Irish Rights Are Equals Rights – So Fight Back!
Over the last several months I have regularly highlighted the alarm felt by many in Ireland and beyond over the Fine Gael-LabourContinue Reading
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Native America, Native Ireland And The Culture Of Anti-Colonial Conflict
Interesting article by Native American activist Lawrence Sampson on Ireland, the United States and the culture of anti-colonial conflict – andContinue Reading
Who Remembers Sam Marshall? The Murder Of An Irish Citizen By A Foreign State
Mark McGregor examines some of the reaction to the release of veteran Irish Republican Colin Duffy following the so-called Masserene Barracks Trial in Belfast,Continue Reading
A Second-Class Education For Second-Class Pupils
The recent announcements by the FG-Lab coalition government that is to “re-adjust” teacher-to-pupil numbers in classrooms acroos the country has drawn a groundswell of condemnation, notContinue Reading
Troika Bagman Gets A Grilling!
Veteran Irish journalist Vincent Brown takes on the Troika bagman, Klaus Masuch, at the EU-ECB-IMF Press Conference in Dublin with someContinue Reading
Kevin Myers On President Obama: Racially, A Half And Half Mulatto
As regular readers may have gathered I’ve long regarded Kevin Myers, the British-born journalist, as one of the chief proponents of the bizarre formContinue Reading
When Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Nice article from Lindsey Catherine Cornum over at her Mixed Blood Messages blog, on some recent headline events: “Three videos premièred on theContinue Reading
Meanwhile In Ireland, Another Form Of Censorship…
The Irish Times carries a report on the protests by various Irish language organisations to the latest moves by the Fine Gael-Labour coalition governmentContinue Reading
Stop Censorship! Protect Internet Freedoms!
Thank you to everyone who contacted me over the last 24 hours as An Sionnach Fionn joined the global internetContinue Reading
Political Policing
Journalist and author Ed Moloney has an important piece on his blog looking at Sinn Féin’s seeming indifference to the Boston Tapes controversy,Continue Reading
British Hacks Turn “Black And Tan” For 2014!
Is it me or have we finally seen the dropping of the British Unionist mask to reveal the English NationalismContinue Reading
Qualified Condemnations Of Attempted Murder Ring Hollow
A few days ago I reported on the attempted murder in East Belfast of an 18 year old Irish teenager, James Turley,Continue Reading
The Partition Of Scotland?
Well, the Scottish leader Alex Salmond came to town for the Irish-British Council summit yesterday and hit all the right notesContinue Reading
British Ethnic Terrorists In Ireland – Still At War?
While in recent months the main focus of the national and international news media has been on the actions of Resistance Republicans, variousContinue Reading
Greater England Or Great Britain
Journalist Ed West has an interesting article in the (former?) British establishment newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, examining the controversy raging around the attempts byContinue Reading
Concubhar Ó Liatháin Deals With His Critics
Following on from my piece examining the criticism of TG4 by Concubhar Ó Liatháin over the airing of a new documentary series, Mná anContinue Reading
Brittany And Cornwall – The Return Of The Celtic Nations
A late post on some news from December of last year as the Celtic League carries a story with major implicationsContinue Reading
The SNP, Scotland And The Ireland Scenario
Has the British Prime Minster David Cameron hit the self-destruct button on the so-called United Kingdom? The legalistic diktats fromContinue Reading
EU And IMF Policy In Ireland – To Hell Or To Canada!
Though the figures are still being compiled it seems that 2010-2011 saw around 150,000 people emigrate from Ireland, roughly 80,000Continue Reading
100,000 March For Repatriation Of Basque Political Prisoners
One hundred thousand Basques marched in the city of Bilbao on Saturday demanding the repatriation of Basque political prisoners to their homeland,Continue Reading
Silent Voices
Concubhar Ó Liatháin, an Irish journalist and blogger, editor of the now closed Lá Nua newspaper, and presently a member ofContinue Reading
Have You Seen The Size Of My Gun?!
The “Oirish” Daily Mirror carries an eye-grabbing headline: “We could have killed the Queen on Ireland visit, claim Real IRA”Continue Reading
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