The Many Faces Of The Irish News Media
Jim Cusack, the “security” correspondent of the Sunday Independent newspaper and arch-apologist for British colonial policing in Ireland, has pennedContinue Reading
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A Colony Cannot Be Reformed
In case you missed it, from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations: “PressContinue Reading
The Dirty Secrets Of A Dirty War Get Even Dirtier
In the “better late than never” category Britain’s Left-leaning newspaper, the Guardian, has published a special investigation by Ian CobainContinue Reading
The Whole Aim Of Newspeak Is To Narrow The Range Of Thought
Colm Keena, the journalist and less-than-sympathetic biographer of Gerry Adams, has an article in the Irish Times newspaper examining theContinue Reading
The Torture Files
So the News and Current Affairs Department of RTÉ, our self-proclaimed “national broadcaster” (no sniggering, please), has suddenly become awareContinue Reading
The Continuity RUC
In an unprecedented move the Police Ombudsman for the north-east of Ireland, Michael Maguire, is to sue the Chief Constable of theContinue Reading
Divide Et Impera
Seriously, have people lost all sense of reality in relation to the admittedly bitter divisions within the broad Republican movement stemming fromContinue Reading
No Prosecutions For British Death Squad Confessions
In the early 1970s the Military Reaction Force or MRF was a covert unit of the British Army which operatedContinue Reading
More Allegations In The Boston Tapes Controversy
The “Boston Tapes” controversy just grows murkier by the day. I’m not saying I fall on the side of theContinue Reading
Sinn Féin, A Victim Of Its Own Hubris
So Gerry Adams TD, the leader of Sinn Féin, has been released after several days of detention and interrogation byContinue Reading
No Investigation Into 1971 British War Crime In Ireland
The government of Britain has announced its refusal to investigate the Ballymurphy Massacre of 1971, a three-day killing spree byContinue Reading
The Irish Media In Panic Mode
Reading Ireland’s national and regional newspapers the worried expectations of the media establishment that Sinn Féin and various smaller partiesContinue Reading
Time For Truth, An Fhírinne Anois
With thanks to the Mirror, a powerful video from the Irish victims support organisation “Relatives for Justice” which campaigns for truthContinue Reading
Only A General Amnesty Will Yield The Truth
As the impact of the arrest of the veteran activist Ivor Bell continues to reverberate within Republican circles there isContinue Reading
The Crimea-Of-The-West
Meanwhile in the “Crimea-of-the-West” militants from the British separatist minority in the north-east of Ireland have staged another of theirContinue Reading
The Peace Process Elicits Irish Pride But British Shame?
So suddenly the news media around the globe have become aware of one the most widely-known secrets in Irish andContinue Reading
Death Squad Killers In The Land Down Under
An update on the revelations late last year by a BBC news documentary examining the murderous activities of the BritishContinue Reading
Paisley On Paisley
In a series of interviews recorded for television broadcast the reverend Ian Paisley, the former leader of the DUP andContinue Reading
British War Hysteria – The Hibernoban!
So to another round of Fantasy Troubles as the news media in Britain, with a nod and a wink fromContinue Reading
Death Squad Britain – The Past That Won’t Stay Hidden
Regular readers of An Sionnach Fionn will know how many times we have examined in detail the activities of Britain’sContinue Reading
Paul Theroux And The Boston Bombing
On the 16th of May 2013 the Daily Beast published an article by the Massachusetts-born travel writer and author Paul Theroux whereContinue Reading
Margaret Thatcher And The “Valiant” UVF
Throughout the late 20th century and into the early 21st century the Ulster Volunteer Force or UVF was one of the largestContinue Reading
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