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Eamonn McCann recently attended the launch of the book, Children of the Troubles. The thought occurred, what was it all about? Strabane teenager Charles Love was killed in the Bogside in Derry on January 28, 1990. His death is included in Freya McClements´ and Joe Duffy’s Children of the
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As the Nationalist and Unionist parties hurl themselves into pacts ahead of December’s general election, Eamonn McCann outlines a new direction for politics as offered by People Before Profit. The need for radical change in Northern politics has never been more obvious. Yet the four biggest parties want their
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An “insanitary mob of vicious delinquents” run British society. Eamonn McCann doesn’t mince words in this assessment of Boris and the Old Etonians at Westminster. Old Etonian Boris Johnson defeated Old Etonian Jeremy Hunt to take over as British Prime Minister. This proves (a) that Tories have no taste,
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Sinn Féin are telling porkies again—this time over flags. The party voted against a proposal from PBP to remove ‘Soldier F’ banners, arguing instead for a catch all action against ‘all banners’, which PBP did not support. Now the Sinn Féin spin machine claims that it was PBP who
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Boris Johnson says he is ‘sickened’ at the prosecution of British soldiers for Bloody Sunday. Eamonn McCann responds. The toxic clown Boris Johnston has told the Daily Telegraph that “it feels sickening” that charges might be brought against some of the paratroopers who killed or wounded 28 unarmed people in
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As more revelations emerge about Ian Paisley’s finances, Eamonn McCann asks whether it is one law for Ian and another for the rest of us? Ian Paisley is still swanking around Ballymena, pockets stuffed with far-flung souvenirs and dubious dosh. Meanwhile, here’s a few highlights of court
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As we approach another anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Eamonn McCann outlines why this year’s march for justice demands “Jail Jackson”. The slogan on the poster announcing this year’s Bloody Sunday march reads – “Jail Jackson!” The reference is to General Sir Michael Jackson, second in command of the paratroopers
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Eamonn McCann, for Rebel, argues that Sinn Féin have become masters of saying one thing and doing another. Theresa May dropped into Belfast on November 27 – part of her stumble across the land trying to sell her mish-mash “solution” to Brexit. At Queen’s University she spoke with groups
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As the drama around SIF continues to unfold, Eamonn McCann brilliantly unpicks the scandal to reveal exactly how these kind of schemes sustain a sectarian and corrupt system. The Renewable Heat Incentive scheme seemed to many to mark a new low in the ethics, so to speak, of Stormont politics.
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The housing situation in the North is worsening by the day. Eamonn McCann, who was a founding member of the Derry Housing Action Committee in 1968, suggests that we need to rediscover a sixties spirit of radicalism to solve the homelessness crisis today. We had a housing crisis back in
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The James McClean poppy controversy has again flared up. Eamonn McCann gives his take on this issue, suggesting that opposition to the poppy is a righteous stance. Sergio Agüero seemed unconcerned as he stood for a minutes silence while a poppy wreath was laid by a man in army garb
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RHI, NAMA, SIF, Red Sky. The list of Stormont scandals is long and widely known. Here, Eamonn McCann looks back at the scandalous past of the NI Assembly and places it’s roots in the sectarian headcount on the hill. It’s frequently been observed that in any other jurisdiction