June, 2023

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. It’s that time of year again when the Boneheads rule. When pallets are lovingly placed one on top of another, where optimistic signs about Killing All Irish (KAI) and engaging in sexual congress with an infirm, 86-year-old man known as Pope Francis.  It’s that time when proponents […]

                                Sometimes I almost feel sympathy for the DUP.  Having hammered in vain on the door of John Finucane in the hope that he’d be somehow disgraced for speaking at the South Armagh commemoration, Edwin Poots this morning has mounted a steed named Distraction and was last seen galloping off towards the […]

    —   To dispel rumours that the British Foreign Secretary’s country retreat at Chevening had been, during her stint in that office the venue of a cocaine sniffing party Liz Truss released a photograph which might make sensitive noses smell rats.    It was published in THE TIMES and shows her at Chevening […]

     Last night, Professor Brendan O’Leary was a central figure in a Zoom meet-up of an awful lot of people, including me. Th professor is from south of the Black Pig’s Dyke but has been teaching and researching in the University of Pennsylvania  since 2003. He is a prodigious writer and has published more […]

  John Finucane – wouldn’t you think that since he himself was a victim to terrorism, he wouldn’t consider going let alone going to South Armagh to commemorate IRA people who died in the conflict? At least that’s how a lot of unionist politicians and spokespeople have seen his actions.  Pat and I have a […]

An Tánaiste is treading a traditional route, not the one carved out by”…those brave men who fought and died, that Róisín live again with pride…” but rather, the one taken by Perkin Warbeck, claiming to be the Duke of York when he arrived in Cork in 1491.  Tradition has it the support given to Warbeck […]

I’m probably in the top ten Hopeless Organisers but I itch with a desire to move things forward regarding Ireland and its reunification. There are a number of respected people doing valuable work right now- David McWilliams being one of them in the Irish Times  this morning. But I think there are hundreds, thousands of people […]

In case you haven’t heard, John Finucane MP is heading to Mullaghbawn in Armagh as key speaker at the ‘South Armagh Volunteers Commemoration’.  If you haven’t heard, at this point you’re possibly the only person on this entire island of Ireland that doesn’t know.  It’s been all over the media, both printed and digital, and […]

  To look at him, you wouldn’t think Micheál Martin was a wildly interesting person. I say that because in today’s vlog/podcast we get caught up in the Dublin government and their attitude to the North. I wonder could he be a Sinn Féin mole? As Pat says, every time he opens his mouth,  he […]

  Fr Des Wilson, who taught for almost 20 years in St Malachy’s College, used to tell a story about a student in St Malachy’s –in the 1950s. By all accounts, he was a serious student interested in Latin and Greek. Anyway, one day on his way home from University he was stopped and searched […]