
The 26-County gardai this week conducted a series of ‘disruptive’ raids
and arrests on the homes of republicans in advance of a royal visit to
Ireland by Britain’s Prince Charles. A piece by Eamonn McCann for the
Irish Times on the sycophantic attitude of the Irish establishment to
British royalty.
Published May 16, 2015

For Britain, the election result in Scotland is is the biggest constitutional drama since the abdication.
Published May 9, 2015

Martin McGuinness on why you should vote for Sinn Féin candidates in this week’s Westminster general election.
Published May 2, 2015

With the British government attempting to use ‘secret evidence’ to block
a public inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bomb and with new trial proceedings
against Seamus Daly dragging out due to delays by the British and 26
County police, Cait Trainor looks at his case.
Published April 25, 2015

For this government, it is easier to deal with the notion
of individual loss and sacrifice than promote the ideas of the
Proclamation.
Published April 18, 2015

Tactical voting when used strategically can make a
dramatic change. It can also positively contribute to progressive
politics.
Published April 18, 2015

This election is going to confirm a change in British politics which has
been happening for at least a decade.
Published April 4, 2015

Jim Slaven of the James Connolly Society gives his opinion on the
political developments in the Six Counties and Sinn Fein’s change of
heart on the Welfare Bill currently before Stormont. He argues that the
solution to the ills currently afflicting Ireland are to be found in
establishing a genuine democratic republic rather than pandering to
power within the partitioned states.
Published March 21, 2015

The dispute is simply a sign of what is to
come with the other aspects of the agreement: flags, Orange marches and
the past.
Published March 14, 2015

There are three political/peace processes jostling
for primacy here. None of them are
working.
Published March 7, 2015

It gets closer every day, and as it does the politicians in the south
get more and more uneasy.
Published February 28, 2015

The refusal to allow votes to Irish emigrants is tied up
with the attitude of successive governments to the question of
emigration.
Published February 21, 2015

To dismiss Britain’s colonial
atrocities, no such effort is required. Most people appear to be unaware
that anything needs to be denied.
Published February 14, 2015

Policing is too important
to be left to the police, and in the context of the north of Ireland, the past is also too important to be left to the police.
Published February 7, 2015

While there may be a semblance of peace our
quest for justice seems to involve endless promises and sham processes.
Published January 31, 2015

This week’s celebration of France - and the gaggle
of tyrannical leaders who joined it - had little to do with free speech
and much to do with suppressing ideas they dislike while venerating
ideas they prefer.
Published January 17, 2015

Who will guard the guards themselves?
Published January 17, 2015

For the first time since the conflict in the north broke out in the
mid-1960s and after decades of campaigning, a door has been opened to
the past which potentially should allow the truth to be known for the
relatives of those bereaved in the conflict.
Published January 10, 2015

It has become an annual tradition: just as the last of the leftovers are
fed to a grateful dog, the declassified government files are released
giving a glimpse of a not so bygone time, a time when Paisley was still
rabble rousing and Adams was wearing a duffle coat.
Published January 3, 2015

The north is to be privatised, its past sanitised and its electorate
anaesthetised. That appears to be a reasonable summary of what the
Stormont parties agreed in their annual sleep-over at Stormont.
Published January 3, 2015
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