May, 2016

On the centenary of the execution of the socialist leader James Connolly, People Before Profit held a rally with Gerry Carroll MLA, Fiona Ferguson, Bernadette McAliskey and Brid Smith TD. Given the recent comments by certain political parties and the media I was near expecting to be handed a weapon to start a revolution or to […]

Say what you will about Mike Nesbitt (and which of us hasn’t?), he is capable of delivering a 10,00-volt surprise. He proved so yesterday by announcing that his party is quitting the Executive and going into official Opposition. “Let battle commence!” were his final rousing words. I find it hard to fathom the former UTV news […]

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There’s a piece in today (or maybe yesterday)’s Irish News /VO by Jim Gibney, in which he calls for unity of purpose among nationalist voters. Such unity makes sense if only in terms of self-preservation. The SDLP continues to decline despite its bright new leader; between the SDLP and Sinn Féin there is a drop of […]

  Brendan Howlin is not a happy man. Or at least he wasn’t last Sunday, when he was having lunch with another man at the Bar Italia in Dublin. Several protestors spotted him and began to film him on their phones and chant “Labour, traitor, out out out!” Brendan and his companion then stood, drew […]

Some people think Queen Elizabeth should have been taught “Binn béal ina thost” – silence is golden – rather than the few phrases of Irish that propelled President McAleese into a double wow at that state dinner. The head of Britain apparently complained at a garden party the other day that the Chinese who visited […]

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If I had a hero , Sir David Attenborough might fit the bill. It certainly wouldn’t be a politician.David Attenborough has been the voice of reason for the better part of his ninety years on earth and in that time he has helped expand our knowledge of the world as it really is ,in front […]

Sam McBride is so young-looking, despite his beard he resembles the son of the News Letter’s political editor, maybe in for a bit of work experience, than he does the News Letter’s political editor. But he is, and in yesterday’s paper he did an extended piece about the hopeless state that Irish republicanism finds itself […]

My apologies to the many thirsting for my interview with Eamonn McCann today. Alas, Eamonn was called away at the last moment. I’m hoping we can set one up at some future date. Again, tá bron orm…