Dublin no events posted in last week
North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?
US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty Anti-Empire >>
Promoting Human Rights in IrelandHuman Rights in Ireland >>
News Round-Up Tue Jun 10, 2025 00:58 | Richard Eldred A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Reeves?s Winter Fuel Raid to Raise Just ?250 Million Instead of ?1.5 Billion Mon Jun 09, 2025 19:18 | Will Jones Rachel Reeves?s winter fuel raid will raise just ?250 million, experts have claimed, saying, "The amount raised looks tiny relative to the political damage which the whole episode has caused to the Government."
The post Reeves’s Winter Fuel Raid to Raise Just ?250 Million Instead of ?1.5 Billion appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
London-Based ?Hamas Operative? Behind Greta Thunberg?s Gaza Flotilla Mon Jun 09, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones A man accused of being "a Hamas operative" based in London is a key figure behind?Greta Thunberg?s Gaza aid boat, it has emerged.
The post London-Based ‘Hamas Operative’ Behind Greta Thunberg’s Gaza Flotilla appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Yet Another Study that Exaggerates COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Mon Jun 09, 2025 15:01 | Dr Roger Watson A new article has been published purporting to find high effectiveness for the Covid vaccines. Prof Roger Watson takes a closer look and finds 'cheap tricks' galore and a host of ways in which efficacy is exaggerated.
The post Yet Another Study that Exaggerates COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Farage Pledges to Reopen Welsh Coal Mines and Blast Furnaces and ?Reindustrialise Wales? Mon Jun 09, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones Nigel Farage has declared that a Reform administration in Cardiff would reopen Welsh coal mines and blast furnaces and "reindustrialise Wales" to boost the British steel industry.
The post Farage Pledges to Reopen Welsh Coal Mines and Blast Furnaces and “Reindustrialise Wales” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en
Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en
The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en Voltaire Network >>
|
DUP
dublin |
miscellaneous |
opinion/analysis
Friday February 13, 2004 16:33 by taken from ap/rn

DUP postion becomes clearer The DUP's devolution proposals mark an important shift in as much as they are "a shift by that party from the never-never-land politics they have inhabited for decades," Sinn Féin's Chief Negotiator Martin McGuinness told the party's Six-County Cuige AGM in Belfast this week.
McGuinness said the DUP had recognised "that power-sharing is the way forward" and that this brought the party "into the ballpark of the Good Friday Agreement politics".
He challenged the DUP to talk directly to his party rather than use the conduit of the British Government, a government that they have for years been denouncing as treacherous and dishonest.
Meanwhile, Sinn Féin sources were putting a less favourable spin on the DUP's position. "I don't think anybody believes they are going to engage — not even the two governments," a party member told the Sunday Business Post.
Sadlye a mesmerised rabbit caught in the DUP's headlights, he might be able to secure the tens of thousands of unionist voters who supported the GFA but who have failed to subsequently vote for the UUP.
Instead of presenting an alternative voice, a voice a significant section of unionism is clearly eager and willing to hear, he allowed a fundamentalist agenda to dominate the unionist discourse and in doing so systematically corroded his own power base. And now his only complaint against the DUP's fundamentalist vision is that it isn't fundamentalist enough.
Meanwhile, in the Irish News, columnist James Kelly was bewailing "the fickle hand of fate" and "our unfortunate history" which, according to Kelly, has dealt northern nationalists the double blow of losing the guiding hand of John Hume at a time when Ian Paisley, "the guldering rowdy — who disgraced us at Oxford, Westminster and Strasbourg" has "emerged on top of th and equality over their heads, then they'd engage."
At the core of the current crisis is not unionist regrouping around reactionary rejectionism, although this plays its part, but the British Government's strategy of only moving forward as slowly as unionism allows.
Meanwhile, another game of smoke and mirrors was being played out in the media, with the Sunday tabloids devoting frontpage banner headlines and in-depth analysis of the continuing Stakeknife saga.
It is surely no coincidence that, just three days earlier, the relatives of a hundred victims of British collusion with loyalist death squads had travelled to London to picket the MoD, MI5 and the British Tory party. The cornerstone of their collusion story is the way in which the British state reorganised and rearmed unionist paramilitaries as a mechanism to commission the murder of citizens within its own jurisdiction.
It would be impossible to overemphasise the damaging natst thieves.
This scenario obscures the British state's primary relationship with unionist paramilitaries. It obscures the fact that the targets of Britain's collusion strategy were not simply IRA Volunteers but all those who posed a threat to British rule, politically, (members of Sinn Féin) judicially (Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson) and those who simply got in the way.
Less prominent in the media was the dramatic development last Thursday when the substantiate allegations of the so-called 'Stormont spy ring' were dropped. In October 2002, the British Government, imposing legislation outside the terms of the Agreement, suspended the political institutions on the pretext of IRA spying at the heart of government.
The fact that the suspension followed a meeting of the UUP ruling council at which the party adopted the anti-Agreement agenda of the DUP was far from incidental, as republicans pointed out at the time. The spy ring allegation from the NIO has been withdrawn without explanation," said Kearney.
"The Special Branch fantasy of a Stormont spy ring is finally disproved. The clock cannot be turned back. My family has been victimised and the political process has been damaged. Special Branch carry the blame for that. They have not yet been made accountable for that act of political subversion."
|
View Full Comment Text
save preference
Comments (2 of 2)