What do Donald Trump and British Land Forces Commander General Ford have in common? They were/are both liars. At last count, Trump had told some 20,000 lies since becoming president. No one has counted Ford’s lies but his comments to the BBC in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday were so shamelessly false, he didn’t need […]
September, 2020
Eoghan Harris writes a letter
Eoghan Harris (Yes, Virginia, the one that I took £1000 from) is in the Letters section of the Irish Times this morning. He’s a bit upset by Prof Diarmuid Ferriter who, in his review of former President Mary McAleese’s memoir, mentions “journalist Eoghan Harris whom she rightly describes as ‘gratuitously vitriolic’ in his criticism of […]
Britain’s Palestinian Political Prisoner by Fra Hughes
Britain has been involved in duplicity and skulduggery in Palestine from the secret signing of the Balfour agreement in 1917 to ‘establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine’ to the partition of Palestine and the eventual birth of Israel on the land of historic Palestine in 1948. As a Palestinian doctor embarks […]
Pat and Jude talk about emigration, the exodus from the cities and why talking about God is a no-no
Pat and I talk about emigration and how it ain’t what it used to be, thanks to international travel (back before Covid) , the fact that Zoom means you can play with your grandchildren even when they’re thousands of miles away. But is the ache still there? Our second topic was the many people who are relocating from the big cities – particularly Dublin – and discovering the advantages of working from home in more rural surroundings. Will it last, post-Covid? Is tearing up one’s roots that easy? Finally, we gave God the once over. It’s one thing not talking about religion or politics, but does admission that you’re a person of faith consign you to the Dark Ages nowadays? Bain sult as…
Trump v Biden – tomorrow’s TV debate
Tomorrow night Donald Trump faces Joe Biden in their first TV debate. Everybody’s looking forward to it. Will Trump intimidate Biden, as he tried to do with Hillary Clinton? Will Biden get mixed up in his responses to questions? Will Biden agree to Trump’s demand that he – Biden – take a drugs test first? […]
KEIR STARMER, KEIR HARDIE – TOTALLY INCOMPATIBLE by Donal Kennedy
RMS TITANIC had just put to sea, when, on 11th April 1912 THE TIMES carried an Editorial on Labour Leader Keir Hardie, for proposing, in the Commons that soldiers be excused the breaking up of the Trade Unions in Industrial Disputes. The idea that soldiers could choose which orders they were to obey, the “Thunderer” laughed […]
Micheál Martin and how to achieve Brain Bilocation
Here’s a short excerpt from the Irish Times website today: “Events such as a new exhibition and book telling the story of nine men who lasted 94 days on hunger strike during the War of Independence can guide future generations on conflicts, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin. Speaking prior to a visit to the new […]
Press Release from Border Communities Against Brexit
. Much has been said about whether or not the European Union is integral to the Good Friday Agreement. The GFA was carefully crafted to create an interlocking and interdependence between the Assembly, the North / South Ministerial Council and the British Irish Council, and are so closely interrelated that the success of each depends […]
SIR HAROLD EVANS AND OTHER LIONISED LYING SCOUNDRELS by Donal Kennedy
The following comment of mine appeared in THE IRISH WORLD (London) some years ago under the heading- “GROUNDHOG DAY I AM CONVINCED” Reading Paul Donovan’s account of media lying regarding responsibility for violence in the North of Ireland ( THE IRISH WORLD , 22 November) Iwas convinced that it was Groundhog Day. There I was, […]
Why the UK (aka England + Wales) wants to throw off the shackles of the EU
This blog first appeared as a column in the Andersonstown News What has driven the British government to the point where it accuses the EU of plans to ‘starve’ the north of Ireland and ultimately cut that region off from the rest of the UK? The answer is straightforward: Britain aches for sovereignty, wants to make its own rules, govern itself, unhindered by Brussels. And […]