September, 2019

Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “ This legal decision represents at least a little relief for the victims  of one of the most heinous British government acts of State terrorism.  In 1971, the British Government—posing before the world as a peace-keeping, non-partisan force in Northern Ireland— tortured and sadistically brutalized 14 innocent Irish […]

One of the people I interviewed for my forthcoming book on Brexit and the border said something startling: he maintained that the establishment in England were in favour of Brexit.  When you hear bumptious Boris or look at lolling Rees-Mogg,  it’s hard to believe that. But maybe when Britain’s Supreme Court delivers its verdict early […]

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Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “ The Irish government, thank God, continues to stand strong—defending all the people in Ireland, North and South—against a hard Border and hard Brexit.” Fr. Sean McManus Tánaiste [Deputy Prime Minister] rejected suggestion of bilateral deal with UK Michel Barnier has ‘done an incredible job over the last […]

Close your eyes. Tight shut? Now whisper to yourself “I am Arlene Foster.” Can you feel what’s going on in your head? Maybe fear is in there, great crimson waves of it, surging and churning against the inside of your skull.  It’s pretty terrifying, so you swallow hard and try to think things out logically. […]

Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus  DUP objections to NI-only “Backstop” are phony North already diverges from many significant laws enacted across the rest of the UK Olive Callan. Irish Times. Dublin. Monday,  September  16, 2019. (Oliver Callan is a writer and satirist).   The Northern Ireland-only “Backstop” is on the agenda again after it was abandoned […]

Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, is thigh-deep in controversy as he faces into a tight general election next month. The man whose good looks, parentage (his father Pierre Trudeau was also Canadian PM) and ability to shake hands with Donald Trump and not allow the orange-faced one to best him, has just had three […]

Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus The DUP is spouting rubbish on Brexit because they don’t understand it The DUP has denied it will agree to checks in the Irish Sea Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, September 18, 2019.   You’d wonder why anyone here takes seriously the nonsense DUP MPs spout every time […]

In thirteen years time I suppose Ireland WILL NOT BE CELEBRATING OR INTELLIGENTLY COMMEMORATING the centenary of Fianna Fail’s first accession to power or the 16th Centenary of St Patrick’s return to Ireland as a missionary. What was long an overwhelmingly Christian society has,  adopted a Cretinous patina, and its leading Blueshirt has indicated he’d […]

What is Arlene Foster up to? A blind-folded man on a bicycle could answer that one. She’s intent on tip-toeing backwards out of the cul-de-sac into which she and the DUP have landed themselves.  You’ll remember when Theresa May was about to make an announcement about a deal with the EU, she was summoned by […]