Oh dear. Sir Keir and wife will have to vacate No10 – no wonder there was a catch in his voice. To think he did so much and got so little thanks for it. But hey – here comes the King of the North Andy Burnham, to solve all the UK’s problems […]
Growing focus on Irish unity: A Burnham, please note
Here’s Prof Deirdre Hargey: “It is really about a listening exercise so that we move away from rhetoric about constant issues that are repeated time and time again and see what people are feeling about the whole issue.” It sounds about as vague as you can get, given that you’ve been entrusted by […]
A closer look at the areas of unrest
Perhaps my timing was wrong. Maybe you saw it? I don’t mean the street rioting and racism of a couple of weeks ago, but the location of these riots – and the location of the attack by the Sudanese man. Because where things happen in NEI is an important aspect of understanding those things. So. […]
Three days? Or ‘I just can’t wait’?
I’ve never been a babies man. In my experience, they spend much of their waking hours screaming, crying and/ or shitting. They have a habit of throwing up what they’ve eaten, especially if you’re holding them. That way they get to ruin your best jacket. And as for having a conversation with them -don’t start […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT MARK CARNEY’S VISIT, SIMON HARRIS’S WHAAAT? ANNOUNCEMENT, AND IRAN SCREWS TRUMP
What a nice man Mark Carney is. Clever, too. His visit to his ancestral homeplace in the West may not be as big as JFK’s in 1963, but people loved him. So …is it just that he really really likes Ireland and Irish people, or…..? The British government plans to make social media illegal […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT MARK CARNEY’S VISIT, SIMON HARRIS’S WHAAAT? ANNOUNCEMENT, AND IRAN SCREWS TRUMP
What a nice man Mark Carney is. Clever, too. His visit to his ancestral homeplace in the West may not be as big as JFK’s in 1963, but people loved him. So …is it just that he really really likes Ireland and Irish people, or…..? The British government plans to make social media […]
Solidarity with Gaza opposes Allianz links with the Catholic Church by Joe McVeigh
I never thought I would live to see a fascist government in the USA but that has happened with the arrival of DJ Trump and his band of right wing Zionists in the White House. I suppose I should not have been so naïve. I had innocently thought that the US was the […]
Good and Bad Immigration – by Carl Duffy
Like many other Irish, I have emigrated to another country. In my new host country, I accept many things are expected of me and the onus is on myself as a guest to adapt to a new culture. A stringent criminal record check, legalised documents of my qualifications and a job offer were all […]
Billionaire list shows that nine Irish billionaires have a combined net worth of $54.8 billion. Musk is the first trillionaire – by Joe McVeigh
by Joe McVeigh These are some facts you may or may not be interested in hearing about -but I think they should cause us to think about the kind of world we live in and the whole capitalist empire that creates such wealthy people in the midst of increasing poverty. There are 9 […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THAT KNIFE ATTACK & LET’S BURN OUT SOME IMMIGRANTS,AMERICAN IMPERIAL CULTURE, & MORE
HERE’s a thing. The unfortunate man who was attacked by a Sudanese immigrant – that all happened in a largely Catholic/nationalist area. The two nights of violent rioting – they all happened in a largely Protestant/loyalist area.So how come? Are we being swamped by American ‘culture’? As wee lads a hundred years ago we […]