Well …it’s been a good news week for someone , anyway.Willie Frazer, the shy , bespectacled sensationalist and all -round street-entertainer has discovered that he is no longer in thrall to the ravages of a rare cancer. He says that he has been especially picked out for this rare new treatment, completely outside any known […]
December, 2014
Brendan’s big boots
I remember Mary McAleese telling me once (of course it was before she became President, Virginia) that partition had in one sense worked, as two separate states had led Irish people into two different takes on the world. If you want to see an example of how right she was, take an anti-sickness tablet, […]
TALES OF TERROR by Harry McAvinchey
Dear…dear…dear. They’re raving away on the radio about Ouija boards.Perfectly normal people are telling tales of horror about their awful supernatural experiences with this board game ,with its numbers and letters of the alphabet. Of course all the stories are predicated on the fundamental beliefs of the people involved .Simply put: if you believe in […]
Let’s have a party
The hunt is on. If the south is to be saved from itself, a new political party must found. You don’t have to be all that big, at least not at first. But you do have to be right, or if you want a fig-leaf, right-of-centre. Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, despite the mass anger […]
THE BIG CHEESE by Harry McAvinchey
The war of the Cheesey Strings and Cheesestrings ? You might not be aware that there is something of a dispute going on , over a cheesey snack . Children in the main are the chief consumers of this snack- food that is said to be worth millions of pounds and euros across Ireland and […]
HELLO GORGEOUS!!! By Kieran Maxwell
Stephen M. Krason is a Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies and associate director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville and co-founder and president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. He recently composed an article for Crisis Magazine titled “Street Harassment: Another Misdirected Cause?” The […]
The art of contortion and writing for RTÉ
Picture the scene. You’ve applied for a job with RTÉ and you’ve got to the interview stage. The various worthies seated behind the table consider you through narrowed eyes, then the main man (it’s almost certainly a man) says “Sit down in that chair”. At least that’s what you think he says, only when you […]
What Mary Lou said
You probably know or know of Miriam Lord. She’s the woman who writes the funny column in the Irish Times about the goings-on in the Dail. This morning she is casting her beady eye over Mary Lou McDonald. Mary Lou, as you probably know again, yesterday listed the names of alleged Ansbacher account holders. Does […]
THE FEAR OF REAL BRITISHNESS by Harry McAvinchey
Sammy Wilson…..thinks the the Equality Commission is anti -unionist . He thinks it is a Republican Plot to undo the union.There you have it .He said it loud and clear. As far as he is concerned it’s another of these left-leaning groups that are against everything that unionism holds dear . Global warning? That’s an […]
THE FEAR OF REAL BRITISHNESS by Harry McAvinchey
Sammy Wilson…..thinks the the Equality Commission is anti -unionist . He thinks it is a Republican Plot to undo the union.There you have it .He said it loud and clear. As far as he is concerned it’s another of these left-leaning groups that are against everything that unionism holds dear . Global warning? That’s […]