The Crystal Ball
By Dr John Coulter Author and Journalist. 1/3/2016 Now that Admiral Arlene has taken over both the First Minister’s post and the Good Ship DUP, will she sail it successfully through...
View ArticleReimagining Ireland
By Jude Collins Political Commentator 10/3/2016 To come clean from the start: I don’t like the term ‘Reimagining Ireland’. It suggests that I have been imagining Ireland already and now need to...
View ArticleChristian Politics: A Call to Action
By Dr John Coulter Political commentator. 14/3/2016 My academic analysis concerning the need for an Irish Christian Party because of the secular drift in Irish society on both sides of the Irish...
View ArticleWho Fears to Speak of Easter Week
By Dr John Coulter Political Commentator 21/3/2016 Many republicans need to ‘wise up’ and actually read the 1916 Proclamation. Just as the increasingly secular and pluralist society has changed the...
View ArticleA Protestant Englishman’s view of Commemorating 1916
By Professor John Brewer Queen’s University Belfast 21/3/2016 Let me begin with a universal truth that helps us rethink the 1916 Easter Rising commemorations: all nations begin in violence....
View ArticleA Long Spoon to Sup with the Devil
By Dr John Coulter Journalist & Political Commentator 14/4/2016 The key questions from this year’s Easter Rising commemorations are what is the future direction for Irish republicanism and how...
View ArticleFuneral For a Friend
By Aine Carson Journalist & Blogger 19/04/2016 ACCORDING to the rules of Christianity, my four friends are sinners and won’t get into heaven. The reason for being turned away at the pearly gates...
View ArticleLet Them Have Their Say
By Dr John Coulter Author and Journalist 26/4/2016 It’s time for the ‘Twinkles’ to shine on 5 May! Who, you ask? The Stormont Assembly poll that day will be the first major opportunity for teenage...
View ArticleParity of Esteem?
By Fr Joe McVeigh 3/5/2016 I was thinking today, as I was driving around Fermanagh decked out in Election posters, about the political situation in the north since the Good Friday Agreement (1998). Of...
View ArticleAfter the Ball is Over
By Dr John Coulter 9/5/2016 Introducing compulsory voting, lowering the voting age to at least 16, and making Citizenship Studies on the importance of the ballot box part of the school curriculum...
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