A Trumpite Speaks
Perhaps not the best choice of words by American ex-pat, Meghan McBride, writing in defence of Donald Trump and the UnitedContinue Reading
Category: Politics
Trump Plays The Islamist Card As Britain Played The Orange Card
In the wake of the slaughter at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, an atrocity driven far more by one man’s self-hatredContinue Reading
How One Turbulent City In Iraq Can Stand For The Whole Country
With some sections of the Western news media proclaiming imminent victory over the Islamic State (an entirely nebulous concept given theContinue Reading
The Welsh Language Banned From The British Parliament
Yesterday’s sight of the former British prime ministers, toothsome Tony Blair and dour John Major, proclaiming the United Kingdom of Great Britain the “…mostContinue Reading
The Revival Of The Native Hawaiian Language
The US news and current affairs website, Slate, has a lengthy article on the modest revival of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, the nativeContinue Reading
UK Forces Conspired With British Terrorists In The Loughinisland Massacre
There is further evidence today of the dual nature of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland, the use of regular and irregularContinue Reading
The Fresh Start Panel Report, Just More Of The Same
Remember the political and media outrage created last September by the murder of petty criminal, Kevin McGuigan, at his home in Belfast? His assassination wasContinue Reading
IMF Report Questions The Economics Of Neoliberalism
The publication of a study by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) criticising certain aspects of neoliberalism has led to a lotContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn’s Vice News Documentary
The left-wing British politician, Jeremy Corbyn, recently gave Vice News behind the scenes access to his embattled leadership of the UK LabourContinue Reading
Kincora, Whitewashing The Secret History Of Britain’s Dirty War In Ireland
With informed observers, including lawyers, journalists and politicians, already predicting a whitewash there seems little hope that Britain is ready to faceContinue Reading
A Patten Report For A Reformed Garda Síochána
In relation to the latest evidence of malpractice within the ranks of An Garda Síochána, one cannot but help feelContinue Reading
High Rise Dublin Or Stupid Knows Stupid
Speaking of inferiority complexes or falsely equating anything “foreign” with modernity, here is more of the same in the Comments’ section under aContinue Reading
#IrishSpeakersMatter
Irish Times opinion-writer and occasional poet, Rosita Boland, giving the legacy of colonialism on this island nation a respectable, modern face through the pages ofContinue Reading
An Irish Argument For Brexit
Brexit, potentially bad for the Twenty-Six and Six Counties in the short term, potentially good for the Thirty-Two Counties inContinue Reading
Renua – The Independent News And Media Party
Here we go again! Ireland’s right-wing media cartel, Independent News and Media, is beating the drums for its pet cause with renewed vigour:Continue Reading
Hulk Hogan, Gawker, Peter Thiel And A Whole Lot Of Money
You may have come upon the name of Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley billionaire and one of the creators of PayPal, in a previousContinue Reading
The Dublin And Monaghan Bombings And The Apologist Agenda
On the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1974, as rush-hour commuters made their way through Dublin’s city-centre, three car-bombs explodedContinue Reading
School Teaching Through Irish To Be Housed – And It Only Took 22 Years
Irish is the indigenous language of the island nation of Ireland. Irish is the national and first official language of theContinue Reading
In Our Forests, Like Our Language, Lies Our True Wealth
When the first Neolithic families migrated to Ireland around 4000 BCE they found an island that was overwhelmingly forested, with at least 80% tree cover.Continue Reading
Donald J. Trump, A Clinton Supporter With A Grudge?
Reading back over the publicly expressed opinions of Donald J. Trump in the 1990s and early 2000s, one is struckContinue Reading
The 20 Year Strategy For The Irish Language, Year 6
From the “Programme for a Partnership Government“, the recently published agreement underpinning the right-wing minority administration of Fine Gael and various independentContinue Reading
They Are Not British Terrorists, They Are British Paramilitaries
The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is the largest British terrorist organisation in Ireland. From its establishment in 1971 to aContinue Reading
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