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The debate in Ireland about joining NATO, or some sort of an EU military arrangement, is now on the political agenda like never before. Pro-neutrality advocates argue that the country is sleep walking into a military alignment of one sort or another with Western military powers. They point to the fact that US air force […]
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One of Greek tragedy’s foremost concerns is the contemplation of polarities. In a part of Sophocles’s Antigone, Ismene tells her sister, “You have a warm heart for cold things”, In ancient Greek culture, warm things are alive, cold ones dead; but for Antigone, now, the fire of her life and self has its source in […]
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The Media’s treatment of the lies: an epic scandal ignored. It was March 1998. The RTE journalist Geraldine Harney informed me that I was to be dismissed by the ISME directors Peter Faulkner and Eoghan Hynes. She was doing the decent thing. Nevertheless, it was a preposterous suggestion and I told her so. However, in […]
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In a whitewashed barn decked out with Ulster flags, Union Jacks and pictures of the Queen, their leader in charge of this meeting sat at an old table. He pressed a button on a tape recorder. A voice boomed out: I address you as the commander in chief of the organisation, Silent Defenders. Author Ciarán […]
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Macron – and on
78March/April 2022And whether or not Ireland likes it, on convergence. Two years ago this is what he told the Economistabout Europe: “So, frstly, Europe is gradually losing track of its history… Europe has forgotten that it is a community, by increasingly thinking of itself as a market, with expansion as its end purpose. This is […]
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Ukraine: Ireland to Russia’s UK
76March/April 2022Fragile, vibrant, modern Ukraine faces being overrun by 190,000 Russian troops, driven by an autocrat frustrated at the loss of Russia’s one-time sphere of infuenceBy Michael SmithINTERNATIONALUkraineUkraine may have been a backwater, romanticised originally as the land of the Cossacks, until recently though it is the second biggest country in Europe (after Russia of […]
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March/April 2022 75duplicity. Despite this, we managed once again to hold the line and steer the group’s reports from developer-friendly surrenders to solid conservation manifestos. History repeatsIn 2015 we had worked with then Fianna Fáil Senator Darragh O’Brien drafting his Moore Street Renewal Bill which reimagined the area as primarily a cultural and historic hub. […]