July, 2015

  Gerry Adams must be a relieved man this week. The Ombudsman’s Office have declared that the PSNI investigation into the Sinn Féin president was conducted properly and that the decision not to charge him for withholding information about his paedophile brother was not politically motivated. Perhaps an equally relevant question might have been:   was […]

I wonder will the police investigate that picture of a number of masked men with baseball bats beside a poster declaring ‘Taigs will be crucified’. Let’s face it, you can’t get much more sectarian than that. Taigs. I suppose any taig will do.  And they’ll be crucified. Blatant sectarianism at its blunt best.  But I’ll lay […]

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Picture by Mariananik OK – let’s get one thing clear from the start. Nobody’s saying that the Greeks aren’t in part responsible for their present unhappy state. Like the rest of us, Greeks don’t like paying taxes. And if you were in their shoes and could get away with it, what would you do? There’s probably […]

  Neil Young has won’: Wal-Mart pulling Confederate flag merchandise (including Lynyrd Skynyrd CDs?) Back in the days of youth, in  early 1970, Neil Young sang a song called “Southern Man” on his new vinyl  album , “After the Goldrush”  which I bought. It was a song  basically castigating the rednecks in the southern American […]

So it seems the Carey Irish Dance Academy and An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG) are leading us a merry dance, if you will pardon the pun. Their organisation of what they are calling the first ever Israeli Feis has created a furore of objections from Irish people at home and abroad. Palestinans in the […]

  Right, class. Welcome back and I hope our day off didn’t wash away all the interesting things we were talking about the last day. Now I say ‘all the different things” but actually we were talking about only two things: how much money the British government gives us each year, and how much money […]

    Even among senior, Labour figures, there is fairly widespread agreement that Britain’s intervention in Iraq has had dire consequences for the whole Middle East Region. George Bush’s ‘war on terrorism’ was justifiably seen by most Muslims as an attack on them and on their beliefs. The barely literate, popular Press has so fuelled […]

    Even among senior, Labour figures, there is fairly widespread agreement that Britain’s intervention in Iraq has had dire consequences for the whole Middle East Region. George Bush’s ‘war on terrorism’ was justifiably seen by most Muslims as an attack on them and on their beliefs. The barely literate, popular Press has so fuelled […]

Cats and Dogs. By Randall Stephen Hall ©   Cats and dogs Grow older with us. Grow older faster. Their lives mark our time here Like milestones And measure our steps.   You may regret their passing And with good reason. For you, their master Can never master time.   The reason?   Tine ties […]