January, 2017

In the past week, two interviews with sporting behemoths , one Irish, one Norn Irish, were conducted,  both of which caught the ear and the eye. The first was with Rory McIlroy in the Sindo (Paul Kimmage was the interviewer) and the emphasis on the response was the I for Identity word. Turns out Rory […]

  This country has more than its fair share of arrogant politicians and near the top of that list is the Fianna Fail leader, Michael Martin, the TD from Cork. It is difficult to know what this man’s motives are other than hatred of Sinn Fein and the fear that they will overtake and wipe […]

  Even when deposed and cast from her throne the Mad Queen of Norneverland continued to rant to her ex-courtiers that none of it was her fault.some of them gathered in fear to comfort her but it was to no avail because they had already also quaffed down the same hallucinogenic venom that a dastardly […]

So. Arlene Foster is now happy to have an investigation into the Cash for Ash financial outrage, and says that since she’s no longer First Minister (as a result of Martin McGuinness stepping down), an inquiry needs to be launched and a general election avoided. Arlene is like a teenager member of a family who’ve […]

I’ve just received the article below from a friend. It shows how in Britain, an establishment line is established and any commentator/journalist who steps outside that line has a sign saying “Nutter” hung around his/her neck. It’s important that we learn from this. Already, there are clear signs that the coming election is going to be […]

I’ve just heard the news that Martin McGuinness has resigned. That has speeded up the ‘game of chicken’  Arlene apparently thought it was – in fact has shown that it wasn’t a game at all and that it wasn’t so much about blinking as bluster on the part of Arlene and the DUP. There’s also […]

Weeks later…or is it months now? This “Cash for “Ash or “Soot for Loot ” scandal ,as our own Perkin Warbeck so succinctly and colourfully put it , seems to have been running forever now . We’ve chewed over all of the details and masticated every nuance and slippery phrase until it has been rendered […]

I heard Sammy Wilson on RTÉ radio about an hour ago and he sounded very reasonable. The DUP, he told the listeners, were in agreement with Sinn Féin about their proposal for a public inquiry. It really did seem to match what the DUP themselves wanted. So it would be a pity if Sinn Féin […]

The headline in a Belfast newspaper about two months ago caught my eye: “24% of N.I. children ‘living in poverty’”. The End Child Poverty Coalition(founded in 2001) released a report for the UK based on detailed research that at least 24% of children in N.I. are in poor households where income is less than 60% […]