That picture pose on the steps of Parliament Buildings yesterday told the story of the day. There is a new spring in the Sinn Fein step.…
This was a day when so much changed. There was a photo-finish in terms of seats and the share of the vote. The DUP just got…
Picture by @AntrimLens Several years ago Sinn Féin set out our view that the most effective truth recovery mechanism was an International Independent Truth Commission set…
The election on March 2nd has the potential to be a defining moment in the peace and political process. Over the past ten years, despite the…
Two weeks out from Stormont’s next big day on January 16th, it is far too early to be talking about bottom lines. In the plays and…
Over the past number of days British Secretary of State James Brokenshire has been scene setting for potentially another attempt to resolve the outstanding issue of…
It was one of those ‘what next?’ conversations - a thinking out about the next phase of the peace process, about what has happened and what…
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…
” The Ireland of 2016, the crowning year in this decade of centenaries, has degenerated into a vicious war of words. The leaders of the establishment…
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…
Ireland has a problem with travellers. Ten members of the minority community are immolated in a domestic fire and Ireland expresses grief, but adds a qualification.…
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 loser in this episode of the peace process will be those who oppose the Belfast Agreement. In July, Stormont was deadlocked, with no end in…
The recent political crisis has laid bare the dysfunctional nature of our power-sharing institutions. The DUP have for so long extolled the virtues of the “better…
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…