November, 2022

  Why has Professor Colin Harvey of Queen’s University ignited such hatred from some unionists and loyalists? The clue is in his title and the name of the place where he works. If Colin Harvey were an ordinary guy, a Joe Soap, his enthusiasm for a border poll could be dismissed. Only nineteenth-century romantics and […]

. It’s that time of year again when the poppy-wearing posse appears en masse to berate those who refuse to wear a poppy while claiming we must remember their dead with much pomp and fanfare.  Much is made of those who downright refuse to don a poppy, not because of what the poppy initially symbolised, […]

  Did you observe a minute’s silence for the British servicemen and women who died in two World Wars and other twentieth-century conflicts? How confident are you that Rishi Sunak will find an answer to the problem of the protocol? Will it be enough to satisfy the ERG group in his party? Will it be […]

To: editor@irishpost.co.uk <editor@irishpost.co.uk>Sent: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 16:53Subject: LEGITIMATE RESEARCH AND ILLEGITIMATE CLAIMS The Irish and  Russian nations have long histories and have never  done each other a mischief. If Russia were to claim Rockall, an uninhabited and uninhabitable rock whose nearest inhabited neighbouris Ireland, we would have a justifiable grievance against Russia. If Russia had ever […]

Unionist politicians, I sometimes think, compete with each as to how they can make the rest of us gape, open-mouthed in wonder. You’ll remember Peter Robinson and trusting a Muslim to go to the corner shop for milk. Or the unionist councillor who wanted to burn Catholics and their priests in a furnace. Or Arlene […]

   So did you tune into the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis over the weekend? Not except you were watching it on your computer. But RTÉ did cover Mary Lou’s speech on Saturday night and she was interviewed by Áine Lawlor on RTÉ the following morning. Pat and I noted a few things on Saturday night […]

There is a concerted effort by Unionism and by those of the middle ground recently, to have Nationalists and Republicans come to the conclusion that the IRA’s armed campaigns were “unjustifiable” while at the same time, claiming Protestantism’s only wrong-doing was discriminating against Catholics.  Few if any of those peddling this falsehood have so much […]

Is it time that the British people looked again at the decision to leave the EU? Since they voted for Brexit, the UK has stumbled from one disaster to another, and now the UK is predicted to be in recession for at least two years. Why is there not at least some discussion of looking […]

    Scott’s political diaries were published in 1961, nearly 30 years after his death, apparently unnoticed by Irish  commentators. Below is his entry for 15 July 1921: – “Saw de Valera in his hotel this afternoon. A whole bevy of people in the sitting-room, through which Childers showed me to the bedroom, where the great […]

      Yesterday, I had lunch in a little café in the Tollcross area of Edinburgh; it was clean, hospitable and offered an affordable menu. I had vegetable   soup and bread with a coffee; it was delicious; without asking, I was brought a little jug of water, laced with a mint leaf by the […]