Here is a new song from my forthcoming album “Wake the Blue Sleeper.” Due out in early 2025. THE BOATYARD.By Randall Stephen Hall ©A poem and song.https://soundcloud.com/randall-stephen-hall/rsh-the-boatyard-demo-271024I’m building this boat cause it’s raining.I’m building this boat cause i’m mad.At least that’s what they’d love to call meIt’s the best job that i’ve ever had.I’m […]
October, 2024
Naughty, naughty Sinn Féin
By now, you’re probably familiar with the warm-up at Madison Square Gardens last Wednesday by ‘comedian’ Tucker Carlson. His job was to get the audience thinking pro-Trump, and so he compared…I was going to say ‘America’, but I guess that somewhere in his scrambled head he had in mind Kamala Harris. But he pictured […]
Irish media have stopped kicking – they’re exhausted
It’s about time. Finally, finally the mainstream media have stopped (probably from exhaustion) kicking the crap out of Sinn Féin. At least judging from today’s headlines. Mind you, if you push on into the letters page pf The Irish Times, you’ll find a letter from Queen’s emeritus professor Liam Kennedy, claiming that…well, what does Kennedy […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT ADAMS & TRIMBLE TOILET TALK, THE ELECTION’S CORE ITEMS, & VOTING FOR UNKNOWNS
Remember that time, fado fado, when Gerry Adams and David Trimble stood shoulder to shoulder in the Stormont toilets during the Good Friday Agreement discussion, with the future of Ireland in their hands? How exactly did the conversation run? We reveal all. In the Irish Times this morning, Pat Leahy has an article listing three […]
No balancing act in sight as Irish media sets its Sinn Féin agenda – by Philip O’Connor
. I hate to say “I told you so”, but here we are. Regular readers will remember my post last week about a brief TV appearance I made that put the cat among the Irish media pigeons about Sinn Féin and how they are covered, and everything that has happened since on the airwaves […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT KIELTY’ + TRAITORS, SF & THE COMING ELECTION, AND DID LOYALISTS DECOMMISSION??
Are you a fan of the Late Late Show on RTÉ? If so, you probably heard Patrick Kielty’s pre-show monologue where he linked Mary Lou McDonald’s name with the show ‘Traitors’. RTÉ says it was satire; SF’s Louise O’Reilly says it is a phrase used by those on the far right and that it had […]
Guns and other sellable hardware
I was listening earlier today to William Crawley quizzing Rev Harold Goode about his observation of IRA decommissioning. I listened for only a short while, and he hadn’t got round to talking about the decommissioning of loyalist weapons but I expect he’s been over that ground by now. There’s a thing about weapons: they don’t […]
Fintan and Michael : the perfect tag-team
It is such a pity that Fintan O’Toole and Michael McDowell couldn’t have linked up when both were at their bodily peak. They’d have made a great wrestling tag-duo. Yesterday Fintan vaulted into the ring and went ten rounds with Sinn Féin, concluding his comparison of Sinn Féin with the Cathoic Church (at its worst, […]
Our media step up and serve us all
God it’s gas too, isn’t it? The way the Shinners have shot themselves in the foot, knee, arms and ear. I just LOVE IT! And people can say what they like about Irish media, but when it comes time to step up to the plate and whack the ball down the Shinners’ throats, no one […]
A Citizens Assembly -Why the delay? p by Joe McVeigh
In an article in the Andersonstown News some time ago, the former President of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, stated: “The Good Friday Agreement created a mechanism for constitutional change through referendums. It was overwhelmingly endorsed in referendums North and South. “There is a constitutional obligation on the Irish […]