‘The lady is not for turning.’ The arguments being prosecuted by Arlene Foster’s advisors for this stance - there can be no tolerance of any diminution…
” 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…
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 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…
Gerry Adams has met Prince Charles, or should that be Prince Charles has met Gerry Adams? It happened in Galway and for both it was a…
Ever since the Union flag restriction sparked a carnival of reaction and Robinson reversed on the moderate vernacular, destiny swayed with nationalism, it seemed. Nationalists were…
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…
There are at least two ways to get rid of an ice cube. Hit it with a hammer or melt it. You can do…
Every word that former PSNI chief constable Sir Hugh Orde speaks next Wednesday will be analysed and scrutinised. It will be his turn to give…
In peace processes across the world there will be things that all sides won’t want to know but, here, there is no credible explanation for…
Many still talk about that moment - and that image - that dates back to January 2007. It was the day Gerry Adams stepped…