How do they get away with it? Is it that they are extremely cunning or that people are extremely dumb? For example, how do you get a 66% pay rise? One way is to be Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Better known as Queen Elizabeth II, or if you’re on really intimate terms, The Queen. Lucky […]
November, 2016
Pics of the week
Pics 1, 2 and 3 by John Patton (phototilly.eu) Pic 1 Pic […]
FOOLISH DREAMS? by Donal Kennedy
“O wise men, riddle me this: what if the dream come true? What if the dream come true? and if millions unborn shall dwell In the house that I shaped in my heart, the noble house of my thought? Lord, I have staked my soul, I have staked the lives of my kin On the […]
Oh no. Not Children in Need. And not the one-eyed bear. Please, no…
Oh God. It’s buttock-clenching time again. The one-eyed bear is back, bringing with him a galaxy of ‘stars’ who dress up and do undignified things and huzzah us all up to do equally stupid things but it’s OK because it’s in a Good Cause. I mean, what kind of monster would you be that wouldn’t […]
The sectarian behaviour of MPs “is something that the UK Government or Parliament is not responsible for.” by Sammy McNally
With the marching season having stretched into October the consensus on the ‘Summer’ parading has generally been positive i.e. there was no major rioting. Possibly the most publicised incident of the season that was in it – was the appearance of Danny Kinahan (an ostensibly moderate Ulster Unionist MP) posing in front of a bonfire with […]
‘Intimidation’ by Joe McVeigh
On Sunday evening (13 November, Remembrance Sunday) the windows on the bottom floor of my house in Tattygar, Lisbellaw were smashed, in what the police called ‘a hate crime’. I was out of the house at the time of the attack. I was at the Wake of my cousin who died earlier that […]
How ‘prickly’ is Arlene? How sleekit Enda?
Much is made of the personal chemistry between political leaders. For example, there’s a suggestion that Trump and Putin are made of the same stuff – two strongmen – and that they will thus be able to deal more effectively with each other. Nobody ever suggested Obama had that kind of relationship with Putin. And […]
THE BARBARIANS HAVE CRASHED THE GATES
One really great thing about the upcoming Brexit …and possibly the only great thing about it that I can actually see….is that it will provide brand new jobs for between 10,000 and 30,000 people.Where the money to pay their wages for all of this , is coming from, is something of a mystery at the […]
Dressing up children and one-eyed moral indignation
I’m not often at a total loss for words but this morning I came near it. That’s because, on nuzhound.com, I read Fionnola Meredith’s article on children and dressing up in (para)military garb. You’ll remember some months ago I was nearly drowned in a tsunami of condemnation when I suggested that the Boys’ Brigade had […]
SOURCES AND RESOURCES by Donal Kennedy
A few years ago I paid quite a lot of money for a secondhand paperback book. When I lived in Ireland I remember fresh copies of it on sale in the railway stations for half a crown. I remember it had a photo of de Valera on the back and was a thick volume. De […]