A unionist MP and former soldier has said loyalists should be included in the latest effort to achieve agreement on addressing Northern Ireland’s past. Tom…
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Why should loyalists be involved in legacy talks? The answer is simple. It should not be complicated in conversations and arguments about mandates and votes. Loyalists…
Easter, 1916 - a terrible beauty was born. It had a dark and little seen twin; a terrible ignorance of the people of the North. South…
In 2011 a study at Harvard and Tufts found that white people in America, on average, believed that anti-white racism was a bigger problem than anti-black…
This time a couple of years ago, the loyalist Winston Irvine described the rebuilding of the PUP political project as more a marathon run than a…
I’ve felt green of late. Not a political conversion, rather, the green of envy. Jealous of the energy, vision and action of the Irish unity lobby.…
Last week marked the 21st Anniversary of the Ceasefire declared by the Combined Loyalist Military Command. It was heralded as an end to decades of…
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.…
The two men sitting at the table said something about how much this place has changed. In the conflict years they were in very different…
In, ‘Get real and love Northern Ireland for what it is warts and all’ published in the Belfast Telegraph (July 17 2015), Fionola Meredith was…
A fever and cloud of infection had been hanging over North Belfast - dark and ominous but we hoped it would dissipate. We wanted peace, forbearance…
There’s a backward Belfast, and there’s a bourgeois Belfast. Two Belfasts. Two Northern Irelands. Rory McIlroy versus Bryson Belfast; unbridled optimism versus plangent wallow, nostomania and…
The recently negotiated Stormont House Deal, which some have labelled ‘an agreement to make an agreement’ was dominated by discussions about welfare reform and the legacy…
I have watched, with interest, the ongoing exchange on Eamonn Mallie’s site, between Jamie Bryson and Brian John Spencer. The two figures represent two, opposing camps,…
The peace process in Northern Ireland has been a failure. The logjam of mandatory coalition is as predictable as it is inevitable and the only solution…