Comment: This is my homeland
Mum arrived late to an underage match of mine one summer’s evening in Dungloe. The family had moved there a few years before, in 1992, when Sam was in the hills and Daniel was on Top of the Pops.
Eoghan McNeill
Comment: Britain uses terror when it suits
There’s little enough enough to separate how Keir Starmer, the human rights lawyer with the knighthood and the Oxford law degree and the London townhouse, and Brian Nelson, the loyalist and arms importer and British state agent from the Shankill Road, view terror and its use.
Comment: The state's prosecution of anti-war activists is about power – not justice
I took the train(s) from Dublin to Ennis yesterday. Iarnród Éireann allows you to book a Dublin-Ennis ticket, €30 one way, but that ticket is for three trains. Heuston to Limerick Junction, Limerick Junction to Limerick, Limerick to Ennis. Tight journey.
Comment: A comfortable masculinity rejects dogma
Somewhere in Ireland is the manliest man in the country, someone giving a virtuoso performance of the gender, who adheres to all we consider the masculine norm. He’s possibly happy and healthy, unconscious of the criteria he fulfils, that these criteria even exist.
Comment: If you tolerate this
(Briefly) how we got here (since 2008 or thereabouts).
Comment: Don’t indulge analysis that doesn’t acknowledge the establishment’s demise
History (What’s up with that?) - M.I.A.
Comment: Inaction (is a weapon of mass destruction)
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction.
Comment: Not a normal democracy
That's football guys. That's all it is. Now, what are you gonna do? - Tony D'Amato
Comment: The tankies were right. (We always are)
Last night I got the venue for Clare Daly in conversation with Bernadette McAliskey wrong and ended up in St Dominic’s Grammar School on the Falls Road.
Comment: This won’t last forever
It was for this.
Comment: The centre must fold
We used to call them counterrevolutionaries. Some would’ve called them petty bourgeois. Now we call them centrist dads.
Comment: The world keeps telling us Ireland isn't western
When I lived in Beijing for a year I came across some taxi drivers who tried to scam westerners. They had a simple trick.