Podcast Episodes

International Law in Tatters | The Fellow in the Big Picture | Irish government should be ashamed

International Law in Tatters

Should we be surprised by the decision of President Trump to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores? …

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Happy New Year one and all - 2026 - Bliain Úr faoi Mhaise Daoibhse | Eyes On The Prize. | ‘I’m so scared, please come’

2026 - Bliain Úr faoi Mhaise Daoibhse

A very happy New Year to all readers of this column, to the staff of the Belfast Media Group and The Irish Echo.…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Hunger Strike in English Prisons | Grace – just hold me in your arms … | A bleak Christmas for Palestinians | Nollaig Shona Daoibshe

Hunger Strike in English Prisons

In English prisons five people, imprisoned under new repressive laws targeted at pro-Palestinian activists, are on hu…

8 months, 4 weeks ago

Kenova – Collusion and the Murder of Citizens | Bondi Beach | Unity project making progress

Kenova – Collusion and the Murder of Citizens 

The Kenova Report adds further substance to the litany of existing reports that over several decades ha…

9 months ago

And Flowers Grew up Through the Concrete | A Real Peace Settlement Needed | Gearóid Ó Cairealláind |

And Flowers Grew up Through the Concrete is Laurence McKeown’s second prison memoir. Big Laurny, is a very fine writer. This latest book is an accou…

9 months, 1 week ago

An open letter to my unionist neighbours | Fairytale of New York

An Open Letter to My Unionist Neighbours

A Chairde,

I want to respectfully reach out to my unionist neighbours at this time of ongoing change on our is…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Delivering Rural Health & Care In a New Ireland | The SS Al Rawdah | A Space in which Dialogue is Possible

The SS Al Rawdah

For the first time ever the families of many of the 207 Republican internees held on the Al Rawdah prison ship between 1940 and 1941 …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Remembering Friends | Solidarity with Palestine | Health in a New Ireland | Passport office for the north

Philomena Mulvenna

Philomena Mulvenna died in the early hours of last Friday morning. I have known Philomena and her husband Paddy for most of my adul…

10 months ago

Defending British interests | The battle for hearts and minds of Unionism | An evening with Jim Fitzpatrick

Defending British interests

Hilary Benn is the 25th British Secretary of State since the Conservative government of Ted Heath scrapped the Stormont Pa…

10 months, 1 week ago

Celebrating our Language, Arts and Culture | Ról na nGael i dTógáil Éire Nua | The Olive is never just a Tree

Celebrating our Language, Arts and Culture

Comhghairdeas to all of those who helped make Oireachtas na Samhna the huge success it was. Thousands of Ir…

10 months, 2 weeks ago