May, 2023

Dear Sir,   In 1962 the US Embassy in Dublin contained armed US Marines.   The Gardai were so protective of the Embassy that they brutally manhandled peaceful protestors.   The context was the Soviet installation in Cuba of nuclear weapons at the invitation of the Cuban Government and the responding invocation by the US […]

    Six months ago the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom I had thought the most trustworthy of European leaders, revealed that she had sponsored the Minsk Agreements in 2014 to deceive President Putin and to enable the Ukraine Regime, whose President had been handpicked by Victoria Nuland, US Under-Secretary of State during the […]

  This is an interesting comment from an interesting website. Essentially, Patreon believes that Mary Lou and Mark Carruthers have got it wrong in using the local elections and/or the assembly elections as the yardstick to measure the appetite for a border poll. As he sees it, people vote for parties in these circumstances for […]

                    In the late Spring of 1916, my uncle Jack, six weeks shy of his 17th birthday was wounded by shellfire while serving with the world’s greatest terrorist force.   It was either the 31st May or the 1st June.   The shell was fired by […]

In recent years, the number of suicides have increased alarmingly. What drives people to this awful step – is it poverty? Personal relationships? Maybe a mixture.   In politics, does the SDLP play an important role. If they went out of existence, would that be good news for Sinn Féin?  Maybe think about that one […]

The latest local election seems to have dislodged something – it’s hard to say just what it is, other than a queasy feeling in the stomach of some unionist politicians. Having had their favourite nightmare – a Sinn Féin First Minister – become reality, the shift in the political wind has been emphatically reinforced by […]

THE TOPSYTURVY WORLD OF URSULA VON DER LAYEN by Donal Kennedy                   It has been decreed by Ms Von Der Layen and apparently engraved on tablets by European Union Governments that the Soviet Union and the Third Reich were the joint instigators of the Second World War. […]

      Something has been stirring within the less hardline grassroots of Unionism over the past weeks which has caused concern to the more hardline Unionists out there and indeed Unionist politicians who took the hardest line possible on the Protocol and Brexit.  The realisation that at some point in the near future Unionism […]

So tell me this. Do you think Mary Lou McDonald was for real when she said she foresaw a border poll within this decade (presumably by 2030)? Or is it as Newton Emerson , the Irish Times’s own limp and official unionist columnist claims, that Sinn Féin are steering clear of the border and emphasising […]

Well now – another beautiful early summer day – isn’t it good to be alive? And you can become even more alive by viewing myself and Pat. This Friday we discuss Stephen Collins, who thinks a lot loony lefties are setting the agenda on Irish neutrality. Then there’s the question of (southern) Irish neutrality – […]