Stop And Search Policing, Collective Punishment For Minority Communities
During a number of recent speeches the presidential nominee for the Republican Party in the United States, ex-real estate mogul DonaldContinue Reading
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Ben Carson Demands That Woman Journalist Is Silenced While Defending Trump
There was an extraordinary exchange between the former Republican Party presidential hopeful, Ben Carson, and the British journalist, Katty Kay, during anContinue Reading
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Unionists Outraged By Mafia III Game. World Asks, What Are Unionists?
Those damn Irish unionists are at it again! From the Australasian gaming website, Game Planet: “Irish Unionists call for ban onContinue Reading
John Podesta And The Clinton Campaign On It’s Ethnic Outreach To The Irish
Scanning through the recent tranche of hacked emails released by Wikileaks, taken from the Gmail account of John Podesta, the chairperson for Hillary Clinton’s presidentialContinue Reading
Defending Donald Trump’s Penchant For Dropping The Hand
One suspects that if the Republican Party nominee, Donald Trump, succeeds in his campaign to be elected the president ofContinue Reading
Britain Seeks To Control Ireland’s Borders In Deal For No Brexit Barrier Around North
On Saturday afternoon up to a thousand people attended the first in a series of demonstrations in the north of Ireland to protest the possible effects of the UnitedContinue 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
Big Drop For Fianna Fáil And Slight Rise For Sinn Féin In Latest Poll
While taking due note of the significant margin of error in the latest Irish Times-Ipsos MRBI poll there are still some things of interestContinue Reading
Irish, A Living Language That Others Are Seeking To Kill
There is no process of natural selection for languages, no evolutionary rule which dictates that one tongue is inevitably suppressed or supplanted by another.Continue Reading
Likelihood Of A Brexit Border In Ireland Grows As UK Rejects Human Rights Convention
In 1992 the Associated Press distributed a newspaper report examining the United Kingdom’s then practice of using “human shields” toContinue Reading
An Garda Síochána, A Police Force Mired In Controversy And Corruption
Repeated allegations of systemic corruption have been made by independent politicians and journalists against sections of An Garda Síochána, Ireland’sContinue Reading
Unionism’s Continued Culture War Between Settler And Native In Ireland
Back in 2013 the political theorist and author, Daniel Butt, identified three characteristics which are found in most descriptions of historical colonialism:Continue Reading
Gary Johnson, The Third Stooge In The US Presidential Race
Gary Johnson, presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party and the political gift that just keeps on giving! 🙂
Saoradh, The Revolutionary Irish Republican Party
Last weekend saw the launch of Saoradh, a self-titled “Revolutionary Irish Republican Party”, at the Canal Court Hotel in Newry,Continue Reading
Irish Human Shields To Protect A British Border In Ireland?
As fears continue to grow that the United Kingdom is prepared to impose a “Brexit Border“ between the north-east of Ireland and theContinue Reading
The 2016 First Presidential Debate
Before the first one-on-one presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump the press consensus held that if the coiffured orangutan managed to refrain fromContinue Reading
British Spies, Agents And Informers In The IRA
Last week the BBC news and current affairs programme, Spotlight, broadcast a series of interviews and dramatic reenactments with a man they calledContinue Reading
Anti-Irish Prejudice In Ireland Cannot Be Reasoned With. It Can Only Be Defeated
Over the last two decades the linguistic denigration of hibernophone sports teams and their fans by anglophone opponents has become one of the odder aspects of lifeContinue Reading
Brian Nelson, Britain’s Agent Of Terror During The Dirty War In Ireland
The British investigative journalist and author, Ian Cobain, has published a new book examining the United Kingdom’s post-WWII record of covert governmentContinue Reading
Hillary Clinton’s Animosity Towards “That Man”, Barack Obama, And Bill’s Inveterate “Dicking”
Despite a somewhat haphazard campaign to question or undermine the veracity of the latest tranche of leaked emails from the GmailContinue Reading
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Casting The Women Of Ireland Beyond The Ninth Wave: We Face This Land
Ireland’s indigenous literature has long regarded the ninth wave, reputedly the outermost one surrounding the shoreline of the country, as a supernatural boundary. When the invadingContinue Reading
You Cannot Hate Irish Without Hating Those Who Speak Irish
If you speak Irish in Ireland, and your children speak and are educated through Irish in Ireland, does this make you an ideological opponent ofContinue Reading
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