Scottish Catholics, British Nationalism’s New Enemy Within
Last week, in the wake of the failed referendum on Scottish independence, we witnessed gangs of violent British nationalists (so-calledContinue Reading
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Last week, in the wake of the failed referendum on Scottish independence, we witnessed gangs of violent British nationalists (so-calledContinue Reading
Ach, you couldn’t make this excrement up, you really couldn’t. From a report by the British Guardian newspaper onContinue Reading
@alextomo 75,000 sign petition for re vote amid vote rigging scandal https://t.co/dqiTcboE4B — deborah back (@IWILLNOTGOAWAY) September 20, 2014 CCTVContinue Reading
There is an Irish tradition that if you have nothing good to say of the dead then say nothing. ThatContinue Reading
The Mirror has an excellent post featuring a recent radio discussion in the United States on Scotland’s upcoming referendum onContinue Reading
As if the precarious position of Irish-speaking citizens and communities in Ireland was not difficult enough living under the authorityContinue Reading
Up to the 1980s the British Labour Party was generally supportive of ending Britain’s centuries-old colonial interference in Ireland by drawingContinue Reading
From 1975 to 1982 a British terrorist faction nicknamed the “Shankhill Butchers”, part of the militant UVF, carried out aContinue Reading
For the first time an allegation long made in private has been stated in public: a senior member of theContinue Reading
Pictured above is an “Eleventh Night” bonfire, one of many dozens erected across the north-east of Ireland by usually adolescent members of theContinue Reading
The infamous Ku Klux Klan had – and probably still has – burning crosses. The equally infamous Orange Order hasContinue Reading
As Britain witnesses the revelations of a decades old culture of institutionalised paedophilia and sexual abuse within the heart ofContinue Reading
The mainstream British Unionist parties in the north-east of Ireland, the governing DUP and out-of-office UUP, have issued a statementContinue Reading
Recently the British journalist Colin Freeman while reporting on the crisis in Iraq for the Daily Telegraph, the establishment newspaperContinue Reading
Richard Haass, the latest diplomatic envoy from the United States to the permanently ailing Irish-British peace process, has offered theContinue Reading
What other nation in Western Europe would tolerate a senior member of a regional government using his personal blog toContinue Reading
In a glorious example of the Irish political rhetoric known as “whataboutery” the columnist N.R. Greer takes to the pagesContinue Reading
As the fall-out from the arrest and detention of Gerry Adams TD continues to rumble on (“coinciding” with moves byContinue Reading
AlterNet, that online bastion of American left-wing liberalism and anti-establishment rhetoric, has an opinion piece on the attendance of SinnContinue Reading
Below is a video of Chris McGimpsey, a Unionist former member of Belfast City Council for the UUP and theContinue Reading
By all accounts Ireland’s newish British Unionist party, NI1921, is in grave difficulties following a series of internal squabbles overContinue Reading
Once again it takes an Irish journalist working in a foreign newspaper to write what the Irish press would neverContinue Reading












