170,216 Irish Women And Girls Are Murderers Because They Had Abortions?
The Journal has a feature on yesterday’s small protest outside the iconic GPO building in Dublin, the seat of theContinue Reading
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The Journal has a feature on yesterday’s small protest outside the iconic GPO building in Dublin, the seat of theContinue Reading
If one were searching for a perfect metaphor to illustrate the impossibility of the United Kingdom reimposing any type ofContinue Reading
Given the argument that the Brexit movement in the United Kingdom is primarily an anti-modernist one, driven by nostalgia forContinue Reading
With the news that the European Union has comprehensively rejected the United Kingdom’s written proposals to deal with the anomalousContinue Reading
The news that the United Kingdom is advertising twenty-one new jobs for the Belfast branch of its Border Force, anContinue Reading
The Stormy Daniels’ controversy seems to be the gift that just keeps on giving. It has become a veritable boxContinue Reading
Speaking of right-wing politics, Britain’s leading apologist for its colonial misadventures in Ireland, the novelist Ruth Dudley Edwards, has takenContinue Reading
The left-leaning Guardian newspaper in Britain seems to have a bit of a myopic soft spot for its former columnist,Continue Reading
In 2012, the French far-right party Bloc Identitaire – later renamed Les Identitaires – established a youth wing under theContinue Reading
In some ways the Daily Express is the also-ran of right-wing newspapers in the United Kingdom. Considerably smaller and withContinue Reading
There must be something in the Irish psyche, some cultural legacy of foreign colonial rule, of war and oppression, whichContinue Reading
Following on from a statement to a gathering of shocked MEPs in Brussels by a senior representative of the LabourContinue Reading
The news that a senior member of the British Labour Party has dismissed the likelihood of a return to openContinue Reading
There are some events, illustrative of the hypocrisy which runs through the very core of British unionism in Ireland, whichContinue Reading
Given the ongoing preparations for the referendum on the Eight Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann, scheduled for the end ofContinue Reading
I have a great deal of time for political iconoclasts, those who challenge conventional tenets on the ideological Left orContinue Reading
There were several interesting items in last Wednesday’s BBC documentary, My Dad, the Peace Deal and Me, featuring the IrishContinue Reading
Here we go again. The last decade has witnessed many press reports on Fianna Fáil’s supposed intention to stand forContinue Reading
With the Labour Party stalling at 5% or thereabouts in the national polls, its electoral future seems pretty bleak. However,Continue Reading
Out of legal necessity, one needs to tread very carefully while discussing the emerging scandal at Independent News & MediaContinue Reading
Though it never gained the activist reputation of places like New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Chicago, throughout the three-decade historyContinue Reading
The weekend revelations about the transformation of the Sinclair Broadcast Group in the United States into the Pravda of AmericanContinue Reading




















