Micheal Martin reminds me of the Skibbereen Eagle. Not in appearance,
more in tone and self-image.
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Micheal Martin: a far-seeing bird?
Micheal Martin reminds me of the Skibbereen Eagle. Not in appearance,
more in tone and self-image.
Published April 26, 2013
Sinn Fein’s day on the national stage has come
Any doubts that Sinn Fein has been transformed in the past couple of
years were dispelled by the weekend ard fheis in Castlebar.
Published April 19, 2013
For the people of Ireland, and especially the north, the Thatcher
years were among some of the worst of the conflict.
Published April 12, 2013
Thatcher is dead: reclaim the spirit of freedom
The death of Margaret Thatcher will not,
unfortunately, signal an end to the damaging policies she introduced and
implemented in Ireland, Britain or elsewhere around the globe.
Published April 12, 2013
Parades Commission is useless and gutless
As presently constituted the
Parades Commission is entirely unrepresentative of the nationalist
community or indeed of the Catholic community.
Published April 5, 2013
Another one interned by decree
Alec McCrory writes on the latest in a series of British state measures
which are directed towards republicans and pose a significant threat to
civil liberties.
Published March 29, 2013
Protests flagged up demographic change
Is there something deeper driving the ‘fleg protests’, the road blocks,
forlorn handfuls shivering along white lines, the traipsing in and out
to Belfast City Hall?
Published March 22, 2013
Smiles in Brazil an expensive charade
Everyone here and a lot of people in Brazil know Martin McGuinness and Peter Robinson are conducting a charade at vast public expense.
Published March 15, 2013
Far from thinking that the flag protesters are being mistreated most
people believe up until the last week they have been treated with kid
gloves.
Published March 8, 2013
Repression shaped our passive society
A temptation newspaper columnists should avoid is the urge to make links
between different stories simply because they happen to be in the air at
the same time. But here goes anyway.
Published March 1, 2013
Baggott’s approach is based on false premise
It's widely accepted that the chaos on the streets of greater Belfast
from December through most of February was mainly due to the failure of
policing policy.
Published March 1, 2013
The mighty party Edward Carson once led with iron-fisted certitude is
now stumbling, drunkenly towards an inglorious end.
Published February 22, 2013
I love St Valentine’s Day. But with it comes sad memories, especially of
the year 1976.
Published February 15, 2013
Search for truth passes to a new generation
A look back at New Lodge Six massacre on the fortieth anniversary
of their killing and a look ahead.
Published February 8, 2013
Flawed approach storing up trouble for summer
The PSNI is becoming too cosy with unionist paramilitaries.
Published January 25, 2013
Robinson setting clock back with forum strategy
The unionist forum was devised as a stop-gap, a talking shop, a
cynical ploy to try to take the heat out of the commotion on the
streets. In that respect it has already failed as it was bound to. In
other respects it has set the clock back.
Published January 18, 2013
A flag solution will not relieve loyalist anxieties
Ongoing investigations into the UVF mean that even
if some solution is found for the flag protests, disturbances will not
end in loyalist districts which the UVF control.
Published January 11, 2013
Calls for full dialogue falling on deaf ears
2012 again saw the dialogue of the deaf at Stormont, and all the evidence suggests 2013 won’t be any different.
Published December 28, 2012
The only credible action is a public inquiry
There were several, simultaneous, overlapping and complementary
conspiracies which taken together inescapably amount to ‘an
overarching state conspiracy in the murder of citizens through collusion’, one of whom was Pat
Finucane.
Published December 21, 2012
Change comes dropping slow. Oh so slow.
Most shameful of all is that disorder arose because nationalists and
republicans engaged in a democratic act of decision-making.
Published December 14, 2012
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