Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Eamonn McCann (Belfast Telegraph, July 3) calls for the West to recognise the Hamas government in Palestine because it was the victor in democratic elections.
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Mahmoud Abbas is no mug and no Mugabe either. The two men have shared a particular and unusual political experience: each was trounced in an election but refused to accept the result. Clinging onto power, each set about demonising, abusing and attacking the party and candidates who had won majority support.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
PROF PAUL Bew and Eamonn McCann discussed the civil rights movement and its influence on subsequent developments.
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
By Eamonn McCann Belfast Telegraph Thursday, 31 July 2008 The story in Monday’s Guardian headed ‘MI5 targets dissidents as Irish terror threat grows’ was based on information supplied by MI5. Even so, it might be true. Let’s see . Headquarters of Britain's internal security service MI5 The story told that: ‘Up to 60% of all the security service’s electronic intercepts — phone-taps and...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
The anti-war group carried posters with pictures of the victims of the bombing. The names of the victims were read out by local journalist and activist Eamonn McCann, one of the Raytheon 9.In a statement afterwards, DAWC chair Eileen Webster said: “It was the Israeli bombing of a civilian target at Qana which prompted the occupation of the Raytheon plant. The fact that it was a Raytheon...
3arabawy (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
... was directed at those who invited and greeted him, particularly Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuiness. Eamonn McCann asked ‘what side are you on'’ and stated it was impossible to be both anti-war and greet George Bush. Speakers also rejected the Neo-liberal agenda of the Northern Ireland Assembly in stating to George Bush that we are ‘open for business’. It was also noted that although Bush...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... days.....In her latest outburst during a heated debate on the rights to abortion with journalist Eamonn McCann on the popular Nolan Show Iris claimed,“Government has a responsibility to uphold God’s law morally...”Apart from the fact that the bible and other religious texts such as the Koran is a half-cooked gibberish of fairy tales and riddled with inconsistencies where you can find...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
... doesn’t seem to be any reference to the issue Brian noted here. Meanwhile in the Belfast Telegraph Eamonn McCann relates a telling scene from the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. The furtive evasions were on public display in New York last week when an official of the Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister was left hanging in the wind as...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
If at home in Belfast, Eamonn McCann might spend his 16th birthday fighting to defend his Catholic heritage from marching Protestants.
Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
If at home in Belfast, Eamonn McCann might spend his 16th birthday fighting to defend his Catholic heritage from marching Protestants.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
In the Derry Journal Eamonn McCann takes issue with a recent editorial in the paper [ this one presumably ] responding to Northern Ireland deputy First Minister Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness’ rhetoric about dissenting republican paramilitaries. “It’s OK by me if Sinn Fein leaders offer a different account. It’s hardly unusual for a political party to offer a version of its past (re)designed...
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Columnist Eamonn McCann is to be congratulated on his direct and concise expose of how genuine democracy in Palestine is deplored by the West, where it uses all but brutal force to bring it down (Belfast Telegraph, July 3).
