I’m starting to get the impression of COP26 as a contrived stitch up. Where world leaders get to present their inadequate action as fixing the problem. This really is dangerous stuff. You see I remember the 1992 Rio Earth Summit well.
Published November 6, 2021
British spies incited mass murder of Indonesia’s communists, according to newly declassified papers.
Published October 30, 2021
The worst threat to the Good Friday Agreement is London’s nationalist agenda, writes Emma de Souza.
Published October 30, 2021
The Irish protocol has become a pretext for unravelling the international treaties Boris Johnson signed up to in 2019-20.
Published October 16, 2021
Lisa Hone is one of thousands living with the failure of successive Dublin governments to regulate building materials, resulting in the failure of their new-build homes due to blocks containing mica and pyrite, and who are now seeking full redress.
Published October 9, 2021
On September 29th, 1845, a momentous meeting took place in Dublin between a 27-year-old American and a 70-year-old Irish man.
Published October 1, 2021
A proposed sweeping amnesty that would stop all investigations into crimes committed during the conflict, including those by the British military, threatens to thwart the pursuit of truth and justice for victims’ families.
Published September 25, 2021
Unionism saw in Brexit an opportunity to wreck the Good Friday agreement and get a hard border back. Instead, it is any prospect of the survival of Northern Ireland that has been demolished.
Published September 18, 2021
Family was the watchword for Kevin Mulgrew, who died peacefully at his home in Dundalk on September 5 after a long battle with cancer.
Published September 11, 2021
As part of a wide-ranging interview, former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has said he believes the Dublin
government should immediately kick-start planning for a united Ireland
and that a border poll could happen within as little as three years.
Published August 27, 2021
Commemorations are taking place in Derry and in the US to mark the 40th anniversary of the death of Mickey Devine, the last of the H-Block prisoners to give his life after 60 days on hunger strike.
Published August 21, 2021
This place is the only part of the UK which has a legal and constitutional right to secede. Yet, despite in their hearts knowing these truths, most unionists refuse even to think about preparing for inevitable British withdrawal.
Published August 21, 2021
Those who seek change need to get on with constructing a robust and
persuasive case for a united Ireland, writes QUB academic Colin Harvey.
Published August 14, 2021
A report on the horrors committed by British forces in
implementing internment without trial in the north of Ireland.
‘Operation Demetrius’ began fifty years ago this week.
Published August 7, 2021
Johnson and Lewis have ensured by their duplicity that the legacy issue will remain unresolved. It will continue to dominate much of the political discourse in the North.
Published July 31, 2021
The Irish National Invincibles were a splinter group of the IRB who had
five members hanged and buried in Kilmainham Gaol in 1883 for an attack
in which two senior British civil servants died. A campaign is underway
for their reinterment.
Published July 24, 2021
Anyone reading yesterday’s British government command paper, ‘Addressing the Legacy of NI’s Past’, should be warned to keep a suitable receptacle nearby to contain the disgusting product of the nausea this exercise in hypocrisy, doublethink and colonial condescension will induce.
Published July 17, 2021
The announcement that Bloody Sunday prosecutions have been halted cast a shadow over Derry that contrasted with the bright skies of June 15, 2010, when it appeared that the victims would be treated properly.
Published July 10, 2021
We have Irish governments with no sense of the history of their own land, no imagination, no sense of history and no vision for the future, as the historic Moore Street base of the 1916 Rising remains derelict and sealed off from the public.
Published July 3, 2021
Springhill is often regarded as the ‘forgotten massacre’, having
received very little coverage in the mainstream media, but the people of
West Belfast have never forgotten.
Published June 19, 2021
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