Gerry Adams On The Legitimacy Of The IRA’s Armed Resistance
An interesting snippet from an interview with the Sinn Féin president and Louth TD, Gerry Adams, recorded in July atContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
Dublin’s Brexit Solution: A Super-Majority Clause And An Irish Sea Border?
A thought occurs to me reading a Comment by a reader under the discussion on Leo Varadkar’s suggestion that aContinue Reading
Fake Democracy: A Super-Majority Requirement For A United Ireland
The former deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, John Taylor, has taken to making the headlines in recent yearsContinue Reading
The Unexpected Kurdish Retreat From Kirkuk
The precipitous withdrawal of forces nominally loyal to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) from the oil-rich Kirkuk region of northernContinue Reading
Will Britain Give Explicit Guarantee On No Brexit Border In Ireland?
There’s a plausible report by Dara Doyle on the business and current affairs website, Bloomberg, claiming that the Fine Gael-led governmentContinue Reading
The DUP Orders UK Conservative Party Government To Push For Hard Brexit
The finance minister of the United Kingdom, Philip Hammond, is regarded by most commentators as one of the less enthusiasticContinue Reading
Donald Trump Is The Silvio Berlusconi Of American Politics
While hyperbolic comparisons with Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini have become commonplace when discussing the wayward presidency of Donald Trump, aContinue Reading
Liam Cosgrave, A Fine Gael And Free State Reactionary To The Last
The recent passing of the former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader, Liam Cosgrave, had led to much eulogising by theContinue Reading
Official Review Concludes, Ireland Engaged In Mass Surveillance Of Virtually Entire Population
Back in January 2016 the former Chief Justice of Ireland, John L Murray, began his review of the country’s rarely discussedContinue Reading
When It Comes To America’s Guns, The Las Vegas Strip Shooting Will Change Nothing
The confusion experienced by foreign journalists and news media when dealing with the complex firearms’ debate in the United StatesContinue Reading
A Fine Gael-Sinn Féin Coalition Government? Not This Side Of A Reunited Ireland
If one were to believe the country’s right-leaning press, from newspapers to current affairs’ websites, Sinn Féin is a partyContinue Reading
Theresa May’s Disastrous Speech, Complete With P45, Coughing And Falling Slogan
When Theresa May made her speech this morning at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, very few people indeed couldContinue Reading
Spanish Police Attack Voters During Catalan Independence Referendum
It’s turning into a day of shame for Spain as the reactionary government in Madrid seeks to deny the CatalanContinue Reading
The British Government Is Culpable For House Expulsions By British Terrorists In Belfast
On the 5th of June 2017, just four days before the general election in the United Kingdom, a group known asContinue Reading
An Sionnach Fionn, Another Year In The Blog Awards Ireland
Just a quick post to let everyone know that An Sionnach Fionn had made it through to the list ofContinue Reading
A Tentative Brits Out Response To Brexit From Official Ireland?
Here’s something I thought I’d never see in my lifetime. Former Labour Party spin-doctor-in-chief Fergus Finlay expressing the frustration andContinue Reading
The Exaggerated Myth Of Terrorist Incompetence
In the aftermath of the latest terror attack in Britain, the international press has published a wide range of articlesContinue Reading
Britain Rejects Joint-Authority, Embraces Gerrymandering
It seems that the Democratic Unionist Party has successfully completed its hijacking of the United Kingdom’s foreign relations. Or atContinue Reading
The Impossibility Of Camouflaging A Main Battle Tank In A City
The use of camouflage for military purposes, as we would understand it today, probably began in the late 18th andContinue Reading
The DUP’s Stormont Proposal Is About The Restoration Of Unionist Supremacy
Despite several months of talks – and non-talks – the Democratic Unionist Party still doesn’t get it. There will beContinue Reading
With North Korea, Is Donald Trump Hoping For A Falkland Islands’ Solution To His Domestic Woes?
In March of 1982 the Ipsos MORI poll rating for Margaret Thatcher, the then prime minister of the United Kingdom,Continue Reading
Irexit, A Free State 2.0 For The Admirers Of Brexit’s Empire 2.0
Ray Kinsella, a former economics professor and an occasional opinion writer, is a bit of an odd sort. On someContinue Reading
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