Pro-Union Non-Unionists
(for London Review of Books) Last month , Michael Gove dispatched Ian Paisley Junior, the Democratic Unionist Party MP for North Antrim, with brutal indifference. Brexit was done, the DUP had …
(for London Review of Books) Last month , Michael Gove dispatched Ian Paisley Junior, the Democratic Unionist Party MP for North Antrim, with brutal indifference. Brexit was done, the DUP had …
Do not underestimate the significance of the Northern Ireland rejection of the Tories’ ‘stay alert’ guidance for coronavirus The disuniting of the kingdom quickened pace this week, leaving the prime minister …
(Guardian, 21 Jul 2020) On 11 April 2015, Ella Parry stood beside her small pink car, outside her council flat in Shrewsbury, watching the road. She was waiting for her mother …
Irish Times, Nov 4, 2019 He was a showman, Gay Byrne, first and foremost, but he was a showman in Ireland, and that made all the difference. He made his name with …
…the deadly trade in diet pills (Guardian, 14 Aug 2020) DNP is an industrial chemical used in making explosives. If swallowed, it can cause a h orrible death – and yet it …
Irish Times Jun 23, 2020. This country has to wake up. The whole society needs help coming to terms with the psychology of families in which there is child abuse.” Sophia …
(in the New Yorker) “Hello lovely,” she’d messaged me. “You in Derry anytime soon?” I loved Lyra’s easy way with affection. Twenty-nine years old, she was half my age. We’d become …
Lyra McKee is dead. A beautiful young woman, brimful of life and love and creativity, has been sacrificed to the bigotry of people who could never in any imaginable circumstances …
How dare dissident republicans claim to ‘respect’ the writer. They have silenced a woman who told the stories of their forgotten victims (from The Guardian 19 April, 2019) “Derry tonight. Absolute madness.” …
(The Guardian - Long Read) After a trial that dominated the news, the accused were all found not guilty. But the case had tapped into a deeper rage that has not …