How The Irish Government Covered Up The Murder Of An Irish Citizen
Forty-seven year old Séamus Ludlow, a quiet, unassuming life-long bachelor, was something of a man of habit. On the afternoonContinue Reading
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Donald Trump, Gerry Adams And The US Media’s British Blind Spot
When the American news and current affairs website, the Daily Beast, needs a reporter to write a piece on Donald Trump’sContinue Reading
English Only, In Beirut’s American Restaurant
In relation to my recent posts on the discrimination faced by Irish- and Welsh-speakers in their respective nations, where intolerance of theContinue Reading
The Celtic Language Insurgents
Predictably enough, following the successful intimidation of a small community council in the majority Welsh-speaking village of Cynwyd by English language lobbyists, weContinue Reading
The British Attempted To Defeat The UDA? The British Were The UDA!
Mhairi Black MP, the left-wing political poster-child of the SNP, writing in Scotland’s pro-independence National newspaper, explaining her opposition toContinue Reading
British Airstrikes In Syria, Action Without Purpose
Two bravura opinion pieces from the Celtic world protesting the bellicosity of Greater England’s morally bankrupt political classes and their determination to condemnContinue Reading
The British Army In Ireland: Murder, Mayhem And Madness
From the legendary investigative journalist, Duncan Campbell, a series of articles written for the New Statesman magazine in May 1984, describingContinue Reading
Irish Folk Band, Lynched
I’ve been meaning to write something about the ridiculously talented Irish folk group, Lynched, for some time; fortunately Britain’s GuardianContinue Reading
Irish Neutrality Versus The Anti-Islamist Armchair Generals
A bleak headline from a story in the Irish Independent, reporting the words of the Fine Gael minister of justice, FrancesContinue Reading
The Farcical Wikipedia Entry On The Islamic Real IRA
However praiseworthy the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia may be for its free dissemination of knowledge to the users of the internetContinue Reading
Reunited Ireland Could Generate €35.6 Billion Boost For National GDP
Don’t expect the rest of the national or regional news media in Ireland to highlight this study on the positive economic implicationsContinue Reading
Peter Robinson To ‘Fine Fáil’ To A South-County Dublin Housewife
Interesting times in Irish politics. The north-east is to see the departure of veteran DUP leader Peter Robinson, the firstContinue Reading
Stormont’s Fresh Start Repackages Stale Goods
So the governments of Ireland and Britain, in consultation with the members of the cross-party regional administration in Belfast, have announced the ratherContinue Reading
Begging For Permission To Be Irish In Ireland
The majority of the population of the island of Ireland can only be Irish when the minority of the population who do not regardContinue Reading
Britain’s Bloody Sunday Deniers
On the afternoon of Sunday the 30th of January 1972 soldiers from the British Parachute Regiment, one of the more fearsomeContinue Reading
1916 Is Over And The Good Guys Won
Every year, on the 11th of November, hundreds of far right and neo-fascist campaigners in France, including the former leader of the Front national,Continue Reading
Threats, Intimidation And Absences In The Seanad Election
As stated in a previous post, I have largely avoided commenting upon the complex Maíria Cahill controversy, due in noContinue Reading
The RTÉ And BBC NI United Ireland Survey
What you won’t see reported in the Irish and British news media on the RTÉ/BBC NI poll examining the general public’sContinue Reading
Political Policing Targets The People’s Representatives
So Paul Murphy TD and Joan Collins TD, members of Dáil Éireann or the lower house of the Irish legislature,Continue Reading
Anglophone Segregationists In Wales, Hipster Denigrationists In Ireland
I suppose it was inevitable that an Anglophone supremacist somewhere in Ireland or Britain would pop up to denigrate that which mostContinue Reading
The Unmaking Of Ireland
Back in April the National Geographic magazine attempted to explain to its horrified readers the seemingly inexplicable rationale behind the Islamic State’s fanaticalContinue Reading
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