Hyping Up A Seizure Of Weapons
Irish journalism surely loves its hyperbole. From the “Oirish” Mirror: “A large seizure of explosives and guns has put aContinue Reading
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Albert Robida, Fantastic Futurist
The artist Albert Robida is one of my favourite writer-illustrators from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, not leastContinue Reading
Discussing Irish Politics – Or The Lack Thereof
Some interesting views expressed underneath a post by WorldByStorm over on the Cedar Lounge Revolution: Do Irish people instinctively understandContinue Reading
The Lord Of The Rings And Ireland
Journalist Ciarán Dunbarr has a quick overview in Nós Mag of the alleged relationship between the English Fantasy author JRRContinue Reading
Labour Party Circling The Drain
The results from the latest Sunday Independent-Millward Brown poll (7th July, 2013) are in and while I’m sceptical of voterContinue Reading
Britnats Target SNP Website Through Avast!
Here’s a thing. The avast! Online Security and Web Reputation Plugin, a web browser extension bundled with one of the world’s mostContinue Reading
BBC Alba, Best Year Ever
Good to see that the success of the Scottish language television channel, BBC Alba, is being recognised with an increaseContinue Reading
Ireland’s United Political Culture
There is something definitely a bit iffy about Irish politics of late, both at a national and a regional level.Continue Reading
Orange, Orange, All I See Is Orange
Watch out, the Orange Order is about! Yes that’s right, the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland has finally shown itsContinue Reading
A Shake Up In Māori Politics
Surprised to hear about the resignation of Pita Sharples, co-leader of Te Tōrangapū Māori or the Māori Party in New ZealandContinue Reading
Hackgate And The Irish Angle
Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency or SOCA, an “élite” policing unit, is under the media microscope once again. Recently IContinue Reading
The War Inside Guantanamo
Flashes of Long Kesh in this article from Gawker on the psychological war between prisoners and guards at the infamousContinue Reading
Banging The Far Right Drum
Go bhfóire Dia orainn! Only the Irish Independent newspaper, with its fanatical free market fetishism, could argue that Fine Gael isContinue Reading
Struggling With The Language
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, the progressive language rights’ organisation in Wales, has proposed a radical shift in the teaching ofContinue Reading
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
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.
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