Sinn Fein need to be careful their electorate doesn't
conclude that so-called power-sharing hasn;t resulted in little beyond
the amused contempt of the DUP.
Published February 1, 2010
It is important to factor the context into the current crisis gripping
power-sharing.
Published February 1, 2010
Unionists never learn do they?
Published January 28, 2010
It is not easy being a democrat because you have to accept the will of
the people at an election even when you do not like the result.
Published January 28, 2010
The British government
contemptuously announced after the Strasbourg judgment that the
discredited and unlawful Section 44 powers will remain in use.
Published January 25, 2010
The Stormont administration needs to exercise its responsibility for protection of children and young people.
Published January 21, 2010
Peter Robinson is now the prisoner of his party’s hardliners. They are
keeping him in custody until they can agree a method of disposing of his
political carcass.
Published January 18, 2010
Peter Robinson performed a sleight of hand trick brilliantly last week.
Published January 14, 2010
It is very tempting to ridicule the extraordinary state of affairs that
has crashed down on the Robinson family.
Published January 11, 2010
There has never been a time in the history of Irish republicanism when
republicans were not faced with challenges in terms of bringing about an
independent and a united Ireland.
Published January 8, 2010
It is
clear that we are still waiting for the new beginning to policing and
justice that was promised.
Published January 2, 2010
I thought I might deal with some of the events in the life of my
clan and in my own life. Events which are now in the media. But on
reflection it’s too near Christmas for all that.
Published December 28, 2009
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
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