The Unionist Minority In Ireland – Do As We Say, Not As We Do!
Below are the opinions of the leaders of the two largest British Unionist political parties on the island of IrelandContinue Reading
Category: Politics
Global Corruption Index For 2012 – Ireland Falls Six Places
Back in February of this year I discussed the media independence rating for Ireland from Reporters Without Borders, the international organisation affiliated to the UNContinue Reading
Angloban Ignorance Posing As Informed Commentary
Oh please, someone save me from the half-arsed opinions of right-wing Anglophone buffoons. From Niall O’Dowd’s US-based website Irish CentralContinue Reading
Crisis? What Crisis?
Peter Robinson, the DUP leader and regional Joint First Minister of the North of Ireland, recently claimed that IrishContinue Reading
The Anti-Democrats – The British Unionist Minority In Ireland
The democratically elected local government council of Belfast City has voted to remove the British flag from the masthead on theContinue Reading
Angloban – The Anglophone Fundamentalists Of Britain And Ireland
We all know that the internet is the mother of all lies. The world wide web of falsehoods. Which isContinue Reading
Language Wars In Wales
Here we go again. The obsessive Anglophone supremacism of the right-wing news media in Britain is becoming something of aContinue Reading
Ipsos MRBI 50th Anniversary Survey – The Irish Language
Very hard to comment on this, since we don’t have the details of the survey, but the Irish Times carriesContinue Reading
Continuity IRA Prisoners End Dirty Protest In Maghaberry
Last week a significant number of the Irish political prisoners in the now notorious British-run Maghaberry Prison in the OccupiedContinue Reading
Purging The Ranks
Well what is one to make of all this then? The Irish news media is reporting that a close associate of theContinue Reading
Nationalists Triumph In Catalan Elections
All news is spin. And most of it is establishment spin at that. So here we have the remarkable spectacleContinue Reading
A Visit To Uncle Andy
Ah, isn’t it good to see the British Unionist minority in Ireland and their DUP representatives return to the goodContinue Reading
Anglophone Propaganda And The British Press
Well that didn’t take long. Barely a week has passed since the right-wing British news media carried a series ofContinue Reading
British Bombs On Irish Streets
The British claim that the North of Ireland is British. A sovereign and integrated part of the territory of theContinue Reading
In Defence Of Israel
I’ve always admired the state of Israel and the Israeli people as a whole. From an Irish point of viewContinue Reading
Pádraig Mac Piarais – The New Study In Review
I’ve been meaning to write a review of the new biography of Pádraig Mac Piarais, “Patrick Pearse: the making of a revolutionary“ byContinue Reading
A Letter From John Paul Wootton
John Paul Wootton is a twenty year old Irishman who was arrested on the 10th of March 2009 at theContinue Reading
“New” IRA Prisoners End Their Dirty Protest In Maghaberry Prison
It’s been announced that a section of the Irish political prisoners engaged in a “Dirty Protest” in the notorious MaghaberryContinue Reading
Elections In Catalonia
The Guardian newspaper carries another article on the possibility of Catalonian independence as elections loom in the Iberian nation. However,Continue Reading
Some Political Musings
As a Gaelic Republican I suppose my politics lie somewhere on the social-democratic centre-left. Sometimes my opinions veer towards theContinue Reading
The Mystery Of The BiLingo Website
A follow-up on my post yesterday about BiLingo, a website in Wales behind a series of claims alleging that AnglophoneContinue Reading
Character Assassination And The Herald
Without a single shred of evidence that could stand up in a court, apparently based upon nothing but hearsay andContinue Reading
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