Dylann Roof, The Last Rhodesian – Or Ulsterman
In the wake of the racially-motivated massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by DylannContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
Supporting The Kurds
Malcolm Harris in the New Republic focuses on the great anomaly of the conflict in Syria and Iraq: the United States’Continue Reading
JK Rowling, In Defence Of Greater England
Sometimes an individual should simply stick to doing what he or she does best. In the case of the BritishContinue Reading
Catalan Nationalists Breaking Under The Pressure?
Despite the recent general election landslide for Nicola’s Sturgeon’s SNP in Scotland, independence remains an unlikely prospect in the nearContinue Reading
The British Army’s “Tuzo Plan” Of 1972
Over on the Broken Elbow blog the veteran Irish journalist Ed Moloney has a detailed examination of the British Army’sContinue Reading
Don’t Hate The Gays, Hate The Mothers Who Made Them Gay
The recent decision by a majority of voters in Ireland to support the inclusion of marriage-equality in our constitution continues to echo around the world,Continue Reading
Collusion Or The Secret History Of The British “Jihad” In Ireland
One might well regard it as forty years and several hundred deaths too late but RTÉ, Ireland’s public service broadcaster, seems to haveContinue Reading
Irish Language Rights Are No Rights At All
Coincidental to the temporary silencing of a compliant Irish press by a billionaire businessman whose past dealings have become mired in controversy,Continue Reading
Substituting Numbers For Results In Iraq And Syria
From a report last week by Reuters, republished throughout the “Western” news media: “More than 10,000 Islamic State militants haveContinue Reading
The National Flag Of Ireland Flies Over Stormont
The Green, White and Orange flies over the north-east’s regional assembly building at Stormont. We are living in the end days ofContinue Reading
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
On Thursday the 28th of May the independent TD Catherine Murphy, a recent campaigner against fiscal impropriety and corruption in Irish society, made a contribution to DáilContinue Reading
Britain’s Army Of Serial Killers In Ireland
In the late 1980s and early ‘90s British terrorist groups in the north-east of Ireland began to justify their attacksContinue Reading
Michael White, The Debonair Greater Englander
Michael White, the parliamentary correspondent of the nominally centre-left Guardian newspaper in the UK, has gained an unenviable reputation overContinue Reading
The Conspiracy To Impose Homo-Fascism On Ireland
Well away from public scrutiny, is this the nonsense the base of the “No” campaign is comforting itself with inContinue Reading
LGBT Rights In Ireland Cannot Be Partitioned
No doubt most of you are aware that the referendum proposing the addition of a gender-neutral description of marriageContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil, A Party Without A Cause
My family has been dwelling in Dublin city and its environs since the mid-1800s, part of the mass rural exodusContinue Reading
Fathers And Mothers Matter, Respect And Understanding Not So Much
We are in the last week of the referendum campaign debating the addition of a new sub-section to Bunreacht naContinue Reading
Bronze Age Desert Cults Dislike The 21st Century
Well here’s two doubly depressing reports relating to the upcoming constitutional referendum which – if successful – will see aContinue Reading
Did You Hear The One About The Irish Name Spelled With Chinese Letters?
If you and your family are native Irish-speakers and you live in an Irish-speaking region, it seems not unreasonable to expect thatContinue Reading
The Super Scary, Quite Contrary Equal-Marriage Referendum In Ireland
Buzzfeed, the popular American click-bait site which has recently acquired a serious case of the journalistic respectables, has a fairly lengthy articleContinue Reading
Pat Finucane, The Assassination Of An Irish Lawyer By British Terrorists
More on the slow unravelling of the secrecy and deception which obscured most aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland from the lateContinue Reading
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