The Alliance Party Using Facebook To Sockpuppet The News Media
The greatest political challenge for the pro-union Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) is one of identity. Ostensibly it is a British unionist grouping, albeit withContinue Reading
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An Islamic State Drone Bombs An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank In Iraq
Talking of the Islamic State (IS), this recent propaganda video released by the group highlights its deployment of improvised drones in theContinue Reading
From Margaret Thatcher And The Valiant UVF, To WebOps And Palestinian Salad
By the late 1960s over four decades had passed since the United Kingdom had given concerted attention to the internal affairs ofContinue Reading
Happy New Year Wishes For 2017 From An Sionnach Fionn
A happy New Year’s Eve to the readers and followers of An Sionnach Fionn, and as always a big thankContinue Reading
Bits, Channel 4’s Legendary Computer Gaming Show
Mainstream television has always struggled with the popularity of computer gaming for adults and the peer-driven culture around it. SinceContinue Reading
A Style Guide For An Sionnach Fionn
With An Sionnach Fionn open for submissions on a range of subjects, I have decided to produce a short style guide or manualContinue Reading
The Latest Yahoo Data Breach, A Hack Too Far For A Dying Company
Many years ago, in the acoustic days of the 56k dial-up modem, I used a web-based service called RocketMail, oneContinue Reading
An Sionnach Fionn To Be Added To The NLI Archive, Remembering 1916, Recording 2016
Unfortunately I was unaware of the nomination process being run by the National Library of Ireland for its “Remembering 1916, Recording 2016”Continue Reading
Russian Spammers Take To Google For Donald Trump!
While the campaign team for Donald Trump may dismiss the continuing allegations that the Russian Federation played some role in his riseContinue Reading
The Battle Of Mosul Becomes Wartainment
The ongoing military contest for the city of Mosul, the formerly populous town in northern Iraq held by the Islamic State since 2014,Continue Reading
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Unionists Outraged By Mafia III Game. World Asks, What Are Unionists?
Those damn Irish unionists are at it again! From the Australasian gaming website, Game Planet: “Irish Unionists call for ban onContinue Reading
Bomb-Dropping Drones In The Syrian Civil War
In previous posts I’ve referred to the militarisation of relatively cheap civilian drones by a number of armed groups participating in theContinue Reading
John Podesta And The Clinton Campaign On It’s Ethnic Outreach To The Irish
Scanning through the recent tranche of hacked emails released by Wikileaks, taken from the Gmail account of John Podesta, the chairperson for Hillary Clinton’s presidentialContinue Reading
Hillary Clinton’s Animosity Towards “That Man”, Barack Obama, And Bill’s Inveterate “Dicking”
Despite a somewhat haphazard campaign to question or undermine the veracity of the latest tranche of leaked emails from the GmailContinue Reading
Mad Max: Fury Road, Crash And Smash Video With No CGI
Over the last decade I’ve almost given up on “genre” movies as each release seems more risible than the last. The needContinue Reading
Researchers Are Convinced That The Grolier Codex Is A Genuine Mayan Book
After years of doubt and uncertainty researchers investigating the authenticity of the Grolier Codex, a pre-Columbian “book” initially dated to the 13th century CE, have concluded that the artefactContinue Reading
The Apple Tax Scandal, Business As Usual On Charlie Haughey Island
Staggering. That is the only way to describe the rush of revelations emerging from last week’s decision by the European Commission toContinue Reading
Hillary Clinton, Not Crooked But Definitely Suspect
The decision by the FBI in the United States to release fifty-eight pages of notes from its investigation into Hillary Clinton’sContinue Reading
Never Go Full Weiner
Seriously? The Irish Times reports that the Health Service Executive (HSE) recently hired two digital influencers – bleurgh! – to advise staffContinue Reading
British Spies To Continue Mass Surveillance Operations In Ireland And Elsewhere
The United Kingdom’s state intelligence agencies have been given the green light to continue their mass spying operations around the world followingContinue Reading
Improvised Killer Drones In Syria
I’ve looked before at the phenomenon of improvised weapons in the Syrian civil war, in particular the use of Improvised RocketContinue Reading
Opposition Factions Of The Syrian Civil War
The researchers Ryan O’Farrell and Cody Roche have compiled an incredibly useful list of Opposition Factions in the Syrian Civil War for theContinue Reading
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