June, 2021

Airteagal 28 .                3. 1  Ni dleathach cogadh a fhogart na pairt a bheith ag an Stat in aon cogadh ach amhain le haontu Dhail Eireann.                3. 2 . Ach feadfaidh an Rialtas, i gcas ionraidh, aon ni a dheanamh a […]

A man very much in the news these days is Jim Allister. Pat has been thinking about him and has come up with three questions that should be asked of him. You’ll have to view the podcast to find out what they are, I’m afraid… Leo Varadkar has been piping up about a united Ireland […]

Kenneth Kaunda, Founding  President of Zambia , died, aged 97 , this week. As a student, Kaunda learned about the institutionalised racism of the South African Apartheid state.  He suffered it personally as a black citizen in the British colony of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; on one   occasion, in his college days,   he was ordered out […]

What does Unionism fear from the Irish language? It’s quite the question when we look back at the history of the goings on around the language from the founding of the Northern state. In 1921 there were still strong Gaeltacht areas within the newly formed state of ‘Northern Ireland’. Areas where a strong Irish identity […]

Pic from Belfast Live  In Tuesday 8th June 2021’s edition of The Irish News, I was horrified to find a 2-page advertisement emblazoned across pages 8 and 9 by the Dalradian Gold mining company. It seems that The Irish News has been guffawed into promoting unchecked claims by the mining corporation. The ads claim that “We are building livelihoods” […]

This TV review first appeared in The Andersonstown News “In some ways it feels like” Jim Fitzpatrick says, pointing to the overhead helicopter, the smoke, the flags, the crowd. The ‘it’ referred to is Scotland, and the programme is SPOTLIGHT:Scotland and the Union (BBC). Jim is here because the “shifting politics” of Scotland may have “huge implications for all of us on this […]

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“Turn out the lights, the party’s over!” – Don Meredith Back in 1998, the DUP made a living out of trying to destroy David Trimble for agreeing an international accord with the Nationalist community in the North. This was on the simple basis that Nationalists would permanently remain in ‘power’ alongside Unionists, until the Northern […]

Hasn’t the last week been an action-packed bundle of excitement for those of us following political developments on this island? The week began with the second successful weekly opinion poll in a row revealing Sinn Fein as the lead party in the South after it had again broke past the 30% support mark, leaving its […]

Inbox If you Google search ‘DUP’ nowadays every result will have the words ‘resign’ or ‘resignation’ in them, indeed even in the past couple of days there has been another resignation from the DUP and no, I don’t mean Edwin Poots. As soon as Edwin Poots announced his resignation as party leader, Darryn Causby a […]