Awesome, and its eponymous profile on YouTube. Over the last decade the company
In some ways the Daily Express is the also-ran of right-wing newspapers in the United Kingdom. Considerably smaller and with far less influence than the
There must be something in the Irish psyche, some cultural legacy of foreign colonial rule, of war and oppression, which allows us to continuously wipe
Following on from a statement to a gathering of shocked MEPs in Brussels by a senior representative of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom,
The news that a senior member of the British Labour Party has dismissed the likelihood of a return to open conflict in the north-east of
There are some events, illustrative of the hypocrisy which runs through the very core of British unionism in Ireland, which simply strain patience and credulity
Given the ongoing preparations for the referendum on the Eight Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann, scheduled for the end of May, this feature by the
I have a great deal of time for political iconoclasts, those who challenge conventional tenets on the ideological Left or Right. While some do so
I haven’t posted any science-fiction or fantasy short films in a while so here are a couple of nice examples. First up is the fourteen
There were several interesting items in last Wednesday’s BBC documentary, My Dad, the Peace Deal and Me, featuring the Irish comedian Patrick Kielty and his
Here we go again. The last decade has witnessed many press reports on Fianna Fáil’s supposed intention to stand for regional elections in the north-east
With the Labour Party stalling at 5% or thereabouts in the national polls, its electoral future seems pretty bleak. However, desperate times call for desperate
Out of legal necessity, one needs to tread very carefully while discussing the emerging scandal at Independent News & Media (IN&M), an issue which may
Though it never gained the activist reputation of places like New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Chicago, throughout the three-decade history of the so-called Troubles or
The weekend revelations about the transformation of the Sinclair Broadcast Group in the United States into the Pravda of American television has taken some people
Following Sunday’s attempt by the PSNI, Britain’s armed police force in the north-east of Ireland, to prevent an Irish republican parade in Lurgan, today’s focus
Following on from yesterday’s overreaction by the PSNI, the United Kingdom’s paramilitary police force in the north-east of Ireland, to a technically illegal but entirely