Up To 80,000 Protest Imposition Of Water Charges
In light of recent improved polling members and supporters of the governing Fine Gael and Labour Party coalition were predicting aContinue Reading
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Fighting To Speak Irish, Forced To Speak English
@thetwicket @MisneachNYC €billions per annum promoting the ENGLISH language, including compulsory useage, and this indeed is what it gets us —Continue Reading
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
30 Years On And Britain Maintains The Kincora Boys Home Cover-Up
In my last post highlighting the demands from campaigners in Ireland that the British authorities in the north-east of the countryContinue 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
Lucinda Creighton Going Renua Or Ré Nua
Lucinda Creighton, ex-Fine Gael rebel and pumped-up darling of the right-wing press, has finally nailed her colours to the mastContinue Reading
Gerry Adams And The Problem Of Surviving The Cause
A different take on the post-conflict career of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, guerilla-turned-politician, from the journalist Michael Brendan Dougherty writingContinue Reading
Mick Wallace, Enda Kenny, Not Mincing Words
On one of the very rare days dedicated to the use of the Irish language in Dáil Éireann the controversial independent TD Mick WallaceContinue Reading
John Bruton. Why?
John Bruton, former Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach na hÉireann, writing in the Irish Independent newspaper manages once again to proveContinue Reading
Jean McConville, Gerry Adams And The Truth
The New Yorker magazine has a long, if occasionally flawed, investigation into the 1972 detention and execution – which one can alternativelyContinue Reading
Irish-Speakers Are Second-Class Europeans
In May of 2014 the Sinn Féin member and Irish rights campaigner Liadh Ní Riada was elected to the European ParliamentContinue Reading
Bog-Standard Houses And The Neo-Ascendancy
Fitzjames Horse casts a cold eye over the so-called New Land League and it’s risible championing of the property-rights of millionaireContinue Reading
Sinn Féin And The United States
It’s party conference time in Ireland and the two governing coalition partners, Fine Gael and Labour, have just ended theirContinue Reading
Tiocfaidh Ár Phéig!
Author Sara Baume writing in the Irish Times: “There are plenty of arguments against the inclusion of Sayers inContinue Reading
Bill O’Reilly And America’s Reporting Of The Troubles
Do you remember the days when editors and producers working in the newsrooms of New York, Washington or Los AngelesContinue Reading
Terror Breeds Terror
Following on from my brief post criticising the agenda-loaded commentary by certain media-friendly “experts” on matters military and intelligence-related, in particular theContinue Reading
Stoking The Fires Of Hate
Conservative journalist and current Irish Independent columnist Sarah Carey has spent much of her career railing against the “national language”Continue Reading
Síle Na gCrann
Remarkable the things one can find in nature when one is out an’ about. However, can anyone else see it?Continue Reading
Slut-Shaming Irish-Speakers
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
Decolonization Begins With One Word
From Vice Magazine, the campaign by Native Australian communities to reassert their cultural, linguistic and territorial rights: “On February 9,Continue Reading
Coalition Loyalists Are Rewarded While Protesters Are Imprisoned
In the first half of 2011 Enda Kenny’s self-proclaimed “democratic revolution” brought his centre-right Fine Gael party to power inContinue Reading
Unleash The Dogs Of Policing
Is it safe to comment on political matters in contemporary Ireland if one lacks the fig-leaf protection that comes withContinue Reading
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