The DUP’s Homegrown Proud Boys: UDA, UVF, RHC
As I wrote a few weeks ago, during the decades of the so-called Troubles while unionist terrorists may have pulledContinue Reading
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As I wrote a few weeks ago, during the decades of the so-called Troubles while unionist terrorists may have pulledContinue Reading
On the 16th of February 1886, Lord Randolph Churchill, a member of the troublesome “Fourth Party” backbench faction of theContinue Reading
By now it must be clear to even the most optimistic or obdurate Remain-supporter in the United Kingdom that soonerContinue Reading
The veteran Irish journalist and author Brian Rowan has taken to Twitter to claim that the leadership of the DemocraticContinue Reading
As voters in the north-east of the country go to the polls to elect three MEPs to the European Parliament,Continue Reading
Just after 10 pm on Saturday the 18th of June 1994, two men wearing boiler suits and balaclavas entered the Heights Bar in Loughinisland, County Down,Continue Reading
If the last several days of small-scale rioting in Derry has proved anything, it is the ability of violence –Continue Reading
The hysterical reaction by a significant section of the news media in the United Kingdom to the forthcoming visit byContinue Reading
The Glenanne Gang was a state-backed terrorist group which operated in the United Kingdom’s embattled legacy colony on the islandContinue Reading
Since the signing of the multiparty and intergovernmental Good Friday Agreement of April 1998, and up to December 2017, nearlyContinue Reading
There are some events, illustrative of the hypocrisy which runs through the very core of British unionism in Ireland, whichContinue Reading
A not unsurprising exclusive from the Irish News in Belfast, claiming that the ultra-right Democratic Unionist Party consulted with representativesContinue Reading
For over a century the rallying cry of “No Surrender!” has been a feature of British separatist politics and violenceContinue Reading
It says much for the extreme and unforgiving nature of mainstream unionism or British separatist politics on this island, thatContinue Reading
The last few days has seen the publication of another tranche of heretofore secret government documents under the National ArchivesContinue Reading
Judging by the adverse reaction on social media, I think it’s safe to say that yesterday’s perplexing decision by AnContinue Reading
On the 5th of June 2017, just four days before the general election in the United Kingdom, a group known asContinue Reading
A former killer with the Glenanne Gang, a pro-British death squad which operated in the UK-administered north-east of Ireland duringContinue Reading
What is the single greatest threat of terrorism for modern Ireland? Is it radicalised Muslim youths declaring loyalty to theContinue Reading
Over the last several months the political opponents of the Democratic Unionist Party have repeatedly criticised the grouping’s ever-closer tiesContinue Reading
In the wake of 2013’s Smithwick Tribunal investigation into the violent death of Harry Breen, the Royal Ulster Constabulary chiefContinue Reading
As I predicted back in March, the United Kingdom is slowly moving towards a general amnesty for all members ofContinue Reading