Plenty Of Sinister Fringes To Go Around
From a report by the “Irish” Sunday People newspaper in July 2004: “At least three Garda officers in the scandal-hit forceContinue Reading
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From a report by the “Irish” Sunday People newspaper in July 2004: “At least three Garda officers in the scandal-hit forceContinue Reading
So an unpopular minster in an unpopular government implementing unpopular policies is given her marching orders by a communityContinue Reading
Some people claim that Ireland will never be reunited. That the British Unionist minority in the north-east of the country areContinue Reading
Talking of unfinished revolutions we learn this evening that Joan Burton, Tánaiste, minster for social protection and Labour Party leader, was delayed inContinue Reading
I’m not quite sure if the political establishment in Ireland is embarrassed, ashamed or terrified by the 2016 centenary of theContinue Reading
Given some recent conversations on ASF I thought this article might be of interest to a number of readers. It discusses the muchContinue Reading
In light of two recent posts, “The Acceptable Form Of Racism In Ireland” and “Sinn Féin’s Bluff And Bluster On IrishContinue Reading
Apparently Gerry Adams TD, leader of the political party the polls declare the most popular in the country, has issuedContinue Reading
Sinn Féin, and to a lesser extent the SDLP, are still throwing all sorts of shapes in the regional assemblyContinue Reading
The thousands protesting against the imposition of unwarranted taxes and iniquitous government policies are crypto-terrorists. The Gardaí are being unfairly vilifiedContinue Reading
100,000 marchers on the streets of our capital city, gangs of Gardaí shuttling contractors for Uisce Éireann around suburban housingContinue Reading
The results of the mid-term elections in the United States have surpassed even some of the wilder speculations of theContinue Reading
Just a bit of fun – albeit with a bite 😉
Gregory Campbell is one of the better known members of the DUP in Ireland, the once fringe British Unionist party which has dominated one halfContinue Reading
Do Irish-speaking communities and citizens in Ireland enjoy full equality with their English-speaking peers when it comes to the institutionsContinue Reading
These are the people, the right-wing Nationalist forces, that initiated and won the counter-revolutionary civil war of 1921-23 and thisContinue Reading
A quick piece on the ongoing Maíria Cahill controversy, in particular the sudden reactivation of a number of anonymous anti-republicanContinue Reading
Last Friday morning the journalist and writer Paul Larkin highlighted on Twitter some evidence that a “Mairia Cahill” from BelfastContinue Reading
So the controversy in relation to the allegations made by 33 year old Maíria Cahill, a former national secretary ofContinue Reading
What date marks the end of Ireland’s War of Independence? It is a question more debated than you might think (alongContinue Reading
As the world, particularly the so-called Western world, looks on in outrage at the activities of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)Continue Reading
Over the last few decades our Celtic neighbours in Wales have seen the emergence of something approaching a national consensusContinue Reading




















