Fianna Fáil Rejects Peter Casey, Renua Offers Him Its Party Leadership
While the reasons for Peter Casey’s surprise showing in last week’s presidential election are more complicated than the superficial analysesContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
Michael D Higgins Is The Winner. But At What Cost If Peter Casey Is Second?
So, one of the most uneventful, not to say downright lacklustre presidential contests in modern history has delivered no greatContinue Reading
Sorcha McAnespy And Fianna Fáil’s Failure To Launch In the North
Well that was a bit of a PR disaster. Last night’s surprise announcement that Sorcha McAnespy, a Fianna Fáil member andContinue Reading
British Army Blowing Up A Cross-Border Bridge. A Brexit Warning
From an avowedly partisan television news report broadcast to UK viewers in September 1975*, a video clip of soldiers andContinue Reading
Plans For Brexit Food And Medicine Flotilla Stuns British Ministers
By all accounts, yesterday’s meeting of the British cabinet to discuss the latest twists in the country’s stalled withdrawal negotiationsContinue Reading
Michael D Higgins And The Royal Presidency Of Ireland
Judging by the general public’s mood, press concerns over the exorbitant – and sometimes unaccountable – spending of public moniesContinue Reading
Greater England And The Dream Of A Brexit Empire
I doubt that you will find a better summation of the delusions still gripping the Brexit movement in the UnitedContinue Reading
UK Labour’s John McDonnell: I’m A Republican. I Long For A United Ireland
Yesterday’s claim by John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer for the British Labour Party, that he longs for a reunitedContinue Reading
Saudi Killers Listened To Music As They Butchered Jamal Khashoggi
The horrific slaughter of the Saudi journalist-turned-exile Jamal Khashoggi by a group of assassins dispatched by Riyadh to Istanbul isContinue Reading
UK Cabinet: “Northern Ireland” Is Leverage In Brexit Negotiations With The EU
Leverage in Brexit talks with the European Union. That is is how senior officials in the government of the UnitedContinue Reading
Boris Johnson’s Father On A Hard Border: The Irish Shoot Each Other, That Is Something They Do
Stanley Johnson, the right-wing political commentator and father of Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of State for Foreign andContinue Reading
The DUP’s Brexit Plan? Harden The Border, Save The Union
The Irish-born journalist and author Walter Ellis is probably best known in this country for his 2006 autobiography, The BeginningContinue Reading
Michael D Higgins Hides From RTÉ’s First Presidential Debate
Well that was a bit of a waste. With the incumbent, Michael D Higgins, refusing to attend last night’s presidentialContinue Reading
If The UK Reneges On The Backstop Agreement, Can It Be Trusted On Any Brexit Deal?
Simon Coveney, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, has warned his counterparts in the United Kingdom that they must abideContinue Reading
Micheál Martin Begs Leo Varadkar Not To Call A General Election
Political desperation. That is the only reasonable explanation for the missive sent by the leader of Fianna Fáil, Micheál Martin,Continue Reading
The DUP Threatens Political Chaos If Theresa May Crosses Its Blood Red Brexit Lines
It seems that the Democratic Unionist Party is sticking to its tooth-and-nail opposition to a compromise Brexit deal between theContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael, The United Ireland Party
As was noted over on the Cedar Lounge Revolution, Brexit is not just causing chaos in the politics of Britain.Continue Reading
Majority Of UK Leave Voters Would Risk Peace For Brexit
87% of people in the north-east of Ireland who voted in favour of the United Kingdom withdrawing from the EuropeanContinue Reading
DUP Boss Arlene Foster Issues “Blood Red” Warning To The UK Premier Theresa May
For people familiar with the coded language of British unionism in Ireland there is no denying the subliminal threat behindContinue Reading
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
The 2017 documentary by the filmmaker Michael Oswald and the economist John Christensen examining the United Kingdom’s transformation into a global financialContinue Reading
DUP MP: “Build It As High As You Like, That Wall, That Border”
The British journalist and broadcaster Shelagh Fogarty on her popular LBC radio show in Britain responding to a caller’s claim thatContinue Reading
Will The DUP Get Further Protection For British Army Killers?
The news that the Democratic Unionist Party may have secured a major concession from the Conservative Party government in theContinue Reading
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