There is a sense of apprehension now about how our country is being run
that I don’t recall having witnessed before.
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Is there anyone else who can run the country?
There is a sense of apprehension now about how our country is being run
that I don’t recall having witnessed before.
Published October 4, 2010
Conjuring truth from the tricks of memory
I have known Gerry Adams for almost forty years and there is no way would I
ever enter him for a ‘Memory Man’ competition.
Published October 1, 2010
Wright Inquiry and State collusion
Last week’s finding that there had been no State collusion in the
killing of Billy Wright said more about the unwillingness of the British
authorities to come clean about their own role than about the
circumstances of Mr. Wright’s death.
Published September 27, 2010
Anti-Catholic prejudice encouraged during Pope’s visit
You
would have thought the Pope represented a doctrine based on evil rather
than one based on Christianity.
Published September 24, 2010
Much has changed since the days of ‘81 in the occupied six counties in
the North of Ireland.
Published September 20, 2010
The Middle East peace talks, which formally opened in Washington on
Thursday, have been given one year. It’s a tall order.
Published September 16, 2010
Organising the fightback against the Tory assault
The attack on the welfare state in the Six Counties is out in the open.
Published September 14, 2010
This summer’s Belfast riots must have been the most anticipated for some
time, being widely predicted throughout politics and the media.
Published September 9, 2010
Facing up to the reality of an economic nightmare
As the country grinds to a halt, we should maintain some sense of decency and call a halt to the Anglo rescue.
Published September 6, 2010
Elements in the
intelligence agencies could be using a method of drip-feeding information
into the media to undermine political progress.
Published September 2, 2010
Common criminals or political law-breakers?
There are
ongoing attempts to criminalise Republicans still engaged in armed
actions against the British state.
Published August 30, 2010
The PSNI, MI5 and PPS displayed stunning myopia in relation
to this prosecution of anti-Stormont Republican Gary Donnelly.
Published August 27, 2010
How my dad was murdered by the British state
Internment - indefinite imprisonment without trial - was reintroduced
into the North of Ireland on August 9 1971 at 4am.
Published August 23, 2010
Prejudice must end against former political prisoners
Coiste na nlarchimi is a national organisation dedicated to upholding
the rights of former political prisoners and ensuring that society’s
institutions do not discriminate formally or informally against
ex-political prisoners.
Published August 20, 2010
Why label disillusioned Republicans as criminals?
Those who pretend dissident Republicans are unimportant,
dismiss them as criminals, ignore them or expect Sinn Fein to control
them, have badly miscalculated.
Published August 16, 2010
You can discern a real shift in the
position of the SDLP.
Published August 13, 2010
Sinn Fein grip on the ghettoes loosens
A number of explanations have been put forward for the sustained
outbreak of rioting across the North of Ireland following the Orange
marches
Published August 10, 2010
Gerald Donaghey, Saville and the nail bombs
The Saville Report devotes more space to Gerald Donaghey - 17 years-old
when shot dead on Bloody Sunday - than to any other individual.
Published August 6, 2010
WikiLeaks and British lies in Ireland
The British army's role in the deaths of civilians in Afghanistan will
come as no surprise to the people of Ireland.
Published August 2, 2010
Resolving contentious orange marches
It is the obstinate insistence by the
loyal orders to march through Catholic areas, and their refusal to talk,
that is at the heart of the perennial violence that marks the marching
season.
Published July 26, 2010
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