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Enda Gormley reviews Tom Creed’s affecting revival of Barry McGovern’s adaptation of Beckett’s novel ‘Watt’, at the Everyman During the latter half of World War II, Samuel Beckett found himself in a...
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A Murder for Mountbatten
By Joseph de Burca The cover-up of Lord Louis Mountbatten’s sexual abuse of children has left a trail of death and destruction in its wake. Introduction The British Establishment persists in covering...
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Woo Hoo, Wuhan: Is it possible Ireland will be in the position China finds...
Government projections on how long a lockdown will last hijacked by pessimism not evidence, though readers will make their own minds up as to whether Ireland’s trajectory is more like those of China,...
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Lessons learnt about probable Covid-19 cases and deaths in Ireland
It seems probable that applying the necessary measures, currently mandated, deaths will be contained to 500-1000 with a return to normal beginning in the middle of May. By Michael Smith. It is...
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How the Green party can wrestle its conscience to a draw.
Green principle and coalition in time of Covid and climate By Michael Smith. In the absence of a relevant Labour Party the Greens have become by far the biggest force in Irish politics for wrestling...
View ArticleA voice that hangs on detail but wants authenticity. Pól Ó Muirí reviews...
One would have to have to be stonehearted not to have pity for any author releasing a book this year and, in particular, one which deals with the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, now bogged down in...
View ArticleAn Irishman in Rome. Conor Fitzgerald Deane’s coronavirus diary
31 January Metaphorically, if not yet literally, coronavirus is on everybody’s lips in John Cabot, an American university in Rome where I teach. Most of our conversations revolve around the...
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Dishonest Jack. A new book on the Arms Crisis of 1970 demolishes the...
By David Burke Fifty years ago this month armed members of the Special Branch dropped a ring of steel around Dublin Airport as part of a plan to seize a consignment of arms which was due to land from...
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Media fails to report truth – success in Ireland’s handling of Coronavirus....
Those who predicted swamped ICUs, scandalous shortages of equipment and overflowing morgues in Ireland were utterly wrong. If you haven’t realised that, you’re not following. The Irish Times, Irish...
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The Anglo-Irish Vice Ring (Online Book)
MI5, MI6, Buckingham Palace, The Royal Ulster Constabulary and the exploitation of children in care by a VIP Anglo-Irish Vice Ring. By Joseph de Burca. Introduction: This online book draws together...
View ArticleIreland neutral on neutrality. We quietly but hypocritically export €3.6bn of...
By Bryan Wall. Ireland does not export heavy armaments or guns. Beyond that there seems to be extraordinary flexibility and naivety as to the military significance of exports that are neither heavy...
View ArticleProgressive but a little light on policy and not hard-minded enough. The...
By Michael Smith. Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has set out a ‘Green New Deal’ and 17 questions in a six-page letter sent to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael on Wednesday in response to their framework...
View ArticleGovernment of national unity: cleaning up the mess of elections. Sinn Féin...
By Peter Emerson Democracy The word ‘democracy’ is used with abandon, even to describe that from which it has long since been abandoned. Take for example the...
View ArticleStarring in a novel, just for being famous Pól Ó Muirí reviews ‘Actress’ by...
As of a few weeks ago Kourtney has quit Keeping Up With The Kardashians. I do not keep up with the Kardashians but could not avoid the news. I’m embarrassed to say it. I couldn’t escape her fame....
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MI5 high steaks: The Kenova investigation could nail Scappaticci for perjury...
Smithwick Tribunal found Garda collusion in murder of RUC officers, but couldn’t name the colluder. This was partly because it allowed a motley band of FRU operatives, informants and agents like the...
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The Forgotten Scoop: how a London newspaper reported details of what became...
Séamas Ó Tuathail was the first journalist to discover details of what was to become known as the Arms Crisis but chose not to report it. Unbeknownst to him, some of the information he dug up was...
View ArticleLooking up in a lockdown.
An Indian woman’s experience of isolation downs and ups on Irish shores. By Mehar Luthra I was about to leave and take the bus to the university when I got a call from one of my classmates. An older...
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THE ACCUSED AND THE ACCUSERS: IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
Two recent hearings of the Independent Investigation Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in London heard arguments for and against abandoning its investigation into the allegation of sexual abuse made against...
View ArticlePower Without Full Responsibility. Caroline Hurley reviews ‘The Education of...
Named one of Time’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ in both 2004 and 2015, Irish-American Samantha Power served as US President Obama’s human rights advisor for four years and a further four as US UN...
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How the Irish Times got its biggest story of the last 50 years wrong.
The Assistant Editor of the Irish Times distorted the truth about the Arms Crisis. He was a friend of both the chief of staff of the Official IRA and the Taoiseach, ‘Honest’ Jack Lynch. The Official...
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