CNN GOP Debate 2015
If the Fox News debate amongst the presidential candidates for the Republican Party was a pantomime of the absurd theContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
On The Anti-Colonial Struggle In Ireland Corbyn And McDonnell Are Right
The unexpected election of a progressive candidate to the leadership of the UK Labour Party, along with several like-minded colleagues, has sentContinue Reading
Sinn Féin Sees Enemies To The Left, Enemies To The Right, Enemies All Around
Talking of the press conference by Bobby Storey, the Sinn Féin northern chairperson, here are the words of the deputy firstContinue Reading
The Existence Of The IRA As A Guarantor Of Peace
Of the many, many tens of thousands of Irish people who have suffered hardship at the hands of the UK state inContinue Reading
Opposing Abortion Based On Fact Not On Faith
Over the last three years of writing the Sionnach Fionn blog there have been a number of subjects that have drawn vigorous responsesContinue Reading
Over One Million Catalans Rally For Independence In Barcelona
If one were to believe the recent polling in Catalonia it seemed that the country’s popular push for independence fromContinue Reading
#MyNameIs And #NINA As Facebook Claims Irish Names Are Not Real Names
Over the last several months a number of people from Ireland and the Irish diaspora have been barred from the American social networking platform,Continue Reading
Sinn Féin And Right2Water
What is the real attitude of Sinn Féin to the imposition of water charges in Ireland? Are they wholly opposed to them orContinue Reading
An Inconvenient Truth Of The Irish Revolution
One of the great, populist myths on the right and far right of German politics during the 1920s and ’30s wasContinue Reading
Native America To Native Ireland, Extermination By Any Other Name
Former libertarian favourite and would-be United States presidential candidate for the Republican Party, Rand Paul, seems to have completed hisContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn, From Sinn Féin To The ANC
Kevin Meagher’s article in the left-leaning New Statesman on the anti-establishment contender for the leadership of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
Aylan Kurdi And The Heavy Hand Of History
It some ways it is a terrible comment upon the calibre of our political leaders that the harrowing images of a young Syrian KurdishContinue Reading
Restorative Justice For The Celtic Peoples
Returning to the issue of righting old wrongs, what might be described as restorative justice for dispossessed cultures, Paula Young Lee makesContinue Reading
Russian Soldiers Serving With Pro-Assad Forces In Syrian Civil War
Most observers of the civil war in Syria are well aware of the military assistance offered by the government of Vladimir Putin toContinue Reading
One More Anglophone, One Less Gaelophone
If it’s good enough for native America why not for native Ireland? From an article in the Irish Times: “President BarackContinue Reading
No Taxation Without Representation
In recent weeks the right-wing Fine Oibre coalition and much of the equally right-wing press have confidentially asserted that the protestsContinue Reading
Circle Jerk Journalism From The Sunday Independent
“Circle jerk” is a slang term in American English normally defined as a sexual act, sometimes associated with pornography, where several individualsContinue Reading
The Murderous Hypocrisy Of The Unionist Parties In Ireland
In many ways the conflict in the north of Ireland, the Long War or the Troubles, call it what youContinue Reading
Vice News On Poland’s Paramilitary Groups And Militias
Vice News’ German team has a short documentary on the growth of private militias in Poland, non-state groupings that can legally organise and train their membershipsContinue Reading
The Fox News Of Irish Journalism And Politics
It seems that recent statements by the PSNI in Belfast and the coalition government in Dublin have sent the right-wingContinue Reading
Provisional IRA Not On A War Footing
Two days have passed since I criticised the risible scaremongering amongst sections of the domestic and UK press, as well asContinue Reading
#LabourPurge Or The Anyone But Corbyn Campaign
Given the willingness of Andy Burnham, one of several über-ambitious pols contesting the leadership of the British Labour Party, to destabilise the finely balanced peace in theContinue Reading
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