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Hilary Benn joins long list of useless British overlords

If Benn did anything worthwhile last week, it is that he reminded us that there is no future if we remain tied to this failing United Kingdom.

Published September 19, 2024

Pushing the reset button

Does Dublin not realise the British would love rid of this place, writes Brian Feeney (for the Irish News).

Published September 12, 2024

Countries should withdraw recognition of Israel

In May, three additional European states officially recognised a non-existent Palestinian state. Ireland, Spain, and Norway are the latest to join more than 140 other United Nations members in recognising this phantom entity.

Published September 5, 2024

Sick taunts of the anti-immigrant thugs

Above (right) is the sick five-finger salute from a loyalist anti-immigrant thug that has sent a Troubles victim into a cycle of despair.

Published August 22, 2024

Facing genocide in the land of meaningless gestures

Our politicians have failed to match the mood of the Irish people when it comes to the genocide in Gaza.

Published August 22, 2024

John Joe McGirl

Former IRA Chief of Staff John Joe McGirl passed away 36 years ago this year, but recently some establishment figures have been calling for the annual commemoration in Ballinamore to be ‘cancelled’. Next week brings the 30th anniversary event in honour of a man who dedicated his life to defying British rule in Ireland.

Published August 8, 2024

Loyalist culture wars in East Belfast

As continuing hoax bomb attacks on a Gaelic sports club in the area prove, Irish culture is under constant attack in east Belfast. Now tensions are rising ahead of the arrivals of pupils to an Irish language school in the area.

Published August 8, 2024

Take it down from the mast, Irish fascists

When far right protestors in Coolock use the imagery and words of Bobby Sands, I ask myself if have they read the poem which spoke of how “the inner thing” has “withstood the blows of a million years”?

Published August 1, 2024

Israel strikes five schools in week of massacres

While the worlds’ attention was diverted by the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Israeli forces have been attacking schools including a UN-run school in Nuseirat camp, where they killed 17 and wounded about 80, mostly women and children. A report by al-Jazeera.

Published July 18, 2024

Remembering Martin Hurson

Martin Hurson became the sixth republican to die on hunger strike this week in 1981. In this archive article by Connla Young for Daily Ireland, his fiancee recalls the place where the couple grew up.

Published July 11, 2024

Changing electoral map shows need for border poll criteria

By Sinn Féin retaining its seven seats and the DUP losing three of its eight, another historic electoral milestone was reached.

Published July 11, 2024

The British Army’s rape of Kenya

The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered. A report by Larry Madowo (for CNN)

Published July 4, 2024

Julian Assange is free, but media smears continue

Even as Julian Assange has been reunited with his family following a deal with the US government, the BBC and others in the media are peddling the same long-discredited lies. By Jonathan Cook (for Declassified UK).

Published June 27, 2024

The Gough Barracks Raid

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) made an audacious raid on Gough Barracks in Armagh town on June 12, 1954, sixty years ago this week. It marked the reawakening of IRA activity in Ireland and a re-arming that leads eventually to the 1956-1962 Border Campaign.