Psychiatry has always had a taste for pathologising perfectly normal behaviour. After all, being gay was once listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

13 Oct 2014 - McCann

A millionaire who bellyaches about being broke; an enthusiastic supporter of Israel’s ceaseless extermination of Palestinians; and a whole lot more besides. So why are so many self-proclaimed lefties and liberals still so determined to think highly of Hillary Clinton, hot favourite to be next President of the United States?

26 Sep 2014 - Frontlines

Marijuana is far less harmful than booze or cigarettes – that it remains criminalised is one of the true absurdities of modern Ireland

15 Sep 2014 - Reports

Horrific crimes committed in the Republic continue to go unpunished. Meanwhile, Israel carries on doing as it has always done...

18 Aug 2014 - McCann

The Labour reshuffle was utterly underwhelming - apart from the demotion of Joe Costello, a brave man willing to champion unfashionable causes

06 Aug 2014 - Commentary

Our columnist’s thoughts on the Israel/Palestine conflict have drawn ire from far afield – meanwhile, the Catholic Church continues to show greater interest in exorcising demons than dealing with the skeletons in its closet

21 Jul 2014 - McCann

The former Irish Times columnist is far from being the bigot some have portrayed him as - but in the age of facebook and twitter there's no hiding from the haters

01 May 2014 - Frontlines

The 'few bad apples' theory doesn't hold up when it comes to the gardai. Repeated scandals have demonstrated that the entire organisation has been compromised by corruption and indiscipline. And nothing is being done about it.

25 Apr 2014 - Frontlines

While Ireland goes overboard to pay tribute to St Paddy, Italy has struck upon a more mature way to honour its patron saint

10 Apr 2014 - Frontlines

A routine health procedure sets our correspondent thinking about test cricket. Meanwhile, torturer and war criminal General McChrystal remains a free man...

02 Apr 2014 - Frontlines

A dancing British royal, a charity worker, a slimy ex-Prime Minister and a bloodthirsty US general - which one of this quartet is currently incarcerated without trial? Go on, take a wild guess...

19 Mar 2014 - McCann

We're not kidding. We have scientifically proved beyond doubt that one hurricane is no match for a thousand lesbians. Read on...

27 Feb 2014 - McCann

24 Feb 2014 - REVIEW

A folk-rock band has offered a compelling take on the writings of James Connolly

17 Feb 2014 - McCann

How long before people get it into their heads that the Poppy has nothing to do with peace?

04 Feb 2014 - McCann

Forget the hype, listen to the reviews – Fergie’s tell-all tells us very little new indeed

16 Dec 2013 - McCann

Behind his grumpy exterior, Lou Reed knew a life-time of pain – much of it dating back to his teenage ‘treatment’ for sexual ‘deviancy’

29 Nov 2013 - Hog

The annual riot of craw-thumping jingoism that is British Poppy Season is upon us. Is this really the best way to celebrate the tragedy of World War I?

15 Nov 2013 - McCann

The gulf between Ireland’s Gaelic past and Britain’s Royal present isn’t as yawning as you might imagine

01 Nov 2013 - McCann

Why those who deny the reality of global warming must be exposed at every turn — and why those who say ‘there’s nothing we can do about it’ are completely wrong.

18 Oct 2013 - McCann

America has always been happy to go to war on trumped-up grounds. It is something we should keep in mind as the Syrian crisis lurches ever onwards

03 Oct 2013 - McCann

The State has taken over the production and distribution of the plant, which sounds like a very good idea...

17 Sep 2013 - McCann

10 Sep 2013 - REVIEW

It’s wonderful that Derry has been named UK City of Culture. But it’s a shame that the event doesn’t have more of an edge – the better to convey a sense of the ‘real’ city.

05 Sep 2013 - McCann

Joe Brolly’s outburst against Sean Cavanagh has once again thrown a light on Mickey Harte’s use of his exalted status in the GAA...

