The challenge to Corbyn’s leadership is about more than a few disgruntled MP’s, it is a battle between two diametrically opposed forces over the structure of society and the rights/place of every citizen therein. To opine a lyric, it is ‘truth and love against the force of evil’. Make no mistake about it […]
July, 2016
Guess what makes Liz O’Donnell gasp?
Liz O’Donnell, who you may (or may not) remember was a Progressive Democrat TD, has been gasping. Her reason for this shortness of breath? Enda Kenny. “What makes me gasp is the timing of the Taoiseach’s musings about a border poll on Irish unity as part of the Brexit discussions”. There are other things Liz […]
Danny Kinahan (Ulster Unionist MP) – just a bit of a Twit or something more sinister? by Sammy McNally
Today is the 23rd July, that is 11 days since Danny Kinahan included the following words whilst apologising for tweeting a picture of himself in front of a 12th of July bonfire which had an Irish flag in (pole) position for incineration. “I should have got the flag taken down before the photograph” No […]
‘ THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE: Howth,Sutton and Baldoyle play their part. by Philip O’Connor. 1916 Commemoration Committee Howth Sutton Baldoyle’ by Donal Kennedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rde_40Ah5M I lived the first 23 years of my life on Howth Summit and environs and although I always had an interest in history and haunted the local Library I knew almost nothing of the local cultural, social, athletic, economic, trade union and political movements in the area which culminated in the establishment of a […]
Getting an Irish passport: a question of identity?
How significant has been the surge in application, post-BREXIT, for Irish passports? It’s difficult to get exact figures but there’s general agreement that application centres have run out of application forms and that people who would never have thought of applying for an Irish passport are now doing just that. And it’s not just for […]
SENSE OF HUMOR by Donal Kennedy
There’s a story of that name by Damon Runyon about a guy with a penchant for practical jokes that appealed only to him, and there was some doll involved in it and it had a cruel end.I was still in shock over that Doll in Downing Street, the Prim and Proper Vicar’s Daughter, appointing Boris […]
Will there be a border poll? Ask James.
There’s been much talk in recent days about a border poll and Irish reunification. It’s been brought on by BREXIT, with the north of Ireland, like Scotland, emphatically asking to remain in the EU, while England and Wales voted to exit. This has raised the question of whether we need a ‘hard’ border between the […]
‘The Iraq War: is Tony Blair the only one with bloody hands?’ by Sammy McNally
As the British parliament collectively points its finger accusingly at the Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, you might be excused for believing that Blair hadn’t actually asked parliament for its consent to go to war in Iraq in 2003. A war that resulted in chaos in Iraq and the wider region and caused hundreds of […]
Enda and Micheál and the border
The recent comments by various people on a possible border poll has excited widespread media attention. So who said what? Micheál Martin (FF) thinks the remain vote in the north “may show people the need to rethink current arrangements…However, at this moment the only evidence we have is that the majority of people in Northern […]
THE HIBERNIA MYTHOS, THE ORIGINS OF RACISM AND BLACKCURRANT JAM
The Irish were described during Julius Caesar’s time as a cannibal race who devoured their foes and lived in a land of perpetual Winter. They called that land “Hibernia” . Looking out the window at the bleakest July of sodden rain, I can see the writer’s point, but it is a neat vision like something […]