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Ireland out in the cold over Britain's monarchy debate

Monday March 30 2009

There have been some suggestions in recent weeks about Ireland rejoining the Commonwealth -- 60 years after Mr Costello's inter-party government stormed out of what was then the British Commonwealth, in 1949.

Kevin Myers beggars belief

Friday November 02 2007

My attention has been drawn to yet another reference by Kevin Myers (Irish Independent, October 26) to the conference 'The long revolution: the 1916 Rising in context', which was held in University College Cork in January, 2006, and the deliberations of which appear to have given rise to a full-blown obsession on his part.

If the heat is on, lefties take the high road

Sunday February 12 2006

FOR the past five years this column has consistently come back to the same three themes: IRA fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalism, and the tendency of RTE radio and to Tribaltalk 106, to romanticise the thugs in both traditions. Last week the primary position of the IRA and Islamic issues was pointed up by the Danish cartoon controversy and the fall-out from President McAlee

Unionist views of the Rising

Friday May 05 2006

The sentiments expressed by A Blackwood of the Westminster Unionist Association (Letters, May 2 ) in the rejection of "violence as a means to political ends" are admirable sentiments.

Gardai probe Russian poison scare

Friday December 01 2006

GARDAI have launched an investigation amid fears that former Russian prime minister Yegor Gaidar suffered radiation poisoning during a trip to Ireland last week.