The former Tory Prime Minister, Harold MacMillan, once opined that ”if the entire establishment is against something, it’s bound to be good.” For the past number of years, the Free State ruling clique have ran with the line that if Sinn Fein knifed in the back Gerry Adams as leader it would be a […]
May, 2017
‘Reuniting Ireland’ by Joe McVeigh
It is fashionable nowadays to talk about ‘reuniting Ireland’. It was not always so. I notice another article in yesterday’s Irish Times by a professor in LSE called Christopher Kissane –‘Time to Start planning for a united Ireland.’ (IT1 May2017).That paper recently sent a reporter to me to ask me my views about a United Ireland. These […]
Dr Christopher Kissane and Irish unity
Political thinking is a bit like measles – once one party gets it, next they all have it. A decade or two back you wouldn’t have got a party north or south – with the obvious exception of Sinn Féin – to utter the words “United Ireland”. Now they are falling over themselves to talk […]
SHOPPING AROUND by Perkin Warbeck
Shop Street is perhaps the most celebrated of streets in Galway City. If the truth were told and retailed. In recent times this thoroughfare has contributed greatly to the gaiety of the nation by the al fresco antics of the street-performance group known as Macnas. This group is instantly recognisable by the big, box-like heads […]
‘The Social Democratic & Labour Party: The End.’ by Donal Lavery
The late Paddy Devlin was quite a colourful bully of a character. Having been an IRA man in his youth, he later turned on republicans and became a vehement opponent of the Hunger Strikers campaign to have basic political status restored. His colleague Gerry (later Lord) Fitt helped to bring down the Callaghan government and […]