I have never thought of David McWilliams as a particularly nationalist Irishman. He’s best known for his economic expertise, with the fact that he spotted the economic collapse of 2008 long before the vast majority of economic commentators attesting to his expertise. But this morning in The Belfast Telegraph, he combines economics and nationalist politics […]
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Here comes Charlie Flanagan!
One outstanding achievement by the SDLP, often forgotten, is that they arranged for a representative of the Dublin government, almost always a TD, to be present at any major British announcement in the north. Often the Dublin TD would add their own thoughts immediately after the British Secretary of State had spoken. This was no […]
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. […]
The cost of partition: let’s talk
Picture by Deckab For many people, the attractiveness or unattractiveness of a re-united Ireland would come down to a question of money. That sounds a bit grubby, and there are other reasons than the financial for wanting to live in a united Ireland or in one that maintains the link with Britain. But it’s […]