Innocent | Standing Idly By. Again | A Great result for Antrim
Innocent: This week the long running campaign for truth and justice by the families of the 10 people killed by the Parachute Regiment in Ballymurphy during internment in August 1971 was vindicated with the judgement in the Inquest findings. Standing Idly By. Again : In December 2017 the then Taoiseach, Mr. Varadkar said: “To the nationalist people in Northern Ireland... You will never again be left behind by an Irish Government.” That was warmly welcomed by most right thinking people at that...
16 Touko 202122min
Unionism at another crossroads | Israel still enforcing apartheid
Unionism at another crossroads:Monday was the birthday of partition. It was a century since the Northern State formally came into existence with the passing into law on May 3, 1921 of the Government of Ireland Act. Unionist parties, the British government and some others tried –unsuccessfully for the most part – to turn this into a birthday celebration. The British government’s colonial office in Belfast, the NIO (Northern Ireland Office), not the Executive or Assembly, was given the task of ...
9 Touko 202124min
Let’s plan our own Future together | ANC supports Unity Referendum and a United Ireland.
Let’s plan our own Future together Michelle O’Neill hit the nail on the head in her interview on the Late Late Show with Ryan Tubridy last Friday evening. She said: “In the light of Brexit there is a stark choice that has opened up for people. Which Union do you wish to be part of? Do you wish to be part of an inclusive inward looking Ireland? ... There is something better for us to own our future together. Plan it. Find a way to insure that both Irish identity and British identity can live s...
2 Touko 202123min
Inflexible Unionism | Black Mountain | Palestinian Prisoners Day
Inflexible Unionism The current unionist narrative seeks to present the present political crisis as the fault of everyone else except themselves. Mostly they blame the Irish Protocol element of the Brexit Withdrawal Treaty, the Irish government and the EU, and the funeral of Bobby Storey ten months ago. Black Mountain. I’m pleased to say that I sent the final draft of my new book to O Brien Press this week. My original book title was The Witness Tree but I’ve opted now for Black ...
25 Huhti 202120min
The Process of Change Must Continue | Voting for Bobby Sands
The Process of Change Must Continue:The recent loyalist sponsored violence and the provocative and inflammatory language of unionist political leaders has led to speculation about what the violence is really all about? Voting for Bobby Sands:As many readers will know this year marks 40 years since the 1981 hunger strike. It was a traumatic, difficult and yet historic year which undoubtedly shaped future politics on this island in ways none of us could have foreseen at the time.
18 Huhti 202126min
Why Would Arlene Leave Fermanagh? | The second battle of Moore Street
Why Would Arlene Leave Fermanagh? Arlene Foster talks of leaving the North in the event of a Yes referendum vote for a United Ireland. “I cannot see how I could be British in Fermanagh, in a United Ireland, because by the very definition you are no longer British because you are living in an all-Ireland state.” I see no reason for Arlene to leave Fermanagh. That will be her decision of course, not mine. But Fermanagh is her homeplace regardless of its future constitutional s...
11 Huhti 202117min
Beannachtaí na Cásca | Bin the Orange Card | Inclusion and Reconciliation in the new Ireland | Easter Eggs
Bin the Orange Card Time & again unionist leaders have whipped up anger & fear. Playing the Orange Card is older than the northern state. It’s time to call a halt. It’s time to bin the Orange Card. Inclusion and Reconciliation in the new Ireland As part of our desire for a greater understanding of the issues involved and of the measures needed to confront sectarianism and hate Sinn Féin this month commenced an internal dialogue on inclusion and reconciliation. As new idea...
4 Huhti 202123min
Micheál Martin has it badly wrong on Irish unity | The big cat and dog debate - I love dogs!
Micheál has it badly wrong on Irish unity: While no-one was able to travel to the USA this St Patrick’s Day because of the pandemic restrictions it was still nonetheless a good couple of weeks for the peace process, the Good Friday Agreement, the demand for the referendum on unity and for the campaign for a United Ireland. Friends of Sinn Féin successfully fund-raised the money to pay for major adverts in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Irish American papers. Under the banner...
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