Posted By: March 07, 2016
Deaglan de Breadun. Irish News (Belfast). Monday,March 7, 2016Deaglán de Bréadún assesses the fallout from the Dáil election and the likely next moves as the parties examine their optionsTHE late Conor Cruise O’Brien liked quoting the words of Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1984, that “politics is about the getting and wielding of power”. It is hard to […]
Posted By: March 05, 2016
In this Belfast Telegraph article below (“Arlene Foster: It’s me or Martin McGuinness”) , First Minister Arlene Foster , yet again, is in danger of giving the impression she wants to be seen as the heir apparent to that other Fermanagh Protestant/Unionist leader :Sir Basil Brooke, later Lord Brookeborough, former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (1943-1963). […]
Posted By: March 05, 2016
Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, March 26, 2016Why has Sinn Féin seriously underachieved in two Dáil elections in the past five years? You might argue that in absolute terms, the party’s increased vote makes its performance creditable. But relative to other groups, it has performed poorly.Look at the figures. In 2011, in the greatest social and economic crisis since the Famine, […]
Posted By: March 04, 2016
Connla Young. Irish News (Belfast). Friday, March 4, 2016Members of the UDR were arrested after the murder of four men in Co Tyrone 25 years ago, a report has claimed.The victims, who included three members of the IRA, were shot dead when a loyalist gang attacked a country bar in Cappagh, near Dungannon.IRA men Malcolm Nugent (20), Dwayne O’Donnell […]
Posted By: March 02, 2016
“Burning in effigy of a Catholic politician at an Orange Bonfire in Northern Ireland is entirely equivalent to hanging in effigy a Black man in the United States.Today— even in the most racist part of the United States— it’s impossible even to imagine that any government body would fund the burning in effigy of a Black man… Yet in today’s Northern […]