The briefest of blogs to say a huge “THANK YOU” to all 45 of the good and generous people who supported my half-marathon run in Omagh today. Thanks to you we’ve not only met the £1000 target – we’ve smashed it – total at the moment is £1150. You are superb. Close study of the […]
March, 2016
Not so much Gissajob as Gissabreak
Who, I wonder, is in charge of welfare here? Is it Lord Maurice Morrow? Stephen Farry? I attended a conference a couple of days ago, sponsored by the Participation and Practice of Rights people (formerly fronted by the late Inez McCormack, now by Dessie Donnelly). I came away from it with troubling questions and assertions […]
For the day that’s in it: ‘A View from the Bottom’ by Richard Rohr
A View from the Bottom Friday, March 25, 2016 In almost all of history, the vast majority of people understood the view from the bottom due to their own life circumstance. Most of the people who have ever lived on this planet have been oppressed and poor. But their history was seldom written except in […]
LETTER FROM AMERICA TO THE EVENING ECHO (CORK)
Subject: Truth – Please!I “A million dead. A million fled” is Mr. Nicholson’s lead falsehood promoting yet another “Irish Famine” book (Irish Echo, Mar. 16 – 22, page 20). Is it still too soon to publicize the truth about Ireland’s Holocaust; now, 171 years after its start? It was no “famine” but a genocide perpetrated […]
FUNNY OLD WORLD: WAR STORIES by Donal Kennedy
If you never read “CATCH 22” may I introduce two of its characters, US Airforce men in WWll? There’s Colonel Cathcart,chasing promotion and lusting for glory at his men’s expense. His pilots are promised that after a certain number of bombing missions they’ll get home leave. Each mission some of them get killed. When the survivors are […]
LETTER TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL by Michael J Cummings
March 24, 2016 Letters Editor WALL STREET JOURNAL 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 Dear Editor: Surprised that President Obama embraces the rogue State behavior of the Castros (“The Cuban Casualties…” 3/22)? The Cuban dictators have done nothing in Cuba the British haven’t done in N. I. and we warmly […]
The Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme: both ‘enormously significant’?
There are determined efforts by the proponents of ‘balance’ to place the Easter Rising alongside the Battle of the Somme. When pressed (or even without pressing), proponents of ‘balance’ will talk of “both events being of enormous significance”. For those directly involved who met their deaths, both events clearly were of enormous significance. There are […]
Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR): How to make the poor poorer
Dessie Donnelly, PPR Director, speaking at yesterday’s conference. I plan to come back to this event which I attended yesterday, but I’d be interested in hearing people’s views on the issues in the meantime – Jude. Press Statement – Wednesday 23rd March 2016 Contact sean@pprproject.org or Tel: 02890313315 / 07725829501 for more details […]
Don’t mention the confirmation
I’ve been on at least one radio discussion with Drew Nelson and I liked him. Admittedly it was about twenty years ago and he wasn’t then the Grand Secretary of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, but I’m confident that such a grand title hasn’t changed him. That’s why, if I was a civil servant […]
CULTURE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
“GO” is an ancient boardgame .It is possibly the oldest boardgame known to man and it is very much an ingrained part of the culture of the east. I came across mention of it in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s. Somehow, it began being mentioned in the underground press and in the art colleges […]