Limavady wasn’t the way it was supposed to be, all handshakes and chuckles.
Published December 21, 2009
Pretty much as low as we are likely to find this side of Christmas. A
lender repossessed the home of a Waterford couple which they shared with
their special needs child.
Published December 17, 2009
The budget says a lot about the economics and media commentators who have
praised it for grappling with the fiscal crisis, while remaining
indifferent to the social consequences.
Published December 14, 2009
Martin McGuinness has promised “serious
consequences” and “a full-blown crisis” if a date for devolving policing
and justice powers to the north is not agreed before Christmas and it
won’t be.
Published December 10, 2009
Unfortunately, in sport as in politics, resentment isn’t always directed
at the right target.
Published December 7, 2009
Even though there is still a distance to travel to establish equality in
the six counties it has to be acknowledged that we have travelled a long
way from Craig’s ‘Protestant Parliament for a Protestant People’.
Published December 3, 2009
There are few things that sum up the failure of the Provisional IRA
campaign more definitively than the recent call by one of its former
leaders for people to inform on those republicans still wedded to the
notion of armed struggle.
Published November 30, 2009
The best and sure fire way to victory is an indefinite general strike
where public and private sector workers unite in a common battle to save
jobs and protect our services.
Published November 26, 2009
Police harassment is still a fact of life on the streets of working
class communities.
Published November 23, 2009
The celebrations for the Fall of the Wall dividing Berlin were
spectacular and understandable. Not so understandable was some Irish
politicians joining in.
Published November 19, 2009
In recent times it has become increasingly clear that the Irish
government intends pursuing an economic strategy which is essentially
ignoring the advice from the unions and appears to be on a collision
course which could result in widespread industrial action.
Published November 12, 2009
The 20 million pounds that’s going to be shovelled into the families of the
former part-time RUC reserve is a profoundly dishonourable deal and not
just because it’s so obviously a bribe.
Published November 5, 2009
Well-informed sources in the North were suggesting last week that a
large compensation package from Libya for the victims of the troubles
may soon become available.
Published November 2, 2009
The arrest in the past two weeks of Arnaldo Otegi and nine of his
comrades from the ‘outlawed’ Batasuna party and the pro-independence
trade union LAB is another sign of the oppressive methods being
employed the Spanish government to stamp out the Basque nationalist
left.
Published October 29, 2009
The hunger strikers were never dupes but could only make decisions on the basis of the
information they had.
Published October 26, 2009
The revised programme for government in the Twenty-Six Counties
offers nothing to the thousands who have lost their jobs over the last
12 months and face losing their homes.
Published October 22, 2009
No-one likes us - we don’t care.’ The Millwall football club’s chant
which came to wider public attention when Millwall reached the 2004 FA
final could equally apply to the DUP.
Published October 19, 2009
When an Irish republican dies in British police custody it is certain to
give rise to an atmosphere of suspicion and recrimination.
Published October 16, 2009
The final article by Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams for
the Irish News on the recent controversy over the 1981 hunger strike.
Published October 13, 2009
Peter Robinson is facing what every single leader of unionism has faced
since at least the late 1960s.
Published October 8, 2009
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