December, 2016

Pics 1-3 are by John Patton: Pic 1                                             Pic 2                                               […]

SLOW BURNER (48 Years). An article including song and lyrics (in two parts) By Randall Stephen Hall © Part 1. We’ll begin with the song first, born out of a frustration with our local government, especially the Assembly. (Article in the 2nd part). In this song I imagine I am singing directly to members of […]

What a pathetic story! I’ve never read such rot. Jayne Fisher has worked at Westminster for Sinn Fein for many years organising Sinn Fein receptions in Portcullis House, welcoming Tory, Labour and other MPs, Peers, Bishops (CofE) ,Diplomats, and Journalists. She is well-liked by everyone and if Jeremy Corbyn has poached her from Sinn Fein, […]

Is there a state in the EU more corrupt than Ireland? How many of the world nations consider like the US do, that Ireland has unsavoury tax rules which give literally billions of tax payers’ money to corporate entities such as Apple while its people suffer austerity for the ineptitude of continuous Irish governments rotating […]

For almost 40 years the proportion of Nationalist to Unionist Parliamentary seats in Ireland had been stable, indeed almost static, Though Nationalists split into Parnellite and Anti-Parnellites in 1900 the split gave no window of opportunity for Unionists who prudently did not risk their deposits nor waste their time in contesting rock-solid Nationalist seats.In 1910 […]

 (Ballingeary & Inchigeela Historical Society Journal 2016) On February 8, 1917, in the wake of the first By-Election victory to endorse the 1916 Rising, the Unionist Irish Times concluded that, in a General Election, John Redmond’s Home Rule Party “would be swept out of three quarters of their seats in Ireland by the same forces […]

Just when you thought 2016 had finished throwing custard pies into the public’s face, we get Ashgate. Like Brexit and Trump, this one affects us in that the DUP have built a machine  to suck tens of millions out of the public pocket. Like Brexit and Trump, our little fit of the vapours is visited […]

A week is a long time in politics. We all know that .What about a year, then? I was taking a peek at something I wrote this time last year and at that time the talk was of how and why Nigel Dodds decided not to become the new leader of the Democratic Unionist Party […]

  There should be zero tolerance of the abuse of priests by parishioners in every parish in the Diocese. Yesterday (13 December 2016) I was subjected to the vilest abuse by a man living in Enniskillen parish, a prominent businessman, now retired who is active in the Rosary group. His name is Gaby(Gabriel) Stewart. He […]

There’ll be a number of people crawling out of bed with a literal and/or metaphorical headache this morning. Sir Henry Bellingham, Conservative MP for North West Norfolk, will be moaning a bit. He’s the MP who used parliamentary privilege to suggest that the Director of Public Prosecutions, Barry McGrory, was going all political in taking […]