September, 2016
‘Unionist Denial’ by Joe McVeigh
While republicans and nationalists have many times expressed regret for the hurt caused to Unionists and the unionist community during the conflict, Unionists seem to have great difficulty reciprocating. They seem to have difficulty in understanding the pain caused by unionism to the nationalist/republican community- not just during the conflict but since Partition when […]
Scottish independence: dead in the oil and water?
The Scottish National Party are in the news again. The Fiscal Affairs Scotland (FAS) think-tank has come up with figures apparently showing that, given the slump in oil prices, an independent Scotland would be more than £7 billion worse off. And even if oil prices made a comeback, an independent Scotland would still be in […]
The total irrelevance of the s-word when discussing the IFA
It’s odd the things people don’t like talking about. As often as not they’re important things, central to an issue; only the more central they are, the more people resent them being raised. A good example was today, when I was on Radio Ulster/Raidio Uladh’s TalkBack programme. Long tall Joe Lindsay was my jousting partner, with […]
Daithígate: the best of times or the worst?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…No, strike that ‘was’. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. That is, if the very thought of Gerry Adams or Martin McGuinness sets your teeth on […]