Place: Delaford Lawn Knocklyon Dublin

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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All schools equally affected by cutbacks, not just Protestant ones

Drew Nelson, grand secretary of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, in an address to Seanad Éireann (Irish Examiner, Jul 4) complains of the effects cutbacks to Protestant schools are having on Protestant communities in the south.

Irish should not forget debt to Indians over Famine aid

North MP’s remarks on gays hit a new low

Orange Order grant endorses sectarianism

Beads and bigotry: old poison still leaves a trace

Replacing the flag and anthem was unpatriotic

Sir Hugh’s next call

THE call by Gerry Adams to republicans to cooperate with the PSNI in relation to the killing of Robert McCartney, following that of Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde, is to be welcomed.

Mon, 12 Feb, 2007

Bono and the baubles of empire

HISTORICALLY, one of the options open to a major power wishing to absorb or annex a smaller country over a prolonged period of time would have been gradually to integrate the elite and notables of the smaller country into the social and political establishment of the major imperial power.

Thu, 04 Jan, 2007

Chancellor Cowen

MUST our Finance Minister always copy his British counterpart, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on budget day by bringing along the family for a photo-shoot?

Mon, 18 Dec, 2006

Leaders are no help in battle against racism

THE recent report on how leading European publications had described Northern Ireland as the “race hate capital of Europe” is a distinction the North could well do without.

Thu, 06 Jul, 2006

No VIP treatment for loyalist victim’s families

THE brutal killing of Robert McCartney by republicans in Belfast following a bar room brawl provoked an outcry that was heard all the way to the White House.

Tue, 23 May, 2006

Stamp of disapproval

THE decision by An Post to issue a stamp to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme is regrettable. This is not to suggest that those Irish who fell at the Somme should be forgotten.

Thu, 02 Mar, 2006

Orange marchers’ motives questioned

THE proposed march for Orange victims of violence, due to take place in Dublin this month, is a cause for concern on a number of counts.

Wed, 04 Jan, 2006

Left breathless

THE annual Brit Awards - Caroline, Sharon, Andrea and Jim, MBE (Honorary).

Wed, 16 Nov, 2005

Protestant supremacists who hate Catholics? Try the Ku Klux Klan

THE analogy drawn between Nazism and unionism by Fr Alec Reid is inaccurate only on the basis of scale.

Mon, 24 Oct, 2005

Unionists should be ashamed of themselves

I DISAGREE with Fr Alex Reid’s statement at Fitzroy Presbyterian church when he stated that Catholics were “treated almost like animals by the unionist community”.

Mon, 17 Oct, 2005

PSNI under fire

THE PSNI response to the orgy of pyromania directed at the Catholic community in Ahoghill, Co Antrim, is bizarre.

Mon, 22 Aug, 2005

Colonial influences

HAVING debased ourselves as an independent nation by erecting a monument to Francis Drake in Carrigaline, Co Cork, and restoring the monument to Queen Victoria in Dun Laoghaire, should we not now go the whole hog to please our former colonial masters?

Sat, 06 Aug, 2005

MEP should now name the loyalist death squads

THE naming of three people by Democratic Unionist Party MEP Jim Allister in the European Parliament who he claimed, under parliamentary privilege, had information about the murder of Robert McCartney was an abuse of that privilege.

Mon, 16 May, 2005