April, 2016

My first experience of the PIRA was during one of the frequent riots. I was sitting on a wall with rubber bullets whizzing by and mayhem breaking loose when one soldier put down his rifle and lifted me off the wall and  said itjust wasn’t safe before heading off again. It was very easy to […]

On RTÉ programmes like Prime Time, there have been increasing calls from members of Fine Gael and Fianna Fail for everyone to shoulder the responsibility of helping to form a government. This very often is preceded by a refusal to say just what is the difference between the two big parties. There are then heart-felt denunciations […]

Splendid piece by second-cousin-by-a-buttonhole Daniel Collins, on the southern attitude to northerners. It’s a long but riveting read. Bainigi sult as… https://danieldcollins.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/irish-northerners-and-southerners/

The Kincora House scandal that appeared in 1980 isn’t going away. It’s now a lifetime ago.That was the year I got married; thirty six years ago in a life where I’ve seen my three daughters grow up to have adult lives of their own… and still it trundles on. The abuse that happened within the […]

This address to a conference in Limerick says some things you may disagree with but a lot, I suspect, you’ll cheer to the echo. Anyway, another good day for journalism in Ireland. https://www.rabble.ie/2016/04/12/our-profession-is-on-its-knees/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email

Between 1968 and 1973 all the inhabitants of the British Indian Ocean Territory were forcibly removed by British Crown Forces from their homes and from their territory and dumped hundreds of miles away in Mauritius and the Seychelles. They had imagined they lived under British protection but neither court order, nor health hazard had prompted […]

Bainigi sult as –  Enjoy… http://linkis.com/independent.co.uk/L5q4y

April 3, 2016   Letters Editor ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR 99 E. State Street Rockford, Ill 61104   Dear Editor: This is in response to “Republican Army’s Ghost…” (3/25) which misinformed and misled your readers. But not without purpose. First, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was not denied entry to the White House for a St. […]

When the all-Protestant Irish Parliament voted itself out of existence in 1801 some Dublin Orangemen declared that it had acted ultra vires, beyond its powers and unconstitutionally. Daniel O’Connell, Parnell, John Redmond, John Dillon, so far as I can make out, were in agreement with those Orangemen on that issue. Rule of Ireland from London they deemed illegitimate […]

I was listening to the Nolan show yesterday and I thought I’d heard it all. David McNarry, now a UKIP man, was explaining how immigrants would have to lead upright lives if they wished to stay in our little state. When Nolan pressed him about this McNarry was adamant. Should a Polish doctor, say, be […]