Malachi explains Gerry

  OK, OK. Let me declare my interest. I have always liked something about Malachi O’Doherty, and not just because he once audio-recorded a statement  which helped me win a £1000 bet. He’s pugnacious, shrewd and knows what goes down well with interviewers. But it’s important to distinguish between the man/person and the ground on […]

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How Peace Came About in Ireland by Joe McVeigh

    I was told one time, on good authority that the beginning of the peace process in Ireland really dates to the day when Peter Brooke, Secretary of State, made a speech at the London Chamber of Commerce in 1990. In that speech Brooke stated that Britain had no longer a strategic interest in […]

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Starmer v Adams -by Joe McVeigh

  Mr Starmer (aka Sir Keir) who is now Britain’s first minister has met his match. As reported in the media he is determined to stop Gerry Adams, the former President of Sinn Fein, from receiving compensation for being illegally held in prison without trial in the early 1970s.  Gerry was one of several hundred arrested […]

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Trump: The Sequel – by Michael Lagan

a The same man in his inaugural speech proclaimed from his bullet-proof lectern that he was going to overthrow the establishment…while the three richest men in the world looked on, smiling from ear to ear at the fact they now have so much power. Can anyone say Oligarchy?  Only days before Trump’s inauguration, Mark Zuckerberg, […]

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Alone in the Crowd -by Randall Stephen Hall

.To be alone on a beachIs better than being in a vast crowdNeither speaking, or listening in turn.Civil Rights is a shared experience.A dialogue, between equals.Not a war, between peopleWho only seek inequalityFor their enemy.My fear is thatThe old hunger for a united IrelandIs not a search for equality.At present it is only an ambitionBased […]

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Cracks – by Randall Stephen Hall

    It’s a fault within us. Part of our culture. To only see the small crack Within the pane of glass But not see the window. To never see the window frame The window and rarely the view. Trapped in the detail. That’s us, a bunch of fuss pots.   We are mean that […]

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Peace or sticking-plaster?

So peace has broken out in the Middle East. Israel is taking a rest from its genocidal exertions, although according to the BBC,  ‘the  Israel-Palestine war’ is suspended. Sometimes fake efforts to suggest that Hamas has been an equal opponent over the last 15 months verge on the delusional.   Will this transform the Middle […]

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