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Eamon McCann
We do not need to be told the truth. We need truth to be told
Why Bloody Sunday? There have been bigger death tolls. Fifteen Catholics in
McGurk’s Bar in the New Lodge in Belfast the previous month. Eighteen Paras
at Warrenpoint in 1979.
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Inside Eamon McCann
They've got a deal! Oh no they haven't! It's panto time again
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Barack Obama was bouncing with excitement in the White House on Tuesday as word came in that Stormont had accepted the devolution of policing and justice.
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Why MI5 is free to operate here while Stormont can't do a thing
Thursday, 4 March 2010
At Stormont on Monday, Mark Durkan said that MI5 had "serious questions to answer" in relation to the killing of Kieran Doherty.
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Who gave this man the right to decide if a citizen lives or dies?
Thursday, 25 February 2010
George Bush was denounced around the world for allowing his intelligence
agencies to install wiretaps without warrants from the courts.
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We've built sectarianism into the system. Now it's time to move on
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Gang using Fountain as a base, read the headline on page three of the Derry Journal last Friday. The story told that "a sectarian gang from the Fountain estate has been accused of terrorising pedestrians on the Abercorn Road". Residents had "called for robust police action to remove the aggressors from the streets".
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How the Minister is making a rail mess of the west's transport system
Thursday, 11 February 2010
If all the arguments against spending up to a billion pounds on a dual carriageway from Derry to Aughnacloy were laid out end to end, the Department of Regional Development would drive a bulldozer over them.
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Take a cue from amazing Grace and slap the cuffs on Tony Blair
Thursday, 4 February 2010
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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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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