Jason Walsh

NSFW Corp, April 9, 2013

Margaret Thatcher supported Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, yes. What she did not do was use his tactics. Throughout Thatcher’s reign Britain remained a democracy. Labor party leaders Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock were not dropped from helicopters into the Atlantic ocean. Guardian journalists were not rounded-up and shot. In fact, at least one of them, Polly Toynbee, left the Labor party to join the collaborationist Social Democratic Party, significantly damaging Labor’s chances of unseating Thatcher in the 1983 election.

CS Monitor, April 8, 2013

The late British prime minister’s blunt style and politics were not well received in either the Republic or Northern Ireland, which she once famously declared ‘as British as Finchley.’

By Jason Walsh, Correspondent

CS Monitor, March 27, 2013

Even as the House of Lords passed legislation that would create a new, independent press watchdog, British editors lined up to condemn the body as a threat to basic freedoms.

By Jason Walsh, Correspondent

CS Monitor, March 27, 2013

Ireland’s press regulations, which include an ombudsman and a council of publishers, public citizens, and journalists, are less restrictive than the proposed British version.

By Jason Walsh, Correspondent

CS Monitor, March 17, 2013

Writer Jason Walsh in Dublin says he cannot recall the modern-day holiday hoopla in the Ireland of his youth.

By Jason Walsh, Correspondent

CS Monitor, March 15, 2013

The more devout and orthodox the believer, the more likely they are to welcome the pope, but even liberal Catholics are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

By Jason Walsh, Correspondent, Nikolina Sajn, Contributor / March 15, 2013

CS Monitor, February 15, 2013

UK tests have found few cases of horsemeat-tainted beef, officials said Friday. While the threat to humans is low, many worry an EU-wide trail of alleged criminality in the food-supply chain could spark panic.

By Jason Walsh

CS Monitor, February 8, 2013

Agricultural subsidies account for a whopping 40 percent of the EU budget. Ireland, which holds the EU presidency, hopes to push through subsidy reforms next.

By Jason Walsh, Correspondent

CS Monitor, February 7, 2013

Ireland closed down the bankrupt Anglo Irish Bank in 2011, absorbing its debt and assets into a state-owned bank. Overnight, it voted to shut down that bank as well.

By Jason Walsh, Correspondent

CS Monitor, February 5. 2013

Despite suffering similar – if not worse – financial woes, Northern Ireland’s Catholics are upbeat about the future, and a world apart from the unionist rioting that has racked Belfast.

By Jason Walsh, Correspondent