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Loyalists post officer’s name and address on Facebook page

Posted By: March 31, 2016

Policeman at centre of CS spray claims may have to leave his home Allison Morris. Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, March 31, 2016 A policeman draws his baton during clashes with loyalist bandsmen on Ormeau Road in south Belfast. Video grab from UTV A police officer involved in an altercation with a bandsman on Ormeau Road […]

1916 Rising leaders were ‘egotists’, Arlene Foster says

Posted By: March 31, 2016

Rodney Edwards. Irish Times. Thursday, March 31, 2016 North’s First Minister claims rebels ‘were doing it to bring glory on themselves’ DUP First Minister Arlene Foster: She also rejected President Michael D Higgins’s call for a review of militarist imperialism. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times Many of the 1916 Rising leaders were egotists “who were […]

Orange Order display of dunderheadedness

Posted By: March 29, 2016

Fionnuala O’ Connor. Irish News (Belfast). Tuesday, March 29, 2016 President Michael D Higgins told the BBC with characteristic brio – in an acute historical overview – that “ethical sensitivity” marked the state commemoration of the Easter Rising. Apart from Lurgan’s masked paraders, Ireland north and south marked the centenary these past couple of days […]

Ireland and Tamil Eelam: The Dialectics of National Oppression and Resistance

Posted By: March 27, 2016

By: Athithan Jayapalan . teleSUR  Venezuela.  25 March 2016             The nation of Eelam Tamils are conjoined with the Irish due to similar British supervised counter-insurgency and geo-politics of imperialism. In a historic battle against the might of the British Empire during Easter week in 1916, hundreds of Irish nationalist […]

“There’s a lot of balderdash talked in the last couple of weeks about the Easter Rising being ‘undemocratic’…

Posted By: March 23, 2016

“There’s a lot of balderdash talked in the last couple of weeks about the Easter Rising being ‘undemocratic’… However, that doesn’t mean the existing government in Ireland was democratic. It wasn’t…”   The Easter Rising tide of historical nonsense   Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, March 23, 2016 “BLOOD thought he knew the native […]

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