Banging The Far Right Drum
Go bhfóire Dia orainn! Only the Irish Independent newspaper, with its fanatical free market fetishism, could argue that Fine Gael isContinue Reading
Category: Politics
Struggling With The Language
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, the progressive language rights’ organisation in Wales, has proposed a radical shift in the teaching ofContinue Reading
Game Over Man, Game Over!
Michael Taft’s view on yesterday’s confirmation that Ireland is pretty much in a perpetual recession: “A good friend of mineContinue Reading
Sinn Féin, The SDLP And The Québec Comparison
Several commentators, including myself, have recently speculated about the possibility of Sinn Féin and the SDLP maximising the regional NationalistContinue Reading
The Double Bono
Forget about the sense of aristocratic entitlement that apparently pervaded the membership of Ireland’s financial corporations. The heads of theContinue Reading
Patterns Of War
With all the media focus on the rise of a global Big Brother via the Orwellian ambitions of the UnitedContinue Reading
Laughing All The Way To The Bank
One law for us, another law for them. That is the lesson to be learned from the latest revelations surroundingContinue Reading
The SNP – Scottish-Lite
Scottish blogger Tocasaid has some rightfully strident views on the apparent refusal of the SNP government in Scotland to submitContinue Reading
Thoughtcrime Does Not Entail Death – Just Surveillance
Thanks to the big splash in today’s Guardian newspaper we now have more evidence of just how far we have travelledContinue Reading
G8 Protesters Are “Anti-British”
Only in Ireland! Billy Hutchinson and the PUP, the political front of the British terror faction the UVF, staged aContinue Reading
Clueless – The International Press In Belfast
With so much of the news from the conflict in Syria being filtered through the International media one is struckContinue Reading
The Hidden Irish
Veteran former newspaper editor and journalist Gerard O’Regan has a somewhat tongue-in-cheek article in the Irish Independent headlined: “It’s pointlessContinue Reading
Scotland’s Missing Scottish Question
There is an excellent article on Bella Caledonia by Wilson McLeod examining the failure of the SNP-led Scottish Government toContinue Reading
From World Wide Web To World Wide Watch
The newspaper revelations by the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal in relation to the NSA’s positioning of itself asContinue Reading
NI21 – Or NI1921?
People are speculating that the newest “moderate” British Unionist party to be announced on Thursday by Basil McCrea and JohnContinue Reading
Second-Class Citizens, Second-Class Victims
So the political extreme of the British Unionist minority in Ireland in the form of the TUV’s Jim McAllister hasContinue Reading
A Fake Economy In A Fake State
The benefits of Britain’s continued colonial rule over the north-east of Ireland? Fake shops for a fake economy. From theContinue Reading
Austerity – Basque Fight Versus Irish Flight
There is an interesting if understandably angry article by author James Petras at the Dissident Voice comparing the different reactionsContinue Reading
Paul Theroux And The Boston Bombing
On the 16th of May 2013 the Daily Beast published an article by the Massachusetts-born travel writer and author Paul Theroux whereContinue Reading
Calling It Like It Is
Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D. Higgins, has made a telling point in relation to the Irish language, a point thatContinue Reading
The Irish Times – Mixed Messages From Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Irish Times has a series of articles on the Irish Revolution roughly divided between even-handed accounts of those whoContinue Reading
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