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Articles Written by: MICK FEALTY
Who is This?
Mick Fealty is a journalist and the founding editor of the Northern Ireland-based blog Slugger O'Toole. He is a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Governance at Queen's University Belfast. Fealty was born in Belfast and now lives in Dorset, England.
Jokes about a rematch after a one-all draw were part of the humour of a no camp trying to accept with good grace an indisputable victory in a battle for hearts and minds that has, despite some rather more pressing economic news, has managed to dominate ...
Gerry Adams is very much a man of his own and place. He is often critically compared with his long-time Bête noire Ian Paisley; largely because whilst the latter is viewed as a purely political figure, Adams is judged through the prism of a militarised ...
From MICK FEALTY,
Comment Is Free,
29 Apr 2009
It clearly took some of the main players by surprise. Not least the victims themselves who were due to ship out of Northern Ireland in a matter of hours to Afghanistan. That it took place in an area which during the Troubles fell between two IRA stools ...
I'm no expert in Middle East studies. What I do know about the latest Israeli offensive on Gaza is that, as Petra Marquardt-Bigman notes, comes in the run-up to an election in which a revitalised Likud is squeezing the governing party hard in opinion ...
So, Conor Cruise O'Brien is gone. My first memory, as a teenager, of him as a public personality was when he was editor of the Observer, in what seemed to us one of the most prestigious posts in the British newspaper industry. It was a source of some ...
Here's the money shot from Paul Bouton at Wired:
The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out ...
From MICK FEALTY,
Comment Is Free,
24 Oct 2008
Mick Fealty: As Sinn Féin and the DUP continue to battle over power sharing, Northern Ireland is running out of ...
It's been a relatively quiet summer in Northern Ireland. Generally that's a good thing. Despite some bizarre sabre-rattling from Sinn Féin, the devolved institutions have not fallen. We await the outcome in September of bipartisan negotiations between ...
From MICK FEALTY,
Comment Is Free,
14 Aug 2008
A few months after the Human Rights Act was finally made law, one of the key contributors to the text of the Act, Francesca Klug, sounding a warning to an assembled group of human rights activists that they could not expect to gain the wider trust of ...
All three of those accused of the Robert McCartney murder have been acquitted. The dead man's sister Catherine noted:
We hadn't got very high expectations. As a layperson sitting in that court listening to the evidence we have heard, would I have put ...
