Sinn Féin’s Westminster MPs Should Take Up Their Seats. In Dáil Éireann
The likelihood that the withdrawal agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom will be defeated by a majorityContinue Reading
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Éirígí, Independents 4 Change, Mick Wallace and Clare Daly
Éirígí, the small left-wing republican party that seemed all but defunct after the 2014 local elections, has apparently undergone aContinue Reading
Brexit Britain’s Leave And Remain Camps Are Equally Ignorant Of Ireland
Given that the political history of Ireland has been forcibly bound up with the history of England since the 12thContinue Reading
Boris Johnson Plays Orange Card In Bonkers Speech To Rapturous DUP Conference
The United Kingdom’s colony on the island of Ireland, from the historical Thirty-Two Counties to the contemporary Six Counties, has longContinue Reading
Backstop Deal Under Threat As Theresa May Accuses Europeans Of Jumping The Queue
With the ink barely dry on the draft withdrawal agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union, Sky News inContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Apologists Become Brexit Sympathisers
One of the odder complaints emanating from those Irish writers and commentators who have devoted their professional careers to actingContinue Reading
Theresa May’s Brexit Draft Deal: The Reality Of Post-Brexit Relations In Europe
By any measure the recently published “Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and NorthernContinue Reading
No Surrender! Boris Johnson On Dublin, London And Partition
On the 15th of November 1985 at Hillsborough Castle, south-west of Belfast, the government of the United Kingdom signed an internationalContinue Reading
Boris Johnson And The British Suddenly Decide That Being A “Colony” Is A Bad Thing
The image of senior politicians from the former heartland of the British Empire vociferously condemning the European Union for itsContinue Reading
Brexit Britain. An Island Of Fruitcakes, Loonies And Poppies?
The British writer Michael Burleigh, the author of several acclaimed histories of Nazi Germany and the rise of totalitarian regimes inContinue Reading
Trump To CNN Journalist: “You Are The Enemy Of The People”
Incredible stuff from a chaotic press conference by Donald Trump in the wake of Tuesday’s congressional elections in the UnitedContinue Reading
Focus Ireland: A Moving Day Story
In recent years family homelessness in Ireland has doubled, leaving hundreds of men, women and children in a crisis situation.Continue Reading
The EU’s Michel Barnier: No Accord, No Transition For UK Without The Backstop
Rumour, speculation, leaks and unattributed briefings seems to be the order of the day, as the Irish and British mediaContinue Reading
Senior British Official: “Ireland Is Fucked” In Proposed UK-EU Deal
The headline claim comes from a sparsely detailed and frequently contradictory exclusive by The Sunday Times newspaper in Britain, suggestingContinue Reading
How Brexit Is Killing Britain’s Rump Colony In Ireland
The Irish-born author and activist Richard Seymour, who hails from a unionist background in County Antrim, has written an excoriatingContinue Reading
Peter Casey And RTÉ’s Late Late Show
Regular readers of An Sionnach Fionn are likely aware of my vociferous opposition to political censorship and my belief thatContinue Reading
Edward Carson: Ulster And Ireland, Puppets In The Political Games Of The Conservative Party
The problem with selective quotes is that they tend to create a selective view of the person being quoted. ThisContinue Reading
The KKK, The DUP, And The Trumpian Toxicity Of Brexit
Not everyone who votes for the DUP dresses up in KKK clothing and poses with clenched fists outside an IslamicContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil Rejects Peter Casey, Renua Offers Him Its Party Leadership
While the reasons for Peter Casey’s surprise showing in last week’s presidential election are more complicated than the superficial analysesContinue Reading
Michael D Higgins Is The Winner. But At What Cost If Peter Casey Is Second?
So, one of the most uneventful, not to say downright lacklustre presidential contests in modern history has delivered no greatContinue Reading
Sorcha McAnespy And Fianna Fáil’s Failure To Launch In the North
Well that was a bit of a PR disaster. Last night’s surprise announcement that Sorcha McAnespy, a Fianna Fáil member andContinue Reading
British Army Blowing Up A Cross-Border Bridge. A Brexit Warning
From an avowedly partisan television news report broadcast to UK viewers in September 1975*, a video clip of soldiers andContinue Reading
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