The temptation to spoil the ballot in today’s 26 County referendum on
Seanad abolition is understandable.
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How not to vote in the Seanad referendum
The temptation to spoil the ballot in today’s 26 County referendum on
Seanad abolition is understandable.
Published October 4, 2013
Gerry Adams writes on the referendum next weekend to abolish the upper chamber of the Dublin parliament, the Seanad.
Published September 27, 2013
Gilmore’s vacuous talk suits his invisible role
Eamon Gilmore made a speech in Cambridge at the weekend to the
British-Irish association. It made depressing reading for a number of
reasons.
Published September 20, 2013
Bloody Sunday secrets taken to the grave
The death last week of retired British army officer Edward Loden -
murdered by intruders at his son’s home in Nairobi - means that we may
never fully know how or on whose instructions the initial cover-up of
the Bloody Sunday killings was organised.
Published September 13, 2013
Time for the DUP to know that actions have consequences
Why did Peter Robinson, and him in Florida, send a letter that threatens
the very existence of the Stormont institutions?
Published September 6, 2013
Haass should know who he’s dealing with
In traditional unionist fashion the DUP has ridden the past year's wave
of violence to hold back progress.
Published August 30, 2013
Unionist mindset same as in 1968
When you strip it down to fundamentals, last weekend demonstrated
exactly the same unionist attitudes and mindset as they held in 1968.
Published August 17, 2013
Laying claim to the Volunteers of Tyrone
An article by Sean Bresnahan on the upcoming Tyrone event to commemorate
two IRA volunteers who died in 1973.
Published August 9, 2013
Anniversary of Internment 2013
Internment or Detention Without Trial is nothing new to Irish people and
has been used every few decades throughout our Nation’s occupation.
Published August 2, 2013
Why an impunity inquiry is needed
As Ireland’s only corruption trial collapsed this week with a
businessman and three implicated councillors cleared, Fintan O’Toole
explains why an inquiry is needed into why a regime of impunity on
corruption and fraud persists in the 26 County state.
Published July 26, 2013
Orange Order’s day of reckoning has come
When Richard Haass arrives to try to
square the circle he will need to realise that the only way to bring
the Orange Order to heel is to hit them where it hurts - in their pockets.
Published July 19, 2013
The neglected commemoration of the 1913 Dublin lockout
Commentators and media are already looking toward the centenary of the
1916 Rising, but there has been much less comment so far on the centenary
of the 1913 Dublin Lockout.
Published July 12, 2013
For understandable reasons most of the publicity about petrol bombs
flying over interface fencing is focused on east Belfast’s Short
Strand. It’s not the only place where there is tension, of course.
Published July 5, 2013
The worm has turned and ‘Big Liv’ stands vindicated, able to point the
finger at those who conspired to unjustly secure a worthless conviction.
Published June 28, 2013
Anyone who believes David Cameron that he chose an island outside
Enniskillen in an island called Ireland to stage the G8 had only to
listen to PSNI chief superintendent Alan McCrum who said Enniskillen is
really hard to get to.
Published June 21, 2013
By hosting the G8 summit
in occupied Ireland, the British government are attempting to portray
our country as a peaceful colony – a success story for modern day
capitalism and imperialism.
Published June 14, 2013
SDLP’s uncertainty principle is baffling
What you’ve watched in the last fortnight is the political equivalent of
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle in physics.
Published June 7, 2013
A look at Dáil politics in a week in which 26-County Justice Minister
Alan Shatter survived a motion of no confidence, despite a lingering
controversy over low-level Garda corruption and the news that he was
permitted to pass through a Garda checkpoint after failing to provide a
sample of his breath.
Published May 31, 2013
Two years interned - no British justice
This week marks the entry into the third year Marian Price is interned
without trial and is incarcerated on the word of a British Secretary of
State.
Published May 24, 2013
Force feeding in Guantanamo Bay
Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams on reports that hunger strikers have been hospitalised and are being force-fed at Guantanamo Bay.
Published May 17, 2013
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