The Three Amigos And Others At The RTÉ Leaders’ Debate
Last night was the Leaders’ Debate on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live and it was a somewhat more even-tempered affair thanContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
The British SAS And The Exploding Heads Of The Islamic State In Syria
Ah, war stories. They grow with every telling. To wit, take this tale of daring-do from battle-torn Syria where Britain’sContinue Reading
Was A Serial Rapist And Child Killer A British Spy In Ireland?
It’s an uncomfortable truism of the human condition that sociopaths are made, not born, and the life and death ofContinue Reading
The Party Leaders Dodge TG4’s Irish Language Debate In #GE16
Well this announcement is indicative of the current status of the Irish language in Ireland. The planned, televised leaders’ debate on TG4 seems to haveContinue Reading
White Protestants Protest The Spanish Language In Arizona
A letter from today’s edition of the Newsletter, a regional newspaper in Arizona: “I have received a number of complaints fromContinue Reading
The TV3/Newstalk Leaders’ Debate
So to last night’s TV3/Newstalk debate where the leaders of three right-wing establishment parties sought to pummel into submission theContinue Reading
British Unionism In Ireland And Its Tea Party Moment
Over on the Slate journalist Reihan Salam has an interesting examination of the electoral demographic which forms the backbone of the DonaldContinue Reading
Joan Burton’s Campaign, From Farce to Fiasco
A poll suggests @labour is tumbling to the ground in #dubw #GE16 Bit like our press conference pic.twitter.com/nQb5dGao0j — SharonContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Manifesto Promises On Irish Rights
Sinn Féin has launched its bilingual 2016 election manifesto, to predictable scepticism from the right-wing press, and I’m sure most ofContinue Reading
The Labour Party Suggests Free Hugs For Narco-Terrorists
If one needed an example of leadership in Ireland, an illustration of the competency and acumen of our political classes,Continue Reading
Fianna Fáil’s New Slogan: Screw Our Republican Dead
With the general election just weeks away, and with all the polls pointing to a minority, Fine Gael-led government ofContinue Reading
The Continuity IRA And Other Journalistic Nonsense
Following on from last Friday’s gun attack at a sporting event in Dublin’s Regency Hotel, which left one man deadContinue Reading
Ireland Has Become The “Gun Land” Of Western Europe
Fearann claímh or “sword land” is a Medieval Irish term to describe a territory taken or held through violence. Perhaps unsurprisingly it wasContinue Reading
Feed The Rich, Eat The Poor
As many of you will be aware the would-be Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency, Bernie Sanders, has been hammering downContinue Reading
Hating The Gaelic
Following a brief period of relative quiet the haters of Scottish Gaelic are back in full-swing, attacking new education legislationContinue Reading
Patrick Pearse And RTÉ’s Rebellion
With all the controversy stirred up by RTÉ’s dismal television dramatisation of the 1916 Easter Rising, its strange overtones of colonial denialism perhaps best summedContinue Reading
Ayelet Shaked And The Rise Of Religious Nationalism In Israel
Der Spiegel has an extraordinary interview with Ayelet Shaked, a member of the HaBayit HaYehudi or “Jewish Home” party inContinue Reading
Ghetto Irish
Seán Cottrell, the chief executive of the Irish Primary Principals’ Network, in an opinion piece for the Irish Times newspaperContinue Reading
Facebook’s Opportunist Defence Of Non-English Languages
Given the relative antipathy or indifference of most major internet corporations to global minority languages, or indeed to any languages other than American English,Continue Reading
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Trumps
British comedian Peter Serafinowicz reimagines Donald J. Trump as a London “geezer“, though the words remain the same. Frighteningly, the cockneyContinue Reading
How Netanyahu Won The 2015 Election In Israel
In the week leading up to the 17th of March 2015, the day of the general election in Israel, the governingContinue Reading
The Banking Inquiry Whitewash, Covering Up For The Party Tigers
With the death of Ireland’s so-called “Celtic Tiger” economy in 2008-2010 the country entered a period of severe recession, made worse byContinue Reading
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