South Belfast is routinely presented as the most cosmopolitan part of the city. Centred on Queen’s University, Botanic Avenue and the Holylands, it is younger and more ethnically diverse than most of Belfast. Its restaurants, cafés and international population are […]

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4 November 2026

From helping to prevent a right-wing Belgist state in the Congo to acting as a meat shield in Cyprus and the Lebanon, the Irish Defence Forces have been instrumentalised in UN ventures long before most readers were born.  Battling an […]

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28 October 2026

Not for the first time has a foolish PR campaign for a progressive cause blown back in the faces of the NGO class in Ireland with a stinker of an ad campaign by WeConsent.ie (an effective offshoot of the Dublin […]

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22 October 2026

Ireland is not yet in a sovereign debt crisis. That, apparently, is the good news. The bad news is that we are busily constructing the conditions for one, all while congratulating ourselves on our extraordinary prosperity. As of the time […]

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17 October 2026

The burning alive of a family of four in Waterford marks another ghoulish chapter in the slow-boiling crisis of narco-crime in the Republic, mimicking a similar atrocity in Edenderry less than 12 months prior.  Residents of Birchwood estate awoke to […]

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14 October 2026

Rugby all-star Brian O’Driscoll kicked over a PR hornet’s nest when the former Irish captain’s address to an Israeli cybersecurity conference drew fire from Palestinian activists.  The former Irish captain was a guest speaker at the Cyber Leader Summit Dublin, […]

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9 October 2026

Are British Nationalists yet again to fall into (another) Irish trap In September 2022, the rather unsurprising disclosure was aired that loyalist activist and right-wing globetrotter Jim Dowson had been supplying information to the British ‘antifascist’ org cum intelligence agency […]

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6 October 2026

Amid the recent meeting of the Nationalist First Ministers of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland and general discourse about the disintegration of the United Kingdom, it is worth considering alternative constitutional arrangements for these islands. The first option to be […]

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30 September 2026

With the 35 Orange brethren and a tracksuited Jamie Bryson unlikely to make it down the Garvaghy Road anytime soon, a question of cui bono hangs over today’s events in Armagh. Sinn Féin walked into the trap and now finds […]

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27 September 2026

Everyone knows what “political correctness” means until they are asked to define it. It may mean no more than avoiding language likely to cause offence. It may also mean a system in which political acceptability counts for more than truth. […]

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23 September 2026