DUP – Peter Geoghegan

Brexit’s Irish Problem – A Semi-Personal Reflection

By peterPosted on 29th July 201717th September 2020Posted in Northern Ireland, PoliticsTagged Brexit, DUP, Irish border, loyalist, republican, Stormont, Villiers

It is inconceivable that a vote for Brexit would not have a negative impact on the (Irish) Border, bringing cost and disruption to trade and to people’s lives. Theresa May, June 2016 Nobody wants to return to the borders of the past. Theresa May, July 2016 Around three hundred roads bisect the circuitous three-hundred-and-ten-mile border […]

From Family Robinson Woes to Affairs of State

By peterPosted on 19th January 2010Posted in Northern Ireland, PoliticsTagged DUP, Iris Robinson, Peter Robinson, Stormont

I wrote a comment piece on the political fall-out from the Robinson affair for The Scotsman last week: (Published 13/01/10) A leading unionist politician in Northern Ireland laid low by a lurid sex scandal splashed across the red tops. Accusations of backhanders from property developers. Political unrest in Ulster’s bible-belt. The plot of The Bad […]