Monthly Archives: October 2022

Is this columnist’s frightening republican vision shared by young Irish people?

Posted on Friday, 28 October, 2022 by andypollak

Una Mullally is a high profile Irish Times columnist: a gay left-wing feminist (although I have never seen or heard her describe herself as a socialist) who is particularly popular among the young. This is not surprising given that one … Continue reading →

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Is Ireland’s Future effectively a front for Sinn Fein? Or is that the wrong question?

Posted on Monday, 10 October, 2022 by andypollak

I was at the big Ireland’s Future ‘Preparing for a United Ireland:Together we can’ event at Dublin’s 3 Arena earlier this month. There was very little ‘preparing’ in the proceedings – it was more like a ‘Forward to the Promised … Continue reading →

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The results of the census and the revolt of the masses

Posted on Saturday, 1 October, 2022 by andypollak

Firstly, and briefly, the 2021 Northern Ireland census results. We know the headline figures well by now, that the number of those who are Catholics or from a Catholic background (at 45.7%) now outnumber the number of people who are … Continue reading →

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