Prime Minister Tony Blair committed his country to war, claiming incorrectly that Britain was in imminent danger of an attack by IRAQ with weapons of mass destruction.It is inconceivable that he believed that. Britain’s intelligence service since the reign of Elizabeth the First, together with its step-child the American Central Intelligence Agency have been […]
August, 2023
AN HONEST MAN NAMED CHURCHILL!!! by Donal Kennedy.
On 14 July 1917 Britain’s Lord Lieutenant in Ireland wrote a Memorandum to the Cabinet in London,which remained under wraps for the following 50 years.It read:-“The Sinn Fein victory in East Clare is a fact of cardinal significance, and has precipitated events. Following as it does on a course of extreme lenience and conciliation […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT JOINING THE PSNI, FALSE NOSES, THE WOUNDED LIONESSES & MONEY FOR NOTHING
Archbishop Eamon Martin has urged young Catholics to consider joining the police as a career move. Is he right? Would it improve the PSNI? Would it put the young Catholic in harm’s way? In the movie ‘The Maestro’, Bradley Cooper plays the part of Leonard Bernstein, the famous conductor and composer. Bernstein was Jewish and […]
NONSENSE IN THE OBSERVER – NOTHING NEW IN THAT! by Donal Kennedy
Rory Carroll, Ireland Correspondent of the Observer, knows little of Ireland, and when he sought an authority on Irish music consulted Bono who gave him the Bone-headed story that what the lateGarech Browne (1939-2018) was doing when he founded Claddagh Records in 1959 was an (apparently unprecedented) attempt “to preserve melodies that might never […]
The game of football and self-deception of power
Two of my three daughters-in-law are English and I love them both. Why then, as I watched the Women’s World Cup Final earlier today, was I cheering for Spain? I like Spanish weather, I’ve found both Madrid and Barcelona beautiful in different ways, and the Spanish people have a verve in their approach […]
Much Ado About Nothing – by Michael Lagan
I’ve come to the conclusion that this whole ‘Ooh Ah Up The RA’ issue is nothing more than a sideways swipe at people who may not actually care about what happened pre-GFA and in the era known as the Troubles. The same happens every year and it’s usually the same unimaginative, Unionist voices leading the […]
HOW PUTIN USES HISTORY AS A WEAPON – by Donal Kennedy
I found Lara Marlowe’s comments under the above heading (Aug 13) intriguing, and and not for the first time.Some years ago in the former Irish College in Paris, together with a Maynooth Professor who moonlighted at West Point, (where he appeared to have acquired his Moral Compass)she helped launch an attack on the […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT TUBRIDY&NOLAN, THE ROSE OF TRALEE, MICHAEL PARKINSON, BIDENOMICS AND THE NEED TO LOOK GOOD…
Broadcasting in Belfast and Dublin is experiencing some turbulence these days. Just when Ryan Tubridy thought it was save to settle behind a microphone again, his boss, the new Director-General of RTÉ, showed him the door. Ouch. In Belfast, on the other hand, tales of Stephen Nolan sending pics of naked and excited men to […]
Ryan Tubridy, Stephen Nolan and Darby O’Gill
You’d think it was deliberately co-ordinated. First Ryan Tubridy, the star at the top of the RTÉ tree, is outed as a man who was receiving under-the-counter payments. Secret payments of some €345,000 were paid to him between 2017 and the present, and the licence-paying people of the south weren’t one bit amused. […]
BRITISH GOVERNMENT TELLS AMERICA TO BUTT OUT OF NORTHERN IRELAND – by Peter Kissel
IAUC PRESS RELEASE: AUGUST 15, 2023 CONTACT: PETER KISSEL, IAUC PRESIDENT (202) 262-4785, pckissel47@gmail.com The Irish American Unity Conference has received an appalling letter from the British Government which lays bare the UK’s disdain for Irish America. Lord Caine, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, writing “on behalf of the UK Government,” basically […]