I’ll be writing another time about my friend Maria Cahill’s brilliant and chilling best seller, Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin. Published: 3 October 2023 The title comes from W B Yeats’s “The Second Coming”, a poem written at a time of...
When it comes to sexual scandal, little is new. Published: 26 September 2023 Broadly, a lot of men try it on, vulnerable women often confuse lust with love, and uninterested women develop resistance strategies. The startling revelations about how senior media people...
For those of us who are not fans of Gerry Adams, there was some interesting news this month on the libel front, when he had a rare legal setback. Published: 29 March 2022 Presumably with a view to preserving his reputation of a man of peace, he is suing the BBC for...
Stephen Nolan and his producer, David Thompson — who offend the Northern Ireland elite because they broadcast the views of people they find deplorable — are being recognised as heroes in political and media circles across the Irish Sea. Published: 2 November 2021 This...
We must open our minds and have more empathy with those we do not agree with Published: 31 May 2020 I care about free speech and a free Press, without which corruption and injustice flourish, but at times there is a heavy price to be paid. After some weeks of watching...
Published: 22 April 2019 I was brought up a Roman Catholic but I ceased to be a believer a very long time ago. Yet I would describe myself as a Christian atheist, for of all the religions I know about, it is Christianity I most admire and feel at home with. There is...
