Sometimes when people are under intense pressure, it blunts their thinking rather than sharpens it. They blunder about, insult those they meet, and almost encourage the walls of their house to collapse on top of them. Unionism is having such a moment. Over a period of decades, their stronghold was pummeled, they shouted defiance, but […]
The North’s health service is much better than the South’s -Right?
What do we need to do to ensure a successful border poll and the realisation of an 800-year-old dream? Well, we have to convince as many of the undecided that the option of a united Ireland will be better than today’s partitioned country. This will involve drawing attention to all sorts of things, like the […]
The DUP: the innocent party
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. […]
The DUP : the innocent party
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. […]
Let’s tackle road carnage
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 […]
Self -Righteous Commentators by Joe McVeigh
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 […]
The Loyalist Paramilitary Problem
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 […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THAT MULTIPLE CAR CRASH IN THE SOUTH, TOUCHING OTHER PEOPLE, & MICHEÁL’S BANANAS
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. […]
Patrick Murphy gets carried away
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 by Joe McVeigh
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 […]