May, 2017

‘Saving Planet Earth’ by Joe McVeigh

  There are a number of threats to our planet Earth. Firstly, climate change could have disastrous consequences if human beings do not change their habits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Secondly, there is pollution of our waterways and seas which will destroy marine life. Thirdly, Nuclear weapons and nuclear warfare could destroy the whole […]

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SEAN SCEAL by Donal Kennedy

  ,     Some time ago I referred to a TV programme presented by Penelope Keith, set in England’s West Country,which showed a crowd of yokels following an ancient ritual where they chased and and did to death “the Traitor Earl of Tyrone” known to his close friends as Aodh O Neill  and his many […]

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Corbyn: calls himself a leader and can’t remember a number!

First pride, then the fall. Jeremy Corbyn emerged as the undisputed winner in the question-taking/Paxman-interview head-to-head with Theresa May the other night. But the cheers had hardly died down when he went on BBC Radio’s Woman’s Hour and couldn’t produce a figure for the free pre-school care his manifesto has promised. There we go – […]

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Sean O’Rourke and RTÉ: avoiding an appalling vista

I listened to RTÉ’s Today programme yesterday and presenter Sean O’Rourke went into an ad break with the promise that he’d be looking at the British general election on the other side of it. And so he did, chatting to some expert in England about how Corbyn was doing, how May was doing. When the […]

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Jeremy’s Enemies by Joe McVeigh

‘Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and speak all kinds of calumny against you. For that is how this people persecuted the prophets who lived before you.’ Matthew 5:11 I am reminded of these words after listening to Nolan this morning. Such was the vile vicious attack on Jeremy Corbyn by […]

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SECURE IN OUR BEDS? by Donal Kennedy

The obituary in THE TIMES (29 May) of an ex- National Security  adviser to the United States illustrates the debt of gratitude we all owe to that super-power, its satellites, puppets and sycophants for sleeping secure in our beds. I quote –          “On Brzezinski’s watch China received support for backing Pol […]

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Jeremy vs Theresa: did you laugh?

Say what you like about the BBC – and a lot of people do – but it is meticulously even-handed. Last night Jeremy Corbyn produced a performance that left Theresa May looking  like a woman who had supped full of horrors, but you’d never guess from listening to the Today programme on BBC radio this […]

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