Ormeau Road collusion | Women leading the way | Growing Older
Ormeau Road collusion exposed Collusion between British intelligence, the RUC, UDR, British Army and Loyalist paramilitary organisations is a fact of life here. This is indisputable. A succession of ...
13 Feb 202216min
Reflections on Bloody Sunday | Julian Assange should be freed | Julian Assange should be freed
Reflections on Bloody Sunday. Somehow human beings, including this columnist, put more stead in twenty year anniversaries than in nineteen year ones. So in the case of Bloody Sunday 50 years seems m...
6 Feb 202216min
Save Moore Street | Remembering Clyde Bellecourt
Save Moore Street - Buy a raffle ticket for an original 1914 Mauser rifle Last Saturday hundreds of people took part in a Save Moore Street rally in Dublin. The rally was called at short notice by the...
30 Jan 202217min
Condolences are not enough | Can Dogs Think Pt 2
Condolences are not enough I want to extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Ashling Murphy. The spontaneous public outpouring of grief at her murder underlines the frustration and ...
23 Jan 202216min
Sectarianism must be ended | CAN DOGS THINK
Sectarianism must be ended:Sectarianism is a legacy of our colonial past. We have the opportunity to confine it to the dustbin of history.CAN DOGS THINK? ‘Can dogs think? Is that what you asked me?’ Y...
16 Jan 202215min
Strange how the right notes can end up in the wrong places | Archbishop Tutu
OUR old pal Tom Hartley is a fine singer. He and I have been known to duet together. Back in the day in C Wing in Belfast Prison on the Crumlin Road, his dulcet tones echoed around the landings like a...
9 Jan 202219min
A funny kind of New Year’s resolution | CAPUCHIN GENEROSITY AT CHRISTMAS | BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A funny kind of New Year’s resolution: NEW Year resolutions and I are old friends. Usually I muse at the end of the old year about what I need to commit myself to for new year’s arrival. This year t...
2 Jan 202214min
It's past time to release Leonard Peltier | A New Year resolution for a Citizens’ Assembly
THIS Christmas take a moment to think about Leonard Peltier. Leonard was convicted in 1977 of the murder in 1975 of two FBI agents during a confrontation at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota....
26 Dec 202115min
