July, 2023

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus  Tuesday, July 25, 2023. “This should make disturbing reading to our friends in Congress, who are concerned about equality, justice, and peace in Northern Ireland. The Police Service of Northern Ireland was meant to initiate a “new beginning to policing” from the discredited RUC. This […]

  The economist David McWilliams says “Whether the loyal brotherhood like it or not, the economies of the North and its much larger cousin, the South, are integrating slowing but surely. This will continue because it makes commercial sense.”   Is he right? And if he is, where does that leave the DUP?   There have […]

I was 14 years old. I had just completed my first year in secondary school and was now enjoying the novelty and the luxury of a three-month school holiday. Predictably, the weather was dreadful. Just a week before, there had been a torrential downpour unlike anything that anyone had ever seen in Dublin. The road […]

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING                       Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus   ENGLAND’S ENDURING BAD FAITH FROM 1920 TO 2023 (NOT TO MENTION FROM 1169 TO 1920). By Fr. Sean Mc Manus. Saturday, July 22, 2023.   Let our guide on this be, not a famous Irish hero, but a famous French hero—General/President De Gaulle: “For […]

  I was a priest working in Monaghan town parish in the early years of the so-called Troubles (1971-73) and while working there I discovered, to my dismay, the hostility of the southern political establishment towards Northerners generally and towards anyone of a republican persuasion in particular. Northerners were subjected to constant harassment and surveillance […]

  Is Jeffrey Donaldson the prisoner of his party – and of course Jim Allister? Chris Heaton-Harris says they met and had made ‘good progress’. What doe that even mean?  Robert Kennedy, the son of Bobby Kennedy, is running for the Democratic nomination for US President. Who will benefit by his efforts? And why do […]

                             I’ve just switched on my TV briefly to check on how the England Lionesses were doing against Haiti.  At that very moment, a penalty was being awarded to England for a Haitin hand-ball. As the England    player   got set to take the penalty, the English commentator said “She’ll put it to the goal-keeper’s […]

Does signage in Irish as well as English really matter? Just about everybody can read written English, so why bother with signage in Irish as well?   The conclusions some unionists come to is that Irish signage is supported by backward-looking people who want to annoy unionists. They don’t need signs in Irish, so clearly […]

On September 9th 2021 my BLOG here “WHY I WON’T BE ROOTIN’ FOR MAYO” explained why I and my three younger siblings were  born in Dublin unlike our elder sibling who was born in the Wesht.And on March 8 this year my BLOG –“TURF DEVELOPMENT BOARD LIMITED – DISPUTE WITH ENGINEERING STAFF” carried the text […]

  In Huddersfield, Yorkshire during the 1970s a number of women were brutally murdered by an unknown psychopath. By May 1978, nine women had been stabbed to death by the man who had become known as ‘the Yorkshire Ripper’. When the ninth woman was murdered, a guilt-ridden British soldier who had been in the Argyll […]