Loyalty Versus Counter-Insurgency – Or What To Do When The British No Longer Need You?
Excellent reporting from Jason Walsh in the CS Monitor on yesterday’s UVF-led rioting in Belfast, asking the questions you’re unlikelyContinue Reading
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Excellent reporting from Jason Walsh in the CS Monitor on yesterday’s UVF-led rioting in Belfast, asking the questions you’re unlikelyContinue Reading
Confirmation today that the East Belfast wing of the British Unionist terrorist group, the UVF, organised the sustained assault on the Irish Nationalist enclaveContinue Reading
The Short Strand area of Belfast, which has a large Irish Nationalist community, has come under sustained attack this evening and tonight from gangs of British Unionist rioters,Continue Reading
The home of An Taibhdhearc, Ireland’s Irish Language National Theatre, is to return. ‘THE ALL-IRISH Taibhdhearc theatre in Galway city, which wasContinue Reading
According to the latest Northern Ireland Life and Times survey as reported in the Irish Times: ‘…one in three Catholics (33 per cent) want a unitedContinue Reading
Interesting and timely article from journalist and media lecturer Roy Greenslade in the Guardian newspaper on the anniversary of the 1981 Hunger Strikes. He begins: ‘Thirty years ago,Continue Reading
I was going to write something about this inanity but I really became too annoyed. ‘A controversial conference promoting a therapy thatContinue Reading
News that in Doire (Derry) the Irish language culture centre, Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, has won a prestigious award for promotingContinue Reading
The Irish Times reports on the continued deadlock in Belgium – and why one way or another something is going to give… ‘InContinue Reading
Some interesting news with more proof of the positive impact of the internet for the Gaelic languages, if harnessed correctly.Continue Reading
Okay, as a bona fide atheist I’ve not much faith in any god anywhere saving Ireland, but any sort ofContinue Reading
I’ve written before about the casual discrimination against Ireland’s Irish-speaking citizens within our state and state-funded agencies and the inherentContinue Reading
So you think the vulgar excesses and rank commercialism of the Celtic Tiger, which brought this nation to the point of collapse, is well andContinue Reading
TG4 has announced an exclusive 3-year deal with the ERC to broadcast highlights of the Heineken and Amlin Challenge Cups. This isContinue Reading
Has the Irish Government made it a Public Order Offence under Section 21 to carry or publicly display the National Flag for the durationContinue Reading
It had to happen eventually, a chairde. More here: http://www.dup.ie/ Just don’t ask about Question (6)! ‘6) Did’nt the British cause ourContinue Reading
Unbelievable news today from journalist Eamonn Mallie: ‘The UDA’s five brigadiers and 4/5 representatives of their respective districts have been extended invitationsContinue Reading