Ferris unbowed (Free article)
7 March 2002
It was nice that the good folk of Kerry had laid on a special welcome for Derrig from Donegal. The weather was Inishowen-like and they had laid on specially Gweedore type roads for me. I had this Donegal notion that things in Kerry were hunky dory, but the roads in the north of the county were as bad as any at home.
It’s not the end of the world – we hope (Free article)
30 May 2002
While the nation convulsd over Roy Keane this last week, the world was arguably facing its most dangerous nuclear crisis since 1962, but most of us appeared remarkably unconcerned. MICK DERRIG discusses our strange sense of priorities.
Blair’s Widgery (Free article)
5 February 2004
BY MICK DERRIG Power protects power. There isn’t much more to know about the Hutton Report than that. The decision by the British state – as a junior partner of the Americans – to invade, conquer and occupy Iraq, its people and its vital natural resources is the defining moment of Blair’s presidency. Yes, of course it’s a presidency. He is even…
Why republicans should care about science (Free article)
12 February 2004
BY MICK DERRIG. I realise that I will have to argue for this, but I think it is a worthwhile exercise. As republicans on this island we have been, for generations, concerned with human progress – basically, the democratisation of this island. The 1916 Proclamation is, in its essence, about the establishment of a structure, The Republic, which will…
The great psychotropic drugs scandal (Free article)
19 February 2004
BY MICK DERRIG – Republicans have been focused for a long time on the havoc that illegal narcotics can wreak in areas of poverty and deprivation. I consider the real drug problem around cannabis or heroin to be the twin terrors of poverty and criminal prohibition. However, there is a serious drug problem that disproportionately affects…
Why our primate siblings should have human rights (Free article)
26 February 2004
In his latest examination of humankind’s ever advancing technological progress and scientific discoveries, MICK DERRIG argues that primates should be afforded the same rights enjoyed by humans. The discovery of DNA by Crick and Brown in the 1950s and the ability to isolate and mark DNA in the 1980s has had profound effects on how we consider our…
Malá Poist (Free article)
11 March 2004
Derrig’s monkey business A Chairde, Am I taking Mick Derrig too seriously? Was his article a spoof to get me going? I refer to ‘Why Our Primate Siblings should have Human Rights’ (An Phoblacht, 26 February). Derrig has a right to express his opinion, but as a Sinn Féin voter I am at a loss to know why space was given to this article.
Donegal’s awake (Free article)
11 March 2004
BY MICK DERRIG – For such a long time, Donegal seemed – in every sense – like a backwater. Geographically marooned by the border, tied to the Free State by a thread of ground at Ballyshannon. Cut off from its natural conurbation of Derry City, Donegal, of all the 32 counties, was fecked by Partition. During the conflict, given its neighbour status…
Rising tides threaten our very future (Free article)
25 March 2004
In this latest in a series of articles on developments in science and technology, MICK DERRIG argues that, in ignoring the impact of our polluting ways on our own habitat, we are hastening the extinction of our own species
A waste of woodpulp (Free article)
15 April 2004
Books like this one make me sad. Why? Because I like trees. First there was the quote on the front cover from revisionist Colm Toibin that this book is “essential reading for anyone interested in how the arguments about the past cut deeply into the way we live in Ireland now”. I suppose that should have been warning enough, however, I ploughed…
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