March, 2024

The first thing to remember, for your own sake as well as the sake of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, is that the now former DUP leader Is Innocent. Because he’s been charged with rape and “other historical sexual offences” doesn’t mean he’s guilty of anything. But the fact that he was arrested and charged will make […]

  Is the UK falling apart? The Scots, before the game against NEI, loudly booed the playing of ‘God Save the King’ . Just business or was it personal? The   Tories are looking at some very scary opinion polls.Are they planning to buy off Nigel Farage and the Reform Party threat by making Nigel a […]

        The piece below was inspired by an article with the above title by Joe Horgan a columnist with the Irish Post in London and was addressed as a letter by me to its excellent Editor and personal friend of mine Malcolm Rogers. Unfortunately pressure of space did not allow for its […]

    You can tell there’s an election not too far away when you check the opinion columns in the Irish Times. I suspect the editor of that newspaper doesn’t have to press-gang columnists into writing anti-republican pieces, but they’d have to get up early in the morning to be there at the anti-republican barricade […]

    Most Irish people are shocked and appalled by the unjust suffering of their sisters and brothers in Gaza at the hands of a brutal Zionist government and army-supported by the USA, the British government and the EU. This recent violence against the Palestinians must be seen in the context of a long history […]

    On October 12th 2015, Dame Stella Rimington, former Head of MI5, revealed that when the Germans shot Nurse Edith Cavell in Belgium, on October 12th 1915, that they had her BANG TO RIGHTS. The British reckoned that the exploitation of the execution by their own propagandists was worth a couple of Army Corps […]

I’m sitting here listening to Talkback talkers elaborating on Simon Harris’s call to “Take back the flag!” There’s much talk of the flag belonging to everyone, IRA volunteers traditionally having their coffins draped in it, its history predating the southern state. It’s quite an interesting discussion but it has damn all relevance to Simon Harris’s […]

So it’s goodbye Leo, hello Simon. The new Fine Gael leader, Simon Harris, delivered a speech to party members, a highlight of which was the rallying cry “Reclaim the flag!” Does that remind you of anyone? David McWilliams has written an article hailing the governing system of ‘subsidiarity’. Do people in Ireland  know what it […]

And so we say farewell Leo, hello Simon. But will this be good for Fine Gael? Or for the southern state? Jim Allister has hitched his wagon to the Reform UK party – is that a shrewd move? Or might it mean that unionism ends up with less successful candidates after the next Westminster election. […]

Gabriel McCaffrey (@gabefin) is an Irish immigrant in Canada and a board member Friends of Sinn Féin Canada. Gabriel left Ireland in the 1980s during the significant exodus triggered by the economic and political instability that was caused by the policy failures and corruption of the governments of Haughey and Fitzgerald.  He settled in Canada, becoming […]