By this time next week we should know the shape of the Stakeknife investigation. Already, there has been one delay in the announcement. It had been…
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At the weekend I read Theresa Villiers’s oral statement to the British House of Commons on Tuesday. Presenting her assessment of ‘the structure role, and purpose…
Might Ms. Villiers’s paramilitary report be an attempt to control the rise of Sinn Fein in the South of Ireland, safe in the knowledge that Peter…
The Bobby Storey arrest episode is “the most destabilising thing to happen to Unionism since partition”. It has supplanted the IRA ceasefire, earning Jim Molyneaux’s…
The wheels are coming off the Republican wagon – to the extent that Gerry’s jalopy is beginning to look like a tired old charabanc. Leaving…
I am not a royalist but I am not an iconoclast. I have reservations about how Prince Charles appeared to treat his former wife Diana but…
Kyle Paisley appears to have been so intent on finding fault in Jamie Bryson’s Belfast Telegraph interview that he failed to notice perhaps the most important…
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir is striking on many levels. Inimitable for his energy and ubiquity, online and offline. His personality for a politician is something off-norm. His…
This article is borne out of frustration and because I am fed up to the back teeth listening to various politicians saying they…
“Sometimes when you’re living through history you don’t see it.” The words above were spoken by the former RTE correspondent Charlie Bird at a Feile…
As Sinn Féin grows in popularity in the South, a subversive element is increasingly revealed, but not one that SF’s detractors have in mind. In…
Only a few days ago, the peace process appeared to be coming apart at the seams over the controversial arrest of Gerry Adams. Accusations…
Despite the thousands and thousands of words written and spoken about the arrest of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams no one asked the critical…
You just have to read a couple of lines in Declan Kearney’s regular blog for the Belfast Telegraph to realise we’re not out of…
If the arrest of Gerry Adams comes as a surprise to some, it will not come as a surprise to him. News of his…