Nationalists must have viewed with dismay, disbelief and anger last
week’s press conference with SDLP minister Margaret Ritchie sandwiched
between two unionist ministers
Published September 26, 2008
Allister is challenging the leadership of the DUP not from a solid,
assured position but from the sidelines, from the fringes of unionism
and he is causing them to lose their nerve.
Published September 19, 2008
Did he really say that? After initial disbelief, that was the first
question a lot of people asked when they read reports of Mark Durkan’s
weekend speech to the British-Irish Association (BIA).
Published September 12, 2008
The current impasse at Stormont is the price everyone here has to pay
for the DUP’s exercise in political dishonesty in spring 2007.
Published September 5, 2008
Every three years members of the United Nations are required to submit
a report on human rights in their state.
Published August 29, 2008
The stalemate politics that has characterised the Six County assembly
since its inception following the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has
continued during the recent spate of ‘functionality’ since the St
Andrews Agreement.
Published August 22, 2008
There’s an uncanny symmetry in the history of Russia’s treatment of
Georgia and Britain’s treatment of Ireland over the centuries.
Published August 15, 2008
When Mr Sarkozy the French President said Irish people must vote again
on the Lisbon Treaty, he underlined how right Irish people were to vote
against it.
Published August 8, 2008
No matter the motives for the current politically engineered Historic
Enquiry, it will lack any credibility while the British continue to
suppress the Stephens reports and while those who added to the pain and
suffering of the bereaved, are not held to account.
Published August 1, 2008
Evidence is now emerging that the bombing of McGurks Bar, like many
atrocities in the early years of the conflict, may have been part of a
policy of assassination by British intelligence services.
Published July 25, 2008
Inaction has thus far characterised the PSNI’s policing operation in
defending Catholics in Stoneyford and in other parts.
Published July 18, 2008
Why is the most objectively fair response to our economic
difficulties the least acceptable to the economic and political
establishment?
Published July 11, 2008
Are the people of the Six Counties to be again left high and dry due to
the selfish interests of yet another British politician?
Published July 4, 2008
The £6 million for Irish language broadcasting is the clearest signal
yet that all is not well with the power-sharing arrangements at
Stormont.
Published June 27, 2008
There is an obvious and simple way that the EU can respond to Ireland’s
rejection of the Lisbon Treaty: continue as it was.
Published June 19, 2008
Welcome to the most surreal week in the history of Irish politics.
Published June 12, 2008
He’s gone, the oul curmudgeon, and good riddance.
Published June 6, 2008
The British administration intends to do nothing to recover weapons held by unionist paramilitaries.
Published May 30, 2008
Nobody knows for certain how much misery and bother has been caused
through the ages by the insufferable smugness of the British ruling
class.
Published May 23, 2008
Paisley's big hearty handshake with Bertie at
Farmleigh House last year was the beginning of what will inevitably be
a lengthy dalliance.
Published May 16, 2008
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