It’s like community Rip Van Winkle. Unionism and Orangeism awaken, rub their eyes amd declare “We must put Orange feet on Garvaghy Road!” Why has this 28-year-old madness reawakened? Two reasons: distraction and We are the People. Distraction first. Anyone who can’t spot that Unionism wants us to take our eye off the […]
Colonial Mind-sets by Joe McVeigh
The colonisation of Ireland by the British/English has left a huge negative legacy in terms of reactionary ways of thinking and behaving. It caused deep divisions between people with different religious outlooks and social status using the old tactic ‘divide and conquer’. It created a wealthy class and a poor class. Even though part of […]
Billionaire list shows that nine Irish billionaires have a combined net worth of $54.8 billion – by Joe McVeigh
by Joe McVeigh There are 9 Irish people included on the Forbes Billionaire’s List with a combined net worth of approximately $54.8 billion. The Irish list is topped by billionaire Pallonji Mistry, the head of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, a 156-year-old construction and engineering giant that is based in Mumbai. Mistry has a net […]
Liberation theology –an instrument for justice and peace and progress in Ireland – Part II. By Joe McVeigh
The new liberation thinking in Theology has had an influence in organisations like Trocaire where the emphasis has changed from charity to justice. However, without the endorsement of the Irish Catholic bishops the influence of liberation theology on the practice of the Church in Ireland will remain peripheral. It is a great pity […]
LIBERATION Theology -what Ireland Needs Now by Joe McVeigh
Liberation theology was born on South and Central America and spread to South Africa and some countries in Asia. It emerged from the history of oppression of the poor in many countries. It is a Christian response to capitalist materialism. Liberation theology’s main focus is the plight of the poor in a world […]
Andy and the cat
Like to hear about Schrodinger’s cat? Imagine a cat in a sealed box with a device that may or may not release poison, depending on a random quantum event. Until someone opens the box and checks, quantum theory suggests the event is in a mixture of both outcomes—so, in the simplified story, the cat is […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT ARMS & THE EU, DERRY GIRLS AND ITS SUCCESSOR JIG , & RUDE TV SERIES
As you know, the EU. (then the EEC) was set up as a common market for Europe, so th horrors of two World Wars would never be repeated. It seemed to work,too – until recently. Now the EU is aiming to spend €800 billion between now and 2030 on armaments. Is the drive to shed […]
The Border Poll Was Always in Britain’s Hands – by Peter Irvine
Andy Burnham’s declaration that a referendum on Irish unity is “off the table” provokedpredictable outrage from pro-Agreement nationalists. Mary Lou McDonald accused the BritishPrime Minister of attempting to remove a provision of the Good Friday Agreement, whileMichelle O’Neill described his comments as “anti-democratic”.Yet Burnham’s comments were subsequently clarified by Secretary of State Chris Bryant asmeaning […]
Gavin Robinson falls in love with Drumcree
I would not like to be in Gavin Robinson’s shoes,and not just because they’d be at least three sizes too big for me.Robinson is the DUP leader (please don’t bring up the last DUP leader) and can hear the tolling of the election bell next May. The one thing he must do is take people’s […]
Doesn’t matter what Burnham thinks or says in public. The Irish people will have the final say! – by Joe McVeigh
by Joe McVeigh At the Ireland’s Future meeting during the Féile in Doire on 14th August 2026, I said that since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 we are on a journey. That journey will take us to the re-unification of Ireland –to right the wrong that was done over 100 years ago- the […]