November, 2020

“Often, that which is desirable is not obtainable and that which is obtainable is not desirable.” – Unknown “Journalism is what maintains democracy.” – Andrew Vachss  “The book they try to ban always becomes a bestseller.” – George Galloway  I recently turned 29 years old, but on Wednesday Noah Peter Donohoe would have turned 15 […]

 THE TIMES Monday 23 November 2020 reprinted their story which was fed them by the Black Propaganda in Dublin Castle one hundred years ago. The story was a lie from start to finish and was comprehensively refuted by Dail Eireann’s IRISH BULLETIN at the time. The IRISH BULLETIN was the official newspaper of the elected […]

“  THE TIMES Monday 23 November 2020 reprinted their story which was fed them by the Black Propaganda in Dublin Castle one hundred years ago. The story was a lie from start to finish and was comprehensively refuted by Dail Eireann’s IRISH BULLETIN at the time. The IRISH BULLETIN was the official newspaper of the […]

On the morning of Sunday 21 November 1920, Michael Collins a Republican leader in Dublin dispatched a cadre of Irish Republican Army volunteers to eliminate a British spy ring of intelligence operatives operating mainly from the south side of Dublin. This was during the Irish War of Independence which had begun in earnest the previous […]

 Did you see the sheer joy of the Tipperary and Cavan players, when against all the odds they became Munster and Ulster GAA football champions respectively at the weekend? Is this what you get only in an amateur sport? And who invented counties anyway? Miriam O’Callaghan did a soft (Pat’s word) interview with Billy Hutchinson […]

www.independent.ie/news/2020-centenary-we-were-lined-up-against-a-wall-with-a-firing-party-in-front-of-us-a-tipperary-player-tells-of-the-horror-of-bloody-sunday-39766492.html I was delighted to see this feature by Clodagh Finn on Thomas Ryan, a War of Independence hero of true grit and courage. Ryan was also a most honourable man. In 2005 a memorial was unveiled in Burncourt, County Tipperary, to International Brigadier Kit Conway, killed in action at the Battle of Jarama in […]

I was listening to Miriam O’Callaghan on the radio this morning and it was very interesting for more than one reason. The first point of interest was that Miriam started the programme by issuing an abject apology for her conduct when she had her photograph taken at a do for a departing RTÉ colleague. She […]

The Belfast IRISH NEWS, read mainly by Catholics of Nationalist or Republican sympathies ,carries (November 19) a report of a Mass and  commemorations of unarmed spectators and one player of a football  match murdered by Crown Forces inDublin on 21 November 1920. It does not  describe that atrocity as murder. Nor does it report that […]

In an article in today’s Irish Times, Professor Diarmuid Ferriter describes the leader of the Alliance Party as ‘one of the most impressive politicians in Ireland.’ Is she? He goes on to say that if north and south go on their “divergent paths” in fighting Covid, they’ll cost lives.   Did you know that farmers […]

Sinn Fein was once Ireland’s leading revolutionary political party alongside the Irish Republican Socialist Party both of whom laid claim the legitimacy of James Connolly’s legacy., The rhetoric and the war-cry was, ‘Onward to a 32 county socialist republic’. I like many others believed in that vision, of National reunification under a socialist government, putting […]