August, 2024

Another programme on TV has revealed further detail about the horrors that occurred in Mother and Baby homes. Is it reasonable to say that a Church which contains such ghastly hypocrisy encourages people to leave it?   Colum Eastwood has stepped down as SDLP leader. Will Claire Hanna succeed him? And if she does, will […]

    Colum Eastwood has resigned his post as leader of the SDLP.  Will he continue as an MP in Westminster? Not clear. Certainly Julian Smith, former British pro-consul in this region, hopes he will . Smith  has responded to his stepping down and lathered Colum in compliments, ending with a stirring  ‘Ar aghaidh!” (Forward!) […]

  I was at Hornsey Library yesterday . When I worked there it had thousands of ancient periodicals which would fetch millions if sold individually but they have been thrown out as junk.   A copy of the Illustrated London News showed dozens of photos of Irish, some of whom jumped on top of the […]

I know you don’t want to be labelled a Lundy, but it makes sense to take the risk. You know you are unionists, but every day that passes where you bar the door and shout “No surrender!” from inside is not going to play well, with others and for yourselves. There are a dozen reasons […]

  When the Press Council upheld my complaint  against THE TIMES in February 1982 THE TIMES published their adjudication. But not a single British paper, GUARDIAN, MORNING STAR representing Liberal nor Communist tendencies did so, nor did  the BBC.   Turning on the TV that evening (18/2/1982) I witnessed the Editor of THE TIMES being […]

Gordon Lyons (DUP) is Minister for Sport and Communities, and while he has visited all sorts of sports and games, he hasn’t as yet got round to attending a GAA game  – including Armagh’s All-Ireland victory. Is Gordon’s keeping-at-arm’s- length approach something that unionism approved of? And is it wise? Captain Robert Nairac was a […]

    When Scott Ritter was searching in Iraq on behalf of the United States and reporting that he had no evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, Dr. David Kelly was performing the exact same task for Britain and reporting the same result.   When the most powerful American media, on behalf […]

Every so often, I stumble on a TV news report that reminds me how dumb some of our politicians are and how dumber many in the population are to listen to a word they say, let alone believe it. One such moment appeared on RTÉ News yesterday evening. The Minister for Education Norma Foley was […]

I don’t  think that in the past twelve months,  a reporter for the BBC, SKY or CHANNEL 4, or RTE, THE TIMES, THE GUARDIAN or THE IRISH TIMES has suffered as much as a nosebleed in any theatre of war,   What a contrast to AL JAZEERA, which since October 7  has “lost” 149 reporters […]

Phil Donahue (Dec. 21, 1935-Aug. 18, 2024) I got to know Phil in 2002, when he returned to the television talk show circuit on MSNBC as the host of Donahue. America was, at that time, collectively beating the drums of war, with the Bush administration making the case that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that […]