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Brian FeeneyThe Irish News |
There are two parts to making this a whole picture. Both its components are the NIO. Slipping out on New Year’s Eve that the British government...
Ted Howell, aka Eamon McCrory, who died yesterday after being ill for some time, was the most important republican figure in the peace process...
Sinn Féin’s most experienced – and some would say most effective – northern politician is heading for pastures new. It’s probably a matter...
Contrasting fortunes for the north’s two main parties in 2024. A roller coaster for Sinn Féin, ending the year better than they feared and many...
There’s a new podcast that’s been running for a couple of months with the BBC’s security correspondent, Gordon Corera, and David McCloskey, a...
Mary Lou McDonald wrote in this paper on Monday: “People want to be part of the conversation on the future of Ireland, on the shape of...
Today the General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) come into force in the EU and here. GPSR are a new set of EU trade regulations which mean that...
At least we have some description of what Stormont ministers do, a list of meetings. We’ve a long way to go to reach the level of a list of...
Those sighing with relief after the Dáil election, believing a border poll is going to be put on the back burner for at least another four years,...
It’s early days for working out the permutations of coalition in the south but the discussion seems to centre around whether Fianna Fáil and Fine...
Whatever the outcome of today’s general election in the south – three or four-party coalition, three parties with a gaggle of Independents, or...
You might have seen the picture of DUP leader Gavin Robinson standing beside graffiti on the wall of the Royal Victoria Hospital supporting...
The Italian communist leader and political theorist Antonio Gramsci’s best-known quotation is probably the entry in his ‘Prison Notebooks’ in...
It has emerged that the former SNP leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, has requested an investigation into the DUP’s conference clown, Sammy...
This week Sir Keir Starmer jetted off to the Cop29 conference in Baku in Azerbaijan to make a speech for home consumption. He announced he was...
Of course there’s an emotional, if not to say visceral, reaction to Michelle O’Neill’s attendance at Remembrance ceremonies from some people...
Today is the centenary of the first meeting of the Irish Boundary Commission, which met in London on the first Friday of November 1924. Established...
It looks as if the divided DUP – and their fiercest critics, the TUV – are going to work themselves up into a froth again about the Irish Sea...
You may not agree with Peter Robinson’s brilliant characterisation of Jim Allister as the unionist equivalent of Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese...
Sinn Féin’s downward trajectory in the south continues. The latest polls place the party at 16-17%, a far cry from the heady 36% in summer 2023....
The British and the French made a mess of reconstructing the Middle East out of the debris of the Ottoman empire, including committing the original...
Society here owes a debt of gratitude to Trevor Birney, Barry McCaffrey and their solicitor Niall Murphy (also solicitor for the families of...
The British laid the groundwork, literally in sand, which guaranteed instability in the Middle East until today. After the French had defeated an...
Forty-odd years ago there used to be what were called ‘butter mountains’, ‘milk lakes’ and ‘wine lakes’. They were the result of the then...
Iran is big. At 636,000 square miles, it’s 20 times the size of Ireland. Its population is 90 million. It has the world’s third largest proven...
While all attention has been focussed on the kerfuffle in his Downing Street private office, which forced a reset at the end of his bumpy, clunky...
The League of Nations formally allocated the French mandate for Syria in September 1923, but like the British mandate in Palestine and east of the...
Yesterday’s bumper bonanza budget in the south only adds to Sinn Féin’s difficulties. They had a good ard fheis at the weekend. Mary Lou McDonald...
You might have learnt at school that the Treaty of Versailles ended World War I. It did settle the immediate peace terms between the US, Britain,...
Boring, boring, boring. That sums up the DUP conference at the Crowne Plaza hotel on Saturday. Incidentally, why does the party keep returning to...
When World War I ended in 1918, the winners, principally Britain and France (for the US electorate had decisively rejected President Woodrow...
People have been queuing up to take a pop at the so-called Programme for Government: quite right too. It’s an insult to people’s intelligence and...
Keir Starmer is running around like a scalded cat: Berlin, Paris, Dublin and now Washington. We all know what he’s doing. He calls it...
Ian Paisley founded the DUP in 1971 as the political wing of the Free Presbyterian Church, the religious sect he had founded, and as a vehicle for...
So the downward spiral continues. It continues because neither the UUP nor the SDLP accepts it faces an existential crisis, now acute after a...
So far in these weekly looks at local parties the ones examined - People Before Profit, SDLP and UUP - have been irrelevant to the big picture....
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) published its latest report on August 23. It expresses a number of...
The duke of Wellington was appointed prime minister in January 1828. After his first cabinet meeting he remarked, “An extraordinary affair. I...
Not for the first time, Edwin Poots ended up with egg splattered all over his face. He had just finished telling the BBC that there weren’t enough...
On August 2, local BBC ran one of its Red Lines podcasts featuring Claire Hanna, MP for South Belfast & Mid-Down. The BBC thought, as you might...
Even this week as the media, print and electronic, reflected on last week’s race riots, newspapers and websites were still talking about “riots...
With Stormont’s toytown assembly on holiday, apart from special recall, it’s an opportunity to have a closer look at the parties over the coming...
For the US Capitol riots on January 6 2021, some people drove hundreds of miles to participate. It’s the classic example of the connection...
There is a refusal to accept the inescapable truth that this place is the last remnant of England’s first colony. As such it ticks all the boxes of...
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