April, 2022

THE TIMES (of London) professes shock/horror  at the untruthfulness of Boris Johnson. Boris is reputed to be 57 years old, And I would be inclined to believe that he has been telling whoppers since before he had teeth to lie through. But THE TIMES, which has been trading under its current title since 1788 has […]

I’m assailed by one Larry Murphy for what I wrote in a blog. At 15 I told a fib about my age to join An Forsa Cosanta Aitiuil and at 18 applied for a cadetship in Oglaigh na hEireann. I failed the eye test but completed 7 years in the FCA and hold a Long […]

In my opinion the coup in Kiev in 2014 and the murders of men women and children in the Odessa massacre on May 2, 2014 by fascists was the catalyst that  drove the people of Crimea and the Donbas region to refuse to live under an American EU Nato installed, rogue regime in Ukraine Crimeans […]

Michael McDowell, who incidentally played no part in  forging the Good Friday Agreement nor has had his life changed  by that Agreement, has a column in today’s Irish Times: ‘Renegotiation of the Belfast Agreement Looks Inevitable.’ In it he makes several claims. One is that the dissident republican display in Derry at the weekend represents […]

It seems to me that Irish Governments have been in breach of the Constitution in allowing Shannon Airport to be used as a staging post for American troops on their way to various wars. I am no lawyer but I occasionally read the Constitution, or parts of it in “hard copy” or online and Article […]

There’s a man called Gallagher writing in the Letters section of the Irish Times this morning. Since he gives his address as Lviv, Ukraine, you can be pretty sure he’s writing about the invasion of  Ukraine and the south of Ireland’s attitude to it.  His letter centres on Irish neutrality. “To all those Irish who […]

I The words Golden Rain occur in dictionaries of Slang and inspire the heading here. The celebration of seventy years of the British Monarch’s  Reign is no more appealing to my taste buds than the perversion there explained. During the first eight years of that reign almost 1,100 Africans had their necks broken by her hangmen in […]

This election is very quiet, isn’t it?  OK, there was the fun bit where Sammy Wilson was heckled and called a traitor and a Lundy, but that was more an anti-protocol meeting than an electoral campaign event. And as you know, Doug Beattie isn’t going to any more of those meetings but he is campaigning. […]

Ryan Tubridy asked one of the Derry Girls what her actual age was, and was told that was a misogynistic question. Was it? Are the DUP going to take an electoral pounding? Don’t be too sure. And was Edwin Poots totally wrong when he said Arlene Foster’s most important role would be as a wife […]

  With sunshine streaming through the window and Spring singing its arrival song, it’s hard to be anything but joyous. Covid, by and large, has been defeated. Brexit still lives and still causes havoc, but the island of Ireland has come to an arrangement that mitigates its worst features. On the RTE News the Irish […]