Eamon McCann
SDLP’s policy on Raytheon is at odds with the official record
The SDLP has rejected suggestions that John Hume colluded with arms
manufacturer Raytheon to mislead the public about the nature of the
company's operation in Derry.
Comments: 2
Inside Eamon McCann
Northern Ireland just the latest country to victimise Roma
Thursday, 25 June 2009
In November 2007, the Czech Republic was found by the European Court of Human
Rights (ECHR) to have discriminated against Roma children by assigning them
routinely to schools for pupils with learning difficulties.
Comments: 22
How long must these children wait to escape the poverty trap?
Thursday, 18 June 2009
In the Commons on Monday, the Prime Minister affected a sniffy disdain for the
Saville Tribunal, which, he lamented, has still not reported after eight
years.
Comments: 2
Why did Diane shun Bairbre if her party works with Sinn Fein?
Thursday, 11 June 2009
It isn‘t an outbreak of swine ‘flu the DUP should be worried about, but the
spreading epidemic of Schadenfreude.
Comments: 12
Why there will be no votes in Visteon at the Euro polls today
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Diane Dodds’ awful performance on The Politics Show at the weekend won’t have
dented her confidence of a seat in today’s European election.
Comments: 2
Why were children handed to Church with no questions asked?
Thursday, 28 May 2009
Jim was 14 days old when placed with the Sisters of Nazareth at Termonbacca in
Derry. What happened to him later disproves suggestions there was no
equivalent in the North of the savagery inflicted on children in the
Republic.
Comments: 6
Eamonn MCann: Why Pope must pray victims forgive Vatican’s role in abuse
Thursday, 21 May 2009
To discuss the scandal of child abuse in the Catholic Church without factoring
in the role of the Vatican is to miss the main point. Irish Catholics had
been told in advance, by Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in his Holy
Thursday homily, that the contents of the report of the commission of
inquiry published yesterday would “shock us all”. But we may doubt whether
all were sufficiently prepared for what’s emerged.
Comments: 19
Why this Palestinian child won’t be celebrating Israel’s birthday
Thursday, 14 May 2009
The birth of Israel on this day in 1948 was a catastrophe for the
Palestinians. By the end of the year, around 750,000 women, men and children
had been driven from their homes to make space for Jews, most of them
refugees fleeing persecution in Europe.
Comments: 16
What unionists must do now to get the thumbs up from Europe
Thursday, 30 April 2009
You don’t have to agree with Robert Ramsay’s politics to recognise his
“insider’s view of the crisis in Northern Ireland” as the most intriguing
treatise on the future of unionism to have emerged in recent years. Not,
mind you, that the competition has been fierce.
Comments: 8
Eamonn McCann: Why Visteon workers’ refusal to budge puts the focus on Ford
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Administrators KPMG will tomorrow morning ask the High Court in Belfast to
order the Visteon workers out of the factory at Finaghy Road North which
they have been occupying for the past month.
Comments: 7
How lies, lies and damned lies are the first resort of ruling class
Thursday, 16 April 2009
Jay Lerner and Burton Lane’s pithy 1933 smash How Can You Believe Me When I
Tell You That I Love You When You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life? might
serve as the theme-song of authority confronted by the victims of official
wrong-doing — the Hillsborough disaster 20 years ago yesterday; the lies
that preceded the invasion of Iraq; the death of Ian Tomlinson during the
G20 protest in London; even the exposure of Damian McBride’s proposed dirty
tricks operation against the Tories and off-message members of the Labour
Party.
Comments: 6
Will Afghan adventure end our heady love affair with Obama?
Thursday, 9 April 2009
If George Bush were proposing what Obama proposed at the Nato summit last
weekend, many would now be railing against him. But he’s not George Bush.
He’s modern jazz to Bush’s barn-dance.
Comments: 2
Eamon McCann: Bishops need a lesson on benefits of integrated education
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Why should a bunch of bachelors with neither chick nor child be allowed
influence over the education of children? Why should the support of Catholic
Bishops be regarded as vital when it comes to deciding on a post-primary
system?
Comments: 25
Capitalism is feeding the greed of the world’s bankers
Thursday, 26 March 2009
At the risk of undercutting other workers, I am willing to act as chief
executive of the Irish Nationwide Building Society for £5,000 a week.
Comments: 6
Why it’s time we revoked the banks’ licence to print money
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Last week, Martin Broughton warned Gordon Brown that if he keeps harping on
about bank bonuses and tax avoidance he'll bring on “a catastrophe that
fails to deal with the recession”.
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Torture flights fly in the face of Powell’s platitudes on violence
Thursday, 12 March 2009
The UN condemnation of Britain for involvement in torture is unlikely to faze
Gordon Brown’s Government.
Comments: 3
How Chrissie Hynde keeps up the voice of protest over women’s rights
Thursday, 5 March 2009
In an interview some years ago pegged on International Women’s Day, March 8th,
Chrissie Hynde mentioned Mary Wollstonecraft as one of her heroines.
Comments: 3
Eamon McCann: Forcing parents off benefits isn’t the way to cut child poverty
Thursday, 26 February 2009
The way things are, it won’t be the fact that demand for buses has stalled
that the workers at Wright’s in Ballymena will have to worry about but the
welfare reform juggernaut coming down the road.
Comments: 4
Politicians who outlaw cannabis are just being dopes
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Robert Holding can count himself lucky he doesn’t live here. If he did, he’d
likely have had his brains blown out by one of our armies of liberation.
Comments: 17
Eamon McCann: Why some deportations are a black and white issue
Thursday, 12 February 2009
The problem for Jamiu Omikunle wasn’t so much the validity of his visa as the
colour of his skin.
Comments: 11
How can the Pope welcome such appalling faces of Catholicism?
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Liberal Catholics have been anguished and angered by the Pope welcoming a
Holocaust denier back into the Church and promoting to the hierarchy, a man
who believes that the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina was
devoutly to be welcomed as representing God’s wrath against New Orleans for
its tolerance of homosexuals.
Comments: 37
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