We should find a silver lining where we can, even in the worst moments. Published: 27 February 2023 That horrible attack on Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell — yet another fine policeman hated by bad people — has had the unintended consequence of bringing Sinn...
Yesterday I asked two friends from the southern Catholic nationalist tribe into which I was born how they would feel about a united Ireland. Published: 31 January 2023 One said “Utterly negative. I don’t want my nice country messed up.” The second one screamed, which...
Having just read Malachi O’Doherty’s excellent “Can Ireland Be One?’’ I’ve now finished another unputdownable book Sinn Fein will hate. Published: 11 October 2022 The party didn’t make it easy for Shane Ross — a journalist and Independent TD who was a minister...
Having claimed for decades that the majority of the electorate in the Irish Republic just pay lip service to the idea of a united Ireland, I got a momentary shock the other day when I saw the Irish Times leading with ‘Large majority of voters favour a united Ireland,...
