December, 2018

I’m reluctant in the mouth of Christmas to be lacking in goodwill to men, but in Ray Basset’s case I’ll make an exception. I was at an event where he was talking some months back and I drew to his attention  to his use of ‘Ireland’  when he really meant the southern state.  He accepted […]

I remember the Christmas Eve smells. No, not the smell of brandy in the Christmas pud, not the waft of mince pies. I remember the smell of the turkey. Before it was cooked. Nowadays turkeys come, ready to be popped in the oven. Back in my childhood, we watched and smelt the reality. First my mother […]

  According to The Guardian’s Obituary of Jeremy Ashdown, the English politician nicknamed “Paddy”’ he once stated that if he had been brought up a Catholic in the North of Ireland, he would probably have joined the IRA. His fellow-parliamentarians, of all parties, have hailed him as a well-informed, intelligent and principled man. I don’t know was he […]

  Good Luck, Good Luck for Christmas.  It’s coming down the tracks.  With teddy bears and grey hairs.  It’s coming to your shack.  A ragged, patched old parcel.  He’s knocking at your door.  He used to wear some forest green  But this red man gives you more.  All cabled up and streaming  To go along […]

      In the early hours of Sunday, December 16, 2018, an eviction was carried out near Strokestown in County Roscommon on behalf of the KBC Bank. The eviction of three family members was carried out by a security firm based in Belfast. One of those let the game away when, after he was […]

All the statements refer to activities before the split over the “Treaty” and those I’ve read do not appear to be influenced by antagonisms which arose after it. Anyhow this is a short list including significant activists whose statements never get a mention from those charged commemoration of this decade of Centenaries Michael Noyk, the Solicitor who […]

Pics 1-4 are by Perkin Warbeck.  (Note: Pics 1 + 2 have unfortunately been drinking too much)   Pic 1   Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4   .   Pic 1    Gillieriu  Hotel, St. Paul’s Bay, Malta, opened by a Scotsman back in the day..   Pic 2 Gillieriu  means what , Mac Cam-Béal ?  Alas, Gregser […]

  Usually at this time of year, news is thin on the ground. Stories of how Santa fulfilled the wishes of a poor child, stories of pets that were loved or neglected over Christmas, recipes for what to do with what’s left of the turkey. This year is different. This is us all, not so […]

  You may wonder why I have been excoriating Thundering Liars in the paid media, politics and academia and not paid due tribute to honest men, women and AC/BC commentators  or even BBC ones who don’t know which way to turn. One reason is that if I identified any of them in Ireland their employers […]

   SPEAKER WARNS OF BREXIT HARM TO IRELAND AND US   Cranston, RI December 7 The UK exit from the European Union (Brexit) is sure to do economic harm to Ireland and damage America’s reputation when British Prime Minister May seeks a bail-out from the Brexit folly. The Secretary of the American Brexit Committee*, Michael […]