January, 2025

What is a ‘devout Catholic’ ? by Joe McVeigh

      The Vice- President of the USA, J.D. Vance said on a CBS interview with Margaret Brennan that he was ‘heart-broken’ because of the Statement from the US Catholic bishops condemning Trump’s plan to deport immigrants. In an interview on CBS, Vance was asked about the Bishops statement in which they condemned Trump’s […]

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Bloody Sunday: the liars and the criminals

Some images, once seen, can’t be removed from your memory. For myself and I’m sure many others, the sight of Father Eddie Daly (later Bishop Daly) walking half-crouched, waving a blood-soaked handkerchief, while behind him several men carry the dead or dying  Jackie Duddy, a 17-year-old, remains permanent over fifty years later.  First the killing, […]

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‘Don’t let the Old Man In’ by Joe McVeigh

    Twice in the last month two different friends said to me:  ‘Don’t let the old man in.’ The friends were responding to my complaining about the botheration of getting on in years! It is good advice at any age but I thought it was great advice for me at the beginning of yet another […]

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Emigration – by Gabriel McCaffrey

The issues around immigration are big questions. I don’t think that total immersion in the new country or total failure to assimilate is a binary event. I think there are shades of grey here.   I am very at home in Canada. I became a senior executive in the technology field and I managed large […]

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Micheál and Simon go missing

  When Stephen Roche won the Tour de France,  Charlie Haughey, like the sensible politician he was, made a beeline for France so he could be pictured beside this great Irish sportsman  and show that he rejoiced with the rest of the Irish people. And when Jack Lynch his political foe died in 1979, he […]

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PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT HOME & HEART, IRELAND’S FUTURE IN PHILLY, MICHAEL D SPEECH, & IRELAND+NATO

Last Friday we had Gabriel McCaffrey on as a guest. Gabriel’s from Belfast but has lived for more than thirty years in Canada. He still has strong emotional and political bonds with Ireland. Is that kind of Canada-Ireland balance good, or should  emigrants not embrace their new country? The civic nationalism group Ireland’s Future will have its […]

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The Normalization of Zionist Ceasefire Violations – by Fra Hughes

    Sunday, January 26, 2025 is the day Israeli forces are due to vacate the territories they have occupied in southern Lebanon. The ceasefire agreement brokered between the Lebanese groups and the Zionist entity stipulated that all Israeli troops would reposition to their positions in occupied northern Palestine, allowing the United Nations peacekeeping forces, […]

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