June, 2017

No …I don’t think that the British Government at Westminster is a neutral player anywhere in Ireland.That is even more to the point with the Tories taking the Democratic Uniionist Party into bed with them.That’s not to say that the Tories/ DUP is not a good fit .They are perfectly suited .Between them they’ll attempt […]

Inbox x   “A week,” said Harold Wilson, “is a long time in politics”. From Sunday , 4 June when I embarked on a cruise liner at Dover, until I disembarked on  Sunday 11 June, I was on the High Seas and the Norwegian fjords with but fitful Internet and TV access. So many things […]

  When Prince Chuck with a camán in his hand posed for a few token pucks of a sliotar for the twitterati in the turreted surrounds of Kilkenny Castle recently, with King Henry of Hurlington in attendance, the irony truly entered the soul as soon as the Main Stream Media reacted. -Of course, gushed a […]

As a child, I didn’t much like roller-coasters, but that election was genuinely the true exception. Looking at the results, I still can’t believe how many people have voted with their heads to shed a failed political class in the North and put their trust in Irish republicanism. There have been absolutely stunning results throughout […]

Unlike for example Jeremy Paxman, Alastair Campbell appears to have lost none of his sharp edge. He has denounced the idea of the DUP going into some sort of coalition with the Tories as a “sordid, dangerous and distasteful deal.” He believes this has the capacity to damage the peace process here: “How can our […]

Many people who are nationalist/republican   rolled out of bed this morning feeling appalled. Not, if they are nationalist, because the SDLP was obliterated at the polls two days ago. And not, if they are republican, because they stayed up too late last night still celebrating the three extra seats Sinn Féin scooped in the […]

Pics 1- 4 are by Perkin Warbeck ‘LET’S CELEBRATE, WE’RE FEELING GREAT !’ The most important General Election held during the past week saw the re-election of the man who has been, in effect, An Taoiseach of the Truncated European Union for the past six months. That would be Joseph Muscat, the leader of the […]

So Theresa May, the Conservative leader has to go cap-in-hand to the Queen to ask permission to set up a much-depleted new government. We live in interesting times and times of great uncertainty ,but life will go on.Elections come and elections go and politicians will live and politicians will die but there are even more […]

So unionism is now a minority concern? In the election to the Assembly earlier this year unionism lost its claim to the majority of seats for the first time. Given that the Ireland was deliberately carved up to give unionism a permanent and self-perpetuating majority, this was certain a notable benchmark. Obviously, unionism had tried […]

Sinn Féin campaign on the basis it will not attend Westminster parliament in England. We Irish have no desire to interfere in the internal affairs of England, Wales or Scotland, and we will never assimilate into their colonial governance system. So, stop demanding we submit to it. SF voters don’t expect another party to represent […]