Killing The Irish
Over the last few weeks I have been receiving unusually frequent and comprehensive PR releases from the Green Party’s press office, sometimesContinue Reading
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Over the last few weeks I have been receiving unusually frequent and comprehensive PR releases from the Green Party’s press office, sometimesContinue Reading
Eircode, the controversial, multi-million euro postal code system for Ireland, has been launched by Alex White, the coalition’s minister forContinue Reading
ITV News in the UK has a headline-grabbing story on its website: “Exclusive poll: 64% oppose compulsory Welsh to ageContinue Reading
Are there any issues more divisive in “Western” political discourse than the existence, history and policies of the modern nation-state ofContinue Reading
When the greater part of Ireland won its independence from the United Kingdom in the early 1920s the number ofContinue Reading
Sometimes an individual should simply stick to doing what he or she does best. In the case of the BritishContinue Reading
The recent decision by a majority of voters in Ireland to support the inclusion of marriage-equality in our constitution continues to echo around the world,Continue Reading
Well away from public scrutiny, is this the nonsense the base of the “No” campaign is comforting itself with inContinue Reading
No doubt most of you are aware that the referendum proposing the addition of a gender-neutral description of marriageContinue Reading
We are in the last week of the referendum campaign debating the addition of a new sub-section to Bunreacht naContinue Reading
Well here’s two doubly depressing reports relating to the upcoming constitutional referendum which – if successful – will see aContinue Reading
If you and your family are native Irish-speakers and you live in an Irish-speaking region, it seems not unreasonable to expect thatContinue Reading
Buzzfeed, the popular American click-bait site which has recently acquired a serious case of the journalistic respectables, has a fairly lengthy articleContinue Reading
It’s not discriminatory – its health and safety! That seems to be the disapproving line taken in this article from Breakingnews.ieContinue Reading
Another year, another dire record of public services for Irish-speaking citizens and communities by the supposedly bilingual Irish state (noteContinue Reading
Here is a warning to all true Irishmen, one that we disregard at our peril, from Tom Finnegan, a legal advisor toContinue Reading
@thetwicket @MisneachNYC €billions per annum promoting the ENGLISH language, including compulsory useage, and this indeed is what it gets us —Continue Reading
In May of 2014 the Sinn Féin member and Irish rights campaigner Liadh Ní Riada was elected to the European ParliamentContinue Reading
Conservative journalist and current Irish Independent columnist Sarah Carey has spent much of her career railing against the “national language”Continue Reading
Canada’s National Post newspaper, a staunchly federalist (aka. “Unionist”) publication, carries a typically angry tirade by the writer and presenterContinue Reading
The so-called “politicised nature” of the Irish language is one of the rhetorical weapons brandished by English language diatribists in Ireland every time ourContinue Reading

















