The British army's role in the deaths of civilians in Afghanistan will
come as no surprise to the people of Ireland.
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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
Published July 22, 2010
No one spoke to the Ardoyne protestors to find out why they saw fit to block the road.
Published July 19, 2010
The Orange marching season always provides its fair share of problems.
Published July 16, 2010
It's absolutely unbelievable what happens here over the Twelfth
period.
Published July 12, 2010
Hunger striker helped others laugh through tough times
It does not happen very often that the publication of this column
coincides with the anniversary of one of the 10 men who died on hunger
strike in the H-Blocks in 1981.
Published July 8, 2010
Why we can’t let parade rules trample over civil rights
There will be a civil rights march in Derry on October 5.
Published July 6, 2010
Robinson ditched by NIO and DUP will follow suit
As a political figure Peter Robinson has been terminally weakened.
Published July 1, 2010
The Saville
report has underscored the difficulty of “truth and reconciliation”
inquiries.
Published June 28, 2010
Saville missed the failures of leadership
The Bloody Sunday operation emerged at the intersection between the
political and the military, in a grey space which left plenty of room
for manoeuvre by individuals.
Published June 24, 2010
Not a bad day for the British army
Derry is still dizzy from the eruption of joy which greeted the Saville
report’s recognition on Tuesday that all of the Bloody Sunday wounded
and dead were unarmed civilians gunned down by British paratroopers for
no good or legitimate reason.
Published June 21, 2010
Published June 17, 2010
Published June 14, 2010
The Flotilla was an heroic effort to highlight the imprisonment of one
and a half million people by the Israeli state and the humanitarian
crisis that the siege has created.
Published June 11, 2010
Double standards and simple solutions
Has any politician - unionist, nationalist or republican
- stood up and said UVF decommissioning was clearly a fraud?
Published June 4, 2010
Prison lessons have not been learnt
Prison reform which was painfully won by people, most of whom in
normal society would not have been in prison at all, must not have to be
struggled for again because of the unwillingness of those in authority
to recognise reality inside prisons, or out of them.
Published May 31, 2010
The unhappy fate of unionist leaders
The disintegration of British union supporters in Ireland has come not
from their opponents outside but from their friends inside.
Published May 27, 2010
A conversation came back to me on learning of the visit by British micro-minister for Justice David Ford to Maghaberry Prison
Published May 25, 2010
New proconsul has much to learn
We have had some pretty ropey proconsuls here in the last thirty-eight
years. The signals from the latest one are not good.
Published May 20, 2010
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