Last week, the sports department of RTE was beside itself. -Hi, Donnybrook ! -Howya, Dublin 4 ! This, the broadcasting wing of The Unionist Times, was hyping up the following headline: – League of Ireland attendances on the UP ! Aggregate attendances of 200,000 for the Season ! Hmmm. The Perkin’s inner number cruncher […]
August, 2017
‘Partition was and still is undemocratic and immoral’ by Joe McVeigh
A Bill entitled “For the Better Government of Ireland” was introduced to Westminster parliament by the British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, in December 1919. The Bill proposed the partitioning of Ireland into 2 states. Each jurisdiction would have a parliament –one based in Belfast for the six counties in the northeast and the other in Dublin for the other 26 counties. The […]
Love me, love my bonfire
Gerry Adams has been criticized many times for talking about the ‘Trojan horse of equality’ being the instrument that’d “break the bastards”. Unionist battened onto the notion of a Trojan horse (armed men sliding from the belly of the beast in the moonlight) and the fact that they’d been referred to as “bastards”. Which was missing […]
‘Bill of Rights is the only platform on which to build sustainable government’ by Declan Kearney
»DECLAN KEARNEY SINN FÉIN NATIONAL CHAIRPERSON The undermining of the Good Friday Agreement by successive British governments – and particularly by the Tories since 2010 – has contributed directly to the current political crisis FIFTY YEARS AGO, the civil rights campaign was launched in the North of Ireland. Its modest demands to secure equal rights […]
Sean Donlon: five steps towards Irish unity
Speak to any Irish-American, especially any Irish-American republican (no, not the Trump sort, Virginia – the Shinner sort) and they’ll tell you former ambassador Sean Donlon is one of their favourite people. The very mention of his name brings a smile to their faces and a song to their lips. So you may be sure […]