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The DUP and democracy - a contradiction in terms (Free article)
26 May 2005
With a number of the North's councils holding their first meetings since the local elections over the past number of days, the eyes of many were turned towards Ballymena in North Antrim, where Monica Digney became the first ever Sinn Féin councillor to take her seat in the DUP-dominated chamber.
Praise the Lord and pass the Schloer! (Free article)
26 May 2005
Travelling to Ballymena on Monday night with Monica Digney, was a bit like walking into a lion's den. Speculation had been rife since she became the first Sinn Féin member of the DUP-dominated council that loyalists would be staging a protest, no doubt incensed at the affrontery of a republican taking her seat in Big Ian's backyard.
Quality on show in Thurles (Free article)
26 May 2005
In Thurles on Sunday, Waterford confirmed that last year's defeat of Cork in the Munster Final was no aberration. Despite doubts over two of their key players, Ken McGrath and Paul Flynn, they pushed the All-Ireland Champions to the limit and might have won, had it not been for the manner in which Cork reacted, in particular a brilliant goal from…
Reilly extends condolences after Meath tragedy (Free article)
26 May 2005
Sinn Féin Meath Councillor Joe Reilly has extended his deep condolences to the families and friends of all those killed and injured in Monday evening's crash in Kentstown. He said that people throughout the area are in deep shock at the tragedy and the thoughts of the entire community are with those bereaved.
Are capitalism and democracy mutually exclusive? (Free article)
26 May 2005
"We do not live - and I trust it will never be the fate of this country to live -- under a democracy." It is a reminder of how fragile, and how new, a concept democracy is that it less than 150 years since British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli made this statement of assurance to the House of Commons in London.
More support for rape crisis services needed (Free article)
26 May 2005
Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has called on the government to provide needed additional resources to rape crisis services across the state in the revised estimates coming before the Dáil and to take stronger action to encourage and support reporting sexual violence to the Gardaí. Ó Snodaigh was speaking after attending the launch of the first…
Bolger visits the twilight years (Free article)
26 May 2005
Dermot Bolger's novel is probably best described as fitting into the genre known as 'faction' - fiction based on real characters and events. As he explains in the postscript, Bolger was inspired to write the book by conversations he had with Sheila Fitzgerald, formerly Goold-Verschoyle, who is Eva, the novel's central character.
Israel's dishonourable deal (Free article)
26 May 2005
This is an insightful book by an American diplomat who worked for over two decades with Palestinian and Israeli parties to help construct the Middle East Peace Process. Like the Irish Peace Process, however, it has now become bogged down in seemingly interminable wrangling instead of getting on to deal with the substantive issues of national…
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