by nabidana | Nov 5, 2015 | Ireland, Northern Ireland
Some quixotic souls in the republican movement must last night have been sitting, breath bated, in Arran sweater and Celtic jersey wearing clusters. They were waiting, no doubt with poitín in hand, for RTÉ’s ‘Ireland’s Call’ PrimeTime Special,...
by nabidana | Aug 28, 2015 | Northern Ireland
When did the IRA say it was going away? When did the ‘Ra announce it was dissolving and disappearing and not being a thing anymore? I couldn’t remember, but surely the DUP must remember it happening, otherwise why would it appear to be surprised that the...
by nabidana | Aug 26, 2015 | Northern Ireland
The decision of the Ulster Unionist Party to seek to withdraw from the piss-weak simulacrum of government in Northern Ireland is not an indication of a party having finally rediscovered its moral and political purpose – or if it is, it’s an indication of a...
by nabidana | Dec 3, 2014 | Northern Ireland
Sinn Féin and the DUP may not agree on much, but one thing they do agree on is the exercise and maintenance of political power. Theirs is a murky, unpleasant world, an agreed apartheid where each is content to wield influence and control over their own ghettoised...
by nabidana | Nov 25, 2014 | Northern Ireland
Gerry Adams’ bad luck catches up with him all at once, it seems. The towering intellectual collossus of militant republicanism (as we once thought of him) is undone by the sunlight that constitutional politics and an active, inquisitive press throws onto the man...
by nabidana | May 17, 2011 | Ireland, Northern Ireland, politics, Rugby
As my friend and utterly sound fellow Conservative Andre Walker points out, there is something deeply unimpressive in the logic of Irish dissident republicans planting bombs in their own capital city to protest the visit of a foreign monarch on a state visit. The fact...
