November 8 was the anniversary of the 1987 Enniskillen bomb attack in which 11 people were killed in an IRA bomb attack. Just before I left Belfast to travel to the USA I was interviewed for a documentary on the Ballymurphy Massacre in August 1971 in which 11 people were killed by the British Parachute Regiment. […]
Posts Tagged ‘Ireland’
Adams and Powell to address Ireland conference in London
Sep 4th, 2013 by Newsdesk.A conference in London next month will see Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and others address a series of themes relating to the place of Ireland in the twenty-first century. Titled “Towards a new Ireland – a new phase of the peace process”, the conference, hosted by Sinn Féin, will consider the economic future of the […]
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Austerity is hurting Ireland, north and south
Jul 19th, 2013 by Conor Murphy.People in Ireland are struggling under the impact of austerity policies. So too are people in Britain. We often have more in common than we think. In many countries in the Euro Area the ‘Troika’, the EU Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF have imposed very harsh austerity measures. But in 2008 the […]
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The Good Friday Agreement and the promise of a new society
Apr 10th, 2013 by Gerry Adams.On the signing of the Good Friday Agreement George Mitchel famously said that that was the easy bit. The hard part was going to be implementing it. And he was right. The twists and turns from April 10th 1998 to April 2013 have been many. At times the process has collapsed. At other times it […]
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Join Irish trade unionists on the St Patrick’s day parade tomorrow
Mar 16th, 2013 by Newsdesk.There will be a trade union presence on the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in London tomorrow, Sunday 17th March. The occasion is to commemorate the 100 years since the “Dublin Lockout!” This event was an important epoch in the history of Trade Unionism in Ireland as the anniversary is being promoted by the Dublin Trades […]
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A border poll – let the people decide
Jan 23rd, 2013 by Gerry Adams.Who would have believed it? Sinn Féin holds a conference in Dublin on Saturday and calls for a border poll in the next term of the Assembly and Oireachtas, and by Tuesday the DUP are supporting it! Of course Arlene Foster backs the idea because she’s convinced that it will deliver the answer she wants. According […]
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I’m up for a sensible debate on British and Irish identities
Jan 22nd, 2013 by Martin McGuinness.The last few weeks have been bad weeks for the political process, bad weeks for the peace process and bad weeks for the vast majority of people who are absolutely wedded to building a new society on this island. I have listened very carefully to the various reasons being put forward by those involved in […]
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Ireland’s ‘austerity’ is working – for profits
Nov 12th, 2012 by Michael Burke.The Central Statistical Office (CSO) has produced its latest institutional sector accounts for the Irish economy in 2011. The title would suggest they are among the driest economic data possible – from a long list. In fact they are among the most important data available because they reveal the sources of income for all the […]
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Just how left wing is Sinn Féin?
Nov 5th, 2012 by David Osler.There is a political party in the United Kingdom – and I use the geographical expression advisedly – content to serve as junior partner in a rightwing-dominated coalition committed to austerity, reductions in public spending, privatisation, the PFI and tax cuts for business. And no, I am not talking about the Liberal Democrats. Unfortunately, such […]
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Sinn Féin show a progressive, left way forward
Oct 30th, 2012 by Jayne Fisher.The recent article ANC and Sinn Féin: when radicals move to the right cannot go unanswered. I would not wish to comment on its assertions about the ANC, and indeed to conflate the two is both simplistic and wrong. But on the issue of Sinn Féin and the political struggle in Ireland, it is both factually […]
