Have you heard? Michelle O’Neill used the term ‘Northern Ireland’ in Stormont a while back, and now she’s gone and used it AGAIN at Westminster during an interview. “I think we shouldn’t get hung up on those things. It’s the beauty of the Good Friday Agreement – British, Irish or both or neither.” That’s what […]
May, 2022
BRITAIN’S ROYAL LYING CORPS AND ITS LESS THAN GALLANT ALLIES – by Donal Kennedy
Long, before the creation of Britain’s Royal Flying Corps , before the heavier-than-air flying machine flown by the American Wright Brothers, before the French Montgolfier Brothers flight in a Balloon, England was renowned for flights of fancy. It is tempting to imagine that the country was known as Perfidious Albion before Icarus was a boy. […]
The BBC reports Russian cruelty
“A court in Ukraine has jailed a Russian tank commander for life for killing a civilian at the first war crimes trial since the invasion. Captured soldier Sgt Vadim Shishimarin was convicted of killing Oleksandr Shelipov, 62, in the north-eastern village of Chupakhivka on 28 February. He admitted shooting Mr Shelipov but said he had […]
WHO IS IRELAND’S ENEMY? A PERENNIAL QUESTION – by Donal Kennedy
The late Brian O’Higgins was not a great poet. But he was intelligent,and intelligible to the man and woman in the street on a tram or omnibus. But when trams in Dublin were festooned with the slogan “Fight For Ireland” paid for by the British War Office, he asked the above […]
Breaking News: Liz Truss is really enjoying talking to the US delegation
Feel like a laugh? Here’s one that’s bound to set your ribs a-tickle, and it comes from the lily-white fingers of none other than British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss: She tweeted : “Great welcoming Richard Neal with members of US Congress today. We discussed our cast-iron commitment to the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, the importance […]
FATHER BRIAN MURPHY OSB RIP – by Donal Kennedy
Father Brian Murphy OSB, has died in Limerick aged 86. He had many interests and talents and was an active gardener until days before his death on Monday 16th MAY. Born in England, taught by Jesuits in St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill, and holding degrees in History, from Oxford, UCD, and Trinity College […]
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OF THE PRESS IN THE FREE WORLD – by Donal Kennedy
– I watched, for the second time in a few months the film “THE POST” starring Meryl Streep celebrating the US Supreme Court’s 1971 ruling that the WASHINGTON POST and other papers could publish the PENTAGON PAPERS which revealed the criminality of US Governments from the Presidency of Harry Truman onwards. The Court had cited […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THE PROTOCOL, N RICHMOND TD’S CALL FOR A UI COMMITTEE, MAN ON A GLIDER & G BUSH
Prof Katie Hayward of Queen’s University has a fairly rigorous article in this morning’s Irish Times.In it, she articulates with eloquence what we all know – that the British, with DUP encouragement, are intent on slashing chunks out of an international agreement they themselves signed. Today also, Michéal Martin is heading North, where Jeffrey Donaldson […]
The good knight Jeffrey: pulled this way and that
The DUP and the good knight Jeffrey find themselves in an increasingly unhappy position. Correction: they have placed themselves in an unhappy position. The good knight Jeffrey, in an attempt to convince the public that he’s nobody’s fool, has declared he will judge the Tory government not by what it says but what it does. […]
Picking through the entrails of the election
There’s a temptation to see the state of the different political parties in NEI as changed, changed utterly by the recent election. I’m tempted to think the same myself, but a letter in today’s Irish Times helps moderate such radical interpretation of the voters’ decision. It’s by one Declan O’Donovan, former Joint Secretary of the […]