“Like a scene from a medieval painting”
Irish Border Poll
7 December 2025
The night Tim Pat Coogan and Ray Bassett experienced The 12th – From Bassett’s new book The Traveller’s I am not sure anything or anybody
The night Tim Pat Coogan and Ray Bassett experienced The 12th – From Bassett’s new book The Traveller’s I am not sure anything or anybody
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Ted Howell dedicated his adult life to the reunification of Ireland.
The referendums at the heart of this island-wide reconciliation project cannot be sidestepped forever.
As attention turns to government formation – and the new Programme for Government in Ireland –
these brief reflections are an attempt to address the question in the title: Where now?
Now that we are in December we are officially in the Christmas season. It is also this year, the start of coalition negotiations for the
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.