The comment made this past week on social media by a prominent Sinn Fein Councillor Ciaran Beattie, subsequently removed, where he accused People Before Profit MLA and Westminster candidate Gerry…
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Blair, Blair…
Two things stand out from Tony Blair’s comments around his visit to the European People’s Party meeting in Dublin last weekend. Both are puzzling. First, Blair has suggested in response…
Abstractions of reality
We are becoming used to claims that the UK might have to pay a very hefty bill in order to leave the EU. In contrast, one and a half years ago…
Keep your head on
In his excellent study of Ideology and the Irish Question, Paul Bew quoted a Ballymoney Free Press editorial of May 1912 at the height of the Irish Home Rule crisis. ‘The…
EU offers instability to North, or South, or both.
Indications from the EU leaders’ summit (now not including the UK) suggest they are minded to allow a post-Brexit Northern Ireland a seamless transition back into the EU if that Northern…
Contested Identities
The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants: edited by Thomas Paul Burgess & Gareth Mulvenna. The book is prefaced as a response to co-editor Thomas Burgess’s uncomfortable encounter where: “… a young woman with impeccable Irish Republican…
A powerful Hunger
If you go to see prison service brutality and the heroism of Bobby Sands then that is likely what you will see in ‘Hunger’, the film directed by Steve McQueen. If you go expecting to…