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 […]
February, 2022
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT DOUG+JEFFREY, PUTIN AND THE MORALITY OF VIOLENCE, & LIVERPOOL GOALIE C KELLEHER
Doug Beattie, the UUP leader, says he’s not going to have his ‘integrity impugned’ regarding the meeting – in a military barracks – with Jeffrey Donaldson. Translated, that means he has evidence that they talked for an hour about Jeffrey maybe jumping ship. Not the best thing to have made public, if […]
ORCHESTRATED SPONTANEITY IN A CASTRATED DEMOCRACY? – by Donal Kennedy
Where did the anti-Russian demonstrators in Dublin get their Ukrainian Flags? How many Irish people would have recognised such a flag a week ago?. Even our soldiers never carried Tricolours in their knapsacks. and the American fetish for flying flags in their gardens never caught on in Ireland. The Dublin demo was orchestrated. […]
The war on Donbas:why we must all stand against fascism by 
The war on Donbas:why we must all stand against fascism. For those who claim President Putin is a megalomaniac sociopath intent on drawing Europa and America into some kind of machiavellian war in order to massage his over-inflated ego, let’s look at the facts shall we? Over the past 8 […]
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 […]
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 […]
PAT +JUDE TALK ABOUT THE UKRAINE, WHEN JEFFREY MET DOUG, AND MEDICAL ADVANCES
Is Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine due to a mad dictator called Putin? Or has he got some reason to fear what happens in the Ukraine? The Nolan Show on TV this week revealed that Sir Jeff and Dough Beattie, leader of the UUP, had a wee meeting about whether Jeffrey might […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]