Mary Lou McDonald And Sinn Féin’s Approach To A Reunited Ireland
So what are we to make of Monday’s Associated Press interview with the Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, whereContinue Reading
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Rudy Giuliani’s New Magic Trick: Turning Collusion Into An Illusion
This is great stuff. Stephen Colbert and The Late Show on Rudy Giuliani’s slow motion car crash across multiple television channelsContinue Reading
Peter Robinson, A Reunited Ireland, And Unionism’s Narrowing Options
Last week’s speech by Peter Robinson, the former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party or DUP (and for many years,Continue Reading
The Questionable Culture Of Irish Online Influencers
The old maxim about power corrupting, and absolute power corrupting absolutely, springs to mind whenever I look at the “influencer”Continue Reading
Audio Of Donald Trump Discussing Hush Money Payout
From the bizarre to the surreal in the ongoing sex-and-politics scandal involving Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels. The controversy hasContinue Reading
Amazon Boss Fears Civil Unrest In A Hard Brexit Britain. British Minister Blames The Europeans
Well, this is an interesting report. From The Independent newspaper in London, a prediction of possible “hard Brexit” troubles in the United KingdomContinue Reading
The UK Is Holding The Peace Process As A Political Hostage In Its Brexit Negotiations
There are few other British historical figures more controversial – and more reviled – in the popular culture of IrelandContinue Reading
Ending The Troubles: How The British Came To Negotiate The Peace Process
Over the last decade the politics lecturer Niall Ó Dochartaigh has done a fantastic job of analysing the complex andContinue Reading
The DUP Nominates Biblical Creationist Nelson McCausland To The Education Authority
In the United Kingdom the Conservative and Unionist Party, to give the mainstream right-wing political group its full title, isContinue Reading
Brexit Defenders Of Hard Border In Ireland Reference British Army Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. That New Testament warning springs toContinue Reading
Irish Senators Fiddle With Anthems While Irish History Burns
Every time I hear of some new bit of nonsense out of Seanad Éireann, the unelected – and unelectable –Continue Reading
The UK Customs Bill Amendments Makes The Return Of A Hard Border Inevitable
Less than two weeks after announcing a much derided compromise plan to solve the United Kingdom’s failed Brexit negotiations withContinue Reading
The Bomb Attacks On The Homes Of Gerry Adams And Bobby Storey
It is difficult to know what one should make of the “bomb” attacks on the Belfast homes of Gerry Adams, theContinue Reading
Theresa May’s Brexit Plan Opposed By Tory Hardliners And Labour Opportunists
There is an almost universal acceptance among the British and international press that the so-called Chequers’ deal proposed by theContinue Reading
Violence In Derry And Belfast Reminds Us That The Troubles Are Far From Over
If the last several days of small-scale rioting in Derry has proved anything, it is the ability of violence –Continue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s Criticism Of The Irish Press And News Media
Leo Varadkar’s love-hate relationship with the press is well-known, as is his desire to control “the story”. However the FineContinue Reading
International Regulators And Businesses Sideline Brexit Britain
The Brexit-derived woes of the United Kingdom are almost too many to comment upon, with stories of political, economic andContinue Reading
Arlene Foster And The DUP’s “Crimean Bridge” To Scotland
Following the military annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea by the Russian Federation in early 2014, supposedly in responseContinue Reading
Milo Yiannopoulos In UKIP? The British Alt-Right Reaches Peak Trolling
Every time I see Milo Yiannopoulos, the posterboy of the hipster alt-right in the United Kingdom and the United States,Continue Reading
British Government In The North Of Ireland “Riddled” With IRA Agents
The news that Drew Harris, the Deputy Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), has been selectedContinue Reading
Ana Kasparian And The Young Turks Attack Dave Rubin
Many readers will be aware of Dave Rubin, the newest self-made YouTube celebrity on the libertarian right in the UnitedContinue Reading
British Right-Wing YouTubers Paul Joseph Watson And Carl Benjamin Join Ailing UKIP
Many observers of the political scene in Britain have been surprised by the news that three prominent YouTube figures looselyContinue Reading
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