February, 2022

TV REVIEW: A &E AFTER DARK

This review first appeared in the Andersonstown News         A & E AFTER DARK (CHANNEL 5) isn’t that much different from A & E in broad daylight, except that it allows for a more dramatic opening: “After dark, the nation sleeps and an army of medics across the UK work through the […]

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DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOUR – A RETURN TO REDMONDISM by Donal Kennedy

The physical attack in Dublin on the Russian Ambassador was a disgrace. Neither he nor his countrymen ever injured, threatened or insulted our people.    By arranging that his country’s naval services would forego their right to exercise in international waters where they were entitled, at the request of Irish trawlermen, demonstrated a respect and concern […]

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THREAT FROM THE EAST? by Donal Kennedy

    Letter to the Irish Times Sir,   There are good reasons, current and historical, why people living in Ireland should fear, or arm themselves to resist, violence from the East.    However, I don’t see any reason for them to worry about armed assaults, threats, or insults from the Eurasian landmass. Not since […]

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Russia and Ukraine: is it really Evil v Good? – by Anthony Coughlan

    Objective  observers will recognise that the current Ukrainian crisis stems fundamentally from the US-sponsored and EU-backed coup against the legitimate government of that country in 2014.  This sought to shift a State that is divided between Ukrainian-speakers and Russian-speakers away from Russia’s sphere of influence towards NATO, the EU and the so-called “West” – which […]

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Jeffrey and a car out of control

This blog first appeared as a column in the Andersonstown News There are two ways you can look at Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, (current) leader of the DUP. You can view him as a politically nimble man, one who holds his nerve and knows when to apply pressure to the British government so that his party […]

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PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THAT SAMMY-HECKLE, IRISH ‘NO-GO’ AREAS IN QUEENS, AND WOMEN-ONLY RAIL CARRIAGES

  It sounds like something from a drug-fuelled fantasy, but t’other night in Markethill, Sammy Wilson of the DUP was heckled, booed and name-called by…unionists!   Has the world gone mad?  Queens University have an Orange Society, and it’s not a bit pleased by talk of establishing an Irish-speaking residency – a place where those studying […]

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