Current Events
Police Reform in Northern Ireland
On “The Conversation,” my friend and colleague Donald Beaudette and I discuss the lessons that the United States can learn from the process of reforming the police in Northern Ireland. Read it here.
Current Events
Important High Court Decision Coming on Monday
According to the Irish Times, the High Court will rule on Monday on whether there is a “validly constituted Seanad” that can sit and pass laws. This is an interesting question dealing with Article 18 of Bunreacht na hÉireann, and pits members of the Seanad against the outgoing taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, Read more…
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Gemma O’Doherty Shows Her True Colors
And they’re not green, white, and orange. In an obscene tweet yesterday, Gemma cited a murder in South Africa and then claimed that “multiculturalism” is the problem. In many of Gemma’s racist tweets proclaiming that “Ireland belongs to the Irish,” she has been able to at least nominally pretend that Read more…
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Lyra McKee – Murder Weapon Found
At long last, investigators have located the gun that assholes from the so-called New IRA used to murder the journalist Lyra McKee over a year ago in Derry. Police reform is an urgent issue in the United States right now, and I hope that reformers might look to the PSNI Read more…
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Domestic Abuse in Lockdown
Domestic violence is a euphemism for assault, assault with a deadly weapon, and/or murder or one’s intimate partner. In Ireland, as around the world, cases of “domestic violence” have increased dramatically as the coronavirus pandemic forced people into lockdown. Today’s Irish Times is reporting that the gardaí are committed to Read more…