“BRITAIN CANNOT LEAVE THE EUROPEAN UNION WHILST THE MAJORITY OF ‘REMAINERS’ OPPOSE ITS LEAVING THAT UNION.”. Repeat that statement twice and think carefully about it. Then repeat it from the rooftops and move on before men and women in white coats take you away to be “sectioned” under the Mental Health Act. When/If you escape […]
May, 2017
CHERISHING ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE NATION EQUALLY? by Tom Cooper
Let me see if I have this right. A recent report compiled by House of Commons MPs from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has called for the next UK government to finance a compensation fund for victims of IRA attacks using Libyan explosives. This report found that the administration led by former prime minister Tony […]
‘Self Destruction: The Suspensions Within The SDLP’ by Donal Lavery
Anyone reading the Irish News today will notice a suspiciously small article detailing how three SDLP Councillors in Belfast, including their group leader, have been suspended from the party and are facing serious disciplinary action over their abstentions on a controversial vote. Now before we go on any further, it shows a rotten bias within […]
‘Ireland, Brexit & The Next Roman Emperor’ by Donal Lavery
I’m obsessive about a number of things, but one of those happens be the governance of Europe’s economic power-base: the Federal Republic of Germany. I feel most at ease in the company of German books; I love German music and German philosophy. They are the most industrious people on the continent, having invested in their […]
Last night with John Finucane
Last evening I was at the selection of John Finucane as the Sinn Féin candidate for the North Belfast constituency. I’ve never been to a Daniel O’Donnell concert, but I’m confident even the Mammies’ boy in Donegal would have struggled to keep up with the reception Finucane got. The Lansdowne Hotel was lán go doras […]
‘ JP MORGAN TO MOVE STAFF FROM LONDON TO SECURE EU BUSINESS AFTER BREXIT’ by Kalyeena Makortoff, Press Association City Reporter
JP Morgan is planning to move hundreds of London-based staff to offices in Dublin, Frankfurt and Luxembourg in a move that will help secure its EU business after Brexit. The US banking giant confirmed comments made by Daniel Pinto, head of JPMorgan’s corporate and investment bank, who said a “substantial portion of the business” […]
‘An Independent Scotland Within the EU: Impossible or Impractical?’ by Donal Lavery
As some of you may know, I don’t like the Scottish National Party. They have a clandestine history of anti-Catholic, anti-Irish sentiment, while deploying a mantra of talking “left” but acting “right”. There are people naive enough out there to believe that an independent Scotland could have Tommy Sheridan or Jim Sillars as Prime Minister, […]
John Finucane in North Belfast: five reasons why it makes sense
I’ve just read Nigel Dodds’s reaction to the news that John Finucane will run for Sinn Féin in North Belfast, and I can’t help thinking of Billy Bunter. I didn’t eat the cake ‘cos I didn’t know it was hidden in the pantry and anyway I left half of it, even though I didn’t eat […]
TIT FOR TAT
Nelson McCausland is on the radio , wittering on in the lugubrious ,disingenuous, deliberately measured way he sometimes does , speaking slowly as if to add extra weight to his pontifications, or possibly because he imagines, mistakenly, that his words carry some weight. He appears to be dragged onto the airwaves almost daily to rail […]
Reuniting Ireland – a letter to the editor…’
I know, Virginia – I have blogged on this same subject and person. But I thought I’d let people know that if you keep writing for long enough, you may eventually penetrate to the Letters Page of the Irish Times. This appeared this morning and I’ve just two gripes: they replaced my term “the good Doctor” […]