So Far, The Cash-For-Ash Scandal Is A Very Unionist Affair
With the election to the cross-community assembly in the north-east of the country due to take place on the 2nd ofContinue Reading
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Guy Verhofstadt, The EU’s Brexit Negotiator And The United States Of Europe
Over the last decade I have moved from being a passionate believer in the European Union to someone who isContinue Reading
Is The DUP Hoping To Pull A Trump In Any Future Stormont Election?
The north-east of the country will almost certainly be heading for a regional election sometime in the next few weeks if, as expected today, the DemocraticContinue Reading
Martin McGuinness Resigns, Condemning The Bad Faith Of The DUP And The UK
The text of Martin McGuinness’ resignation letter in full, where the former deputy first minister in the north-eastern executive lays outContinue Reading
The RHI Ash-For-Cash Scandal Leaves Sinn Féin Dazed And Confused
The accelerated nature of the so-called “ash-for-cash” scandal in the UK-administrated north-east of the country has made the controversy aContinue Reading
The Ash For Cash RHI Scandal, Arlene Foster And The DUP Strikes Back
In 2011 the United Kingdom introduced a government-backed scheme known as the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), a payment system encouragingContinue Reading
A Reunited Ireland And The Rejectionist Politics Of Northern Unionism
A longer guest post by Mark Petticrew, a politics’ student at the University Of Ulster Jordanstown, examining the contrasting obstacles British unionismContinue Reading
The Obama Regime
Another guest post by Déaghán Ó Céitinn, currently resident in Perth, Australia, where he is active with Cairde Sinn Féin. The Obama RegimeContinue Reading
The #NoDAPL Campaign Gains A Major Victory As Drill Work Halted
In the last two hours the United States Army Corps of Engineers has officially announced that it will withhold itsContinue Reading
American Military Veterans Gather At The Sacred Stone Camp, North Dakota
Hilary Beaumont of Vice News reports on the arrival of several hundred US military veterans at the Sacred Stone protestContinue Reading
Ulster Unionism, Sustained By The Politics Of Appeasement
At the start of the twentieth century a majority of voters on the island of Ireland in the referendum-style generalContinue Reading
US Police Attack DAPL Protesters With Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets And A Water Cannon
Last Thursday I highlighted the increasing militarisation of law enforcement in rural North Dakota where thousands of Native Americans andContinue Reading
The Authorities In North Dakota Militarise The DAPL Construction Efforts
In a number of previous posts I’ve discussed the extraordinary confrontations taking place in the US state of North Dakota, where theContinue Reading
On Sustainability
A guest post by Déaghán Ó Céitinn examining sustainability and the challenges posed by a deteriorating global environment. Currently resident inContinue Reading
From Mayo To North Dakota, From Corrib Gas To DAPL
An isolated rural region where long-standing communities reflect an indigenous language and culture, where local concerns and interests have been made secondaryContinue Reading
Native Peoples Face Violence And Exploitation By Western Interests
Rather more disturbing than the blinkered opinions of a Donald Trump fanboy in the Irish press are these two reports below.Continue Reading
The #Gaelexit Campaign Turns Anglophone Victimiser Into Anglophone Victim
So the online current affairs website, The Journal, has published yet another opinion piece on the Irish language and theContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil Says No To Water Charges, Yes To Northern Elections
Despite the electoral trauma of the last decade Fianna Fáil has clawed its way back into second place behind its historic rivalsContinue Reading
The Apple Tax Scandal, Business As Usual On Charlie Haughey Island
Staggering. That is the only way to describe the rush of revelations emerging from last week’s decision by the European Commission toContinue Reading
Personality Clashes Push Stephen Donnelly Out Of The Social Democrats?
So the Wicklow TD, Stephen Donnelly, has walked away from the party he helped found, confirming rumours of dissension in theContinue Reading
The Phantom Corporations Of Ireland’s Banshee Economy
Adam Davidson, a business journalist with the New Yorker magazine, has an all too accurate examination of Ireland’s phantom economy inContinue Reading
Ireland, Corporate America’s European Tax Haven
So the European Commission has concluded that successive Irish governments granted extraordinarily lenient tax benefits over the course of three decades to the American tech-company, AppleContinue Reading
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