February, 2025

Maybe you saw that meeting between Trump and France’s Macron?  To say that Macron touched the American president on different parts of his body, some more than once, would be a fair assessment. And how different was Trump’s meeting yesterday with Sir Keir Starmer. Yes, Keir did touch Trump on a number of occasions, but […]

As far as I know, Micheál Martin doesn’t have the power of bi-location. That’s bi-location in a physical sense. In the Dáil yesterday, he had a spirited attempt at  mental bi-location. The subject under discussion was speaking space in the Dáil for Independent TDs, led by Michael Lowry. Back in 2011, the Moriarity Tribunal found […]

This morning the Irish Times launches a double-barrelled blast at Sinn Féin in the form of two readers’ letters.  The first is from a Eugene O’Donovan who lives in London, the second is by Gareth Colgan who lives in Co Dublin. Both attack Sinn Féin president Mary McDonald for her tribute to former IRA man […]

    The Counter revolution which began in the Free State as soon as the newly formed pro-Treaty party Cumann na nGaedheal, led by WT Cosgrave, assumed power in 1922, is still going strong today.  The latest outburst of failed FG politician Charlie Flanagan giving out about SF leader Mary Lou MacDonald TD for sympathising […]

Did you know that 25% of people who voted for Fianna Fail would not have done so if they hadn’t believed Micheal Martin’s promise of  40,000 houses being delivered by last year? That’d be an awful lot of votes going in other directions.   Speaking of which, the Shinners are on 27% at present, and […]

It’s possible to be totally accurate in what you say and yet wildly misleading at the same time. There’s a fine example of this in the Letters section of the Irish Times today, which highlights her  letter as the ‘Letter of the Day.’ It’s written by a woman called Jane Mahony, who reminds us of […]

  One of the great advances in recent years in the field of theology and in the teaching of the Church is the re-discovery that the planet Earth we live on is Sacred and that we are connected. This advance in understanding has, in a way, been forced upon us because of the threat to […]

I met Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane on only one occasion. I was heading into a hall for some Feile event well over ten years ago. I was talking to Francie Brolly, who I knew from my years in St Columb’s College, Derry, and after. Francie gestured to the man walking beside him and said “This is […]

  American foreign policy in the age of Trump will not be for the faint of heart. In short order, he has managed to insult many allies with what the WALL STREET JOURNAL has called “the dumbest trade war in history’; confuse and infuriate NATO leaders over his Ukraine strategy; and shock the world with […]

Sinn Féin have declared they’re not going to the White House on St Patrick’s Day, in protest at Trump’s plans to kick the Palestinians out of Gaza and create a Middle East Riviera. Is that the right thing to do? So maybe you saw the handing over of dead hostages by Hamas yesterday. Was it […]