It has been a long slow painful process and of course it’s not completed
yet. However Orangemen can no longer march where they want or where they
aren’t wanted.
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Orange Order can no longer claim ownership of the north
It has been a long slow painful process and of course it’s not completed
yet. However Orangemen can no longer march where they want or where they
aren’t wanted.
Published July 15, 2017
There can be no return to the status quo
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on the Stormont talks process which
collapsed this week.
Published July 8, 2017
Breakdown in talks an avoidable mess
As they say in Belfast, the dogs in the street could see there was no
prospect of a deal to restore power-sharing.
Published July 8, 2017
DUP losing battle for Irish-free zone
To the surprise of no-one the Stormont talks foundered on the DUP's
adamantine refusal to concede an Acht na Gaelige.
Published July 1, 2017
Is Micheal Martin now telling us that if his party ever stands
candidates in the North, and they are successful, that they will take
the Oath to the English Queen?
Published June 17, 2017
Election has sounded the death knell for the SDLP
For the first time in fifty-one years, since Gerry Fitt was elected for
West Belfast in 1966, there is no northern nationalist voice at
Westminster.
Published June 10, 2017
The winds of change are blowing
Nationalists have come to appreciate the power and value of their vote.
Published June 3, 2017
An appeal to anyone who has been approached by British
intelligence and has accepted their false promises of a better life to
come forward and to make it known.
Published May 27, 2017
Victory to the hunger strikers
36 years ago the hunger strikers and the political prisoners in the
H-Blocks and Armagh Women’s prison were uplifted by reports of
international solidarity.
Published May 20, 2017
EU decision changes the question on Irish unity
Last Saturday’s formal statement of the EU’s negotiating position is of
enormous importance for Ireland north and south.
Published May 6, 2017
Brexit, demographic change and a ‘New Republic’ for all
With Brexit looming and unionism fast becoming not only a national
minority but one within its own gerrymandered statelet, what is now
required is a national dialogue.
Published April 29, 2017
The North will be biggest loser in the Brexit election
The general election couldn’t come at a worse time for Northern Ireland.
Published April 22, 2017
Joint administration the only way forward
The sacrifice of this generation of republicans and the families of our
patriot dead transformed Ireland in a way that means that a new independent
Ireland can be realised.
Published April 14, 2017
Let us learn from the past and build a New Ireland
As we approach Easter 2017 and the 101st anniversary of the Easter
Rising of 1916 are we anywhere near the ideals set out in the
proclamation read out by Padraig Pearse outside the GPO? NO, most
definitely not.
Published April 7, 2017
Time for DUP to accept the game’s up
You might think she doesn’t get it but Arlene Foster knows fine well what the
problems were and continue to be and she knows rightly that forming an
executive is not Sinn Fein’s priority.
Published April 1, 2017
Prospect of a united Ireland is inevitable
For the first time in my lifetime, the Irish question is no longer a
question of if, but of when.
Published March 24, 2017
Thinking about the unthinkable
How much of our thinking is wishful? Quite a bit, I suspect.
Published March 17, 2017
We need to manage the transition to unity - now
If ever citizens needed proof of the power and the importance of their vote, it was this election, writes Gerry Adams.
Published March 10, 2017
Voters didn’t back Sinn Fein in order to get the DUP
Let’s make a couple of points clear because the media commentary in the
last few days has been couched within the parameters set out by the NIO,
by wishful thinking and by hand wringing from bleeding heart
getalongers, the so-called ‘middle ground’ which doesn’t amount to a
hill of beans north and west of Royal Avenue.
Published March 10, 2017
Last night: slam, bam, thank you, ma’am
Well, that was quite an evening/night, wasn’t it? Just when you thought
politics in our NE nest had become dour and tedious, along comes
yesterday. Where to start?
Published March 4, 2017
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