The Dublin government is sitting on a surplus of €65 billion: why don’t they use it to solve the housing shortage, upgrade the health system, support education as it should be? Is this Fine Gael making sure that the market rules rather than any interfering government. Both Bob Geldof and Ryan Tubridy have recently […]
July, 2023
FINE GAEL CAN BE LAUGHABLY IGNORANT, INTENTIONALLY NASTY,BUT NEVER SINISTER. THEY ARE TOO RIGHT-WING FOR THAT. Part 1 by Donal Kennedy
Addressing the annual commemoration of Michael Collins, Enda Kenny claimed that during the War ofIndependence Lenin slipped into Ireland for advice from Collins on financing a Revolution. I can imagine Lenin’s report to his comrades back in Moscow. “Collins, Man of Cork, claims Irelandcan Float a Loan”.And Joe Stalin, […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT SINEAD O’CONNOR, RANDY MEISNER, LEO VARADKAR AND THE GREEN PARTY.
Sinead O’Connor has died suddenly. She was a major talent – someone known throughout the world. Was there a gulf between her talent and her thinking about issues of the day? Randy Meisner of the Eagles has also died recently. Did you like that kind of Californian rock music? The DUP insist on staying out […]
The fascists – North and South – have had their day. – by Joe McVeigh
With the success of Sinn Fein in Election 2022 and in Election 2023, the Fascists have had their day. Fascism is over for good in Ireland. This is good for everyone on this island -nationalist, republican and unionist and those who label themselves as ‘other’. The result of the elections […]
Do you know what I’m going to tell you? – by Antaine De Brún
Myles na gCopaleen posed the question, “Do you know what I am going to tell you?” Penny Mordaunt, a former Paymaster General, wrote to then-Chancellor, Mr Sunak in 2020 about victms of the infected blood scandal. In the correspondence, Ms Mordaunt stated, “Justice delayed is justice denied…” Andrew Malkinson has lived […]
DE VALERA,THE IRISH TIMES,HITLER, FINE GAEL, DAVID GRAY EDUARD HEMPEL, AND LEO VARADKAR – by Donal Kennedy
In February 1933, De Valera, who had led Fianna Fail into Government with the support of a handful of Labour Party TDs a year earlier, sought re-election to secure an overall majority for his party in the Dail.The Irish Times Editorially predicted woe and ruination for Ireland if he wasre-elected. But the electorate, lacking the […]
A LOW-KEY STOPOVER – by Michael J Cummings
Allow me to introduce Nile Gardiner. He is one of many resident British subjects on the staff at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D. C. His current brief is Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. Understandably Nile does not comment much on the Iron Lady’s disastrous actions and policies in Northern Ireland. As a British […]
The sadness of Sinead
Sinead O’Connor’s death was announced yesterday. She was what – 56? 57? Far far too early to leave this life. I remember being startled by her shaved head and the way her beauty made that seem totally irrelevant. She also seemed, although shy, somebody who was fond of thinking and ideas. […]
The British Army killing of two Fermanagh farmers in 1973-Updated by Joe McVeigh
It has been brought to my attention that in a recent blog on this site about the murders of two Fermanagh farmers near Newtownbutler on 23 October 1973, I failed to acknowledge my sources for the article published. This was an oversight on my part for which I apologise. For the record, I relied […]
JFK AND ME IN DUBLIN 963 – A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE TO THAT OF DAVE MURPHY by Donal Kennedy
I was 21 years old and working in Irish Shipping on Aston Quay a few yards from O’Connell Bridge.I lived on the Hill of Howth, so I stayed in town to await the visitor, having a quick meal in the CIEcanteen in Sackville Place, (where some busmen were […]