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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.  […]

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