What does it mean to be a democrat?

Oh my, what a storm in a TD cup!

We Are Besieged

“I coulda had class, I coulda been a contender, I coulda been somebody, not just a bum”... the comments by your columnist Steven King on the 1918 general election result (December 3) recall Terry Malloy’s whine in On the Waterfront.

SEVERAL letters in favour of the Remembrance Day concert held in Cork City Hall on November 8 based their support for it on the understanding that the Irish Party supported the British government’s conduct of the war until it ended on November 11, 1918.

IN his letter headlined ‘Why IRA killers of the Pearson boys were guilty of a war crime (December 17), Brendan Cafferty gives what appears to be very damning evidence of republicans’ attitude towards Protestants during the War of Independence.

Dissident republicans tonight threatened new attacks on police officers in the North.

ON April 27, 1916, three days after Patrick Pearse stepped onto the portico of the General Post Office in Dublin to proclaim the new Irish Republic, 2,128 men of the 16th (Irish) Division suffered horrifically from a German gas attack.

IN RECENT weeks rumour had it that in West Belfast you could buy a £20 Northern Bank note for £1.

WHILE I welcome the fact that Fianna Fáil recently undertook a ‘root and branch’ analysis of its performance in the recent elections, it’s a pity that it came too late.