Is the DUP a very powerful party or a neutered party? On the face of it you’d say the former, but the latter is probably nearer the mark. If Nigel or Arlene or Nigel were asked, they would of course say they are a very powerful party. They’re the biggest party in the North and […]
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Randall Stephen Hall – CD Launch
Preview YouTube video YON BOYS The Green Room Belfast 2019YON BOYS The Green Room Belfast 2019.weblocDownload Randall Stephen Hall. Singer songwriter. Genre: “Folk n’ Fusion.”www.randallstephenhall.com www.ruftyroohah.com CD Launch at The Green Room/The Black Box, Belfast Sunday 27th of October. Doors Open at 7.30. performance at 8.00 pm. + Bar. Tickets £10.00. Concession £7.00. Born in Belfast, now […]
OPEN LETTER TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS by Michael John Cummings
Since 1983 the Irish American Unity Conference (IAUC) has been working nationwide in a non-partisan, non-sectarian manner to advocate the end of partition in Ireland AND begin the democratic re-unification. This we have done by promoting protests, political debate, education, the protection of human rights, investigation of lawless actions of British security forces, advocacy for the MacBride Fair Employment and the McGuinness Principles. We […]
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS by Donal Kennedy
Visiting friends in the 1920s, my mother once shared a table with Padraic O’Conaire, novelist, short-story writer and essayist. The great wordsmith uttered “nary a peep” during the encounter.Instead he seemed to transfix the company with his eyes as if trying to read their souls .I’ll bet it was disconcerting for a young woman of […]
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING – Brexit and the north by Fr Sean McManus
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “This article by Fintan O’Toole will be most helpful for Members of Congress and their Staff in clarifying the Brexit-Northern Ireland chaos.It is a ‘must-read’ by a master of his subject.”—Fr. Sean Mc Manus Tories must grasp the profound stupidity of their approach to the North […]
The UK: the United or Alarmingly Creaking Kingdom?
Arlene Foster said a funny thing last night. Well, actually two funny things. She said that the DUP had always insisted on the political and economic unity of the UK. Let’s take the economic one first. Unity suggests all the bits have equal status, that you’d have pretty much the same economic life if you […]
Racism, sectarianism and codding ourselves
Did you watch the Bulgaria-England soccer international last night? I watched part of the first half and, with England 3-0 up and the referee halting the game twice to check on racist abuse coming from the crowd, I switched over. This morning press reports on the match have headings like ‘Vile and disturbing Sofia spectacle […]
Eating the truth
OK – stall the wedding, as Sean Coyle might have said before the BBC dumped him. Put the champagne on ice. It now appears that the happy ending to Brexit has at best been postponed and at worst cancelled. Jim Shannon, he of the DUP, has said it plain and straight: “It is simple. Are […]
CLASSIC 3-MINUTE IRISH NATIONAL CAUCUS ANIMATED INTERNET VIDEO by Fr Sean McManus
Please click on this YouTube link below to view the classic Irish National Caucus Animated Internet Video, which each day grows more relevant than ever—and is the ultimate solution to the madness of Brexit… And the solution to dreams and prayers of all Irish-Americans.What American could possibly object to this sweet reasonableness and common sense? … This must […]
UCD – A UNIVERSITY WITH NO IDEA ABOUT WHAT IT OUGHT TO BE? – by Donal Kennedy
UCD’s boycott of the canonisation of Cardinal Newman depresses me. The greatest prose writer in English of the 19th Century, according to James Joyce and one of the great intellectuals of his age and a man of integrity. One doesn’t have to be a Catholic nor a believer in any religion to recognise generosity of spirit […]