Articles published in 2020
With the right spirit Northern Ireland could prosper mightily after the Brexit trade deal
Nationalist or unionist, if you care about the...
Nationalists do not own the poet Seamus Heaney in the same way that unionists do not own Mary Peters
One reason that I, originally from the southern...
Brian Stanley’s tweet points to a heart of darkness in Sinn Fein
Today, Laois-Offaly TD Brian Stanley makes a...
Sinn Fein glorifying the IRA is a peril to the Republic
Published: 8 November 2020 “In current...
To spend millions more on murder of Pat Finucane would be insult to many other victims who have had little attention
I’m very relieved that Secretary of State...
Boris Johnson would be mad to sanction a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane
Published: 26 november 2020 Four of Northern...
No, Joe Biden’s sentimental attachment to Ireland doesn’t imperil Brexit or the special relationship
Published: 16 November 2020 Is the US-UK...
President Higgins struck right note on the centenary of Bloody Sunday
I’m not a great fan of Michael D. Higgins,...
Brave new book examines what really happened in the Troubles
Liam Kennedy’s astonishing book Who Was...
Donald Trump understood the plight of poor white Americans
Trump may be on his way out, which I find hard...
Official Ireland will hate this wonderful memoir by Kevin Myers
In 2019 I was a guest speaker — the warm-up act...
Edwin Poots was right to raise behavioural factors in the spread of Covid-19
‘At today’s press briefing,” tweeted Sam Taylor,...
The south of Ireland should be ashamed of its response to IRA terrorism
The Irish Republic has much to be ashamed about...
When it comes to the law, cards are heavily stacked against critics of republicanism
It’s got to the stage that people are afraid to...
Too few people down south know how brilliantly republicans distort history
I come from Dublin and live in London, but I...
Lack of libel reform in NI helps republicans to bully critics, and is a serious threat to free speech
Well, the tweet from editor Alistair Bushe last...
Nationalism okay for Irish people, but not for Brexit supporters
UK’s critics guilty of double standards when it...
Time for Joe Biden to face facts on Northern Ireland
The Democratic Party has a habit of falling for...
My novel approach to fighting all this snowflake madness
Woke generation are destroying everything that...
Why Ireland is collateral damage to EU’s ambition
People blind to European Union's bid to create a...
The Oxford-educated, upper-class rebel: Bridget Rose Dugdale was a debutante turned IRA bomber… and now she’s in the frame for an infamous 1970s art heist
Anthony Amore alleges IRA bomber Rose Dugdale...
Why Republic should follow the UK’s lead and leave the French/German dominated EU
New book shows south does not have the ties to...
Why David Trimble played just as big a role as John Hume did in delivering peace to Northern Ireland
People seem to forget how crucial the ex- UUP...
In defence of Claire Fox
Published: 17 August 2020 I have been so...
Price of Hume’s invitation to Sinn Fein to step aboard the peace train was too high
Stopping the Provos destroyed the SDLP and...
Hume’s legitimisation of Sinn Fein was an appalling misjudgement
Published: 4 August 2020 It is a grievous sin in...
Why the real fascists are the ones who don’t like to hear the views that differ from their own
Last week's attack on Irish Freedom Party in...
Why unionists and nationalists should not shy away from their competing views on past
There's no point in providing history students...
Why it’s time for Sinn Fein to call off the ‘Shinnerbots’ and their social media trolling
Michelle O'Neill was abused online but it's tame...
Delusional to believe that geography rather than shared memory makes a nation
A new book examines the incompatibility, between...
Republican leadership are hoping that loyalists will fall into their cynical trap
The strategy behind the infamous Storey funeral...
Bobby Storey: a violent thug who played role in the collapse of Stormont on three occasions
We should challenge false narrative peddled by...
Last of JFK’s siblings leaves a contentious legacy behind in Ireland after her death at 92
Jean Kennedy Smith was Irish republicanism's...
Accept culling of statues on ideological grounds and George Orwell’s 1984 beckons
A new breed of ‘offence archaeologists’ waging...
Police should not be getting down on one knee in support of Black Lives Matter protests
Of course there must be racial equality, but new...
Narrow-minded views held by a significant portion of the Press spells danger for all
We must open our minds and have more empathy...
Sinn Fein has no time for little complexities of real life in its dummy’s guide to Middle East
Palestinians can only be seen as victims and the...
Coronavirus pandemic has shown us that the majority of people are basically good
A new book challenges the message of Lord Of The...
Can the UK hold together?
Published: May 15 2020 When he was in his...
Gerry Adams was not in the IRA
Artillery Row Published: 14 May 2020 My, my,...
Isn’t it time to stop misusing the statistics on coronavirus death rates to score a political point?
It's a travesty to say the UK is doing worse...
An old ally is very ill and a virus threatens our way of life, but there is still much to enjoy
We may be stuck with lockdown, but we should...
He’s keeping a lowish profile, but Gerry Adams still remains very significant within Sinn Fein
Ex-party leader's main resemblance to Patrick...
I love life and have no wish to die Malachi, but the risks of resuscitation are not for me
This is a time for cool heads, not emotional...
Sinn Fein’s backwards approach to Covid-19 outbreak proves lengths it will go to show disdain for UK
Why does the party slavishly urge obedience to...
It’s for public to decide if we’re to wreck our economies to stop more old and sick dying
We should be brave when, soon, we have to make...
Forget about the virus just for a moment… stand and stare at the wonders all around us
The effects of the coronavirus are not all bad,...
Pragmatism, positivity and perseverance will help see us through coronavirus crisis gripping world
In midst of coronavirus, try to ignore moaners,...
Ireland’s fight to win itself a place on the UN Security Council doesn’t do it any credit
Blatantly anti-Israel organisation has long...
Why the killers of Lyra McKee took her beloved mother Joan’s life just as surely as if they’d shot her too
The bullet, or the bomb, that murders one person...