January, 2021

WIKIPEDIA – THE WORD OF THE LORD? by Donal Kennedy

Wikipedia is a handy but unreliable source of information. Like other media, even Scripture, it needs to be approached with caution. Take the Old Testament. I’m not convinced that intelligent people wandered for forty years in a desert unable  to read the heavens. Sailors and landlubbers alike navigated  by the stars for thousands of years. Those who […]

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Parsing Arlene’s words

 OK, let’s see if you’re alert this breezy Saturday morning. Starter for 10: What two words are Arlene Foster’s favourites? No, Virginia, the answer is not ‘knife’ and ‘Nigel’. Nor, as it happens, “Feckin’ blonde”.  No, Arlene’s two words which she has taken to rolling off her ruby-red lips on public occasions are “rational” and […]

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When is a majority not good enough?

So  – were you in favour of the Good Friday Agreement? And if you were, how did you feel about Articles 2 and 3 in the Irish Constitution being radically amended, so that they no longer laid claim to all of the island of Ireland, but settled for a desire for peaceful political reunification of […]

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CELEBRATING THE SECTARIAN UNIONIST STATE by Joe McVeigh

 “It’s a Protestant parliament for a Protestant people”, so declared James Craig/Lord Craigavon in April 1934. As far as Craig and the Unionist party and the Orange order was concerned political Protestantism ruled in the six county statelet. Others, especially those of the large Catholic denomination, were considered ‘enemies of the state’ and were treated as such. […]

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