All articles by Jim Gibney

Jim Gibney: After 14 wonderful years, it's slán for now

Columnists 17 May, 2021

This is my last article as a fortnightly columnist due to changes at the paper, though I have been asked to write an occasional column.

Jim Gibney: Out of chaos can come meaningful change

Columnists 03 May, 2021

Might I respectfully suggest to the incoming leadership of the DUP that they use the next few months before the departure of Arlene Foster, to read Brian Rowan’s new book: ‘Political Purgatory – the Battle to Save Stormont and the Play for a New Ireland’.

Jim Gibney: We need a step-change in attitudes towards the Irish language

Columnists 19 Apr, 2021

Ireland’s president Michael D Higgins is an Irish language scholar.

Jim Gibney: Debate on Ireland's future is open to all

Columnists 05 Apr, 2021

On this day 105 years ago, a group of daring and brave revolutionaries took their lives in their hands and struck a mortal blow against the most powerful empire of the time – the British.

Jim Gibney: The impact of the deaths of ten hunger strikers is being felt to this day

Columnists 08 Mar, 2021

Sunday week ago I was speaking with Danny Morrison about this year being the 40th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike when ten republicans died in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh and about the work Danny had been doing on reissuing ‘The Diary of Bobby Sands’, which covered the first seventeen days of Bobby’s hunger strike.

Jim Gibney: After Ormeau Road debacle, public confidence in the police needs to be restored

Columnists 22 Feb, 2021

Cold fury gripped the nationalist and republican people as we watched in shock and disbelief as police officers confronted the grieving relatives of those who were massacred in Sean Graham’s Bookmakers shop on the Ormeau Rd in February 1992.