McGuinness Won The Audience But Did He Win The Debate?
The audience poll results are in from Vincent Brown’s Presidential Debate on TV3, and though entirely unscientific, they show MartinContinue Reading
Category: Politics
Anyone For Some Apartheid? Anglo-Irish Style!
Yesterday’s Irish Independent featured a letter pleading for support from readers for a new campaign to remove obligatory Irish language teachingContinue Reading
More News From The Basque Country. Politics And Poetry
Following on from the surprise success of Bildu, the centre-left Basque nationalist coalition, in the regional elections held earlier thisContinue Reading
English Ireland. A Nation Without A Soul?
Wonderful article in the Irish Times by Lucille Redmond on language and identity. “According to linguist Mark Abley, a language dies everyContinue Reading
Scottish Tory Blues
With the SNP emerging triumphant from the most recent electoral contests to become the dominant force in Scottish politics theContinue Reading
Nationalist Realignments In The Basque Country
The Basque nationalist organisation Ekin, which organised political and cultural activities in the Basque Country over the last decade despiteContinue Reading
Gay Mitchell. Handbags And Tantrums
In the debate between presidential candidates Gay Mitchell and Martin McGuinness featured on Newstalk’s Dunphy Show, the jury seems to have comeContinue Reading
Fine Gael: The Terrorists We Embrace And The Ones We Don’t
Fine Gael minister Phil Hogan has declared that there is no place for terrorists in Áras an Uachtaráin. According to the IrishContinue Reading
The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament
Irish journalist Jason Walsh reviews new book The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament by veteran Republican Tommy McKearney over atContinue Reading
From Saor Doire To Saor Éire
Martin McGuinness, who is looking more presidential with every photo op (have you seen Michael D. Higgins lately, not to mention poorContinue Reading
Martin McGuinness. The People’s Choice?
Irish journalist and media lecturer Harry Browne writes in CounterPunch on the presidential election, the panic gripping the Irish elites, and theContinue Reading
Panic Grips The Sycophants Of The Golden Circle
Ah, the fun of watching a terrified media establishment in Ireland working itself up into a panic at the prospect of MartinContinue Reading
Language Rights Are Civil Rights
Seán Ó Cuirreáin, An Coimisinéir Teanga or the Irish Language Commissioner, is the person tasked with ensuring that our publicContinue Reading
The Basque Country And A Peace Process That Spain Is Ignoring
There have been major disturbances in the Basque city of Bilbao following the destruction of “Kukutza”, a youth and culture centre associated withContinue Reading
DotAlba
I talked some time ago about the campaign in Scotland to register a new internet domain name for the GaelicContinue Reading
The Sunday Independent – The Real Threat To Irish Democracy
Today’s Sunday Independent newspaper makes for incredible reading. There is one subject and one subject only; Martin McGuinness. And one clear strategy:Continue Reading
British Journalist Lectures The Irish People On “Democracy”. Laugh Now Or Laugh Later?
One presidential candidate, two journalists and two conflicting opinions. The first journalist is Nick Cohen, a regular contributor to variousContinue Reading
Gay Byrne Claims Provisional IRA Were “Gangsters”. Sorry, That Should Read, Gay Byrne Claims Old IRA Were “Gangsters”
So, things are hotting up in the oul presidential to-an’-fro as that granddaddy of Irish media personalities, Gay “The Poppy”Continue Reading
Fulminating West Brits Go Nuts – Or Fun With Martin And Co!
Ah, only a few days into Martin McGuinness’ presidential candidacy and the Irish media establishment, those paragons of right wing, unregulated free market capitalism (Celtic Tiger?Continue Reading
Fáilte!
The Irish Times carries an article on an issue that I, and many others, have been shouting from the rooftops for manyContinue Reading
Martin McGuinness – Uachtarán na hÉireann?
The politics of Ireland has been turned on its head with Sinn Féin’s announcement yesterday that Martin McGuinness MLA, theContinue Reading
Robin Swann Of The UUP – No Irish Wanted Here!
Here is a wearily familiar report from the Associated Press on the recent Líofa 2015 initiative launched by the minister of cultureContinue Reading
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