Channel 4 News On The Kincora Boys Home Scandal
I’ve used the platform presented by An Sionnach Fionn to discuss the Kincora Boys Home scandal on many occasions in theContinue Reading
Tag: Democratic Unionist Party – DUP
Would Sinn Féin Support Naomi Long In East Belfast?
Following on from my post yesterday examining the announcement that the DUP and UUP will be supporting agreed candidates in four key constituencies for the WestminsterContinue Reading
DUP and UUP Agree Candidates For Pan-Unionist Axis
So the blog We In Coming Days got there first with the headline-grabbing news that the main British Unionist partiesContinue Reading
Nigel Dodds, Deputy PM Of Britain And Her Overseas Colonies
So Nigel Dodds, the Mr. Bland of Unionist politics in Ireland and the leader of the DUP’s motley crew of MPsContinue Reading
Kincora Boys Home, The Scandal Britain Can’t Bury
The Kincora Boys’ Home scandal represents one of the darker aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland during the lateContinue Reading
It Seems That Bigotry Unites As Well As Divides
Continuing with the controversies that have arisen in the eastern Scottish region of Fife where British nationalist politicians from the main UnionistContinue Reading
The Monster Raving Loony Unionist Party
In the second decade of the 21st century the British people as a whole have little interest and even lessContinue Reading
Je Suis Gael
In 1981 the “reverend” Ian Paisley MP MEP, founder and chief of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, the DemocraticContinue Reading
The Perfect Storm Of Irish Politics
Dara Kelly over on the Irish Central examining the continuing controversy stemming from the recent examples of British legacy racismContinue Reading
Shitting On The Irish Since 1169
While the rest of Europe is getting on with the 21st century in the north-eastern corner of our island nationContinue Reading
America Has The Tea Party, Ireland Has The DUP Party
Gregory Campbell is one of the better known members of the DUP in Ireland, the once fringe British Unionist party which has dominated one halfContinue Reading
Creationist Lunatics Put In Charge Of The Stormont Asylum
Ach, you couldn’t make this excrement up, you really couldn’t. From a report by the British Guardian newspaper onContinue Reading
Ian Paisley 1926-2014
There is an Irish tradition that if you have nothing good to say of the dead then say nothing. ThatContinue Reading
Scotland Votes No, Scotland Gets Tory/UKIP (DUP/UUP/TUV) Rule?
Some interesting polling in Britain which shows that the centre-left Labour Party is still in the lead over the governingContinue Reading
The Unionist Caliphate In Ireland
The mainstream British Unionist parties in the north-east of Ireland, the governing DUP and out-of-office UUP, have issued a statementContinue Reading
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 Orange Government Of Britain
While the multi-millionaire children’s author JK Rowling was busy bankrolling the “No” campaign currently fighting Scotland’s independence referendum elsewhereContinue 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
British Reformation Politics
The legacy of British faith- and race-based colonialism right here in Europe, right here in Ireland. From The ImpartialContinue 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
Bye-Bye Peace Process! Hello Orange World Order!
A terrifying report from the Guardian newspaper for anyone who knows anything about the history of modern Ireland: “David CameronContinue Reading
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