21 Aug 2013 - McCann

Evil nuns, Rod Stewart, Glasgowbury and phallic entanglement are but a few of the topics on our man’s mind this fortnight....

07 Aug 2013 - McCann

PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott continues to fritter away public money on unnecessary security operations...

24 Jul 2013 - Frontlines

A conservative commentator has tried to tease out what he regards as the absurdity of the government’s proposed, very limited abortion legislation - but only highlighted the contradictions of the anti-choice movement...

10 Jul 2013 - McCann

A Derry woman was brutally raped and dumped in the street. So why did so called ‘pro-lifer’ Mickey Harte speak strongly in favour of the attacker?...

26 Jun 2013 - McCann

Everybody’s favourite trendy US President is slaughtering innocent men, women and children in other people’s countries — and people who jumped up and down raging about Nixon, Reagan and Bush are staying oddly silent about it...

12 Jun 2013 - McCann

A visit by the Dalai Lama sews chaos and chagrin up north.

29 May 2013 - McCann

We like to believe in destiny and the power of the human spirit. But in the end everything just comes down to pluses and minuses, ones and zeroes – as a fascinating study by an Irish writer demonstrates...

15 May 2013 - McCann

Everything you ever wanted to know about Elvis’ role in the making of modern Ireland but were too shy to ask. Plus stuff you really didn’t know...

01 May 2013 - McCann

The new Pope has not fully answered questions about what he did or didn’t do during the Argentine dictatorship – but that isn’t to say it’s not too late for him to find redemption. For that, actions rather than words are required...

03 Apr 2013 - McCann

One of Britain’s most senior clerics has had to resign after accusations of inappropriate behaviour towards other priests. Given the litany of child abuse in the Church, isn’t that a bit rich?

20 Mar 2013 - McCann

A small developing nation is the latest to point out the futility of trying to ban substances that are readily available to millions...

11 Mar 2013 - Frontlines

An American scandal gives us a chilling insight into the twisted logic of the self-styled ‘pro-life’ lobby.

01 Mar 2013 - McCann

Time to pick apart the absurdities and contradictions of the ‘pro-life’ debate

06 Feb 2013 - McCann

Spare a thought for all those downtrodden true believers, whose medieval view of the universe is, so we are told, under attack from all corners in modern Ireland.

23 Jan 2013 - McCann

The truth about Jesus and abortion: why the savior was pro choice

18 Dec 2012 - McCann

Four years into Barack Obama’s presidency, the USA remains remarkably similar to the way it was pre-2008. Remember where you read it first?

07 Nov 2012 - McCann

When the Bishop of Clonfert John Kirby failed to tell the truth about sex abuse cover-ups, he did so with the benediction of Pope Benedict...

24 Oct 2012 - McCann

Anti-Western violence in the Middle East is, at its heart, a backlash against decades of neo-Imperalism.

05 Oct 2012 - McCann

DUP gay-phobia is reaching out into Europe through the aegis of the self-styled Caleban.

02 Oct 2012 - McCann

Triple All-Ireland winning hurler, the openly gay Donal Og Cusack, gave a mighty address at the recent Derry Pride, drawing parallels between the gay-rights struggle and the fight against institutionalised sectarian discrimination in Norn Iron..

10 Sep 2012 - McCann

In relation to covering up child sex abuse, other religions are just as culpable as the Roman Catholic Church.

31 Aug 2012 - McCann

Gay Pride is a celebration of sexual diversity – but it is important not to forget the need for a clenched fist

27 Aug 2012 - Frontlines

It’s not enough that they believe in an imaginary deity. They want the rest of us to as well...

03 Jul 2012 - McCann

The PSNI have begun to compete with Republican Action Against Drugs in the stupidity and ignorance of their ani-drugs raids. Plus: simpering about the Queen...

20 Jun 2012 - McCann

She’s a busy actor with a Hollywood career of long-standing. So how did Bronagh Gallagher find the time to record a cracking new solo record?

