January, 2023

Irish reunification: a year nearer?

As we enter the unknown world of 2023, should we be pressing for a border poll on Irish reunification?  Should we be preparing for Irish reunification?  Or is Irish reunificationa pipe dream that will disintegrate on contact with the real world? There you have it – three different angles from which Irish reunification can be […]

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Leo, unionism and the hanging tree

    ‘Radical’ and ‘reasonable’ – do those two words have the same meaning? Even a similar flavour?  Not to my nostrils, and yet except the two can come together and make nice, Stormont will stay shut for the foreseeable future and maybe forever (stop crying, Virginia). The radical thing comes, of course, from the […]

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From recent reports, hundreds of people in Britain are dying because of delays and problems with emergency care. Can anything be done about it right now? Medium term? Long term? Last year, apparently, over one million Irish passports were issued. Why was that? Is it because everybody wants to be Irish, or is it for […]

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