The singular message emerging from the conflicting voices within political unionism at this time is their opposition to the election of a Sinn Féin...

Some politicians rarely, if ever, see the irony in the words they use. Take Boris Johnson. He is currently using the dispute between the Ukraine an...

Collusion between British Intelligence, the RUC, UDR, British Army and Loyalist paramilitary organizations is a fact of life here. This is indisput...

Somehow human beings, including this columnist, put more stead in twenty year anniversaries than in nineteen year ones. So in the case of Bloody Su...

The drum beat and the chant echoed across the emptiness of Milltown Cemetery. Despite our heavy coats the January cold penetrated through to the bo...

I want to extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Ashling Murphy. The spontaneous public outpouring of grief at her murder under...

The narrow vote in the Dáil 100 years ago last week in favor of the Treaty imposed the partitionist institutions demanded by the British under thre...

Our old pal Tom Hartley is a fine singer. He and I have been known to duet together. Back in the day, in C Wing in Belfast Prison on the Crumlin Ro...

Recently I met with activists involved in the Glór na Móna project in West Belfast. Along with the local MLA, Aisling Reilly, they briefed us on th...

THE TREATY In the early hours of 6 December 1921 the Irish delegates taking part in the negotiations with the British government signed The Anglo I...

In a powerful video message 12,000 Ulster Gaels are appealing to our fellow Gaels in Munster, Leinster and Connaught to sign and endorse a letter t...

“The first casualty when war comes is the truth” said U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. We know only too well from our own recent experience of r...