Oct 20, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 10 segments
Goldhawk calling Phoenix fans! It's a Party Line special – The Ditch meets The Phoenix. Recorded earlier this month in a packed People's Hall in the Whistleblower bookshop and café: the long-time…
Paulie DoyleHostAnd reading the Irish Times over the last few days has just driven me to distraction.
Justine McCarthy, who has had to blunt her edge, in my opinion, in the Irish Times since she joined it, to an extent, just to an extent.
She wrote a terrific piece last Friday, I think it was, in which she concludes and argues that equality was not possible in the six-county state.
It was structured the way it was deliberately to become a failed state, even if it continues to exist.
I remember saying to somebody, jeez, there'll be some convulsions now inside the editor's office of the Irish Times at one of their own going native in such a way.
And sure enough, the hounds of hell, once again, the dogs of war were let slip.
Pat Leahy wrote this piece the next day, which was, I mean, bear in mind, northern Protestants have argued in poll, 70% plus northern Protestants in poll after poll in the north have said they don't want, they don't believe that Orange Parade should go through areas where they're not wanted.
There was a letter from a variety of people with unionist backgrounds who sided with the Garvahy Road residents.
And there was a huge crowd of Irish nationalists from all over Ireland compared to a couple of hundred people supporting the Orange March.
That's the kind of description that extreme unionists earn for themselves.
And reading the Irish Times over the last few days has just driven me to distraction.
Justine McCarthy, who has had to blunt her edge, in my opinion, in the Irish Times since she joined it, to an extent, just to an extent.
She wrote a terrific piece last Friday, I think it was, in which she concludes and argues that equality was not possible in the six-county state.
It was structured the way it was deliberately to become a failed state, even if it continues to exist.
I remember saying to somebody, jeez, there'll be some convulsions now inside the editor's office of the Irish Times at one of their own going native in such a way.
And sure enough, the hounds of hell, once again, the dogs of war were let slip.
Pat Leahy wrote this piece the next day, which was, I mean, bear in mind, northern Protestants have argued in poll, 70% plus northern Protestants in poll after poll in the north have said they don't want, they don't believe that Orange Parade should go through areas where they're not wanted.
There was a letter from a variety of people with unionist backgrounds who sided with the Garvahy Road residents.
And there was a huge crowd of Irish nationalists from all over Ireland compared to a couple of hundred people supporting the Orange March.
That's the kind of description that extreme unionists earn for themselves.
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