Finally, a profile of a man who once said he'd "rather choke on [his] own blood in NI than live on streets paved with gold in a United Ireland". Unfortunately, it does little to interrogate his corrosive influence or why he enjoys such access to power.
Tag: Northern Ireland
Eamonn McCann at a picket line in Ballymena & 21st century Popish Plots
Eamonn McCann and John Hume "wrecked this country", while imagined green conspiracies are afoot.
Bringing back the unionist veto?
In a 1989 essay in the London Review of Books, John Hume wrote that, “the fundamental change that has taken place as a result of the Anglo-Irish Agreement is a change that is deeply and fully understood by every Unionist. What it means is that their exclusive hold on power has gone and is not coming back."
When you are in Ireland, but not yet in Ireland
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly confused a few people last week when, standing in Saintfield Co. Down, he told assembled journalists that he would "be going to Ireland in the near future".
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