
Republicans have
been saying for years now that they’re sorry the conflict happened, that
life was lost. That’s not the same as saying they think their armed
campaign was a mistake.
Published March 9, 2012

At the heart of a new report on the massacre by the UDA/UFF at the Sean Graham bookmaker’s shop on
Belfast’s Ormeau Road 20 years is the deadly story of
a consignment of weapons that travelled from South Africa to Belfast in
1987.
Published February 24, 2012

Former RUC and PSNI Detective Chief
Superintendant Norman Baxter may find policing in Kabul these days more congenial than policing in Belfast.
Published February 17, 2012

Martin McGuinness may have annoyed a few people this week. And made a
few others nervous. And mildly pleased a few more. Odd, how the same
action can provoke such a range of reactions, isn’t it?
Published February 10, 2012

What the PSNI management has done is to subvert both the
objective and the spirit of the Patten reforms and they've been doing
it for years.
Published February 10, 2012

On the 40th anniversary of the paratroopers’ massacre in Derry, it is
remarkable how much Britain has exploited this event to its advantage.
Published February 3, 2012

The recent publication of British government papers from 1981 have
reminded many people of the negative role played by British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher at that time.
Published January 27, 2012

It is going to happen. Slowly, slowly catchee monkee. Just watch Alex
Salmond walking the naive and intemperate Cameran into his elephant
trap.
Published January 20, 2012

It's a long way from the Village area of Belfast to Stormont, but two simple actions would help considerably to tackle sectarianism.
Published January 13, 2012

Papers released under the 30-year rule reveal a prime minister refusing
to deal with the substance of the Irish prison protests, writes Sinn
Fein president Gerry Adams TD.
Published January 6, 2012

The recently-released British state papers from 1981 are certainly not infallible nor full accounts, but they do reveal the mindset that the prisoners, their families and supporters
had to overcome.
Published January 6, 2012

A remarkable year in politics north and south - remarkable not least
because for once there was more ‘Sturm und Drang’ south of the border
than north of it.
Published December 30, 2011

The slogan says ’Free Marion Price’. Tens of thousands of motorists see
it every day. It’s doubtful if any of them pay any attention. They
should.
Published December 23, 2011

The continuing imprisonment of Marian Price in Maghaberry is a scandal
and would be seen more widely in this light were it not for her
politics.
Published December 16, 2011

Belfast’s Lord Mayor Niall O Donnghaile has done more in his six months
in office to promote peace and reconciliation between the citizens of
Belfast than his unionist critics have done in a lifetime.
Published December 9, 2011

The Irish scattered around the
world have a vital
contribution to make as we seek to reshape and re-imagine Ireland in
the 21st century.
Published December 2, 2011

Now that the dust has settled on the election of the ninth President of
Ireland, it is time to look back on the positives and negatives of that
campaign for Irish republicans.
Published November 25, 2011

The decision by the new leader of the SDLP, Alasdair McDonnell, not to
wear a poppy on Remembrance Sunday will be welcomed by the vast majority
of northern nationalists.
Published November 17, 2011

It was entirely consistent with President Mary McAleese’s 14 years as
president of Ireland that one of her last engagements was to open a
gallery named after the Falls Road-born painter Gerard Dillon in
Belfast’s Culturlann.
Published November 10, 2011

Martin McGuinness is a trail blazer. That much must be clear. Even to
his detractors.
Published November 3, 2011
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