May, 2022

CRAZY PUTIN? PIE IN THE SKY NEWS COMMENT by Donal Kennedy

  Last  night (Sunday) I accidentally turned on Sky News. And briefly stepped into a  dirty piece of propaganda calculated to persuade its viewers that President Putin was a deluded clown obsessed with personal power. A few days ago I watched a video of the Russian addressing an international security conference in Munich 15 years ago in […]

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Boysaboysaboys

  Dear Cousin Trevor, Aw boys, you missed it, Trevor… I know, I know – when a kicking heifer kicks you in your reproductive areas, the only thing for it is the bed. I know that. But boys a boys, you missed it. It was powerful. The whole shebang was organised by the Orange Order, […]

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Tony Blair: a restless, ambitious man

Are you familiar with Politico? No, nor me, until I noted that Suzanne Lynch, who was The Irish Times correspondent in Washington, left that paper and joined Politico as one of their staff in Brussels. I like Suzanne and not just because she chaired the launch of my book Martin McGuinness: the man I knew […]

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Omigod! He said the P word! Unforgivable!

What is it with some people, that when an uncomfortable  truth is spoken they go a bit bananas? I can think of at least two past occasions when I made a comment that was truthful in every way, but a great number of people were so furious, they would cheerfully have taken my naked body […]

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Statistics – you gotta love ’em

I saw Allison Morris, late of that venerable organ The Irish News and currently of The Belfast Telegraph, on UTV’s Spotlight  recently.  In it she said she just loved censuses  – there was so much you could do with the figures. She got that one right. According to a recent NI Life and Times survey, […]

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Damn Yanks

I see where unionist politicians and ‘commentators’ like Jamie Bryson are critical of the US delegation because they are judged to be one-sided – too green. Gordon Lyons, DUP MLA, told the B(ritish)BC “We’re going to have a particular challenge with Congressman Neal”. Jamie Bryson, it seems, has Richie Neal marked as a supporter of […]

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