A Fourth Green Field?
Several days ago I posted some thoughts on the first round of figures released from the top-level results of theContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
Flying The British Flag – To Threaten Irish Schoolchildren
So, yet another night of low-level violence and rioting from the extreme of the British Unionist minority in the north-eastContinue Reading
Named And Shamed – The Faces Of Britain’s Death Squads In Ireland
Following the report by the former UN war crimes investigator, Sir Desmond da Silva, into the 1989 assassination of the Irish human rights lawyerContinue Reading
Pat Finucane – A Victim Of Britain’s State-Sponsored Terrorism In Ireland
On the 12th of Februaray 1989 the respected Irish civil rights lawyer Pat Finucane was sitting down to a Sunday dinner in hisContinue Reading
Census Of Northern Ireland 2011, Headline Figures
The headline percentages from the initial results released today. National Identity: 39.89% = British only 25.26% = Irish only 20.94% = NorthernContinue Reading
The Past Is A Foreign Country
It’s been another night of street-clashes and rioting by youths and terrorist-linked activists from the British Unionist minority in theContinue Reading
The Ghosts Of IRAs Past
The normally verbose Jim Cusack, the security correspondent of the Irish Independent newspaper, comes over all coy in this referenceContinue Reading
Flying The British Flag In Ireland
How democratic opposition to the British flag used to be dealt with in Ireland. Is this what the Unionist leaders in the north-eastContinue Reading
The Unionist Minority In Ireland – Do As We Say, Not As We Do!
Below are the opinions of the leaders of the two largest British Unionist political parties on the island of IrelandContinue Reading
Global Corruption Index For 2012 – Ireland Falls Six Places
Back in February of this year I discussed the media independence rating for Ireland from Reporters Without Borders, the international organisation affiliated to the UNContinue Reading
Angloban Ignorance Posing As Informed Commentary
Oh please, someone save me from the half-arsed opinions of right-wing Anglophone buffoons. From Niall O’Dowd’s US-based website Irish CentralContinue Reading
Crisis? What Crisis?
Peter Robinson, the DUP leader and regional Joint First Minister of the North of Ireland, recently claimed that IrishContinue Reading
The Anti-Democrats – The British Unionist Minority In Ireland
The democratically elected local government council of Belfast City has voted to remove the British flag from the masthead on theContinue Reading
Two Tech Stories For Gaeilgeoirí
Two tech stories for the Irish-speaking community via the Silicon Republic. The first highlights the addition of the TG4 playerContinue Reading
How Do You Know When Christmas Has Arrived In Ireland?
When Ireland’s Own hits the shop shelves in December but of course! 😉
Angloban – The Anglophone Fundamentalists Of Britain And Ireland
We all know that the internet is the mother of all lies. The world wide web of falsehoods. Which isContinue Reading
Language Wars In Wales
Here we go again. The obsessive Anglophone supremacism of the right-wing news media in Britain is becoming something of aContinue Reading
Ipsos MRBI 50th Anniversary Survey – The Irish Language
Very hard to comment on this, since we don’t have the details of the survey, but the Irish Times carriesContinue Reading
Continuity IRA Prisoners End Dirty Protest In Maghaberry
Last week a significant number of the Irish political prisoners in the now notorious British-run Maghaberry Prison in the OccupiedContinue Reading
Purging The Ranks
Well what is one to make of all this then? The Irish news media is reporting that a close associate of theContinue Reading
Nationalists Triumph In Catalan Elections
All news is spin. And most of it is establishment spin at that. So here we have the remarkable spectacleContinue Reading
A Visit To Uncle Andy
Ah, isn’t it good to see the British Unionist minority in Ireland and their DUP representatives return to the goodContinue Reading
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