Darach MacDonald

Writer, commentator and editor with a PhD and 40-plus years experience of professional journalism in Europe and North America. Author of seven books, so far.

[Darach MacDonald @DarachMac]

Joe Mulhern, the Man of No Property, the founder of Sandino's in Derry – the best socialist bar in the world – has passed away. No pasaran, vive Sandino, vive Joe.

[Derry University Group @derry_group]

Great piece in this morning’s @DerryNow on our new billboard campaign.
DUG’s @conal_mcfeely asks why are other Irish cities set to grow over the next 20 years, while Derry is set to shrink?
A university we run ourselves will restore our voice and reverse the trend, he says.

[Derry University Group @derry_group]

Today is a profoundly disappointing day for Derry. #WeShallOvercome

[Darach MacDonald @DarachMac]

https://t.co/MpTs5ZcejV

[Darach MacDonald @DarachMac]

The Tommy Makem Arts and Community Centre in Keady, Co. Armagh, is the next venue for our film, Border 1921-2021: A Centennial Calibration, on Wednesday, 12 April at 8pm. Admission £5. (Signed copies of the book @ £5 available on the night.)

[Darach MacDonald @DarachMac]

Speaking truth to power.
Local politicians accepting 'crumbs from the table' - Conal McFeely https://t.co/D981RkXNQw

[An Táin Arts Centre @antainarts]

A hard hitting feature-length documentary film, 'Border 1921 - 2021: A Centennial Calibration' counts the huge changes and left deep scars on both sides of the Irish border.

Screening at An Táin Arts Centre, Wednesday 1st February at 8pm.

#louthchat @DarachMac @dundalktourist

[Darach MacDonald @DarachMac]

Rishi Sunak's new anti-union legislation means when workers democratically vote to strike, they could be forced to work and sacked if they don’t. Join the campaign to protect the right to strike. https://t.co/yEkCWl80c8 via @megaphoneuk

[An Táin Arts Centre @antainarts]

Based on Darach MacDonald’s new book-length poem 'Border 1921-2021: A Centennial Calibration', counts the huge changes and left deep scars on both sides of the Irish border.

Screening at An Táin Arts Centre, Wednesday 1st February at 8pm.

#louthchat @DarachMac @dundalktourist

[Darach MacDonald @DarachMac]

Please support this important campaign to save journalists' jobs in the north west of Ireland: https://t.co/aoV161ewPe via @megaphoneuk

[Derry University Group @derry_group]

What's happening currently to Radio Foyle is the Belfast-Derry relationship in microcosm.
The isolation of the North West - no university, no new roads, the closure of railways, shipyards and now our radio station - is deliberate.
It must be challenged.
https://t.co/WdR6HYQ3Zy

[Darach MacDonald @DarachMac]

@Seamusdo @BuswellsHotel @NUJofficial A dry dock is a fitting launch pad!

[Darach MacDonald @DarachMac]

Don’t miss it! https://t.co/o9HzKnq5Cv

[Derry University Group @derry_group]

Train wreck interview from UU on @BBCRadioFoyle this morning, trying to explain away why they can't increase numbers in Derry to more than 6000. Peddling the old lie 'students are free to go where they want'. Not if you starve the campus of resources and courses for decades. 1/3

[Danny Morrison @molloy1916]

The Troubles explained

[Irish Foreign Ministry @dfatirl]

The Department of Foreign Affairs 🇮🇪 is proud to partner with @NLIreland and @seamusheaneyest on Postcards from Heaney Country - short films of four poems by Seamus Heaney ☘️, launched today. Take a moment to enjoy one of his most beautiful works...

[Darach MacDonald @DarachMac]

Loyal Belfast will be doing it 'on the cheap' when King Charles calls on his tour of remembrance. Unlike London's St Paul's, Edinburgh's St Giles and Llandaff Cathedral in Wales, St Anne's dispensed with its world-renowned professional choir in July. #KingCharles #MatthewOwensUK

[Derry University Group @derry_group]

Odd boast. This policy is also known as transference and follows a decades-old UU policy of ‘incubate, replicate and eradicate’. (i.e. grow in Derry, copy to Belfast, then close in Derry.) Already this week, Derry Med School jobs are being advertised for Belfast.