The UK Throws Two Decades Of Irish-British Peace To The Brexit Winds
It’s a rare thing indeed for the national press in Ireland to express anger at the political misdeeds of the unionistContinue Reading
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Dermot Ahern, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Predicts Significant Brexit Border
Here is Dermot Ahern, the former Fianna Fáil TD for Louth and a senior minister in several FF-led governments from 1997Continue Reading
Latest LucidTalk – Belfast Telegraph Assembly Poll. Is The DUP In Trouble?
Like many other observers I’m somewhat sceptical about the validity of election polling in the north-east of the country. DespiteContinue Reading
Former British Army Commander Turned Politician, I Was A Torturer In Ireland
Bob Stewart, a Conservative MP in London and a former military commander, has blithely admitted that he acted as “…a kind of aContinue Reading
An Orange Hall, A Grant, A Mysterious Address And The DUP
Talking of Irish political scandals, it seems that ideological unionism simply cannot help itself. Put to one side the involvement ofContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness To Retire From Electoral Politics
In the last hour the Sinn Féin MLA Martin McGuinness, the former deputy first minister in the power-sharing executive at Stormont,Continue Reading
The Ash For Cash RHI Scandal, Arlene Foster And The DUP Strikes Back
In 2011 the United Kingdom introduced a government-backed scheme known as the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), a payment system encouragingContinue Reading
Stop And Search Policing, Collective Punishment For Minority Communities
During a number of recent speeches the presidential nominee for the Republican Party in the United States, ex-real estate mogul DonaldContinue Reading
Likelihood Of A Brexit Border In Ireland Grows As UK Rejects Human Rights Convention
In 1992 the Associated Press distributed a newspaper report examining the United Kingdom’s then practice of using “human shields” toContinue Reading
Irish Human Shields To Protect A British Border In Ireland?
As fears continue to grow that the United Kingdom is prepared to impose a “Brexit Border“ between the north-east of Ireland and theContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil Says No To Water Charges, Yes To Northern Elections
Despite the electoral trauma of the last decade Fianna Fáil has clawed its way back into second place behind its historic rivalsContinue Reading
The Óglaigh na hÉireann Propaganda Demonstration In Derry
On the evening of Friday the 29th of July the minor Republican Resistance grouping, Óglaigh na hÉireann (ÓnaÉ), staged aContinue Reading
To Reunite Or Not Reunite, That Is The Question. For Ireland’s Worried Elites
Is it just me, or is the Continuity State going through a period of existential crisis?
The Deep Insurgency, The Enduring Irish Rebel Tradition
Back in 2013, while examining the thorny issue of public support for the armed struggle of the (Provisional) Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
UK Forces Conspired With British Terrorists In The Loughinisland Massacre
There is further evidence today of the dual nature of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland, the use of regular and irregularContinue Reading
Taking The British Gun Out Of Irish Politics
For several hundred years the British, in one form or another, have been violently attempting to occupy and annex theContinue Reading
Was A Serial Rapist And Child Killer A British Spy In Ireland?
It’s an uncomfortable truism of the human condition that sociopaths are made, not born, and the life and death ofContinue Reading
The Continuity IRA’s Hollow Show Of Strength In Lurgan
So the (Continuity) Irish Republican Army is making minor headlines again following the publication of several rather indistinct photos on theContinue Reading
Paddy Ashdown, IRA Volunteer
Paddy Ashdown is a former British marine commando and intelligence officer with MI5, the ex-leader of the Liberal-Democrat party (whichContinue 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
Time For Truth, An Fhírinne Anois
With thanks to the Mirror, a powerful video from the Irish victims support organisation “Relatives for Justice” which campaigns for truthContinue Reading
British War Hysteria – The Hibernoban!
So to another round of Fantasy Troubles as the news media in Britain, with a nod and a wink fromContinue Reading
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