Opinions differ wildly on last week’s election. Here Ray Bassett offers his take.

Gloating from obvious quarters about the Irish election result and the relatively poor performance from Sinn Féin. Seems little point dressing it up.

Now that the Dáil election is over, it is a good time to look ahead to a possible scenario for the next Irish Presidential election, due to take place in late 2025.

Kevin Meagher reflects on that election and is already thinking about the next one!

A socialist and Irish republican but never an ideologue, inspired to political thought and action by the noble struggles of the democrats and revolutionaries.

In Britain, there never seems to be a ‘good time’ to talk about Irish unity. Yet for some within Britain’s Irish community, the time is now.

The President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, dissolved the Dáil, on 8th November and a general election will take place in the Republic on the 29th of this month. The two main coalition parties in Government, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, go into this electoral contestnervous but expectant of a good result on the basis of recent favourable opinion polls.  Nervous because there is little enthusiasm for the present administration but hopeful because of the travails of […]

If you were promised a fundamental choice about your future, you’d like to think you would get to exercise it. Right? While the North/NI is a complicated place, the constitutional question is at heart really quite simple. People have the right to decide their own fate: the Union with Britain or a united Ireland.  The conversation about Irish unity continues […]

In this guest post, Dr Paul Breen reflects on the question of Remembrance and the poppy from a United Irelander perspective. Michelle O’Neill’s decision to lay a wreath at Belfast’s Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday is a powerful and symbolic gesture. By doing so, she is keeping the promise she made on the day she assumed […]

Not infrequently, people in Britain have asked why the red poppy which commemorates British military war dead generates hostility and opposition from some Irish people and Celtic supporters. With poppy-wearing season upon us we thought it timely to release an edited extract from Chapter 5 of our book The Blood Stained Poppy which we hope goes some […]