
Michael Davitt GAC | The Future of Moore Street | Tony McMahon
Michael Davitt GAC In October 2006 and again in August 2021 I was asked to give a talk on Michael Davitt to the members of Davitts GAC on the Falls Road as part of the Davitts Culture, Sport and Histo...
17 Okt 202115min

Jeffrey at the Crossroads | A game of chicken | Seán Ó Riada
Jeffrey at the Crossroads Is the Union the only reason why some working class unionist voters persist in voting for parties like the DUP when that party clearly doesn’t represent them on social and ec...
10 Okt 202115min

Biden tells Johnson a few home truths | Remembering Big Bob in the PD | 40 years on and their sacrifice remains a massive inspiration
Biden tells Johnson a few home truths While sitting beside Johnson at a press conference in the White House President Biden told the media that neither he, “nor I might add would many of my Republican...
3 Okt 202118min

Stories from the heart of the Blocks
NEXT week will mark 40 years from the end of the 1981 hunger strike. Much has been written this year and many events have taken place to remember those who died. For me Ten Men Dead by David Beresford...
26 Sep 202119min

Sam so special for for Northern Gaels | Jailbreaks always a big morale boost | Moore Street appeal
ACCORDING to media reports there was great elation among Palestinians when the news broke that six political prisoners had succeeded in tunnelling their way to freedom from the high security Gilboa pr...
19 Sep 202115min

Are you listening Jeffrey? | Reclaiming the Enlightenment
Are you listening Jeffrey? Unionism, especially its DUP component, has been talking up unionist and loyalist resistance to the Irish Protocol since before Boris Johnson dirty-joed them, broke his comm...
12 Sep 202119min

Planting a seed for the future | It’s all to play for in unity poll
FOR years I used to gather up acorns and chestnuts and hazelnuts and little sycamore seeds and all manner of other seeds. My growing methods are fairly basic. I collected as many as I could and then p...
5 Sep 202116min

Nicknames | 50 Years Married | Ballymurphy Poems and Summer reading.
Nicknames. When I was at primary school my nickname was Addies. It didn’t last beyond Saint Finian’s for some reason. My brothers, or at least some of them, had the same moniker. I don’t know about ...
29 Aug 202117min




















