December, 2016

I’m not one to peddle conspiracy theories often, some are highly farfetched and often distract from the real issues of the day. But one cannot observe the happenings within Labour and UK politics and not come to the conclusion that an elite group are doing all they can to undermine the mandate and appeal of […]

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks” was how Shakespeare put it. He was intent on underlining that  Hamlet’s mother Gertrude wasn’t the loving wife to his father that she  claimed to be. In other words, the more you go on about something, the more suspect your claims become. I mention all this because yesterday, […]

The British Supreme Court hearing today is an interesting event. It is not, as you might be tempted to think, about the House of Commons having to approve the terms of Brexit which Theresa May agrees on at the end of her two-year-plus negotiations with the EU. It’s about whether the House of Commons must give […]

Joan McFadden describes her experiences of being a Free Presbyterian in Scotland and her decision along with her parents and siblings to leave it all behind -the best decision she ever made. I found her story very interesting and that is why I want to share it. ‘Sunday mode started on Saturday evening, which had […]

The announcement that Pope Francis may visit the north during his visit to Dublin in 2018 was greeted mainly with approval except from some die-hards in the Free Presbyterian church. It would seem that we have a long way to go in the north of Ireland before the Free Presbyterians see the light. The Free […]

I just switched on the radio in time to hear a woman speaking about the “law is the law” and if the evidence is there it applies across the board. Has Steven Nolan got the first Minister Arlene Foster into the studio?, I wondered .On tuning in further, I realised it was actually Jamie Bryson […]

  There was a deal of harrumphing in Downing Street at the recent appointment by President-elect Trump of The Nige as the UK Ambassador-elect to Washington. The noive of the naïve New Yawker to poke his nose into the Court of Saint James and name   his own g-damn Ambassador ! Gadzooks ! Imagine GB aka […]

IRISH POST 30th January 2016 May I thank Mike Serridge (January 23) for sharing with me his knowledge that my father, born 1899, and my mother, born 1901, their siblings, parents and grandparents, were British? How sad it is that they all believed themselves to be Irish. I don’t think I could survive any further […]

I wrote an Opinion piece for the Irish Times which was published last Tuesday (Nov 29). I wrote it several months ago after it was announced that our parish would be losing a priest.(I know there are some readers of this Blog who have not the slightest interest in the future of the Irish church […]

Chris Hazzard  was on the BBC’s Sunday Politics this lunch-time and he looked every inch the part of a bright, articulate Minister. He was talking about the A6, and how the people it will serve have been waiting half a century. The south was to have put up £200 million for the A5, but now that’s […]