Two Sci-Fi Short Films, Lunatiques and Hyperlight
I haven’t posted any science-fiction or fantasy short films in a while so here are a couple of nice examples.Continue Reading
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DUP Boss Arlene Foster Would Choose Exile Over A Reunited Ireland
There were several interesting items in last Wednesday’s BBC documentary, My Dad, the Peace Deal and Me, featuring the IrishContinue Reading
Will The SDLP Disband If Fianna Fáil Expands Northward?
Here we go again. The last decade has witnessed many press reports on Fianna Fáil’s supposed intention to stand forContinue Reading
Former SIPTU Boss Jack O’Connor To Stand For The Labour Party In Wicklow
With the Labour Party stalling at 5% or thereabouts in the national polls, its electoral future seems pretty bleak. However,Continue Reading
The Email Data Breach At Independent News & Media
Out of legal necessity, one needs to tread very carefully while discussing the emerging scandal at Independent News & MediaContinue Reading
American Support For Irish Republican Asylum Seekers In San Francisco
Though it never gained the activist reputation of places like New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Chicago, throughout the three-decade historyContinue Reading
Sinclair Broadcast Group And The Infamous Fake News Script
The weekend revelations about the transformation of the Sinclair Broadcast Group in the United States into the Pravda of AmericanContinue Reading
Video, PSNI Armoured Jeeps Attacked In Derry During Another Aggressive Intervention
Following Sunday’s attempt by the PSNI, Britain’s armed police force in the north-east of Ireland, to prevent an Irish republicanContinue Reading
New Video Of The PSNI’s Shock Intervention During An RSF Parade At Kilwilkie, Lurgan
Following on from yesterday’s overreaction by the PSNI, the United Kingdom’s paramilitary police force in the north-east of Ireland, toContinue Reading
Saoradh Holds “Unfinished Revolution” Parade To Mark Easter Rising Anniversary
Talking of commemorating the Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish revolutionary party, Saoradh, also staged its own demonstration in BelfastContinue Reading
PSNI Clashes At RSF Easter Rising Parade In Lurgan Leaves Woman Hospitalised
Being the Easter weekend in Ireland, a large number of commemorative events are taking place around the country to markContinue Reading
Sinn Féin Republican Youth Returns To Better Known Title, Ógra Shinn Féin
Like many observers of the minutiae of Irish politics, I was somewhat puzzled by Sinn Féin’s decision in 2012 toContinue Reading
The Noxious Beliefs Of The Hardcore Anti-Abortion Lobby In Ireland
Lift up a particular rock in Irish politics and what do you find crawling and squirming underneath but a swarmContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar Blames His Phone For Use Of Unaccountable Private Email
Most politics’ watchers will remember the issue of the private email server which got Hillary Clinton into such trouble inContinue Reading
A Failure Of Irish Government And Irish Politics As 10,000 Left Homeless
How on earth has Ireland’s politics come to this? Degenerated so deeply that a sizeable body of elected representatives canContinue Reading
Anti-Choice Campaigners Use Same Tech As The Trump, Brexit And NRA Campaigns
As Ireland moves towards a plebiscite on revoking the restrictive 8th Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann, some observers have notedContinue Reading
UK Poll: British Voters Want Brexit More Than They Want The North Of Ireland
In light of a YouGov poll for LBC, a popular national radio station in the United Kingdom, indicating that aContinue Reading
Quantum Leap, An Alternative Or Lost Ending?
My youngest sister and I have a great deal of affection for the science-fiction series Quantum Leap, having watching reruns of theContinue Reading
AggregateIQ, The Brexit Mystery Behind The Vote Leave Campaign And The DUP
As expected, the scandal involving the UK data-mining company, Cambridge Analytica, has moved on to its unofficial Canadian affiliate, AggregateIQ.Continue Reading
Miriam O’Callaghan, The Next President Of Ireland?
Several years ago, the Irish press was rife with speculation about the rumoured presidential ambitions of one of its own:Continue Reading
The Rhetoric Of Victimisation Powering Brexit, Trump And The DUP
One of the primary motivations behind the United Kingdom’s divisive Brexit referendum of 2016 was the widely shared sense ofContinue Reading
Cambridge Analytics: Donald Trump And The 2016 Presidential Election
Channel 4 News in Britain has released another piece from its undercover investigation into the clandestine activities of the well-connectedContinue Reading
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