Author: Colm Dore

Among the statues of supremacists which have fallen in recent days, that of King Leopold of Belgium points to the lie that people in the past…

During the Troubles, platitudes about violence often took the place of serious engagement, which turned out to be unavoidable. There’s an echo of this…

The RHI scandal caused this election because it put the spotlight on a politics of superiority which rejects partnership. Arlene Foster rejected her government partner’s offer of assistance to avoid an election. When the UUP…

Mike Nesbitt’s vision of “partnership not domination” on eamonnmallie.com has been welcomed by a swathe of the political spectrum. Here is “strong” Unionism which exhibits a…

The leadership of Unionism is at another crossroads, with another O’Neill, and another Paisley. Historical resonance abounds. Sinn Fein has rarely been more in tune with…

Some RHI Stormont crisis analysis pessimistically cites the fact that the two main parties don’t share the same constitutional aims, and don’t agree on the name…

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 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 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…

Maybe Mike Nesbitt is playing a smart game of chess. Or maybe he can’t even visualise toppling dominoes. He’s the enigmatic (flip-flopping?) ‘moderate’ who takes a…

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…

Unionism was founded on, and remains dominated by, fear of the Other, inextricably linked with regard of the Other as inferior. That is incompatible…