The C-Word Is… Collusion
Incredible news today that an official investigation into the Loughinisland Massacre has concluded that there was no collusion or co-operationContinue Reading
Irish News, Politics, Culture
Incredible news today that an official investigation into the Loughinisland Massacre has concluded that there was no collusion or co-operationContinue Reading
Following on from my earlier post, calling for a more dynamic and self-confident political nationalism from the Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, some related news.Continue Reading
After woeful results in the latest Welsh assembly elections the Welsh Nationalist party Plaid Cymru is ready for a serious review ofContinue Reading
The outrage in Scotland following the outburst by the controversial Labour politician Ian Davidson, in which he characterised Scottish NationalistsContinue Reading
The Independent has news on a new exhibition of treasures from Hadrian’s Wall in the north of England, ‘The RomanContinue Reading
Big, if somewhat tardy news announced in the British Guardian newspaper: ‘The Guardian will make “significant” job cuts over the next two years in theContinue Reading
Journalist Fionola Meredith in the Guardian on some of the background to the UVF-led Unionist attacks on the Nationalist Short Strand enclave in East BelfastContinue Reading
The PSNI paramilitary police in the North of Ireland believe injuries suffered by the Press Association photographer Niall Carson, who was shot in the leg while covering theContinue Reading
Sky News reports that the PSNI has laid the blame for the two nights of violence in Belfast on theContinue Reading
A photographer has been shot and wounded in the leg during a second night of attacks by Unionist mobs on a small Nationalist area in the easternContinue Reading
The alleged revelations in journalist Ed Moloney’s controversial book Voices from the Grave has badly split many former comrades and friends in the Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
Reports coming in now from UTV: ‘Hundreds of people are firing missiles in the Short Strand and lower Newtownards RoadContinue Reading
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