A twelve year old Dublin boy has asked Queen Elizabeth to return Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland. This is the kind of blunt thinking,…
We’re all unionists now. Being a member of a group of nations that pools power and decision-making is all the vogue. For unionists, having a partition…
On Sunday (October 18 2015) the leader of Fianna Fáil Micheál Martin addressed the Annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration in Bodenstown. I previously looked at the Arbour Hill…
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…
This article is borne out of frustration and because I am fed up to the back teeth listening to various politicians saying they…
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…
The invitation extended to Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister to attend a state banquet at Windsor Castle last week, is one of many “unthinkable” things…
I was reflecting on the stalled Haass proposals and the stark warning he issued during evidence to the US Congressional subcommittee of foreign relations.…
After the Romney defeat in 2012 you thought the GOP would start to exhibit a little modesty and even move towards pragmatic sausage-making. No.…
The past is full of poison – and every day it seeps into the present. That’s the reality of our here and now –…
What we are now witnessing on the streets of Egypt could happen here. Sky cameraman Mick Deane (pictured below) died yesterday when he was…
“Difficult night, but settling now. At least no lives lost.” The words were part of a text message sent to me late on Friday…
I wondered what ‘cultural war’ would really look like and, having thought about it, I hope we never go there. By now, a lot…
(You can follow Brian Rowan on Twitter by clicking here) An old saying comes to mind – that we’re all different. We all have our…