The Hidden Hand: Official Sinn Féin – The Workers Party And Irish Journalism
Village Magazine, which has gained a reputation over the last few years for shining a light on some of theContinue Reading
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Sinn Féin And Green Party Rallies. Press Hysteria And Hypocrisy
The hysteria gripping the political duopoly that has held onto the levers of power in Ireland for most of theContinue Reading
Saor Éire, The Mystery Of Ireland’s Trotskyist Revolutionaries
In terms of domestic Irish history Saor Éire was probably the most unusual – and controversial – left-leaning republican organisation to haveContinue Reading
Fox News And Roger Ailes’ Secret Black Room Team
Gabriel Sherman of the New York Magazine has written a short exposé on Fox News’ much-rumoured “Black Room”, a non-tooContinue Reading
A Catholic Priest And The Message Of British Guns Good, Irish Guns Bad
So a Roman Catholic priest, a Jesuit intellectual no less, condemns armed insurrection by a significant body of men andContinue Reading
Eoghan Harris: L’état C’est Moi!
Is there anyone who believes more in the preternatural abilities of the newspaper polemicist Eoghan Harris than Eoghan Harris himself?Continue Reading
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
On Thursday the 28th of May the independent TD Catherine Murphy, a recent campaigner against fiscal impropriety and corruption in Irish society, made a contribution to DáilContinue Reading
The Many Faces Of The Labour Party
Joan Burton, the aspirant leader of the rapidly decaying Labour Party, has loftily informed the waiting news media that sheContinue Reading
Ireland’s Realpolitik
From the Irish Independent newspaper an example of how the establishment in Ireland, political, media, business and judicial, differentiates betweenContinue Reading
Irish Troubles – Or “The Get Roy Greenslade” Campaign
Peculiar times in the world of British journalism as the media turns on one of its own with the so-called “revelation” thatContinue Reading
A Sticky Situation
In the Irish Times Mick Heaney asks whether the takeover of RTÉ’s news and current affairs department in the 1970s and ‘80s by aContinue Reading
Eoghan Harris, Free Speech And The Art Of Dissemblance
So, the Anglomedia’s “Anyone But McGuinness” campaign has taken a bit of a twist with claims that ex-Workers Party apparatchikContinue Reading
The Labour Party And The Official IRA – They Haven’t Gone Away, You Know
The hijacking of the leadership of the Irish Labour Party by Official Sinn Féin / Official IRA Sinn Féin theContinue Reading
Seán Garland, The Workers Party, And The Fools Republic
There’s none so hypocritical as those on the political Left, particularly the hard Left, so it’s been more than interestingContinue Reading
Left Archive: An tÓglach – Offical Organ of the Irish Republican Army, December 1967 (via The Cedar Lounge Revolution)
Historian Brian Hanley looks at the Irish Republican Army in the late 1960s through its internal publication, An tÓglach ‘TheContinue Reading
Éamon Gilmore, Lisbon II, And Selective Memory Syndrome
Poor oul Éamon Gilmore. That doyen of the Liberal Left has been caught out again with his much-discussed and seeminglyContinue Reading
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