The Treaty | The Dignity of Everyday Life | More questions than answers
The Treaty In the early hours of 6 December 1921 the Irish delegates taking part in the negotiations with the British government signed The Anglo Irish Treaty. Their decision reinforced the terms of t...
11 Dec 202113min
Six of The Best | Opinion Poll on Irish Unity | Standing with Palestinians
Six of The Best: I’m reading Colin Broderick’s ‘Thats That,’ an evocative account of growing up in Altnamuskin in Tyrone at the height of the conflict. Colin’s mother and her efforts to protect her b...
5 Dec 202116min
Gaels call for Citizens Assembly | Gaels call for Citizens Assembly | An Irish National Health Service
Gaels call for Citizens Assembly In a powerful video message 12,000 Ulster Gaels are appealing to our fellow Gaels in Munster, Leinster and Connaught to sign and endorse a letter to An Taoiseach Mich...
28 Nov 202118min
Rewriting History | Ratcheting up the Brexit crisis | Unity Day of Action
Rewriting History "The first casualty when war comes is the truth” said US Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. We know only too well from our own recent experience of reporting on the decades of conflict h...
20 Nov 202116min
The Sunday World apologises | Eradicating Poverty | Lá breithe TG4 | Will they won’t they trigger Article 16?
The Sunday World apologises My case had to do with an article in the Sunday World in September 2015.. For me this was always about asserting my own integrity and I think the case succeeded in that. It...
14 Nov 202115min
Criostóir de Baroid | Theresa McArdle | Time for Change – Time for Unity
Criostóir de Baróid Criostóir de Baróid died two weeks ago, surrounded by his family in Marymount Hospice in Cork where his wife Máire had died in February. About 20 people from Ballymurphy travelled...
7 Nov 202121min
Courageous Alice never once flinched | Dublin’s Douglass plaque a fitting tribute | A moving song for Palestine
ALICE Toner lived in Ballymurphy Drive, not far from our house in Divismore Park. I was deeply saddened by her death. I knew Alice and her husband Fra all of my adult life. Like my own family, they m...
31 Okt 202118min
Christy Moore returns to Belfast to salute H-Block heroes | WHO WILL SPEAK UP FOR LEFT-BEHIND LOYALISTS?
Christy returns to Belfast to salute H-Block heroes: THE first time Christy Moore sang ‘Ninety Miles from Dublin’ in West Belfast – his song about the obscenity of the H-Blocks – was in the old Ballym...
24 Okt 202118min
