November, 2016

I am happy to continue this discussion for as long as people want to comment for it is a learning curve and therefore a worthwhile exercise and I thank the esteemed Blogmeister for providing the platform. First of all, I would like to address the comment from Billy who is an avowed unionist and clearly […]

Many hard things have been said about Donald Trump, a considerable number of them true. What has been given less attention has been the effect he has had on others. Trump didn’t devise racist politics in the US but he gave what’s now called “dog-whistle” speeches that didn’t say “Let’s all be racist!” but spoke […]

I’ve just read an extract (from THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT?) of a review entitled “Failure of Intelligence” of a book by one Alistair Kerr called “BETRAYAL – The Murder of Robert Nairac G.C.  Bew is fulsome in Kerr’s praise and elsewhere Kerr records that he is “Cock-a-Whoop” about the review, because “Bew is a serious, […]

There was a gorilla in  Raidio Uladh/Radio Ulster this morning, and it ambled into the  Sunday Sequence studio, where it sat down and began scratching itself and eating fleas. None of the people there – presenter Audrey Carville, Chris Donelly, (Rev) Lesley Carroll, (Dr) John Kyle and (Dr) Eamon Phoenix – appeared to notice it,  despite […]

The sudden successful eruption of Brexit has been like a ferret dropped down the trouser-front of the UK. Nobody was expecting it, they wouldn’t have taken it out of its cage if they’d thought that it’d end up where it has, and everybody’s yelling that this is a crisis, would yis do something! Leading the no-problem-we’re-in-control brigade is, of […]

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An Archive of letters published in THE IRISH DEMOCRAT from January 2001 onwards can be viewed online. The following was published on 20 February 2006 – “Kevin Myers, who occupies the northeast corner of the comment page of THE IRISH TIMES, not long ago  referred to the ‘police cadets’ ambushed at Kilmichael in November 1920. […]

    Domination on the global scale is what Druid Theatre is destined to revel in even as it takes ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ on a tour of the intercontinental highway. First of all it will stage this modern master/mistresspiece in a multiplicity of metropoli on a coast to coast tour of the (gulp, […]

Let’s see now . America has just elected another President .We’re going to have a brand new leader of the free world with the unlikely name of Donald Trump. “Donald” and “Trump”. Sometimes people who worry about such things, will use the word “trump” instead of the more percussive ,and possibly more noxious, “fart” ,to […]

  I am overwhelmed by the response to the blog, ‘My difficulty Understanding Unionism’. I have not had an opportunity to read all comments but from some I have read I would like to say that I found some of the exchanges and comments most interesting and some were informative. Clearly, Jessica shares my views […]