The Dirty Secrets Of A Dirty War Get Even Dirtier
In the “better late than never” category Britain’s Left-leaning newspaper, the Guardian, has published a special investigation by Ian CobainContinue Reading
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The Axis Of British Fundamentalism
Recently the British journalist Colin Freeman while reporting on the crisis in Iraq for the Daily Telegraph, the establishment newspaperContinue Reading
Nelson McCausland, The Tea Party Escapee
What other nation in Western Europe would tolerate a senior member of a regional government using his personal blog toContinue Reading
The Whole Aim Of Newspeak Is To Narrow The Range Of Thought
Colm Keena, the journalist and less-than-sympathetic biographer of Gerry Adams, has an article in the Irish Times newspaper examining theContinue Reading
British Unionism, Nationalism In Denial
In a glorious example of the Irish political rhetoric known as “whataboutery” the columnist N.R. Greer takes to the pagesContinue Reading
The Torture Files
So the News and Current Affairs Department of RTÉ, our self-proclaimed “national broadcaster” (no sniggering, please), has suddenly become awareContinue Reading
The Continuity RUC
In an unprecedented move the Police Ombudsman for the north-east of Ireland, Michael Maguire, is to sue the Chief Constable of theContinue Reading
Fundamentalism Hates Fundamentalism
When religious fundamentalism combines with politics to create a cultural and societal norm that “the people” are expected to conform to it must alsoContinue Reading
The All-Ireland Percentage Vote For The European Parliament 2014
Thought I’d show some of the figures for the All-Ireland vote for the European Parliament being discussed on the blogContinue Reading
Nigel Farage, UKIP, And The British Terror Vote
Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing Eurosceptic party currently upsetting Britain’s staid tripartite political system, made a recent flying visit Ireland to expressContinue Reading
No Prosecutions For British Death Squad Confessions
In the early 1970s the Military Reaction Force or MRF was a covert unit of the British Army which operatedContinue Reading
Sinn Féin, A Victim Of Its Own Hubris
So Gerry Adams TD, the leader of Sinn Féin, has been released after several days of detention and interrogation byContinue Reading
No Investigation Into 1971 British War Crime In Ireland
The government of Britain has announced its refusal to investigate the Ballymurphy Massacre of 1971, a three-day killing spree byContinue Reading
Barack Obama, They All Look Irish To Me
President Barack Obama addressing the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall in University Malaysia, as reported by News StraitsContinue Reading
The Irish Media In Panic Mode
Reading Ireland’s national and regional newspapers the worried expectations of the media establishment that Sinn Féin and various smaller partiesContinue Reading
Moderate British Unionism – A Political Oxymoron
Below is a video of Chris McGimpsey, a Unionist former member of Belfast City Council for the UUP and theContinue Reading
NI21 Gets Its Irish On
By all accounts Ireland’s newish British Unionist party, NI1921, is in grave difficulties following a series of internal squabbles overContinue Reading
Five Thousand March For Irish Rights In Belfast
Last Saturday up to five thousand people took part in An Lá Dearg i mBéal Feirste, a march through theContinue Reading
An Lá Dearg I mBéal Feirste
Following on from the mass demonstration held in Dublin eight weeks ago during which 10,000 people marched across the capitalContinue Reading
Arrested For Speaking Irish In Europe’s Darkest Corner
The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, is on an official state visit to Britain, the first by an IrishContinue Reading
Britain’s Very Own Own Crimea In Ireland
Military jeeps driven by masked men wearing combat fatigues drive through the darkened streets of a city while hysterical crowdsContinue Reading
Only A General Amnesty Will Yield The Truth
As the impact of the arrest of the veteran activist Ivor Bell continues to reverberate within Republican circles there isContinue Reading
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