August, 2026

  If I was to meet Jim Shannon DUP MP on the street, I doubt if I’d recognise him.  Yet he’s been an MP for 16 years, when he took the seat which had been kept warm by Iris Robinson. Jim  Shannon is an innocent man who has been charged with assault against a woman. […]

  If I was to meet Jim Shannon DUP MP on the street, I doubt if I’d recognise him.  Yet he’s been an MP for 16 years, when he took the seat which had been kept warm by Iris Robinson. Jim  Shannon is an innocent man who has been charged with assault against a woman. […]

That crash which left five young lads dead  and two women and a child with serious injuries was simply the latest and most horrible incident on the road-crashes list. Every year, as sure as day follows night, despite all warnings, dozens of people will die on the roads. Last year it was 56 in the […]

  In a blog on 16 August 2026 entitled “Patrick Murphy gets carried away” Jude Collins explains why the IRA came into existence in the early 1970s and continued until the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement when an alternative course was proposed and accepted. In a response to Jude’s clearly argued article the anonymous Eugene57 had this comment […]

  There is something rotten about the continuing presence of loyalist paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland. The IRA, for all  the arguments that will continue over its legacy, eventually made the decision to put the gun down. Its armed campaign ended. Its weapons were decommissioned. Its organisation disappeared from the stage as a functioning paramilitary […]

That terrible car crash on a motorway, with a car carrying five young men,all masked, rammed into another car critically injuring innocent people, maybe even killing them. Words don’t seem enough to express the horror of it all. But can anything be done? Something MUST be done about road deaths, and we’ve a few suggestions. […]

OK – whoa there. Steady up. Let’s not get carried away, as clearly has happened to Patrick Murphy writing in The Irish News.  He says the Fleadh did more to unite people than the IRA did in 50 years. Cool your jets, Patrick. The Fleadh was a celebration of Irish culture, and it included various […]

  Ireland’s Future is a civic group committed to keeping the issue of a border referendum on Irish re-unification before the people of Ireland and indeed as far as is possible- with limited resources -of keeping the issue alive in England, Scotland/Wales and especially with the Irish diaspora in the USA and Australia. A border […]

IRELAND’S FUTURE held an event in Derry yesterday, and it was filled with enthusiasm, relevance and inspiration. But does something more need to be done? What can replace the potential green paper and citizen’s assembly which Sinn Féin proposed and Michéal Martin binned? Where is Plan B – and how urgent is it that we […]

There is a man lying dead in England this morning, and most of us assume he took his own life. He was famous, forty-one years of age, and very clever. How and why did this appalling waste of a human being happen? Jason Arday was black, with long dreadlocks and a strong, intelligent face. He […]