Ben Lowry had an article in yesterday’s Guardian, titled ‘The politics of neither’, in which he explains to British readers how people in the north of Ireland are polarized but at the same time turning away from ‘tribal’ loyalties. He also draws attention to the number of people who now consider themselves ‘Northern Irish’ […]
June, 2019
LAPDOG BITES BULLDOG (46) by Perkin Warbeck
SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA It was more than merely the canine connection alone which prompted Mutt to point out the once and past location of Barney Kiernan’s pub on (gulp) Little Britain Street in the once and future DUBlin to Teflon Jeff on Bloomsday. That D-day of Days when The Zion and The Unicorn: Bloom […]
Harry and Meghan find a lovers’ nest
Good news. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex – Harry and Meghan to you – have their own little place to lay their heads and that of their bundle of joy. To be honest, I can’t remember if it’s a boy or a girl they have, but that doesn’t matter, because the nursery at Frogmore […]
HOW THE ALLIES WOUND UP AND WOUND DOWN THE FIRST WORLD WAR by Donal Kennedy
THE TIMES of London is currently reproducing the nasty comments it made 100 years ago about the merciless bullying of German and Austrian delegates in the so called “Peace Conference” which resulted in their abject surrender to the Allied Powers which had waged a long-planned war on them.The surrender, the Treaty of Versailles was signed on […]
FREUD OR FRAUD? WHAT MOTIVATES PEOPLE? by Donal Kennedy
One Saturday afternoon in the mid 1960s as I was ironing some shirts I turned on a transistor radio to a local (London) radio station and thought I heard the ravings of a lunatic being read in a calm voice. The subject was, ostensibly, the late President Woodrow Wilson, and his motivation in presenting his […]
Bad news from two horses’ mouths
People who state the bleeding obvious are normally a pain in the ear, but sometimes it needs to be spelled out in clear and painful detail. So for those who believe that Ireland would be better off without a backstop, it might help if they thumbed through two recent report, however repetitive they may seem. […]
LETTER FROM THE IRISH EXAMINER 27 AUGUST 2012 by Donal Kennedy
F The following letter of mine was reprinted in The Irish Political Review before I was aware of that excellent journal’s existence. I little thought at the time that a Garda Commissioner might be an ex-RUC man with MI5 connections, subject to the British Official Secrets Act and possibly an oath-bound Freemason. Or that Irish troops […]
Boris : boy-man and saviour of England
At the time of writing, Boris Johnson is a racing certainty to become leader of the Tory party and so, one assumes, British prime minister. So what is the record of this tousle-haired toff? At school, his reports complained of his idleness, complacency and lateness. As a journalist, he was sacked from The Times when […]
Lyra McKee’s Death: More Questions than Answers? by Donal Lavery
Hitler once said of the current Queen’s mother, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, “That is the most dangerous woman in Europe!” The size and scale of her funeral proved his estimation correct. When most of the British aristocracy were cosying up to Nazism (including the King’s brother and wife – Edward and Wallis Simpson), Elizabeth (who had […]
World Peace Prize for Top IATSE Leader by Fr Sean McManus
Barbara Flaherty, Honoree Michael Barnes, Fr. Sean McManus CAPITOL HILL. Thursday, June 20, 2019— A top Philadelphia-based Labor leader has been awarded the World Peace Prize. Michael Barnes, First International Vice President, IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) and a Vice President of the New Jersey AFL-CIO.was presented with the World Peace Prize of “Roving Ambassador for Peace” on Tuesday, June 18, […]