DUP Cynically Exploits UDA Gang Violence In Derry And Belfast
During some of the most difficult days of the nascent Irish-British peace process the late bomb-maker turned peace-maker David Ervine,Continue Reading
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That Embarrassing Fianna Fáil And SDLP Partnership
So, it turns out that today’s big announcement by Fianna Fáil of its long-heralded expansion into northern politics is lessContinue Reading
300 Recruits, Riot Control Experts And 1000 British Police Officers For North Of Ireland
Back on December 19th when several newspapers in the United Kingdom reported that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)Continue Reading
The UK Is Holding The Peace Process As A Political Hostage In Its Brexit Negotiations
There are few other British historical figures more controversial – and more reviled – in the popular culture of IrelandContinue Reading
The Bomb Attacks On The Homes Of Gerry Adams And Bobby Storey
It is difficult to know what one should make of the “bomb” attacks on the Belfast homes of Gerry Adams, theContinue Reading
UK Seeks Border Force For Ireland But No Irish Need Apply
The news that the United Kingdom is advertising twenty-one new jobs for the Belfast branch of its Border Force, anContinue Reading
Saoradh Holds “Unfinished Revolution” Parade To Mark Easter Rising Anniversary
Talking of commemorating the Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish revolutionary party, Saoradh, also staged its own demonstration in BelfastContinue Reading
Kneecap: C.E.A.R.T.A
From the Belfast-based Irish rappers, Kneecap, comes this homage to party-time shenanigans, CEARTA, with lyrics by Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap.Continue Reading
Arm Na Poblachta, Army Of The Republic, Reveals Its Anti-Armour Capacity
The term Irish Republican Army (IRA) – or more rarely, Army of the Irish Republic – entered the modern politicalContinue Reading
The British Government Is Culpable For House Expulsions By British Terrorists In Belfast
On the 5th of June 2017, just four days before the general election in the United Kingdom, a group known asContinue Reading
The INLA Volley At The Funeral Of IRSP Member Barry McMullan
While Sinn Féin has gone to great lengths over the last decade to move away from its armed revolutionary past,Continue Reading
The Uneasy Peace In Britain’s Legacy Colony On The Island Of Ireland
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the United Kingdom’s militarised policing force in the Six Counties, has released its 2016-17 statisticsContinue Reading
The People Before Profit Alliance. Made In Britain?
The Ireland correspondent of the UK’s Guardian newspaper, Henry McDonald, writing in today’s edition on the Stormont assembly election inContinue Reading
A Video Recording Of New IRA Volunteers On Patrol In North Belfast
The counter-insurgency and anti-terrorist laws of Ireland and the United Kingdom are notoriously pervasive, allowing the authorities in both countries to interpret theirContinue Reading
The RUC, Britain’s Former Police Militia In Ireland, Fatally Injured American Citizen
The Royal Ulster Constabulary, policemen by day, gunmen by night, was formed in the summer of 1922 from the shambolic remains of theContinue Reading
Northern Ireland, The Sectarian And Racist Squalor Of Britain’s Last Colony
Anna Lo, the Chinese-Irish president of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI), a liberal unionist grouping in the north-east ofContinue Reading
The Eleventh Night, The Twelfth Of July And Britain’s Colony In The European Union
As is now the norm, on the night of July 11th a significant part of the unionist – or pro-British – minority in IrelandContinue Reading
DUP Favours British Beer-Swilling Thugs Before Irish Special Needs Children
In April of this year, Arlene Foster, the belligerent leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the majority pro-UK partner in theContinue Reading
The Fresh Start Panel Report, Just More Of The Same
Remember the political and media outrage created last September by the murder of petty criminal, Kevin McGuigan, at his home in Belfast? His assassination wasContinue Reading
The Shankill Bombing And Britain’s Proxy-War In Belfast
Just after 1 pm on the afternoon of Saturday the 23rd of October 1993, Thomas Begley and Seán Kelly, two volunteers ofContinue Reading
It’s The Democracy, Stupid
Pat McCarthy, who was imprisoned without trial by the British in the early 1970s for alleged membership of the (Official) Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
Stormont’s Fresh Start Repackages Stale Goods
So the governments of Ireland and Britain, in consultation with the members of the cross-party regional administration in Belfast, have announced the ratherContinue Reading
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