13 Jun 2012 - Interview

In September 1988, John Gallagher drove to Lifford, collected a rifle from behind the wardrobe in his father’s bedroom and headed for Sligo, where he murdered his ex-girlfriend Anne Gillespie, and her mother Annie. When the case came to court John Gallagher pleaded – and was found – guilty but insane and he was remanded to the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum. In July 2000, Gallagher successfully escaped from Dundrum and absconded to England, before returning to Northern Ireland, where he was able to live freely, because of the unique absence of an extradition treaty for people in his position. Earlier this month, in a bizarre twist, apparently in the hope of taking advantage of a bequest from his father, Gallagher turned up at the Central Mental Hospital and handed himself in. It’s open to him to apply to the Health Review Board for release on the grounds that he does not now suffer from a mental illness. The Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, has already acknowledged the possibility that he might be released within a matter of weeks. But as far back as 1991, in a special investigation carried out for Hot Press, Eamonn McCann questioned the original verdict of the court – and whether Gallagher was ever ‘insane’ within the meaning intended by the act. In the light of the growing controversy about the case, we reprint here in full the extraordinary story as it was originally published in Hot Press.

12 Jun 2012 - Frontlines

The hate directed at the QPR player tells us all we need to know about the hypocrisy of the media in Britain and Ireland.

06 Jun 2012 - McCann

In 1982, she was sacked from the school in County Wexford where she taught. Irish politicians have colluded since then in protecting religious-based discrimination on the statute books.

29 May 2012 - McCann

Some people may tell you that the violence in the North is over. But Republican Action Against Drugs are continuing their vicious campaign...

24 May 2012 - McCann

The joys of Doonesbury, Family Guy and Jules Feiffer

17 May 2012 - McCann

The venal, rotten truth about Irish politics has been exposed for the world to see – but what about the far more serious crimes perpetuated against children by the Catholic church? How can those who were party to such outrages continue to go unpunished?

11 Apr 2012 - McCann

Plus: the Champions League is decadent and depraved...

28 Mar 2012 - Frontlines

The demonisation of drug-taking gives self-appointed vigilante groups impunity to execute those they accuse of dabbling in the trade.

29 Feb 2012 - McCann

She was a chav icon and slapper pin-up, but, oh, how we will miss Corrie’s Becky McDonald.

15 Feb 2012 - Frontlines

We all know that marijuana is less harmful than booze or cigarettes. In the face of incontrovertible evidence, why do Irish politicians continue to insist otherwise?

01 Feb 2012 - McCann

A newspaper editorial about the Armenian genocide – perhaps holocaust is a better word – shows just how contradictory a place Israel can be.

18 Jan 2012 - McCann

What the London riot really tell us about the modern UK – and why the issue isn’t as black and white as we are led believe.

06 Jan 2012 - Frontlines

Could Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith sink his chances of running for US President on the Republican Party ticket?

07 Dec 2011 - McCann

A Christmas parable. By the Rev. Eamonn McCann

02 Dec 2011 - Frontlines

Reflections on the MTV Awards, the Greedy Bag – plus Tiger Woods and racism in the club.

23 Nov 2011 - McCann

An area of outstanding natural beauty is under grave threat, having been earmarked by rapacious planners as ripe for ‘development’. Who will shout stop?

09 Nov 2011 - McCann

An area of outstanding natural beauty is under grave threat, having been earmarked by rapacious planners as ripe for ‘development’. Who will shout stop?

28 Oct 2011 - McCann

A silly drinks promotion and two men to be reckoned with. It's all in a fortnight's reflections...

12 Oct 2011 - Frontlines

According to constitutional experts, if Bertie makes the Aras he can’t be sent to jail. Unfortunately for him, his dreams of winning the Presidency appear to be mostly a fantasy on his part.

03 Oct 2011 - McCann

Martin Luther King was a ferocious opponent of US war-mongering and imperialism, a fact conveniently overlooked by those who pose today as his spiritual heirs..

