Article Category: Bird's Eye View

COULD A RUSSIAN-LED COALITION DEFEAT HILLARY’S WAR PLANS?

August 24, 2016

by GARY LEUPP THE REPRESENTATION of Russia by the US State Department as an “existential threat” to the US is preposterous fantasy. Just... Read more »

PARAMILITARIES TO SCOOP £50 MILLION

July 28, 2016

AT THE beginning of July a memorial banner was hung from a pole in Dungannon extolling the murderous activities of Billy Wright, known... Read more »

BREXIT SOFTENS ORANGE COUGH

July 15, 2016

IT looks as if Brexit and its consequences will dominate political discourse in the north for the foreseeable future remarkably even pushing the... Read more »

FLANAGAN TURNED PEACENIK?

June 1, 2016

HAVE those vipers in foreign affairs finally house-trained their minister, Charlie Flanagan, who has come over all liberal, sophisticated even, with policy pronouncements... Read more »

THE BOYS IN THE ASSEMBLY BACKROOM

June 1, 2016

AT Stormont it’s all sweetness and light between the DUP and Sinn Féin. Too much so for some unionists incensed at Arlene Foster’s... Read more »

WHY SHANKILL INFORMER WAS REVEALED

May 5, 2016

WHY did Belfast republicans reveal to the media recently just one item out of the vast warehouse of intelligence documents the IRA secured... Read more »

SF FIGHTS FOR 30 SEATS IN ASSEMBLY

May 5, 2016

THE traditional economic fumble which afflicts Sinn Féin in election campaigns in the Republic seems to be infectious. Last week the virus spread... Read more »

SDLP FACING LOSSES IN ASSEMBLY ELECTION

April 21, 2016

THE North goes to the polls on May 5 in what will be, as usual, two elections, one in each politico-ethnic camp. Anyone... Read more »

RED FLAG BUT NO WHITE FLAG

April 21, 2016

DOES Red Flag possess the financial resources to fend off telecom and media mogul, Denis O’Brien, as he pursues them through the courts... Read more »

PETER KELLY’S BIBLE BELT

April 21, 2016

THERE has been an interesting encounter between the President of the High Court, Peter Kelly, and a couple of solicitors over the importance... Read more »

JIM NUGENT’S LATEST SETBACK

April 7, 2016

THERE WAS yet another setback last month for one of Bertie Ahern’s ‘dig-out’ pals, Jim Nugent. His attempt to extend protection from assorted... Read more »

NI: GUESS WHO’S NOT COMING TO DINNER

April 7, 2016

IN January, Belfast City Council voted in favour of a motion to host a dinner for the NI and the ROI football teams... Read more »

VILLIERS FACES ANGRY JUDGE

March 24, 2016

LATE this week, Northern Secretary Theresa Villiers was due to present an affidavit to Belfast’s High Court explaining the British government’s delay in... Read more »

ABORTION UNITES TAIGUES AND DUP

March 9, 2016

ENDA Kenny told the Irish Examiner in January that if Fine Gael were returned to power a referendum on the Eighth Amendment would... Read more »

BREXIT UNIONISTS

February 25, 2016

THE North’s First Minister, Arlene Foster, caused some astonishment last weekend, when she announced the DUP was recommending people vote ‘leave’ in June’s... Read more »

BATTLE OF THE BOGSIDE

January 28, 2016

ON the face of it, Martin McGuinness returning to Derry from Mid-Ulster to stand in May’s assembly elections is throwing the gauntlet down... Read more »

ARLENE MUST STOP McGUINNESS

January 14, 2016

LAST Monday Arlene Foster took over formally as First Minister in the North. A month ago the betting was on Nigel Dodds, deputy... Read more »

DIRTY WAR: IN DENIAL

December 4, 2015

THE Northern Secretary, Theresa Villiers, told the House of Commons with a straight face that she “wholly dissociated” herself from SDLP MP Mark... Read more »

ROBINSON FOR HEAVE-HO?

November 20, 2015

SOURCES in both Sinn Féin and the DUP predict a deal next week on welfare reform, the contentious matter which has blocked last... Read more »

LOYALISTS PLEDGE NEW LEAF

November 6, 2015

JONATHAN POWELL, Tony Blair’s former chief of staff, last week made his first public intervention in the North’s politics for a decade. This... Read more »