British Minister Michael Gove Claims That The UK Can Renege On Its Exit Deal With The EU And Ireland
Less than twenty-four hours after the United Kingdom issued a joint-report with the European Union on its planned exit fromContinue Reading
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The EU And Ireland Wins Major Concessions From Britain As DUP Sidelined
The final, much-delayed agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union – including, Ireland – has been published, spellingContinue Reading
Lady Sylvia Hermon Castigates The Recklessness Of The DUP And Tories
Bar the elected representatives of the liberal-leaning Alliance Party and a handful of others, almost the entirety of pro-union opinionContinue Reading
Unionism In Ireland Is Turning Brexit Into Its Political Death Warrant
The political humiliation of Theresa May, the inept prime minister of the United Kingdom, continues, with the news this morningContinue Reading
The DUP And Arlene Foster Blocks Compromise “Soft Border” Deal Between Ireland, The EU and Britain
Early on Monday morning it seemed as if several months of torturous negotiations between Dublin, Brussels and London had paidContinue Reading
Former UK Government Minister Links Brexit Animosity Towards Ireland To World War II
Another day and another round of bizarre opinions from politicians in Britain as the rancorous Brexit schism between the UnitedContinue Reading
The Madness Of Brexit Britain, From David Trimble To Iain Duncan Smith
The insanity continues. David Trimble, the former chief of the centrist Ulster Unionist Party, now eclipsed among pro-union voters inContinue Reading
Kate Hoey: The Irish “Will Have To Pay” For A Brexit Border In Ireland
If anything encapsulates the political insanity gripping the United Kingdom, surely it must be the sight of the reactionary LabourContinue Reading
Irish Government Report Details Europe’s Worries Over The “Chaos” Gripping Britain
For those of us who grew up under Fine Gael taoisigh like Garret Fitzgerald and John “Union Jack” Bruton, theContinue Reading
The UK Conspiracy Theory To Explain The Brexit Impasse With Ireland And EU
It has become standard fare among left-wing activists and politicians in the United Kingdom to accuse the political editor ofContinue Reading
The DUP Hides The Source Of Its Anti-EU Brexit Donation
Despite numerous attempts by right-wing commentators in the United Kingdom to dismiss or downplay the issue, questions about the originsContinue Reading
Dublin’s Brexit Solution: A Super-Majority Clause And An Irish Sea Border?
A thought occurs to me reading a Comment by a reader under the discussion on Leo Varadkar’s suggestion that aContinue Reading
Will Britain Give Explicit Guarantee On No Brexit Border In Ireland?
There’s a plausible report by Dara Doyle on the business and current affairs website, Bloomberg, claiming that the Fine Gael-led governmentContinue Reading
A Tentative Brits Out Response To Brexit From Official Ireland?
Here’s something I thought I’d never see in my lifetime. Former Labour Party spin-doctor-in-chief Fergus Finlay expressing the frustration andContinue Reading
Irexit, A Free State 2.0 For The Admirers Of Brexit’s Empire 2.0
Ray Kinsella, a former economics professor and an occasional opinion writer, is a bit of an odd sort. On someContinue Reading
Another Irish Property Bubble In The Making, Another Irish Property Crash In The Waiting
There seems to be little doubt that Ireland is in the early stages of yet another property-related bubble, reminiscent ofContinue Reading
Britain’s Revanchist Fantasies Of A Brexit Empire Focus On Ireland
Since the Brexit referendum vote in the summer of 2016 the conservative and right-wing press in the United Kingdom hasContinue Reading
The UK Retreats From The Imposition Of A Brexit Border In Ireland
The United Kingdom has published its position paper on post-Brexit relations between Ireland and the UK-administered Six Counties and onContinue Reading
Britain’s Brexit-Born Indifference And Antipathy To Peace In Ireland
There is a somewhat pessimistic belief among some Irish revolutionary republicans which can be best summed up as follows: “WhenContinue Reading
Likelihood Of Future Fianna Fáil And Sinn Féin Post-Election Deal Grows
Despite vociferous denials and protests to the contrary, by both politicians and journalists, since the general election of 2011 theContinue Reading
Ireland Dismisses UK’s Suggestion Of A Post-Brexit Electronic Border
Over the last several weeks there seems to have been a certain hardening in the diplomatic language deployed by IrelandContinue Reading
What Links The DUP And Milo Yiannopoulos? The Alt-Right, Of Course
I think it’s fair to describe the “alternative-right” as something of an amorphous political movement. While it has a philosophicalContinue Reading
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