Donald Trump and Boris Johnson – divided by an ocean but joined at the hip. If you were told that Boris was the love-child of Donald, chances are you’d entertain the notion for a few seconds at least. Because they do have startling similarities. Hair Donald: Hair colour is a damp blond-to-orange. This is a […]
August, 2019
Civic nationalism and the Taoiseach
One of the most revealing events I’ve ever attended was the one held last January, I think it was, in the Waterfront Hall. It had a series of speakers and panels, and while they weren’t all riveting or novel, taken as a whole it was a moment when civic nationalism made it clear that it […]
BAWLS, BALLS, BALLS: DAME EDNA O’BRIEN DBE, HER TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS & A SURFEIT OF CODSWALLOP FROM SIR ROBERT GELDOF, GENT. by Donal Kennedy
The piece below arises from a TV programme featuring Edna O’Brien, Derek Jacobi, Bob Geldof and John Banville screened some weeks ago. The first part is autobiographical to illustrate the unique blessings enjoyed by most of my contemporaries in Ireland during the most murderous years of world history. I was born lucky, Dublin in December […]
Oh it’s lying time again…
The one respect in which Boris Johnson is cast in the same mould as Donald Trump is that they both consider truth a wearisome encumbrance. Or more plainly put, they’re both serial liars. Since Boris is the man in the spotlight right now, let’s consider his upmarket porkies: He got a job with The Times […]
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING by Fr Sean McManus
Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “ As Yogi Berra would have said, ‘It’s like deja-vu, all over again.’ England’s elite often say the Irish should forget the past and move on. Yet when the Irish do move on, the London government always takes them back. Right now Boris is trying to take Ireland […]
I’m a liberal, so better do what I say
William Crawley was questioning people on Talkback yesterday about ‘intolerance masquerading as liberalism’, and how people could be ‘de-platformed’ in the name of liberalism. I thought that was pretty hilarious – William sounded as if he was a total stranger to such a notion. The BBC is a classic example of supposed liberalism that […]
THE BRITISH FORCES’ NETWORK IN IRELAND: Part Seven: The Silence of the Sheep by Donal Kennedy
In Part Six I mentioned the Prudence of Sir Anthony O’Reilly’s Daily, Evening and Sunday, newspapers based in Dublin to mention, much less exploit, the discovery of the “WHITE NIGGER LETTER” in 2003, written in 1969 by British Ambassador Sir Andrew Gilchrist’ which resulted in Lord Goodman’s creation of the oath-bound IRISH TIMES TRUST which […]
THE BRITISH FORCES’ NETWORK IN IRELAND: Part Six: THE PRUDENCE OF INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS by Donal Kennedy
The IRISH TIMES was losing money in 1959 and its sales according to (UNAUDITED) circulation figures amounted to about 35,000 as against 170,000 for the daily IRISH INDEPENDENT and 120,000 for THE IRISH PRESS. The SUNDAY INDEPENDENT and the EVENING HERALD complemented the IRISH INDEPENDENT. The SUNDAY PRESS and THE EVENING PRESS complemented THE IRISH […]
LAPDOG BITES BULLDOG (55) by Perkin Warbeck
SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA Despite the eighteen-wheeler truck loads of dross which delayed-viewing talk shows on telly daily dump upon the frayed carpet of our flying duck-walled sitting rooms, nonetheless, we would all be at […]
Everytime we say goodbye…
Donald Tusk thought there was a particularly hot corner of hell for people who triggered Brexit with no semblance of a plan for what came next. Boris Johnson said the EU could go whistle for its £39 billion owed by the UK. Yet there they were at Biarritz yesterday, all bonhomie. It was as weird […]