Things, for the establishment in the south, keep going from bad to worse to nightmare. It started with that opinion poll which had both Fianna Fail and especially Fine Gael holding their heads and groaning audibly – Sinn Féin had moved into second place, with Fianna Fail as most popular party and Fine Gael in […]
February, 2020
Sinn Féin: will polls become votes?
Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin, I would judge, are not violent men. But if someone was to say to them “A weekend is a long time in politics”, they’d risk getting a fist in the face. The two party leaders must be calling on God to explain why he has visited this plague of Sinn […]
DATES,DISTANCE, POSTS, TELEGRAPH & STEAM by Donal Kennedy
After first meeting Nora Barnacle in 1904, James Joyce wrote to her one morning to arrange a date, confident that he’dget a reply that afternoon. There was no great distance between them, two miles at the most, but the Mail those days was faster than it is today. I bought a secondhand book some years […]
TRUST and TRUSTS by Donal Kennedy
Above its title and the Royal Standard, THE TIMES of London describes itself as “Britain’s Most Trusted National Newspaper”. It’s not much of a boast in a Rogues’ Gallery. I could name a couple of titled ex-Editors of the paper who were responsible for spreading lies about the number of fatalities from various communities, and […]
Up the poll
Half-way through the south’s election, Leo Varadkar looks to be on the back foot. He comes breathless and sweatily triumphant from the Brexit negotiations, having handled Boris Johnston and all the Brit pressure involved. So there he is with the cheers still ringing in his ears, and now he finds that that Fine Gael is […]