Hard to see how a Bloody Sunday Bridge advances bridge-building
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” The question posed in Juliet’s famous soliloquy comes to mind in the context of current controversies about re-naming places and institutions. In particular, the decision by Dublin City Council to rename Clonliffe Bridge as “Bloody Sunday Bridge” […]
Supreme Court selection is no business of judges
Professor Oran Doyle of TCD’s law school wrote recently in the Irish Independent about the significance of the Supreme Court hearing to be held this week into the constitutionality of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill. In broad terms his article seemed supportive of the Bill. The central issue in the debate so far is the […]
An early election must have its attractions for Leo Varadkar
The announced departure from the political stage of Frances Fitzgerald has happened well in advance of the European and local elections due next June. Her party has plenty of time now to select a candidate for the Dublin constituency. But who would they choose to run for what used, in any event, to be a […]
How far will Sunak’s government go to deny the slaughter in Gaza?
Looking at what is happening in Britain in the context of ongoing destruction of innocent civilians in Israel and Gaza, I am left wondering how far the Sunak administration will go in denying the obvious truth that what is now being done to the Palestinians in Gaza is as wrong and as barbaric as what […]
No majority North or South for an undefined Irish unity
Steve Baker, a British minister of state for Northern Ireland and a former chairman of the Tory euro-sceptic European Research Group, suggested that it might have been better if the Good Friday Agreement had provided that there would be no change in the status of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom unless a […]
Israel’s retribution on people of Gaza is exactly what Hamas planned
The atrocious Hamas massacre and hostage -taking in Israel was intended to have the exact outcome which is now unfolding before our eyes. Their evil calculus was, and is, that Israel would unleash a mighty retribution on the entire people and territory of the Gaza strip. What else could they have expected and hoped for? […]