What happened to the Glasgow I love?
The perception of Glasgow still held by outsiders – that it’s all tenement blocks and stabbings, that the only food…
Will the ‘Tik Tok Taoiseach’ undo the damage done by Leo Varadkar?
Simon Harris, the anointed successor to the outgoing Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, has quite the in-tray. Harris, who was the…
Varadkar’s true achievement was screwing over the Brits
The departure of Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach yesterday should really be marked by Irish nationalists with elaborate memorials and tributes…
Sinn Fein’s rise to power is nothing to celebrate
The resumption of devolution in Northern Ireland – scheduled for tomorrow after the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) reached a deal…
Ireland is falling out of love with Sinn Fein
Is the Sinn Fein star starting to wane? Support for the party has hit its lowest level for four years…
Agreeing to power-sharing now could ruin the DUP
Once upon a time, a young unionist politician marched out of a talks process. Recalling the incident later, he said: ‘I…
South Africa has no right to lecture Israel
As South Africa presented its case accusing Israel of genocide to the International Court of Justice, the presence of former…
The families of IRA terrorists shouldn’t get compensation
In the period between Christmas and New Year archives in both Belfast and Dublin are opened and documents are declassified.…
The tension simmering beneath the Dublin riots
The situation in Dublin yesterday – in which five people were injured in a knife attack in the heart of…
Suella Braverman has a point about Northern Ireland
Suella Braverman’s description of pro-Palestinian protests as being ‘disturbingly reminiscent of Ulster’ has given the Province’s political class yet another…
Sinn Fein’s troubling ‘solidarity’ with Palestinians
Black Mountain, which looms above West Belfast, acts as a blank canvas for Irish republicans to plaster their thoughts across.…
The Orange order risks damaging the cause for Irish unionism
Another year and another July has come round where viewers in the UK have been treated to the sight of…
Will Northern Ireland ever learn to solve its own problems?
If the relationship between the UK and the United States is allegedly special, the relationship between Northern Irish politicians and…
The Good Friday Agreement hasn’t solved Northern Ireland’s troubles
Northern Ireland is a few weeks out from a Davos-style gathering of the great and the good to mark 25…
Rishi Sunak’s Protocol could tear the DUP apart
Will the Windsor Framework prove the undoing of Jeffrey Donaldson and the DUP? The mood music amongst some of the…
The DUP has a right to be difficult over the Northern Ireland Protocol
It’s easy to take an unsympathetic view of the Democratic Unionist Party. For many, its politicians are caricatures of the…
Nicola Sturgeon is running out of road
Nicola Sturgeon gave a predictable response to the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Scottish government does not have the power…
Another set of Northern Irish elections won’t solve anything
Northern Ireland is set for another election. The failure to reboot the province’s power-sharing Executive by the deadline last Friday…
The sectarian shame of Ireland's women's football team
How bad is Irish nationalism’s sectarian problem? In the somewhat Panglossian world occupied by nationalist and republican activists and politicians…
Are Northern Ireland's unionists about to hand Sinn Fein victory?
‘Ulster stands at the crossroads,’ Northern Ireland’s prime minister Terence O’Neill famously declared in 1968 as the Troubles began to take hold. A crossroads…
Could the rise of Sinn Fein lead to a united Ireland?
The possibility of a political wing of a terrorist organisation becoming a party of government in an EU member state would…
When will the DUP realise the truth about the Tory Brexit strategy?
Are the Tories serious about getting rid of the troublesome Northern Ireland Protocol? The latest extension to the so-called grace period –…
Northern Irish unionists are united against the protocol
The DUP’s departed leader Edwin Poots spoke in his valedictory interview of a ‘significant victory’ heading unionism’s way regarding its…
The Troubles amnesty and the hypocrisy of Sinn Fein
Predictably – and understandably – the Northern Ireland Office’s proposed amnesty for crimes relating to the Troubles has resulted in…
Has Boris Johnson forgotten what he once said about IRA terrorists?
Boris Johnson’s approach to dealing with historical prosecutions in Northern Ireland has achieved that unique political feat in the Province: uniting both…
