Article Category: Bird's Eye View

PASSPORTS TO NOWHERE

September 6, 2018
FINE WORDS butter no parsnips, but fine words are all there have been from... Read more »

FINE GAEL/FIANNA FÁIL GO NORTH

August 23, 2018
Confusing times for people used to traditional alignments in Irish politics. Lisa Chambers TD,... Read more »

FIANNA FÁIL TO DEVOUR SDLP?

August 9, 2018
For more than a decade the Fianna Fáil vulture has been hovering over the... Read more »

NORTHERN POLICE FORCE BIAS

July 26, 2018
OVER the July 12 period, six consecutive nights of attacks terrorised the tiny unionist... Read more »

NORDIES’ VIEW OF LEO VARADKAR

July 12, 2018
LEO VARADKAR has probably uttered millions of words since he became Taoiseach. But the... Read more »

NEW FACE FOR ARLENE FOSTER

June 28, 2018
ARLENE FOSTER has thrown herself into an outreach campaign in the last month. In... Read more »

PETER ROBINSON’S BORDER POLL HERESY

June 13, 2018
QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY Belfast has made former DUP leader and First Minister Peter Robinson an... Read more »

SDLP’S ABORTION DILEMMA

May 31, 2018
THE SDLP is in a fix after last week’s overwhelming result in the abortion... Read more »

BONFIRE OF THE UNIONISTS

May 17, 2018
BONFIRES have always been a manifestation of unionist triumphalism but also trepidation. Their size... Read more »

BREXIT POISONS BODY POLITIC

May 3, 2018
IT’S A sign of how far apart the two main parties in the north... Read more »

LOYALIST GANGS AT WORK IN PLAIN SIGHT

April 19, 2018
AT NOON last Friday, 200 PSNI officers with members of the British National Crime... Read more »

BACK TO THE FUTURE

April 5, 2018
SINN FÉIN have been shocked and dismayed by the proposals of the north’s Boundary... Read more »

LONDON SAYS NO!

March 22, 2018
WE LEARNT at least three things in the last fortnight. First, contrary to what... Read more »

IRELAND’S TARIFF NIGHTMARE

March 8, 2018
THE FAMOUS “backstop” in the December EU report commits Britain to maintaining full alignment... Read more »

DUP-TORY DEADLOCK

February 22, 2018
FOR THE second time in two months, Theresa May turned up to seal a... Read more »

NORTHERN TALKS CHARADE

January 25, 2018
THE NORTH has a new secretary of state, Karen Bradley (47), an accountant first... Read more »

NEVER IN A POLITICAL LIFETIME

January 11, 2018
HERE WE go again. You could write the script. The new northern secretary invites... Read more »

UNIONIST ANTI BREXIT CAMP

December 14, 2017
ATTITUDES TO Brexit in the North are a lot more complicated than they appear... Read more »

INDIRECT RULE FOR THE NORTH?

November 30, 2017
LEO VARADKAR told the Dáil on November 20 that if Sinn ] and the... Read more »

GROUNDHOG DEADLINES

November 2, 2017
TO NO ONE’S surprise the DUP and Sinn Féin sailed through northern secretary James... Read more »

DEAL OR NO DEAL?

October 19, 2017
Sinn Féin and the DUP have now entered their customary period of brinkmanship, keeping... Read more »

The Russia-China Plan TO CONNECT ‘EURASIA’

September 21, 2017
by PEPE ESCOBAR THE United Nations Security Council’s 15-0 vote to impose a new... Read more »

COVENEY BOWS TO THE DUP

September 7, 2017
SIMON COVENEY was in Belfast on Tuesday listening to the local parties to assess... Read more »

SF: Reluctant to Re-Enter Assembly

August 24, 2017
Danny Morrison SPEAKING at Féile an Phobail in west Belfast a fortnight ago, Danny... Read more »

BONFIRES TO BE BANNED

August 10, 2017
SINN FÉIN has moved to exploit a gaping hole that loyalists have left open... Read more »

GOVE’S DUP LOVE-IN

July 27, 2017
Michael Gove THE visit of Michael Gove, Britain’s controversial Environment Secretary, to one of... Read more »

TORIES TO PUSH EQUALITY AGENDA

July 13, 2017
HEIDI ALLEN, Conservative Cambridgeshire South, expressed the outrage of many MPs on both sides... Read more »

WHY SINN FÉIN WILL JOIN EXECUTIVE

June 29, 2017
SIMON COVENEY certainly got thrown in at the deep end in Belfast. His first... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR AND THE DUP

June 15, 2017
RAY BASSET, former joint secretary of the British-Irish secretariat in Belfast, earlier this week... Read more »

UUP TO SUFFER IN NI ELECTION

June 2, 2017
All elections in the north are polarising but none more than British general elections... Read more »

SDLP’S FAUX CANDIDATES

May 17, 2017
THE SDLP stands accused of putting up no-hope candidates in two northern constituencies in... Read more »

BORDER POLL ON THE CARDS?

May 3, 2017
CROWING about Ireland’s diplomatic coup last Saturday when the EU agreed that the north... Read more »

SNAP ELECTION IN THE NORTH

April 19, 2017
THERESA MAY’S snap election call may or may not mean a second Assembly election... Read more »

BROKENSHIRE’S BROKEN STRATEGY

April 5, 2017
JAMES BROKENSHIRE, Britain’s hapless northern secretary, has managed to produce unanimous agreement among the... Read more »

VARADKAR’S UNIONIST LINE

March 23, 2017
LEO VARADKAR went to France for St Patrick’s Day and gave interviews in the... Read more »