IF you’re fed up with all this lecturing we’re getting about tightening the purse-strings, you’ll hardly be impressed with the news that the NIO has spending on Christmas parties by nearly 9,000% over the last five years. Shaun Woodward revealed to the Commons yesterday that spending went from £426 in 2002-03 to £37,578 in 2006-07.
Are you confused about ‘dissident’ Irish Republicanism? Anxious about its existence and its seemingly increasingly deadly capabilities? Martyn Frampton’s new book, Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism (Irish Academic Press, 2011) serves both as a primer on active dissident groups and a timely analysis of their historic significance and contemporary capabilities. This book clears [...] read our review »
Ireland is in the middle of a boom – a running boom. Chances are, even if you have never run a step yourself (apart from some painful P.E. classes many moons ago), someone you know has taken up running over the last little while. Road races in Northern Ireland and in the Republic have seen [...] read our review »