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Eamon McCann
EU President? I would cross the street if I saw Tony Blair coming
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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Inside Eamon McCann
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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Eamonn McCann: So, what will Europe do if Irish voters reject Lisbon ... again?
Thursday, 3 September 2009
There's a palpable nervousness in the BaNama Republic. The thought is beginning to dawn that the voters could say No to Lisbon again. If that happens, it's goodnight Irene.
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Eamonn McCann: How America turns a blind eye to apartheid in the Middle East
Thursday, 27 August 2009
Even as the noose tightens on the people of Palestine, Binyamin Netanyahu has
the neck to talk about peace.
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Eamonn McCann: Is it worth fighting a bloody war to prop up Afghans’ evil rulers?
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Thinking hard — soldiers must wonder why are they fighting, and dying, in
AfghanistanWould anybody around here have a good word to say about Hamid
Karzai if he were standing for election in Iran?
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Eamonn McCann: At least Bertie is not feeling the pinch as Celtic Tiger whimpers
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Bertie Ahern is a Manchester United fan but that’s the least of his sins. It’s
understandable he should be enamoured of the Old Trafford outfit, it being a
fact universally acknowledged among us football people that followers of
United know less about the game than supporters of any other club in the
Premiership or, possibly, for all I know, in the universe.
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Medjugorje - a shrine to the Virgin Mary or a sham?
Thursday, 6 August 2009
Will the real Prince of Darkness please stand up? Are you Pope Benedict XVI or
the spitting image of the Mother of God?
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How the banks are laughing up their sleeves at darling Alistair
Thursday, 30 July 2009
Happy days are here again, The skies above are clear again, So let's sing a
song of cheer again, Happy days are here again.
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Why local politicians have once again failed women on abortion
Friday, 24 July 2009
Will GAA matches involving Tyrone be banned by the British?
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Why Britain has always been at the beck and call of America
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Jeremy Paxman wondered “Why are we in Afghanistan?” on Newsnight on Monday.
The answer is, “Yo, Blair!”
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Josef Locke was always so much more rock ‘n’ roll than U2
Friday, 10 July 2009
Shuffling out from U2’s Popmart tour — the one with the McDonalds-style Golden
Arch — at Lansdowne Road 10 years ago, I chanced on Philip King, singer,
songwriter, television producer and music adviser to the Irish Arts Council.
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Eamonn McCann: How SDLP’s policy on Raytheon is at odds with the official record
Thursday, 2 July 2009
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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