Gerry Kelly’s solicitors have served me with a libel writ. Published: 21 June 2022 For legal reasons, I can’t yet say publicly what he’s upset about except that I think it’s ridiculous and I’m standing by what I wrote because I believe it is true. I did the same when,...
Being President Higgins means never having to say you are sorry. Published: 21 June 2022 Nothing seems to shake this life-long Marxist’s remarkable and unjustified self-belief. He’s just dropped two enormous clangers — but he won’t admit it. He has plenty of form, of...
Last week, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that the republican terrorist Liam Campbell can be extradited to Lithuania — an outcome his lawyers have been fighting for 12 years, I presume still on legal aid. Published: 17 May 2022 The European Arrest Warrant alleges that...
I couldn’t stand Piers Morgan until he lost his job on Good Morning Britain for telling the truth about Meghan Markle Published: 10 May 2022 Then I overlooked his crassness, praised his moral courage and wished him well in his new job with Talk TV. But the honeymoon...
Over-excited nationalists will say otherwise, but whatever happens on Thursday, the country will not unite in our lifetime Published: 3 May 2020 If the pollsters have got it right, by the weekend, although unionists will almost certainly have scored more votes than...
I am now even more proud of being a columnist for this honourable newspaper, which revealed last week how and why it had successfully defended itself against an unjustified libel case. Published: 22 March 2022 “We were determined to fight this case,” wrote editor Ben...
I know that what matters at the moment is whether the lunatic in his Moscow lair can be prevented from murdering vast numbers in his doomed mission to restore the Russian Empire that was abolished in 1917 and be brought down by his own egomania.Published: 1 March...
Mick Fealty of the invaluable website sluggerotoole.com wrote for so many of us on Sunday after hearing the terrible news. Published: 22 February 2022 “The DUP MLA Christopher Stalford was one of the good guys. He was always sincere in his politics, proud of the fact...
Last Christmas was the first for years that I didn’t write a column about people I would like to deport to a desert island. Published: 28 December 2021 With Covid busily ruining the lives of so many, it seemed tasteless to wrench from their families even people like...
As a friend of the Irish language, I hate the thought of the squalid deal now being negotiated between the DUP and Sinn Fein. Published: 15 June 2021 Irish has been ill-served by uncompromising advocates, few of whom seem no more fluent in it than Edwin Poots is said...