The Real IRA's campaign seems to be directed as much against Sinn Fein as the British state. The latest attacks include not only the killing of a peeler, but also a (failed) pipe bomb attack on a Sinn Fein office. Gerry Adams argues that it is an outright attack on the 'peace process', and risks squ...

The unfeeling Sinn Fein statement on Sunday about the murders at the Massereene Barracks and the cold hard words from Gerry Adams on Monday's Today Programme will have distressed those who believed he had mellowed into a kindly statesman....

Northern Irish politics is, as a rule, boring. Think about the material you have to work with. Between Martin McGuinness' lachrymose banalities and Peter Robinson's rigid bigotry (there is a great deal of both in Stormont), there is little room to be inspiring. The only occasional frisson is when on...

Myspace, as a social network, is dead. Myspace is for music (and occasionally film). I think those who attended Unconvention are still collecting their thoughts and ideas that came of it, inspiring and motivating as so many of them were. The first point being how to get your music heard - simple, gi...

It’s up, up and away. And nothing to do with us. What, you didn’t think humans were causing global warming, did you? Whatever next? Smoking kills? Image via Wikipedia An ad campaign advising people on how they can help in the fight against climate change has been banned by Northern Irela...

After hearing of all this snow in England, Scotland and Wales as well as South Ireland, I, and I assume, others had gotten pretty impatient for the snow to get to us in Belfast. Finally it did yesterday. When I awoke, before 7am, the a few inches had accumulated on the ground outside, and it was sti...

Prize idiots in Northern Ireland think the families of terrorists should be paid compensation. The government were mad to release murderers. Now they want to re-imburse the relatives of bombers who blew up their own selves. BBC says, 'GORDON BROWN, PRIME MINISTERI understand why one of the recommend...

America's most inconvenient houseguest received the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday in a White House ceremony....

America's most inconvenient houseguest received the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday in a White House ceremony....

High on the agenda for the Conservative-UUP joint committee announced earlier this month is to agree on how to go about selecting candidates. And there are some early pointers as to how this is going to be done in an interview given by Owen Paterson, shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, and Marion Lit...