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Covering up British Killings
Last week the Assembly resumed following its summer break. Next week it will be the turn of the Dáil. Normally we would be back in Leinster House by now but a major renovation is in progress and this...
View ArticleThe shame of the International Community
Imagine being so frightened and desperate that you are prepared to be packed tightly with your babies and children, and hundreds of other distressed and despairing people, into a cold dark storage room...
View ArticleBrexit battle lines are drawn
After five months of confusion over what Brexit will mean in practice the British Prime Minister Theresa May has finally given some substance to her ‘Brexit means Brexit’ line. The Conservative Party...
View ArticleBrits plan to ignore human rights laws - again
British governments like to pose as the defenders of freedom. Last year’s celebration by the British system of the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta sought to reinforce a political...
View ArticleThe centre ground and the politics of Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Following the February election Fianna Fáil engaged in a long drawn out charade of seeking to form a government. It refused to talk to Sinn Féin – as did Fine Gael – and spent weeks posturing. No one...
View ArticleRemembering Máire Drumm:
In the years since her death Máire Drumm has become an iconic figure in Irish republicanism. She was an extraordinary, larger than life leader who was a woman, a mother, a grandmother, a political...
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A State in Denial
Last month the British government revealed plans to opt out of European convention on human rights. Prime Minister May set it in the context of trying to end what she called the ‘industry of vexatious...
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Standing up for Ireland in the EU
The British political establishment and media like to describe Westminster as the ‘mother of Parliaments’. They ignore the cruel exploitation of scores of colonies during centuries of Empire and the...
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Irish America and the Peace Process
Light was fading over New York when I managed to escape for a brief period to stretch my legs and go for a walk through its streets and avenues. It was a crisp Friday evening and my second in the Big...
View ArticleClimate Change – an avoidable human tragedy
If you believe the new President of the United States then global warming is a hoax. If you believe the mountain of hard data coming from countless scientific agencies then global change presents the...
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Fidel Castro - Death of a Revolutionary Hero
I have been lucky in my life to have met many brave people. Ordinary men and women who in exceptional times in Ireland or Palestine, in South Africa or Cuba, in the Basque country or Colombia, and in...
View ArticleAdams hits out at Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach over misrepresentations of...
On Tuesday in the Dáil and in my absence, the Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin used my efforts to assist the family of Brian Stack in an opportunistic and contemptible way to attack on me.He was...
View ArticleGerry Adams TD statement to the Dáil on the death of Brian Stack
Let me begin by saying once again that the shooting of Brian Stack was wrong. It was a grievous loss for his family and should never have happened.In the absence of the two governments agreeing to a...
View ArticleNa h’Abair é – Dean é: Don’t say it-do it.
There is busy and there is BUSY. And the last few weeks have been BUSY. I returned to Ireland on Friday after four days in Cuba attending the funeral of Fidel Castro. The following morning, with my jet...
View ArticleFF and FG turn their back on truth recovery
‘Count your fingers after you shake their hands’ was what one Dublin comrade advised me when I first broached with him the idea of resigning my west Belfast seat and standing for the Dáil.‘If you think...
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DUP arrogance damages institutions
Not since Michael Stone’s abortive ‘performance art’ attack on Parliament Buildings in 2006, in an attempt to kill myself and Martin McGuinness, has the Assembly chamber cleared more quickly. Monday’s...
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Jesus is a Palestinian
The obscenity of Israel's apartheid Wall at BethlehemI like Christmas. Not the frantic, frenzied stress that possesses some folks at this festive time. Not the Xmas variety. Or the Boxing Day brand....
View ArticleThe institutions are at a defining point
In March 2007 Ian Paisley and I sat side by side and announced the restoration of the political institutions. It was one of many historic little moments that have marked the peace process since 1994....
View ArticleStand up with Martin
The Christmas and New Year period has been a busy time as Sinn Fein grappled with the DUP created Renewable Heat Incentive scandal, the allegations of corruption and fraud associated with it, and the...
View ArticleStand against corruption
Last Monday Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy First Minister because Arlene Foster refused to stand aside, without prejudice to allow an independent investigation to be established into allegations...
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