December, 2016

“With God on our side” The first real glimmer of the terror about to be unleashed across the land was when some school-friends arrived back to classes traumatised by scenes they’d experienced during the student Peoples Democracy march at Burntollet Bridge in the winter of 1969 . It had seemed barbaric to them. I was […]

I read in the Belfast Telegraph that a property developer is pursuing Daithi McKay for damages, relating to the former MLA’s alleged actions concerning Jamie Bryson and the questioning of Peter Robinson over the NAMA scandal. Whether or not any of that is true is really none of my business. What I am concerned about […]

You’re not familiar with the class fool? He’s the one who will do anything – make farting sounds, punch the smallest boy in the class, write moronic vulgarities on the board, all with the hope he’ll be noticed. He (it’s almost always a he) will say or do anything so that people will see he exists. […]

In 1919 following Britain’s triumph in her Great War for Freedom,  His Britannic Majesty’s Government banned a book made almost entirely of quotations of speeches made by Ministers of that Government when they had been His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition between the years 1910 and 1914.Some quotations are from men who were merely Unionist MPs, others from […]

Most domestic violence is perpetrated by men against women. Almost every day when I read in a newspaper  about cases of extreme violence against women, often accompanied by unbelievable pictures of the face of a bruised and battered woman. Cruelty against women seems to be very common in Ireland. What gets into a man’s head who […]

I’m tempted to pursue the Stack family case this morning, given the firestorm that the southern media have set blazing around Gerry Adams for not naming the IRA people involved in the Stack affair. I’ll resist that temptation, except to say that if Gerry Adams is being damned for not telling the garda all that […]

Picture by Antrim Lens   Ireland’s peace process is undoubtedly one of the most successful there has ever been in human history, if not the most, and that is something we should be proud off.  That is, until I realised that statement isn’t even true. While the peace process has indeed been successful in Northern […]

  While Roos (as in Kangaroo Courts) were much to the forefront in the Free Southern Stateen end of Mother Ireland this week, courtesy of the Oedipal Media, as in: It’s what the RA’s do: Roos) the singular legacy of Theodore Roosevelt was overshadowed. That, of course, was the Teddy Bear, which dates from a […]

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Sometimes you have to laugh. And often, I find, a fit of the giggles comes on just at those moments when it would be highly inappropriate to let them out. But this is not one of those occasions. This time, giggles and guffaws and near-painful belly-laughs are the only sane response. The man to whom […]