January, 2019

On Wednesday16 January 2019, while I was saying 10.00 am Mass in St Michael’s Church, Enniskillen,  a man aged about 50 years approached me while I was giving out Holy Communion and said to me: “Could I have a few words with you?” I was taken aback. He then put out his hand to receive […]

So – how do you think it will pan out? Are things Brexit looking more optimistic, now that Theresa May has ‘reached out’  to all other parties in Westminster? That last one – seeking the views of other parties – tells us something of the Tory mentality. They’ve had well over two years since the […]

When you’re looking for advice, it’s difficult but necessary to listen to all views, including those coming from people you don’t like. I had that experience just now, listening to BBC Radio Four. Tony Blair, the  man who took Britain into Iraq as the poodle of the American cowboy, and totally destabilized that country and […]

          Sinking ships are not difficult to identify. You can watch their long, slow, laborious decline as the stern begins to slip away and the bow, the head of the ship, becomes useless. You can see that it is no longer making any kind of real progress into the wind. You know that it has […]

LORDS (and COMMONS) of MISRULE by Donal Kennedy The Tory MP for Aldershot recently tabled a Bill, under “the Ten-Minute Rule” in the House of Commons, quoting a raft of fellow ex-Officers of the British Armed Forces in the House to give servicemen legal immunity from prosecution for crimes committed, including torture and murder, before British, European or […]

Well. That was fun, wasn’t it? After more than two years of toing and froing to Brussels,  the British prime minister has constructed a deal which the House of Commons has booted, not down the road, but into outer space. Incredibly, some of May’s ministers seemed taken aback by the rejection of Theresa’s cunning plan.  […]

Well – here it is – Der Tag, as the Germans term it. The Day. By the end of today, Theresa May’s (and the EU’s) withdrawal deal will either have been accepted and passed by the British House of Commons, or it’ll have blown up on the launch-pad, leaving a number of badly-injured crew-members, including […]

                              The Sean O Rourke Show on RTE Radio 1  has coup de graced  itself again ! And this time, last Friday, surely did it box all the thicks ! Consider the following: While poor  old SOR was unavailable, possibly due to his having to nurse his own curse o’God sore talking head,  his seat […]

‘24 Hours in A & E’ is a fairly interesting TV show, which watches and listens to real people being rushed into hospital and getting emergency treatment. It’s on Channel 4. On Channel 5, they have ‘GPs: Behind Closed Doors’ which as the name suggests, lets the viewer see what happens in various medical centres […]

If you visit a place, does that mean you approve of that place? That’s the assumption on which two critical stories today are built. The first concerns An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, who apparently has checked out a male-only site during his visit to northern Ethiopia. Leo left the females in his entourage at the gate, […]