That Infamous Nolan Show
Well a lot of people have been discussing last night’s highly controversial Nolan Show from the BBC in Belfast which debated the anti-democracy protests by the extreme ofContinue Reading
Irish News, Politics, Culture
Well a lot of people have been discussing last night’s highly controversial Nolan Show from the BBC in Belfast which debated the anti-democracy protests by the extreme ofContinue Reading
The best of British – in Ireland.
Well the worse weekend yet of rioting and violent attacks by anti-democracy protesters from the British Unionist monitory in the north-east ofContinue Reading
Excellent opinion piece over on the Irish news-blog Slugger O’Toole from Gerry Lynch, a former Executive Director of the Alliance Party, aContinue Reading
Several weeks ago the elected members of Belfast City Council voted by a majority to end the year-round flying of the BritishContinue Reading
Two weeks ago the British prime minister, David Cameron, apologised in the UK parliament on behalf of the British nation for the assassination of the Irish civil rights lawyerContinue Reading
Sometimes the sheer two-faced hypocrisy of the average Unionist media sympathiser leaves one dumbfounded. And none more so than theContinue Reading
Several days ago I posted some thoughts on the first round of figures released from the top-level results of theContinue Reading
So, yet another night of low-level violence and rioting from the extreme of the British Unionist minority in the north-eastContinue Reading
On the 12th of Februaray 1989 the respected Irish civil rights lawyer Pat Finucane was sitting down to a Sunday dinner in hisContinue Reading
Peter Robinson, the DUP leader and regional Joint First Minister of the North of Ireland, recently claimed that IrishContinue Reading
The democratically elected local government council of Belfast City has voted to remove the British flag from the masthead on theContinue Reading
In a shameless rip-off of the Cedar Lounge Revolution here is my own “Something For The Weekend“. Belfast’s Gráinne HollandContinue Reading
Hmmm. Micheál Martin, leader of the discredited centre-right Fianna Fáil party, has stated at the annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration in Baile Uí Bhuadáin that theContinue Reading
The British separatist minority in Ireland doing what the British separatist minority does best: terrorising and intimidating other communities while expressing the supremacist attitudes of a colonial elite.Continue Reading
To their members and supporters (not to mention sympathisers) the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland is a purely “cultural organisation”Continue Reading
In response to the annual violence sparked by a handful of intimidating marches through Irish communities in the British Occupied North of Ireland by the militant British nationalist andContinue Reading
BREAKING NEWS. RIOT IN CORSO AD ARDOYNE More here…
Well an interesting day, and the deed is done, but the fallout from related events continues following on from yesterday’s peaceful protest on the Black Mountain by RepublicansContinue Reading
In relation to my earlier post about the demonstration on Black Mountain overlooking Belfast where Republicans from the 1916 Societies erected a large IrishContinue Reading
Following on from my posts here and here examining the forthcoming meeting between the visiting British head of state and Martin McGuinness, the deputy First MinsterContinue Reading
Controversy, controversy, controversy. Or at least what the “media” in all its wisdom deems to be controversial. And yet againContinue Reading