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Printer-friendly version ColumnPatrick West24 October 2002 Everyone hates us, we do care A report from Dublin on Irish inferiority, learning Gaelic and barring the British. Columnsinspiked-life Read on... Printer-friendly version Article23 October 2002 A not-so Nice referendum In Ireland's vote on Europe, democracy lost out. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article10 October 2002 The edge of the abyss...again Northern Ireland's peace process will survive, because nobody has anywhere else to go. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version ColumnPatrick West11 July 2002 Cultural perversity Northern Ireland: is Orange the new black? Columnsinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article10 July 2002 Street theatre at Drumcree Far from signalling a return to the Troubles, the annual 'Battle of Drumcree' is a pantomime conflict. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article19 June 2002 Pluck off If I hear the Irish football team described as plucky, brave or courageous one more time, I'll spit. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-life Read on... Printer-friendly version Article25 March 2002 Irishness: more than a flag of convenience Dermot O'Gara, editor of the Irish Abroad website, responds to Brendan O'Neill's 'Paddywhackery goes global'. by Dermot O'Garainspiked-life Read on... Printer-friendly version Article20 March 2002 Why Ireland said No The defeat of the latest abortion referendum shows that tradition and Catholicism no longer hold sway in modern Ireland - but that nothing new has taken their place. by Wendy Earleinspiked-liberties Read on... Printer-friendly version Article15 March 2002 Paddywhackery goes global On St Patrick's Day, being green is the new black - and everyone from Prince Charles to Tony Blair to Bill Clinton has declared their Irishness. A real O'Neill wants no part of it. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-life Read on... Printer-friendly version Article24 January 2002 Bloody Sunday: why now? The sudden obsession with Bloody Sunday tells us more about politics today than about events in Derry 30 years ago. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article17 January 2002 'Today it's just pure naked bigotry' Dr Pete Shirlow, author of a headline-grabbing report on Northern Ireland's 'geography of fear', talks about the relationship between cultural diversity and sectarian divisions. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article10 December 2001 'It has nothing to do with finding the truth' Irish political activist Bernadette McAliskey on how the Bloody Sunday Inquiry is like therapy for Derry. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article30 October 2001 Ireland after 11 September How did a terrorist attack on the USA lead to talk of spiritual and moral renewal in Ireland? by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article19 September 2001 Terrorising liberty The last time a UK government declared 'war on terrorism', the first casualty was liberty. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-liberties Read on... Printer-friendly version Article7 September 2001 Scared - or 'scarred for life'? Many claim that the schoolchildren of north Belfast will be scarred for life by the past week's sectarian abuse. But children are more robust than we think. by Chris Gilliganinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article5 September 2001 A sectarian peace As schoolchildren get caught up in sectarian clashes in north Belfast, Brendan O'Neill explains how Northern Ireland's peace process deepened the sectarian divide. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article14 August 2001 The great parades debate The Orange Order is suing the Northern Ireland Parades Commission for breaching the European Convention on Human Rights by undermining the right to march. Brendan O'Neill 'facilitated a debate'. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-liberties Read on... Printer-friendly version Article25 July 2001 Why Irish eyes aren't smiling The Irish authorities have declared all-out war on alcohol - and in some parts of Ireland it is now virtually impossible to get drunk without committing an offence. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-liberties Read on... Printer-friendly version Article13 July 2001 Northern Ireland: peace, but no politics The Good Friday Agreement is so vacuous that it can be threatened by a party that can't decide if it is pro- or anti-Agreement (UUP); a party with no alternative to the Agreement (DUP); and the most enthusiastic supporter of the Agreement (Sinn Fein). by Chris Gilliganinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article3 July 2001 Northern Ireland: Trimbling at the brink? The first minister has gone - but the peace process, and the instability it brings, will go on. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article21 June 2001 Frank about memoirs Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes, on fact, fiction and why 'there's more to Frank McCourt than feckin Frank McCourt'. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-culture Read on... Printer-friendly version Article25 May 2001 Northern Ireland election: a done deal The election campaign in Northern Ireland is being described as a 'hot contest' - but it is not so much nationalist v Unionist, as nationalist v nationalist and Unionist v Unionist. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article17 April 2001 Why I won't tick the Irish box The Irish category in the UK census will reveal a lot about modern Britain - except how many Irish people live here. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-life Read on... Printer-friendly version Article16 March 2001 Ireland cancels St Patrick's Day As the rest of the world goes Celtic for St Patrick's Day, the Emerald Isle cancels celebrations through fear of foot-and-mouth. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-life Read on... Printer-friendly version Article15 March 2001 We're all Irish now The real O'Neill on St Patrick's Day: 'What is happening on 17 March: a multiethnic karaoke night?' by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-life Read on... Printer-friendly version Article15 March 2001 St Patrick's Day, USA A Dubliner finds his Celtic roots in Washington, DC. by David Nolaninspiked-life Read on... Printer-friendly version Article13 March 2001 Craic good, cigarettes bad Ireland's new anti-smoking zealotry: to quote Father Ted's Father Jack - 'Arse!' by Patrick Westinspiked-liberties Read on... Printer-friendly version Article8 January 2001 Ireland's new PC-priests God is dead - but thou shalt not take the name of the paralympics in vain. by Patrick Westinspiked-liberties Read on... Printer-friendly version Article29 December 2000 Good Friday Agreement: a peace of nothing The only thing 'historic' about the 1998 Northern Ireland settlement was the length of time it took Tony Blair and Bill Clinton to get the exhausted parties to sign it. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... Printer-friendly version Article29 December 2000 Spinning the peace deal The Good Friday Agreement was agreed behind people's backs, promoted by manipulating the media and polls, and imposed by purging dissent and outlawing political debate. by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-politics Read on... 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