Articles published in 2019
Who are the New IRA? The name might have changed, but they’re the same men of violence who ignore the wishes of the people
Published: 23 April 2019 “What we are seeing is...
Ideological fig-leaf that covers a violent, selfish pursuit of power
Published: 20 April 2019 “I didn’t know it was...
Although Lyra was not at all religious, her impulses were undoubtedly of a Christian hue
Published: 22 April 2019 I was brought up...
Lyra McKee’s murder reveals the ongoing menace of political violence
Published: 21 April 2019 I’ve been writing and...
What a sickening waste of a lovely, gifted woman
Lyra McKee was a brilliant journalist on the...
She was driven by journalistic passion, but Lyra’s life was also centred around love
Published: 20 April 2019 Lyra had such a genius...
Sickening waste of my brave young friend’s life: Murdered journalist Lyra McKee transcended boundaries with her humanity, compassion and curiosity
Published: 19 April 2019 Lyra was killed...
Why are we so indifferent to attempts all over the world to wipe out Christianity?
Published: 15 April 2019 Last week I was at a...
The British Commonwealth changed – so why can’t we?
We badly need all the opportunities available in...
If Belfast was the cockpit of the campaign by the Provisional IRA, then the South was its engine
Published: 8 April 2019 In A Broad Church: The...
Orange Order in Ireland should now get in step with Scottish brethren and end archaic ban
Many lodge members already attend funerals and...
Shared future a long way off if republicans refer to a great man of peace as ‘the likes of you’
When such a passionate campaigner as Trevor...
The Shinners appropriate my country’s flag & history and I’m sick of it… green is for all
When it comes to the heritage of Ireland,...
How can the government put a soldier in the dock while letting IRA killers go free?
Published: 14 March 2019Most law-abiding people...
The DUP risk self-destruction if the PM’s deal fails, but we can still trust them to put Brexit first
Its leadership will not cave in and accept a bad...
They abducted, tortured and shot dead Jean McConville, but she hasn’t gone away, you know
Gerry Adams will not appreciate Hollywood's plan...
IRA hard men are still in charge and waging war through their lawyers
Sinn Fein/IRA might have stopped killing, but...
It’s looking like the St Andrews chickens will come home to roost when RHI Inquiry reports
Probe into cash-for-ash highlights how insidious...
Sacrifice of UDR members rarely given credit, but the unit saved us from civil war
With quiet courage, it defended people's right...
Mary Lou shows how she really is ‘Mary Clueless’ once again
Gerry Adams didn't understand the south, but...
Corbyn’s cuddly grandad image masks a tunnel-visioned ideologue who hates achievers
A new biography of the Labour leader makes for...
Yet another memorial to why Sinn Fein is not fit to govern
An outbreak of sanity over statues runs into...
Lord Trimble’s challenge will hopefully throw a legal spanner in the works of backstop plan
The Government has capitulated to a distorted...
DUP’s injection of some steel into spineless UK Government makes workable Brexit possible
Being consistent and unbending on backstop can...
Ill-informed Fintan O’Toole has stoked the Irish Republican narrative of grievance
Published: 1 February 2019I can’t resist joining...
Irish language doesn’t deserve to be misused as a tribalistic weapon by opportunists
Sinn Fein is bent on expanding Republic's...
The true republican believers haven’t gone away, you know
Will another republican crackpot be planting a...
Naive Leo Varadkar has finally clocked that the EU has used Ireland to punish Britain
Published: 24 January 2019 "If you'd like to...
It’s not only the DUP that is sectarian, Mr Clarke… it’s all of Northern Ireland politics
Tory grandee may be best Prime Minister we never...
Rows on council over cartoonist and Belfast Blitz memorial sad indictment of our politics
With no Assembly, City Hall largest democratic...
Peadar Toibin is riding a hard race in the outside lane
Sinn Fein's refusal to allow its representatives...
A human rights sector that is interested only in sins of the state can have little credibility
The spaghetti alphabet of organisations seem to...