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The big problem here is – as the recent assembly results suggest – that nationalism in Northern Ireland isn’t growing.
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The Northern Irish political system is unique in the western world in that it mandates power sharing.
Don’t blame Newton Emerson and the Irish Times here. It’s bloody hard to find things to write about in the dog days of August. The Taliban may be terrible news for the people of Afghanistan, but for people who have to find things to write about, there’s certainly been a silver lining to that particular […]
What’s ironic about this, of course, is that the apology is for the killing of Lord Mountbatten, who, as Lord High Admiral and First Sea Lord, was probably a legitimate military target, if you subscribe to the view that the IRA was fighting a war, as McDonald presumably does. Where’s the apology for killing Nicholas […]
Politicians in Belfast and Brussels – and Dublin and London – are understandably preoccupied by the fallout from the EU’s invoking of Article 16 and their rapid change of mind after the damage was done. It has temporarily deflected attention from the recent, albeit premature, talk of a ‘Border Poll’ on reunification, sparked by George […]
“Booooooo!”, I hear you say. And indeed, this intervention by the Tánaiste yesterday won’t be very popular amongst those with republican instincts, who lie awake at night dreaming of the day when the Wolfe Tones song about being a nation once again can be sung lustily and loudly throughout the land. But hasn’t he…… got […]
To be fair, it’s a common sentiment on this island, or most of it, anyway. It’s a less common sentiment coming from…. The former Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer? Here he is: The former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne believes the majority of the English public “will not care” if Northern Ireland leaves the […]
Sinn Fein’s Rose Conway Walsh had a bone to pick with the Taoiseach yesterday, pointing out that the programme for Government does not mention a united Ireland: Firstly, for context, the question asked by SF's Rose @conwaywalsh about why the new Shared Island unit in the Department of the Taoiseach isn't planning for unity itself: […]
If you lived through it, you’d have to have been an apathetic stoic with no soul, not to shed a tear at the sight of East Germans flooding into West Berlin on the night of November 9th, 1989. As a (half) native German, it was pivotal moment in my motherland’s history and one I remember […]
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