14 Sep 2011 - McCann

It’s time the London police answered hard questions over the death of UK reggae and rap figure Smiley Culture.

30 Aug 2011 - Frontlines

A good kid is behind bars while cops roam free. Plus: why the Church won’t ever change; and religious discrimination in Israeli sport.

25 Aug 2011 - McCann

The death of Northern Ireland blues singer Ottilie Patterson has gone largely unnoticed. But she was a genuinely revolutionary force in the staid sixties.

22 Aug 2011 - McCann

Feminist campaigner and literary critic Germaine Greer is still taking stick for suggesting that British soldiers involved in war might be capable of rape.

13 Jul 2011 - McCann

Kofi Annan is just one of many global dignitaries urging cannabis and ecstasy be legalised. Plus, why rumours of Iran’s nuclear programme amount to so many lies

22 Jun 2011 - McCann

As good as Madonna? Or Beyoncé? All this – and how the USA makes a mockery of the International Criminal Court.

08 Jun 2011 - McCann

Military Intelligence analyst Bradley Manning has been shackled, drugged and kept in solitary confinement at Quantico for the last year for supplying damning video footage of US war crimes to Wikileaks.

01 Jun 2011 - McCann

Unspeak labels it collateral damage, but murder is murder. Remote operated drone missiles shot from Nevada have killed an estimated 2000-plus Pakistani civilians in the last five years.

10 May 2011 - McCann

Why our columnist is part of The Clash of local politics. And more on wrecking the Royal Wedding!

27 Apr 2011 - McCann

An encounter with the Reverend Jesse Jackson provokes a spot of musing on matters spiritual...

13 Apr 2011 - McCann

The parentage of Great Britain’s sovereign monarch is a matter of some speculation...

30 Mar 2011 - McCann

The Libyan leader may have seriously lost his way, but he’s not the one-dimensional, mad despot he’s been made out to be by the Western media.

16 Mar 2011 - McCann

Criss-crossing the North with unnecessary roads was always a waste of money. With the economy cratering both sides of the border, perhaps the folly will finally be abandoned.

02 Mar 2011 - McCann

The King’s Speech might work well as feel-good fodder, but its portrait of George VI is fraudulent. On the other hand, Pat Robertson’s gone pro-pot...

16 Feb 2011 - McCann

Now that the arse has fallen out of his property empire, whither Sean Dunne’s well-connected chums?

02 Feb 2011 - McCann

When it comes to premature death in Northern Ireland, heroin and cocaine area in the halfpenny place beside tranquilisers and anti-depressants

19 Jan 2011 - McCann

It’s now widely accepted in scholarly circles that a sizable proportion of other gods born to virgins around December 25 used dope. But was the man from Bethlehem of the same dreamy mind?

08 Dec 2010 - McCann

Lily Savage has been urging revolution in the UK, and she may well have a point

25 Nov 2010 - McCann

The true and amazing story of the little Wimbledon club that could. Plus, Paula Meehan’s requiem for Jean McConville.

10 Nov 2010 - McCann

Six hand shandies a week heads off cancer at the pass.. And what precisely are we to make of Peter Sutherland?

03 Nov 2010 - McCann

Palestine and Bono, a salute to Betty Doherty and an elegy for Solomon Burke...

03 Nov 2010 - McCann

What ensues when a posse of serious men and women of letters pay a visit to a rock festival?

01 Nov 2010 - McCann

Usually when you see a bunch of brightly dressed men in funny hats poncing around Derry, the Orange Order is involved. This year, however, the local Gay Pride Community was getting in on the act for the first time. And no one discriminated against women!

27 Sep 2010 - McCann

In the same year that the findings of the Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday were finally published, how ironic that the powers-that-be in the North should try to clamp down on the public’s right to protest.

29 Jul 2010 - McCann

It took the British government 38 years to apologise for the massacre in Derry. Meanwhile, they're going all-out to obscure the truth about a far more recent massacre in Basra...

14 Jul 2010 - McCann

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