The two biggest right-wing parties have wasted weeks staging meaningless
talks that can’t lead to anything. Panic? Indecision? I don’t think so.
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It’s our party and we’ll cry if we want to
The two biggest right-wing parties have wasted weeks staging meaningless
talks that can’t lead to anything. Panic? Indecision? I don’t think so.
Published March 19, 2016
This year of all years presents an opportunity to
challenge the misconceptions, to present the argument for a new Ireland
where the Proclamation exists as reality, not an afterthought from the
past.
Published March 12, 2016
A key Sinn Fein objective is emerging
Jim Gibney writes that with Gerry Adams leading a significantly larger
group of Sinn Fein TDs in the Dail the north will, in this centenary
year of the 1916 Rising, never again be abandoned.
Published March 5, 2016
The media campaign against Sinn Fein
The most alarming feature of this general election has been the ferocious campaign against Sinn
Fein. The State has never witnessed such a biased agenda across all
media organisations against a political party.
Published February 27, 2016
Elements of the conservative media have been busy trying to spin the
yarn that the election is ‘boring’. The truth is very different. In my
travels across this state there is a clear desire for change. For new
politics.
Published February 20, 2016
When national security undermines human rights
It's worth noting that Britain’s security elite systematically invests
time and energy in long-term planning and forecasting.
Published February 13, 2016
Eight years on and it is political business as usual
Nothing has
changed and no one is held accountable in Ireland, and this is a government promising more of the same.
Published February 6, 2016
The fantasy history of the 1916 Easter Rising
Who is more reprehensible on the scales of historical judgement?
The progressive militant, who sought a modern democratic
republic or the conservative militant, who was ready to accept a devolved, partitioned
Ireland?
Published January 23, 2016
Right to reject nonsense of a ‘shared history’
The two governments, but particularly the Irish government, hoped that
by developing a load of claptrap about a ‘shared history’ they could
somehow exorcise the years 1912-22.
Published January 16, 2016
Remember 1916, when we had guts and self-esteem?
You’d have to wonder what the executed leaders of the Rising would make of Ireland's leaders of today.
Published January 9, 2016
Following the conclusion of yet another pseudo negotiation at Stormont,
its purpose as ever to prop up British rule in the North, it is clear
the status quo in Ireland is incapable of securing forward political
progress.
Published December 30, 2015
Just two weeks before Christmas, a law-abiding mother, daughter,
sister, grandmother and friend to many was
committed to prison.
Published December 12, 2015
Amid ongoing public recriminations and street protests against the
‘Fresh Start’ agreement, Jim Gibney defends Sinn Fein’s negotiators,
while the SDLP’s new leader Colum Eastwood condemns them.
Published November 28, 2015
Robinson has gone before he was pushed
Robinson's opponents in the DUP made no secret of their belief that he was an electoral liability.
Published November 21, 2015
Spies and spooks - the same old story
It is regrettable but not surprising that elements of the Irish
political establishment and sections of the Irish media are willing to
exploit a specious report to attack Sinn Fein.
Published November 13, 2015
Explaining yourself to the poppy fascists
Literally within seconds of Sienna
Miller stepping into shot on the Graham Norton Show on Saturday night
“eagle-eyed viewers” spotted she wasn’t wearing a poppy.
Published November 6, 2015
Pauline Mellon, author of ‘The Diary Of A Derry Mother’, looks at how
victims are treated in the legacy proposals of the Stormont House
Agreement.
Published October 31, 2015
Latest report highlights process absurdities
Another week, another crisis in the peace process which passeth all
understanding.
Published October 23, 2015
Equality needed for former political prisoners
Former prisoners should be legally recognised as full and equal members of society like everyone else.
Published October 16, 2015
British determined to control historical inquiries
The British government's Northern Ireland Office snuck out its policy
paper on implementing the Stormont House Agreement last week.
Published October 10, 2015
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