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 next big rally in Philadelphia. Given that Americans can’t vote in any border poll, do they have a significant part to play in Ireland’s future as a united country?
President Michael D Higgins gave a speech on Holocaust Remembrance Day, and in the course of his speech mentioned the October 7 slaughter of some 1500 Israelis and those buried in rubble in Gaza. Several Jewish members in the audience expressed their objection to any mention of Gaza or the suffering inflicted on the Palestinian people.Trump has suggested Gaza should be ‘cleaned out’ of Palestinians,and that they should live in Egypt or some other neighbouring country. If this isn’t ethnic cleansing, then my granny was a 2000-pound bomb.
Finally, should the price of Ireland’s place in the EU be the sacrifice of its neutrality? If you’re in favour of joining Nato,would you then urge your sons to put on a uniform and head for the front in the event of war?
It all sounds very grim,doesn’t it? But you know us – we love talking and sure have you anything better to do than watch us? I thought so…Go for it.
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