To the extent that the British move at all it is
invariably sideways. In dealing with prisoners their attitude has
always been one of ‘as late as, as little as.’
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To the extent that the British move at all it is
invariably sideways. In dealing with prisoners their attitude has
always been one of ‘as late as, as little as.’
Published August 13, 2011
In recent
days, largely as a result of the persistence of his indefatigable
partner Roisin, the case of Brendan Lillis has at last managed to break
into the mainstream media.
Published July 24, 2011
PSNI pawns in grant application game
The distinction between ‘legal’ union flags and ‘illegal’ loyalist
flags, as raised by the Ballyclare riots, is a pure Orange herring.
Published July 19, 2011
The humanitarian
grounds for releasing Brendan Lillis far outweigh the political considerations that
are feeding into his ongoing imprisonment.
Published July 19, 2011
The ongoing detention of the republican activist Marian Price two months
after her arrest raises serious concerns about how life sentence
licenses are being used as a weapon of political policing.
Published July 14, 2011
Sinn Fein, wreath-laying and the unionist response
On Saturday, the Sinn Fein Lord Mayor
of Belfast laid a laurel wreath at the City Hall cenotaph, to the annoyance of unionists.
Published July 8, 2011
No-one in any part of the political or police system should take peace
for granted.
Published July 3, 2011
Where was Special Branch in Loughinisland massacre?
If the Police Ombudsman’s report into the McGurk’s Bar attrocity
highlighted his reluctance to grapple with collusion, his report into
Loughinisland is startling by its absence of another crucial piece of
the picture: the role of Special Branch both before and after the
massacre.
Published June 27, 2011
Debt freakshow run by phoney lion tamers
This week, the Government marked 100 days in office and zero days in
power.
Published June 22, 2011
Republican ex-prisoners not second-class citizens
The joint first minister Martin McGuinness was absolutely right when he
said that his heart went out to the Travers family over the IRA killing
of their daughter Mary but that he could not agree with Ann Travers when
she called for Mary McArdle to be removed as a special adviser to
minister Caral Ni Chuilin.
Published June 12, 2011
What do governments fear most? They fear us
The establishment's efforts to censor and spin the Wikileaks cables
relating to Ireland have been unprecedented. Harry Browne (for
Counterpunch) looks at how a torrent of information on US involvement in
Irish politics became a trickle.
Published June 6, 2011
Mayor is the product of community’s resistance
When I first heard the news that Sinn Fein councillor Niall O’Donnghaile
was elected Mayor of Belfast, the word that struck me immediately was
“homecoming”.
Published June 6, 2011
The ‘Dublin Lockdown of 2011’ didn’t go unnoticed by that city’s
citizens, but was notable for how casually it was imposed.
Published May 30, 2011
A bad week for Irish journalism
Now that the Windsor visit is over, what are the benefits and what exactly has changed as a result?
Published May 24, 2011
The visit by the Queen of England to this part of Ireland has to be
seen as part of a journey.
Published May 24, 2011
I'm not a man readily given to exclamation marks but WHAT A GUSHFEST!
Published May 20, 2011
IRA founder condemns Adams/McGuinness leadership
The first leader of the Provisional IRA, Billy McKee, has strongly
criticised the current Sinn Fein leadership in an open letter.
Published May 17, 2011
Thirty years on, Bobby Sands’s stature has only grown
Over a period of seven months nine other men followed Bobby, dying on a
hunger strike that Thatcher described as “the IRA’s last card”. How
wrong she was.
Published May 5, 2011
This year Irish republicans mark 95 years since the Easter Rising. It is
also the 30th anniversary of the 1981 Hunger Strike. Each event was a seminal moment in the struggle for Irish freedom, and
each changed the course of Irish history for the better.
Published April 30, 2011
Two failed states, one big problem
There are now two political elites in Ireland and two dysfunctional
regimes in the statelets they claim the right to govern.
Published April 25, 2011
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