From Margaret Thatcher And The Valiant UVF, To WebOps And Palestinian Salad
By the late 1960s over four decades had passed since the United Kingdom had given concerted attention to the internal affairs ofContinue Reading
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By the late 1960s over four decades had passed since the United Kingdom had given concerted attention to the internal affairs ofContinue Reading
There is further evidence today of the dual nature of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland, the use of regular and irregularContinue Reading
The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is the largest British terrorist organisation in Ireland. From its establishment in 1971 to aContinue Reading
In response to the very selective quoting of the British government’s “independent” assessment of the current status of various paramilitary formations in theContinue Reading
Speaking of the history of British separatist terrorism in Ireland, here is a recent article from Ciarán Mac Airt, author andContinue Reading
In many ways the conflict in the north of Ireland, the Long War or the Troubles, call it what youContinue Reading
In his final exploration of the evidence sourced for the RTÉ television documentary “Collusion”, a feature-length programme examining the links between the UK military and intelligence services garrisonedContinue Reading
In the wake of the racially-motivated massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by DylannContinue Reading
One might well regard it as forty years and several hundred deaths too late but RTÉ, Ireland’s public service broadcaster, seems to haveContinue Reading
In the late 1980s and early ‘90s British terrorist groups in the north-east of Ireland began to justify their attacksContinue Reading
In a similar vein to yesterday’s post on James Fallows’ controversial critique of the United States’ military in the Atlantic magazine comes this articleContinue Reading
Last week, in the wake of the failed referendum on Scottish independence, we witnessed gangs of violent British nationalists (so-calledContinue Reading
@alextomo 75,000 sign petition for re vote amid vote rigging scandal https://t.co/dqiTcboE4B — deborah back (@IWILLNOTGOAWAY) September 20, 2014 CCTVContinue Reading
There is an Irish tradition that if you have nothing good to say of the dead then say nothing. ThatContinue Reading
From 1975 to 1982 a British terrorist faction nicknamed the “Shankhill Butchers”, part of the militant UVF, carried out aContinue Reading
The mainstream British Unionist parties in the north-east of Ireland, the governing DUP and out-of-office UUP, have issued a statementContinue Reading
In the “better late than never” category Britain’s Left-leaning newspaper, the Guardian, has published a special investigation by Ian CobainContinue Reading
Recently the British journalist Colin Freeman while reporting on the crisis in Iraq for the Daily Telegraph, the establishment newspaperContinue Reading
In June 1914 the autocratic leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party or IPP, John Redmond MP, staged something of a putsch withinContinue Reading
Below is a video of Chris McGimpsey, a Unionist former member of Belfast City Council for the UUP and theContinue Reading
So Tina McKenzie, the European Parliamentary candidate for Ireland’s newest Unionist party, NI21, has been forced to sign a declarationContinue Reading
Once again it takes an Irish journalist working in a foreign newspaper to write what the Irish press would neverContinue Reading
















