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Has anything really changed?

As 2010 draws to a close, has it been a momentous year for Irish Republicans in the Occupied Six Counties, or is it more of the same?

Published December 29, 2010

Tell us the truth about Pat Finucane

For real reconciliation, we need acknowledgement of British security services’ relationship with loyalism during the conflict

Published December 21, 2010

The appalling vista of two elections

Any day now I’m expecting to see a headline saying ‘Kitchen sink narrowly misses Gerry Adams’.

Published December 17, 2010

A new type of politics

The general election, when it comes, will be the most important in recent decades.

Published December 14, 2010

UUP looks like its about to self-destruct

Tom Elliott supplied the denial headline without even the public accusation - “Elliott denies he’s a political dinosaur,”.

Published December 10, 2010

National debasement disguised as a rescue plan

The Programme of Financial Support for Ireland will be subject to three-month reviews “of conditionality”, observance of “quantitative performance criteria” and “respect for EU Council decisions and recommendations”.

Published December 7, 2010

Donegal may be start of much greater upheaval

It is too early to estimate the size of the earthquake on the political Richter scale but suffice to say in its wake it has upended a political system that is now sitting on the edge of the precipice and could topple any minute.

Published December 3, 2010

Scale of the catastrophe has not hit us yet

We didn’t need Ajai Chopra, our IMF minder, to tell the junta (ie, what is left of the Government) and the mandarins that the “sensible” solution to our crisis was to inflict further misery on those already victimised by the policies of the junta and the mandarins.

Published November 26, 2010

Government’s destruction of Ireland is complete

The spin, the lies, the denials, the delusions, the conceit and the arrogance added insult to ignominy.

Published November 22, 2010

The declaration of dependence

A satire on the 1916 Proclamation of the Republic in response to the arrival in Dublin this week of IMF and ECB officials.

Published November 19, 2010

Running in Louth: how big a gamble?

In retrospect, it was an obvious move. So obvious that none of the pundits even sniffed it

Published November 16, 2010

Austerity plan must be resisted

The Dublin government last week published its much anticipated declaration of war on the working class.

Published November 12, 2010

Moving the money around

The problem of unbalance in the North's economy was not one of inability or “troubles”, it was one of a British policy of inhibiting local initiative and filling up the gaps - for stability’s sake.

Published November 8, 2010

Harney deserving of special shame

Step forward Mary Harney, to a position of lonely eminence: the worse tanaiste ever.

Published November 5, 2010

A timetable for withdrawal

Fergal Moore sets out the approach of Republican Sinn Féin to the possibility of talks with the British Government.

Published November 1, 2010

Free Conor Casey

The recent internment of Conor Casey at the behest of the British establishment is nothing short of a disgrace.

Published October 28, 2010

For your community – act now

That, on the day an ailing Margaret Thatcher was being treated in a private hospital, British Tory chancellor George Osborne was rising at Westminster to wield his ideological axe was highly ironic.