May, 2022

A rose by any other name?

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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