The latest occasional poll from Liverpool University’s Institute of Irish Studies has been picked up by the Belfast Telegraph ...
According to Brendan Hughes at the BBC, Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has written to all eleven councils regarding the ...
A senior Russian politician has warned that a Co Tyrone town is on a ‘strike list’ should war break out between Russia and European states. Former Deputy Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin named 23 ...
I should begin this blog with a declaration of interest. My father was a Czech Jew, a political refugee who arrived in Ireland in 1948, and my mother was an Ulster Presbyterian. So I am not a typical ...
Sir Iain Livingstone and Chief Constable Jon Boutcher yesterday delivered the findings of Operation Kenova and its off-shoot, Operation Denton. As per the wikipedia article “Operation Kenova is an ...
Northern Ireland is falling behind on fiscal powers- and it’s holding back our progress. Over the past twenty-five years, Scotland and Wales have each gained significant new fiscal tools, and both now ...
The world is on fire. There are wars in Africa. There are conflicts in Asia. There is the ongoing, grinding bloodbath in Ukraine. And of course, there is Israel versus everyone seemingly within ...
The Secretary of State, Hilary Benn joined the Stormont Sources podcast during the week to discuss the budget, Stormont Reform and a border poll. “It’s a long way off because no one who is calling for ...
Constitutional change to a united Ireland is high stakes– it would change almost every aspect of life for almost everyone on the island. Even discussion of it provokes anger among unionists and ...
It’s been ramped up to fever pitch – mob rule – Government endorsed. Pitchfork law … of clubs, guns, and torches. As West Bank settlers attack graveyards, burn houses, cars, brutally harass villagers, ...
Rising anger over the various Middle East conflicts involving Israel in the past two years, particularly the war in Gaza (which has been determined to be genocidal by a UN commission) led RTÉ, as well ...
According to Auryn Cox of the BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4q5g2ww55o) we are heading for a difficult flu season. Auryn reports, “Flu cases among ...