September, 2024

    Has the UN finally grown a pair and stood up to Israel’s genocide of not Palestinians but now the indiscriminate attacks on Beirut and Lebanon?  In the past days we witnessed UN delegates stand up and walk out of the UN general assembly when Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu took to the podium to […]

At the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, Mary Lou McDonald spoke in detail of SF’s housing policy, of its aim to have universal health care by 2030, to have a border poll by 2030. Will that persuade voters to by-pass the bundles of cash Fine Gael will be waving under their noses? Now. Are you from […]

You know there’s an election on the way when you hear that some bad event or some bad person is in the news and is being tied tight tight tight to Sinn Féin. This election could be as far away as the end of February, but Shinner-kicking boots have been donned, laces tightened on both […]

  I find it hard to believe that an Irish Catholic bishop,  Alphonsus Cullinan of Waterford and Lismore, is hosting a right- wing group called ‘Catholic Unscripted’ in his Diocese. This event was reported in the Tablet magazine this week (28 Sept). This weird group which is hostile to Pope Francis has shown support for […]

Northern Irish. By Randall Stephen Hall.   My snapshot is richer For the influx of contrasting colours. Genetically broader beyond the border In the North. But deeply compromised By our cultural boundary fences. Hemming in our genes And leading to the prevalences Of medical conditions At whose expense? Our very own.   To be Northern […]

Who would ever have guessed that when Leo Varadkar took off his political overcoat, he would be wearing not a blueshirt but a green, white and orange shirt? He wants all Irish political parties to make Irish unity not just an aspiration but an objective. Yipee! Mind you, he did reckon it might several decades […]

  In 1924 when Ramsay MacDonald, who in 1900 co-founded Britain’s Labour Party with Keir Hardie and Arthur Henderson, on his appointment as Prime Minister, called at Buckingham Palace. King George V indicated unease at the Labour Party’s singing The Red Flag. McDonald promised that his party would pipe down.   A year earlier George […]

    Sometimes people work themselves into such an eye-stinging  moral lather, they miss the major point of the matter completely. Right now many are stuffed from head to toe with indignation. Leading the charge, as so often, is Stephen Nolan. Stephen, on his radio show, having lobbed in a brief balancer in the form […]

          The US presidential election is neck and neck. But only one candidate has been  compared to Adolf Hitler. Is it an exaggeration based in fact?   David Runciman (who poses the question) examines the evidence.   Donald Trump is a braggart, a rabble rouser and a narcissist, has been convicted […]

Dear Friends:  I have attached two ads placed in 4 Irish American papers in the past couple of weeks.  Much of this placement has been thanks to Ed Walsh and his wife Kathleen.  The ads  purpose is to set a tone for what is next.  The ABC Committee has fulfilled its purpose in alerting Americans […]