March, 2021

No, Sinn Féin members or politicians will not be prosecuted for the Bobby Storey funeral, and Roselawn Crematorium was not taken over by the IRA or Sinn Féin on the day of Bobby Storey’s cremation.  These revelations, for some anyhow, come after months of interviews and scrutiny from the PSNI and independent investigations.  However, something […]

Let’s cut to the heart of the Bobby Storey brouhaha. Unionist indignation – Gregory Campbell flabbergasted, Arlene Foster calling on the Chief Constable of the PSNI to resign – is rooted in the fact that Storey was a leading republican and there were clear and public signs that the entire community from which he came […]

I was pleasantly surprised at the positive response to my blog following the censorship of Joe Brolly on the Miss Byrne show last week. In an interesting follow-on piece in today’s paper, Joe Brolly elaborates: ‘What I would have said on RTE about a United Ireland’. He states: “When I said on RTE’s Claire Byrne […]

Micheál Martin these days has all the signs of a political dead man walking.  His limp conclusion to that Claire Byrne Show was viewed with weary resignation by more than just Pat McArt and me.  But if he could pull off one big life-changing coup, who knows? Fianna Fáil itself came back from the near-dead […]

This TV Review first appeared in the Andersonstown News As a rule I don’t watch daytime TV. I find I have enough tasks to keep me out of devilment, and dipping into daytime TV would feel like nipping into the kitchen and downing a double gin and tonic before lunch-time. But these are strange and twisted times, so in the public interest I […]

The first solid sign of defiance noted since that earth-moving debate on the Claire Byrne show, was Simon Coveney declining to nominate a representative to help organise Centenary events.  This is bigger than some might think.  Is Secretary of State Brandon Lewis so out of touch with the UK’s closest neighbour, Ireland that he thought […]

Sir Jeff visited Talkback on Thursday past to explain why he thought it necessary to appeal to the Secretary of State Brandon Lewis to make provision for the Union flag to be flown on all government buildings, 365 days per year in line with what is happening in England, Scotland and Wales. Sir Jeffrey made […]

I was having all sorts of technological difficulties today so I simply but up the Youtube vid with Pat and myself talking. I normally do an intro  on my blogsite and put a link of Facebook and Twitter. Anyway, for those who maybe operate by coming to the website, here it is:mainly considering the different inputs to the Claire Byrne debate on Monday night and taking a little time to talk about the Irish woman who shot Mussolini – in the […]

“Patience is power”. – Fulton Sheen Having been born in 1991, when the conflict in the North was coming to a close and nationalism on the island of Ireland was making peace with itself about the way forward, I naturally have only known one leader of Sinn Fein – Gerry Adams. But now that he […]

The fatiguing  debate about the relative merits of CD versus Vinyl has surfaced again.  There  is no solution to the question since listening to recorded music is entirely subjective. My listening ranges over both formats with the occasional download meriting my time as well. A recent  house move has given me the bonus of a […]