A United Ireland is Inevitable. Not Preparing is Irresponsible
In the Irish Independent this week, Senator Frances Black writes of the referendum on a United Ireland as a ‘democratic right’. She...
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- Oct 20, 2020
- 8 min
A Disunited Kingdom
In September, I was invited to take part in an episode of ‘Unfashionably Internationalist’, a podcast about political issues around the...
- Jun 15, 2020
- 5 min
Time To End Community Designations
Since 1998 there has been extensive debate over the institutions established by the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly...
- Jun 8, 2020
- 5 min
Let's Learn Lessons from Brexit: A Response
In a recent contribution, Peter Wilson conducted a post-mortem of the 2016 Brexit referendum. From this post-mortem, he suggested a...
- Jun 6, 2020
- 6 min
Let's Learn Lessons From Brexit
23 June 2016 is a date etched deep in my memory; a day when the UK opted to retreat in on itself by unilaterally hauling up the...
- Feb 2, 2020
- 5 min
The Rise and Fall of Civil War Politics
In most Western democracies, politics is usually defined by the left-right divide or spectrum. Readers in the north of Ireland will know...
- Jan 13, 2020
- 3 min
The Half-Crown is more powerful than the Crown
Following on from the landslide Conservative party electoral win and the inevitability of Brexit, this saying, that the half-crown is...
- Jan 1, 2020
- 6 min
What now for the Union?
“All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.” Thus wrote William Butler Yeats in the year 1916. Of course, he was referring...
- Oct 27, 2019
- 4 min
The 'Others' need to be on the Right Side of History - James McCarthy
As Brexit draws near and decisions appear to be changing on an hourly basis, there have only been two certainties throughout the process;...
- Sep 16, 2019
- 4 min
A Nation Once Again - Cormac Begley
It is a bittersweet irony that the border in Ireland, which was completely ignored throughout the Brexit campaign in Britain, has become...
- Apr 4, 2018
- 4 min
Day 15: Armalite to Ballot Box
I am 18, I have never experienced the tragic war that was brought to Ireland. I have never been subjected to war because of the great...
- Mar 11, 2018
- 5 min
Irish Unity: Beyond Counting Beans
In a previous article for Challenges NI (Why I'm a Republican), I outlined what I considered to be the economic case for a united...
- Dec 20, 2017
- 5 min
Why I’m a Republican
On the 18th December 2017, student and UUP activist Neil Richardson published his article Why I’m a Unionist, focusing on the economic...
- Dec 17, 2017
- 4 min
Protestant, Catholic, and Dissenter
The founding father of modern Irish Republicanism, Theobald Wolfe Tone, was a wealthy protestant, inspired by the French and American...
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