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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
BBC 19 Nov 09 Coleraine councillor Billy Leonard has been selected by Sinn Fein colleagues to become an assembly member in East Derry. He is succeeding the party's Francie Brolly who is to retire. Mr Leonard is a former Orangeman, RUC reservist and member of the SDLP. Following his selection he said it was an honour to be chosen to replace Mr Brolly "and to represent the people of East Derry"....
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Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Sinn Féin have introduced some badly needed independent thinking into the economic debate in this state. It amazes me that there is such a tendency...
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Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
For those who follow Northern Ireland politics, there is one thing which happens from time-to-time, when the Democratic Unionist Party runs a candidate in a seat which is held by the Ulster Unionist Party (or which has recently been held by the UUP), and the unionist vote splits, leading to a nationalist, from the Social Democratic & Labour Party or Sinn Fein, either winning or coming close to...
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Gorillas Guides (Free subscription) | yesterday
A conference is being held in Iraq examining how NI peace principles might be applied to the city of Kirkuk. Kirkuk is the centre of the northern Iraqi oil fields and is an ethnically mixed city populated by Kurds, Assyrians, Turkmen and Arabs. A delegation including Sinn Fein’s Alex Maskey, the Independent Monitoring Commission’s Lord Alderdice [...]
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BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The DUP has released a 35 page document on the eve of its annual conference under the optimistic title of "Building On Success". If you were to read Peter Robinson's foreword you might conclude that the party is about make a great leap forward. The party leader says that "once again unionism faces a choice in the next few years. Do we build on what we have achieved or risk throwing...
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Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The media has already established its angle on the North Antrim general election contest. It’s all about Jim Allister and whichever Paisley is nominated to rebuff his challenge. To a degree the preoccupation with the DUP / TUV contest is understandable. After all, in 2005 Senior romped home with more than 25,000 votes and Ulster Unionist candidate, Rodney McCune, was beaten to second spot by...
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Splintered Sunrise (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Two issues in the world of republicanism to be tackled today. Firstly, Sinn Féin Eile held its Ard Fheis at the weekend, whereat Ruairí Ó Brádaigh stood down from the party presidency he has occupied for the past 23 years. Some shit-stirring from the Sunday World notwithstanding, there’s no evidence that Ruairí’s decision wasn’t on [...]
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The Cedar Lounge Revolution (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Just read this report from the Madison Eagle (in Wisconsin in the US) via Bobballs via Sluggerotoole. I think it’s fairly safe to say that the journalist writing the report has a far from in-depth understanding of Irish history and politics, otherwise Adams’ “historical overview” would have met with the contempt and ridicule it deserves. In [...]
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BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
During Monday's "Stormont Live" I asked Alasdair McDonnell if it really mattered who won the SDLP leadership contest as the party would inevitably face a squeeze at the next Assembly elections, given that Sinn Fein would tell nationalists it had a realistic chance of becoming the biggest Stormont party. Consequently Sinn Fein would have the right to nominate Martin McGuinness as First Minister,...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
BBC 17 Nov 09 A former IRA woman who was jailed for bombing the Old Bailey in London, has been arrested in connection with the shooting of two soldiers in Antrim. Marian Price, who is 55, was arrested in west Belfast on Tuesday. Marian Price is being questioned by police She is being held in connection with the Real IRA murders of two soldiers at Massereene Army base in March. A 39-year-old man was...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Back in May, I wrote this post about the murders of two British Army sappers, Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and fretted that dissident Republicans were getting bolder in their attacks on the police, army, and those it considered traitors to the Feinian cause. Last month, The Christian Science Monitor wondered if IRA splinter groups could "bring...
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Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Included in the Shinners "Road to Recovery" pre budget submission is a statement that an extra €310m could be raised by impossing a 10% betting duty....
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
SINN FÉIN says the upcoming budget should introduce a “wealth tax” to raise €1.6 billion, increase betting duty to 10 per cent and treble the annual tax on second homes.
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Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Gerry Adams, or 'this blog' as he now prefers to call himself, would no doubt be keen to assure voters that they are not witnessing the fag end of his political career. After all, he recently assured the media that he will remain Sinn Féin's president as long as he damn well pleases (or words to that effect). Democracy, eh? Still, there's no harm in having more than one string to your bow. Gerry...
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