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Maíria Cahill And Gerry Adams

One of the rarely discussed facets of the generational war which disfigured the north-east of Ireland from the mid-1960s to the late 1990s (or early 2000s) was the widespread – if not quite common –...

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Maíria Cahill And Micheál Martin’s Cynical Opportunism

Maíria Cahill, a member of a respected Republican family from Belfast and a former youth activist with Sinn Féin, has recently sought vindication for what she regards as unfair treatment at the hands...

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Slut-Shaming Maíria Cahill Is Not A Republican Response

So the controversy in relation to the allegations made by 33 year old Maíria Cahill, a former national secretary of Ógra Shinn Féin (SF’s youth wing), continues to rumble on. Understandably the general...

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Maíria Cahill And The Republican Network For Unity

Last Friday morning the journalist and writer Paul Larkin highlighted on Twitter some evidence that a “Mairia Cahill” from Belfast had formerly served as the chairperson of the RNU or Republican...

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That Fake Letter From Gerry Adams

A quick piece on the ongoing Maíria Cahill controversy, in particular the sudden reactivation of a number of anonymous anti-republican blogs which are now collating and reposting press stories on the...

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Defenders And Defilers Of The Irish State

Apparently Gerry Adams TD, leader of the political party the polls declare the most popular in the country, has issued a death-threat to the editor of the Irish Independent newspaper. At least that is...

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Maíria Cahill And The Labour Party, Or Integrity Meets Avarice

To misquote a terrible old bigot who had a way with words, most political controversies end not with a bang but with a whimper. That borrowed aphorism may turn out to be true in relation to the scandal...

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A Delirium Of Political Vacuousness

So, I’ve not too much to say while I’m smothered with a persistent cold which refuses all efforts to kill it off (before it does the same to me). The fact that it took me four attempts to write that...

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Threats, Intimidation And Absences In The Seanad Election

As stated in a previous post, I have largely avoided commenting upon the complex Maíria Cahill controversy, due in no small part to the levels of partisan sentiment and animosity it brings up. A...

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Catherine Kelly, Regina Doherty And Online Free Speech In Ireland

Some participants in the liberal or progressive Twittersphere in Ireland might be familiar with @sanepolitico, the username of Catherine Kelly, a Tyrone-born instructor in political science at Western...

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