Lord Ashcroft Poll: 44% Favour A Reunited Ireland, 49% Oppose, 7% Unsure
The headline stats from a new poll of Irish and British voters by the former Conservative Party peer-turned-psephologist, Lord Ashcroft,Continue Reading
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The Difficult Brexit Question Bring Us Back To The Only Sensible Answer: Brits Out
According to apparently well-sourced press reports, officials from the United Kingdom are currently touring the capitals of Europe, briefing prettyContinue Reading
Retaining MEPs For The North Of Ireland Is A Peace Process Necessity
The suggestion by Seán Kelly, the leader of the Fine Gael contingent in the European Parliament, that Ireland’s two additionalContinue Reading
New Polling Reveals Support For Reunited Ireland And Irish Nationality In The North
Was the British Minister Theresa May onto something a few weeks ago when she indicated to some of her ConservativeContinue Reading
Boris Johnson Caught On Tape Making False Claims About The Irish-UK Border
Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s wayward Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, has a well-earned reputation for professionalContinue Reading
To The Nationalist And Republican Parties Of Ireland
An open letter from four Irish students challenging the thinking of the main political parties in Ireland on the questionContinue Reading
The British Are Offended By The DUP Anti-Abortion Stance. But Not By Its Sectarianism
It seems that the steady normalisation of the Democratic Unionist Party in the mainstream of British politics has come toContinue Reading
Mary Lou McDonald Scolds The Tone Deaf Iona Institute
The Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, throwing shade at the interminably smug David Quinn and other members of theContinue Reading
Anti-Abortion Campaigners Promote Voting Fraud Conspiracy Theory To Explain Defeat
One notable feature of the recent referendum on removing Article Eight of Bunreacht na hÉireann was the adoption of American-styleContinue Reading
Constitutional Reform In Ireland, A Success Story For The Right And Not The Left?
Like many political observers I was more than a little apprehensive about the outcome of last Friday’s referendum on repealingContinue Reading
A Pro-Choice Landslide Predicted In Ireland’s Abortion Referendum
Given the reputation of Irish exit polling, the results below may well be the cause of good cheer for theContinue Reading
The UK Threatens The EU. And Then Claims The Beaches Of Donegal!
One gets the impression that Brexit Britain is like a wild animal caught in a steel trap, driven wild withContinue Reading
The Dog-Whistle Rhetoric Of Brexit Britain Is Obsessed With Leo Varadkar
One of the more noxious effects associated with the rise of Brexitism in the United Kingdom has been the returnContinue Reading
The British Labour MP Kate Hoey Is Still Fighting The Troubles
The motivations behind the majority pro-leave result in the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit referendum are complex, though there is aContinue Reading
The UK Offers Border Tracking Apps Instead Of A Border Poll To Ireland
One of the more caustic social media responses to the United Kingdom’s chaotic Brexit negotiations with the European Union hasContinue Reading
The DUP And Tories Demand An Amnesty For The British Army Death Squads
The Military Reaction Force or MRF was a covert British Army unit which operated in the greater Belfast area duringContinue Reading
British Brexit Secretary David Davis Makes Speedy Secret Visit To The Border
If one were searching for a perfect metaphor to illustrate the impossibility of the United Kingdom reimposing any type ofContinue Reading
The EU Rejects The UK’s Fantastical Brexit Border Plans
With the news that the European Union has comprehensively rejected the United Kingdom’s written proposals to deal with the anomalousContinue Reading
UK Seeks Border Force For Ireland But No Irish Need Apply
The news that the United Kingdom is advertising twenty-one new jobs for the Belfast branch of its Border Force, anContinue Reading
The Daily Express Invents False Quote For Brexit Fake News
In some ways the Daily Express is the also-ran of right-wing newspapers in the United Kingdom. Considerably smaller and withContinue Reading
British Labour Party Shocks MEPs By Dismissing Danger Of Hard Border In Ireland
The news that a senior member of the British Labour Party has dismissed the likelihood of a return to openContinue Reading
The Noxious Beliefs Of The Hardcore Anti-Abortion Lobby In Ireland
Lift up a particular rock in Irish politics and what do you find crawling and squirming underneath but a swarmContinue Reading
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