Poem of the week: untitled
Poem of the week: Alone and Drinking Under The Moon
Review: the Death Ship
In case you missed: Jesus of Montréal

Deputies, with all due respect, grow up

Gogarty's cod-psychological apology is worse then the odd swear word

Poem: Domhnach na Fola – Eanair 1972

Le DÓNAL Ó LIATHÁIN
Credibility versus democratic accountability

STEPHEN RAINEY suggests shrugging-off problems and getting on with living
Boycott Israeli gays?

You know that anti-Israeli protests have reached their nadir when gay pride becomes involved, says JASON WALSH
Rome: the decline and fall of the eastern empire

CHRIS GRAY concludes his series on the Roman empire by analysing the reasons for its survival in the east

A letter from the editor
Market crap

Apple’s ‘value’ exceeding that of Microsoft is an illusion, says JASON WALSH
Monopoly money cuts and the toy-town economy

70 per cent of the North’s economy is state subsidised – it’s time to stop playing with the toy economy, says STEPHEN RAINEY
Oxfams to the left of me, Oxfams to the right. Business? Missing in action

The North is about to pay a very high price for its isolation from both the British and Irish polities
England? No

PATRICK WEST says Irish football fans shouldn’t be cheering on England come the World Cup—and it has nothing to do with Anglo-Irish relations
Let’s kill ‘heritage Irish’

Get Irish off life support and into real life, says JASON WALSH

Poem of the week: untitled

By MAOLÍOSA BREATHNACH
Poem of the week: Alone and Drinking Under The Moon

By LI PO
Review: the Death Ship

JASON WALSH reviews a virtually lost work of fiction by B. Traven, author of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre
In case you missed: Jesus of Montréal

JASON WALSH on the celebration of an atheists’ mass in post-Quiet Revolution Québéc

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