March, 2022

PAT + JUDE TALK TO PAUL GOSLING

Today, Pat and I have a special podcast with Paul Gosling as our guest. Paul has written and spoken extensively about the economics of a reunited Ireland, so the opportunity to ask him some questions is timely. Sit back and make yourself more informed, maybe even more politically optimistic.

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A DISSERVICE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY – by Donal Kennedy

I I overheard a couple of minutes of a service from Westminster Abbey the other day and I marvelled  at the Almighty’s patience in not sending fire and brimstone to obliterate it and its parliamentary and governmental environs.  For I heard learned Men of the Cloth, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, uttering the most dishonest, […]

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BELFAST – A GENEROUS MEMORY by John Patton

  My grandfather was the most important male influence on my early childhood; he was a cooper and my recall of him working in his shed remains  vivid. My memories of Derry at the time are of walks by the Faughan where he fished  and visits from his brother , Paddy , with  his paper […]

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BARKING MAD by Donal Kennedy

  I wrote a few weeks ago how everything German, from Dachshunds to Shepherds to Battenberg to Saxe-Coburg-Gothas had to renounce their identities to save themselves being kicked to death when Britain launched its long-planned and prepared war on Germany in 1914.  Much of Ireland went Barking Mad too at the time. The Parliamentary Party, […]

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