August, 2024

    Fifty years ago when Turkish troops invaded Cyprus the British Government, the De Facto ruler of that “independent” state put their own troops there under the  direction of the UN, who were issued with the Blue Beret of UN peacekeeping forces. Led by their officers the British Parachute Regiment burnt the Blue Berets. And […]

Drew Harris has rejected an offer to stay beyond next year as Garda Commissioner. He initially was hired for five years, was given another two, and asked to stay – but no way.  Has he served the southern state well?? Tim Walz is a name new to most of us. He’s governor of Minnesota, he’s […]

Are you rejoicing in Kellie Harrington’s victory at the Olympic Games? I’ll bet you are. She’s a truly gifted boxer and the fact that she was representing Ireland was a light in which we all bathed  and yeehoed. Did you enjoy watching the fight? If you’re from the twenty-six counties, I’m sure you did. If […]

Governments don’t borrow from financial markets  Governments don’t borrow from financial markets (youtube.com)   Government deficits create private wealth Government deficits create private wealth (youtube.com)     Bet you didn’t know that. Sir Scammer and Rachet up the Misery don’t appear to know it. It’s weird how Rachet can have two economic degrees and a stint […]

  I wonder how I’d feel if I were  a unionist and part of Team GB at the Olympics. I’d have the fun of waving the Union flag and getting cheered for doing it, I’d be with my fellow-citizens of the UK, I’d feel a part of something bigger than myself… Whoa a minute. As […]

 The rise of fascism in Europe as witnessed by the local national and European elections show how far the far right have progressed in the last few decades. The votes of over 4 million Britons for the Reform party added to the violence witnessed in Coolock Ireland and the Mosque attack in Southport England highlight […]

  This past week, it’s as if everyone in Britain and Ireland has gone mad. Well, maybe not all of them but certainly those attacking people and property, filled with hatred for all immigrants. But let’s think positive – think Olympics. Except that leads to the fact that RTE’s coverage of the Games stops when […]

    I understand that there was a competition in the 1930s for the most sensational headline. I don’t think it was in THE IRISH TIMES, but I wouldn’t rule it out. The winner was ARCHDUKE FERDINAND FOUND ALIVE: WAR UNNECESSARY!   In FEBRUARY 1933, in an Editorial, The Irish Times warned its readers of […]

So – what do you think of the Olympics? And the fact that we in NEI must receive the Games through a British filter? Is the South of Ireland intent on fortifying the border by not carrying the Games for us in the North? And we’re back to flags again – the one waved in […]

    The existence of the game of Hurling after two thousand years came as a surprise to many Britons when the BBC screened the All-Ireland Final recently. I came to live in England in November 1964 and have seldom met English people with much, if any knowledge of Ireland beyond what Britain’s cultural mandarins […]