Irish foreign minister displays courage in exposing tragedy of disaster zone.

What happened in Paris? Was the Jerry Flannery incident as bad as we thought it was?

It was like a news bulletin of 20 years ago. Two Brits and one policeman shot dead.
People old enough to remember the bad days feared the worst and doubtless the perpetrators had hoped for the worst. Their strategy was to force a chain reaction that would unravel the peace process and make their fringe and [...]

In the New Years Day post, I focussed on the long-term underlying issues in Gaza, rather than joining the short term finger-pointing and blame game. The morality of the blame game is valuable to Israel and Hamas only in terms of affecting international opinion in their favour and to date they have each established [...]

I mentioned earlier that I intended to have guest postings on various subjects, and this is the first in what I hope will become a series.
James Carr is an Irish professional whose work has taken him to many disturbed parts of the world, and here’s his assessment of the dreadful events now taking [...]