Picture: Arnaldo Otegi One of the things that I like about Féile an Phobail is its capacity to look at other problems than our own. For example, the problems for those living in the Basque region of Spain. In ways it’s understandable, in that the Basque struggle for independence in some ways mirrored what was […]
August, 2015
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS by Harry McAvinchey
Well it had to be done , there was no point in any more prevarication. That hive hadn’t done anything since this time last week. it was setting itself up for failure and eventual death.Whatever was happening inside it would require some radical changes . Either there was a poor queen in there or it […]
John O’Dowd and MI5
Picture by Northern Ireland Executive Is Sinn Féin’s John O’Dowd right when he says that there are ‘war junkies’ addicted to violence? That some dissident republican groups have been infiltrated by MI5 and that both the infiltrators and the infiltrated want to see violence continue? It’s hard to say. Certainly when O’Dowd points to the […]
“O’Donovan Rossa State commemoration: ‘The Fools, the Fools, the Fools’ ” by Ciaran Mc
Just over 100 years ago, in the midst of a World War, a revolutionised Ireland with secret plans being formulated for an Easter Rebellion, an 83- year- old Fenian, by the name of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, died in Staten Island, New York on 29th June 1915. The atmosphere of the time demanded that the body […]
On self-doubt and the verdict of others
Picture by Kombizz We all have moments of self-doubt. You’ve been taking a particular line on a particular subject, or maybe a general line on things in general, and then the worm of doubt starts burrowing in: what if you’re wrong ? What if the line you’re taking is a load of cobblers […]
Poll position?
Picture by bluecatdublin There was an interesting and even impassioned article in the Belfast Telegraph a few days back by Bill White. In it he made the case for polls, which he said had received some bad publicity, having failed to predict the Tory majority at the last election. He points out that they got […]
So what’s the real story?
Picture by Meet the Media Guru It’s easy to let yourself be misled. Yesterday evening on Facebook and Twitter, I posted comments on the way that UTV and then the BBC covered the anniversary of the Miami Showband massacre. In the case of UTV, the word “collusion” was used once and then the story […]