There are areas I feel uncomfortable talking about and one is, how we should respond to the victims of our Troubles. My unease springs from the fact that I’ve been lucky enough not to have lost a loved one, and when you haven’t suffered that kind of pain you don’t really know what’s involved. That said, […]
January, 2012
Should Britain chair our examination of the past?
There are areas I feel uncomfortable talking about and one is, how we should respond to the victims of our Troubles. My unease springs from the fact that I’ve been lucky enough not to have lost a loved one, and when you haven’t suffered that kind of pain you don’t really know what’s involved. That said, […]
Enough generalities – the Village area can deal sectarianism a deadly blow
It’s a long way from the Village area of Belfast to Stormont. You can work at an official level towards a shared – and improved – future, but you can’t legislate for the conversion of sectarian morons like those who attacked young James Turley the other day and left him for dead. Why did they […]
Enough generalities – the Village area can deal sectarianism a deadly blow
It’s a long way from the Village area of Belfast to Stormont. You can work at an official level towards a shared – and improved – future, but you can’t legislate for the conversion of sectarian morons like those who attacked young James Turley the other day and left him for dead. Why did they […]
Whither Sinn Féin?
Where is Sinn Féin going? “Nowhere, in the south anyway” was the answer Eoghan Harris gave, a few short years back. Then at the last election Sinn Féin almost trebled its numbers in the Dail. Even this was a minor disappointment for some of the more ambitious party members. Writing in The Irish Times today, […]
Whither Sinn Féin?
Where is Sinn Féin going? “Nowhere, in the south anyway” was the answer Eoghan Harris gave, a few short years back. Then at the last election Sinn Féin almost trebled its numbers in the Dail. Even this was a minor disappointment for some of the more ambitious party members. Writing in The Irish Times today, […]
Is David Cameron West Lothian in disguise?
Scotland has always interested me, and not just because, like Sarah Palin with Russia, I can see it from my upstairs window. My mother, a Donegal woman, used remember the excitement of her “Scotchy” cousins coming each summer and sleeping anywhere and everywhere in the house. Back in Scotland, one of them played for Glasgow […]
Is David Cameron West Lothian in disguise?
Scotland has always interested me, and not just because, like Sarah Palin with Russia, I can see it from my upstairs window. My mother, a Donegal woman, used remember the excitement of her “Scotchy” cousins coming each summer and sleeping anywhere and everywhere in the house. Back in Scotland, one of them played for Glasgow […]
Joe and the Sindo have a go
If it hadn’t been for Joe Duffy, I might have missed it. Joe was on his RTÉ ‘Liveline’ mid-week, getting upset about the TG4 series ‘Mna an IRA’. Well, actually about the first in the series, which concerns Dr Rose Dugdale. Joe must have repeated at least four times that Dr Dugdale had said “Fair […]
Joe and the Sindo have a go
If it hadn’t been for Joe Duffy, I might have missed it. Joe was on his RTÉ ‘Liveline’ mid-week, getting upset about the TG4 series ‘Mna an IRA’. Well, actually about the first in the series, which concerns Dr Rose Dugdale. Joe must have repeated at least four times that Dr Dugdale had said “Fair […]