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Category Archives: Politics
A Model for Belfast Regeneration?
The amount of vacant land in Belfast city centre is equivalent to the size of 265 football pitches, according to the Forum for Alternative Belfast. If this space was used efficiently, at least 50,000 more people could live within 20 … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, Sunday Business Post
Tagged Belfast, Fab, Forum for Alternative Belfast, Mark Hackett, the Maze
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Belfast Unrest – the View from the Interfaces
Belfast is often described as a patchwork quilt of conflicting loyalties. Most residents live on streets that are overwhelmingly nationalist or unionist. Imposing ‘peace walls’ physically divide communities one each another. This has long been the case on the Suffolk … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, Sunday Business Post
Tagged flags, Jonny Byrne, loyalism, Neil Jarman, republicanism, unionism
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Book Review: The Oil Road
The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello. These are straitened times for BP. The oil giant faces a slew of civil and criminal suits arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. In October, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics, Sunday Business Post
Tagged Azeri, BP, Oil, Providence Resources
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Kosovo Goes it Alone
Mother Teresa Boulevard is a street pregnant with symbolism. At one end of the wide, pedestrianized thoroughfare that runs through the centre of Pristina, an imposing statue of Albanian hero Skanderbeg stands in the shadow of Kosovo’s parliament building. A … Continue reading
Ulster Covenant’s Scottish Resonances
THE prospect of independence in Scotland is a world apart from the quashed Irish bid for home rule in 1912, writes Peter Geoghegan. “THE DARK eleventh hour draws on and sees us sold to every evil power we fought against … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, Scotland, Scotsman
Tagged 1912, 2014, Carson, Independence, Referendum
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Irishman’s Diary: TP O’Connor
‘HIS PEN could lay bare the bones of a book or the soul of a statesman in a few vivid lines”. These words were written in praise of the man who founded the Sun newspaper: journalist, politician and Irish nationalist, … Continue reading
Belfast Project — Links to the Past Under Attack
LEGAL action over an interview with a former IRA member may threaten our ability to record history, writes Peter Geoghegan. ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” These words, penned more than a century ago by … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics
Tagged Anthony MacIntyre, Belfast Project, Ed Moloney
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Despite Yes Vote, Fiscal Treaty Outcome Still Uncertain
The people of Ireland have spoken. But what exactly have they said? The vote to accept the Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union – or, more snappily, the fiscal treaty – was certainly decisive: around three … Continue reading
Growing divide in an austerity-stricken Ireland
ALMOST as soon as first ballot boxes were opened yesterday morning, it was clear the fiscal treaty referendum was not going to go the way of the rerun Nice and Lisbon votes. Just a handful of constituencies voted No, even … Continue reading
Irish set to lose either way
Whatever voters decide on the stability treaty, the figures don’t add up, the words won’t last long and it won’t help the eurozone crisis, writes Peter Geoghegan Few people have had such a major impact on recent Irish political life … Continue reading