Why, for fifty years, did nationalist people in our twisted corner of Ireland sit on their hands and do nothing? There were those who enlisted in the IRA and were part of its border campaign. Others, like Brendan Behan, crossed the Irish Sea to bomb Britain. But the great majority of Catholics looked at and […]
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People Before Profit is neither Orange nor Green – hooray!…But hey, wait a minute…
Well, that was interesting. Or maybe not. Just as the south’s election finally gets decided in the form of a new/second-hand government, the weeks of noiseless campaigning up north have come to a muted climax, as the winners beam and the losers try not to look as though someone had put a hole in their chest. […]
You can’t eat a flag but boy, can you get outraged about one!
Boris Becker once said, after a closely-fought and long-drawn-out game which had people arguing and applauding/condemning: “Nobody died out there”. I thought the same as I took part in the Nolan show on BBC Raidio Uladh/Radio Ulster this morning. Who would have thought that one little ten-minute period of Irish tricolour display could cause such […]