Micheál Martin, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness
Not too long ago anyone who publicly doubted the honesty and integrity of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was, in some quarters south of the Irish border, risking the sort of response usually reserved for...
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بلدي مغامرة مثيرة في الشعبية الاشتراكية العظمى الجماهيرية العربية الليبية (My Excellent Adventure in the Great Socialist Peoples’ Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) The advert was tiny and it was tucked down by...
View ArticleMusings on the Irish General Election
Thanks to the Cedar Lounge for this link. It’s an RTE radio documentary called ‘Dogfight: Conor and Charlie’, that zeros in on one constituency, Dublin South-West during the recent general election...
View ArticlePeter King
As he prepares to open Congressional hearings into the alleged ‘radicalization’ of American Muslims this week, Rep. Peter King has not been having it all his own way – in fact he’s been having a...
View ArticleMartin McGuinness, Informers, the Media and Why Dissident Republicans Still...
This is one of those weeks when I am glad to be in New York and not Belfast. I’ll explain why further down, but it’s not for the reasons that you think. Last weekend, dissident republicans, i.e....
View ArticleGarret FitzGerald – How He Got The Big One So Wrong
When Garret FitzGerald died last month, in the midst of the Queen of England’s trip to Dublin and points south, it was accompanied by what was, even by Irish standards, an excessive degree of...
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