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Eamon McCann

Eamonn McCAnn, Belfast Telegraph

Take a cue from amazing Grace and slap the cuffs on Tony Blair

What a joy it is in these dour times to be able to exalt the name of Grace McCann. No relation, unfortunately.
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Inside Eamon McCann

I got it wrong on Bloody Sunday but I don’t fear Saville’s findings

Thursday, 28 January 2010

A steady increase of acrimony over Bloody Sunday is underway as publication of the report of the Saville Tribunal approaches.
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Why Adams and police must both come clean on abuse allegations

Thursday, 21 January 2010

'Nobody is offering up their suffering for the cause any more. Why should they, when the cause has now been abandoned?

Why Sinn Fein is neither Left nor Right, but green all over

Thursday, 14 January 2010

The Derry Diocesan Catechism used to deal with one of the core concepts of Christianity in call-and-response form. We'd sing it out in Sister Xavier's class at St Eugene's Infants'.
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He may have left the building, but Elvis is always on my mind

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Elvis would have been 75 tomorrow. He played a big part in my upbringing.
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Our vigilante thugs make the Chinese courts look merciful

Thursday, 31 December 2009

The latest Army of Liberation come to free us from oppression will have spluttered with scorn at the efforts of Gordon Brown, David Miliband and assorted MPs to win a reprieve for Akmal Shaikh.
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Merry Christmas, war is over (unless you live in Bethlehem)

Thursday, 24 December 2009

You can start to relax now. It's almost over. But here's a few random thoughts to fill the desolate hours between waking up tomorrow morning and slumping into sleep by early afternoon.
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Protestors are streets ahead of governments on climate change

Thursday, 17 December 2009

Irish people of all persuasions will have little difficulty empathising with the up-all-night climate change negotiators in Copenhagen.
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Republicans have waited for this moment since 1916. It's not a bluff

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Martin McGuinness's suggestion that the Stormont institutions could collapse if a date isn't set very soon for the devolution of policing and justice has struck many - including supporters of Sinn Fein - as out of proportion to the issue involved.
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Vatican didn't know either? Pull the other one, there's church bells on it

Thursday, 3 December 2009

It would be wrong to say that nothing has changed, but right to say not much. T
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Banks still call the shots as the rest of us are left to foot the bill

Thursday, 26 November 2009

I hear rumours that The Financial Times is about to change its name to the Financial Crimes.
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Why zealotry always leads to the slaughter of the innocents

Thursday, 19 November 2009

God damn you if you show mercy to Palestinians. That was the message to members of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) from Rabbi Avichai Rontzki last week.
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Our young people are trying to talk to us, but are we listening?

Thursday, 12 November 2009

A considerable proportion of the young people of the north are in bits. Everybody knows this in a vague sort of way.
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Cannabis: it’s time to stop the lies and start a rational debate

Thursday, 5 November 2009

It doesn't require a Leap of faith to support the growing calls for a radical rethink of policy on drugs and in particular on the decriminalisation of cannabis.
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EU President? I would cross the street if I saw Tony Blair coming

Thursday, 29 October 2009

It would surely be perverse of Radovan Karadzic to challenge Tony Blair for the presidency of the EU and risk splitting the war criminal's vote.
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Why have we one rule for abortion in Lusaka and another in Lisburn?

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Dfid will have to move quickly if it wants the same rights for women here as it wants for women elsewhere.
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Only here could a warmonger be applauded for talking peace

Thursday, 15 October 2009

I wonder was Foreign Secretary David Miliband disappointed by the muted reaction to his revelation about the release of the alleged Lockerbie bomber in the Commons on Monday.
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Why we can't let truth be the final victim of Bloody Sunday

Thursday, 8 October 2009

One of the reasons for hostility to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry is to be found in a judgement delivered in the High Court in London last Friday in the case of Khunder al-Sweady.
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Why people in Derry are all steamed up over train times

Thursday, 1 October 2009

Why doesn't Northern Ireland Rail send out ruddy-faced fellows in peaked caps and carrying red flags to shift the points along the Derry-Belfast line manually and allow trains to pass one another?
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Eamonn Mccann: Why we will still have legal battles over the right to die

Thursday, 24 September 2009

Whose Life Is It Anyway? asked Brian Clark 30 years ago. Yesterday came a tentative answer. Clark's play told of a sculptor paralysed from the neck down in a car accident who wanted to be allowed to die. But the hospital he was confined in held it a duty - not to mention a legal imperative - to preserve his life at all costs.
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Eamonn McCann: How fight against water charges could erode sectarian rivalries

Thursday, 10 September 2009

A friend of mine recently attended a seminar at which a community relations expert explained that Catholics /nationalists should acquaint themselves with the history of the Orange Order, the better to learn to respect the culture which the Order embodied.
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