A Windfall Tax urgently needed: Moore St at the Féile: Where is the...
A Windfall Tax urgently neededThe cost of living crisis is taking a terrible toll on families. Food and energy bills are increasing at a phenomenal rate pushing more and more people into debt and...
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The Troubles I’ve Seen; An Dream Dearg - Cearta Teanga; National Hunger...
The Troubles I’ve SeenDuring the Féile I went to watch The Troubles I’ve Seen in Áras Úi Chonghaile. I’m glad I did. The Troubles I’ve Seen is a documentary which is being shown across the North. The...
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The Belfast Peoples Assembly: Prison Privilges
The Belfast Peoples AssemblyHardly a week passes now without politicians, bloggers and columnists writing about Irish unity and calling on the Dublin government to establish a Citizens’ Assembly to...
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Another British PM closer to Unity: On Dangerous Ground: The Chieftain's Walk
Another British PM closer to UnityLiz Truss is now the leader of the Conservative Party and British Prime Minister. No real surprise there. She is the fourth leader of the Tories in six years. And as...
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Tolerating of Differences: Colm's Harps
Tolerating of Differences For those of us living in the north of Ireland the English Queen Elizabeth has been omnipresent in our lives for a long time. From our postage stamps, coins and bank notes...
View ArticleUnravelling the northern state: Last rites
16 September 2022Unravelling the northern stateLast week’s census figures have generated acres of newsprint and headlines on its detail and implications. It is remarkable that a century after...
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Belfast Peoples' Assembly: Together we Can: State Murder in the Glens: Lucas
101022Belfast Peoples Assembly.Tomorrow evening - Wednesday 12 October - Belfast Sinn Féin will be holding the inaugural meeting of the Peoples' Assemblies organised by the party's Commission on the...
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Face it Jeffrey: the old days are not returning: Kavanagh’s Anthology a...
Creeslough: Coming to terms will be so difficultI know Creeslough well. I have friends who live there. Outside the village. At both ends. My heart goes out to the families of the ten people who were...
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Conway Mill celebrates 40th birthday; The tragedy of Somalia; I don't hate Bono
241022Fra McCann with the family of Fr. Des below a mural of Fr. Des and Frank CahillConway Mill – 40th birthdayConway Mill has been at the heart of west Belfast for over almost 200 years. First as a...
View ArticleGood Advice?: The Climate Emergency: Well done Lula
Good Advice? I thought I might pass on a random sample of some of the personal advice I have been given over the years. You dear reader might, like me, benefit from some of it. Or perhaps not.‘If you...
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Time to Extend Presidential Vote to North and Diaspora ; End the Cuban...
141122Time to Extend Presidential Vote to North and Diaspora Last week I wrote about the threat posed to our world by climate change. The international climate change conference - COP 27 – which...
View ArticleWords and Hiberno English: Join Adrian Dunbar in Moore St.
21 November 2023Words.In Ireland the English which we use is Hiberno English. We use Irish language constructions a lot as well as many Irish words or words based on Irish words.As part of the...
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Marie Ferris and Martin: Adrian Dunbar in Moore St.
281122Marie Ferris and Martin. A week or so ago on November 18 in Killarney 820 republicans broke bread together in honour of Martin and Marie Ferris. It was a great night. Marie Ferris is one of my...
View ArticleA Massacre in Instalments: Making the Case for Irish Unity: Last words
A Massacre in InstalmentsAs I write this column the number of Palestinians killed this year by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza strip is 207. By the...
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Joseph McKelvey; MONTIAGHISMS.
Joseph McKelveyThe Sinn Féin building on the Falls Road at the corner of Sevastopol St. is internationally famous for its mural of Bobby Sands. Less well known is the fact that the building is...
View ArticleNollaigh Shona Daoibh: A night before Christmas
241222Nollaigh Shona Daoibh. Beannachtaí daoibhse go leir. Have a great Christmas dear readers. Thanks and benedictions also to the Belfast Media Group team. Christmas can be a sad and stressful time...
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Bliain Úr faoi Mhaise Daoibhse: Mountain treasures on our doorstep: The Good...
301222Bliain Úr faoi Mhaise DaoibhseA very happy new year to all readers of this column and to Belfast Media supporters. Congratulations again to Andersonstown News on your 50th Anniversary. A great...
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A rights based society will benefit all of us; More Oul Words; An Dream Dearg
A rights based society will benefit all of us2022 was an interesting year politically. Particularly around the changing attitudes about the relationship between the different parts of the ‘United...
View ArticleA failure of leadership: Don’t Let The Old Man In: More oul words
A failure of leadershipThe Irish government’s two year term on the UN Security Council is at an end. Micheál Martin, now Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs claimed last week that the government...
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BE PREPARED FOR MORE STUPIDITIES: THE MOST HOSPITABLE HOUSE IN IRELAND
BE PREPARED FOR MORE STUPIDITIESI considered ignoring the British Government’s exclusion of the Sinn Féin President from the recent talks. Then I thought why should I? Stupidity like this needs...
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