We must return to the promise of our 1998 Belfast Agreement peace deal by fully implementing that Agreement… or we condemn ourselves to perpetual strife and division. Ireland was the British crown’s first colony, and the Northern Ireland state is an undemocratic gerrymandered remnant of that once larger colony. British conquest of Ireland was immoral, […]
February, 2017
EVERYONE SAYS THEY LOVE LA LA LAND by Perkin Warbeck
Sometimes it’s easier to allow one’s inner cat get his way and so, one found oneself in the last week curiously entering a cinema , hoping for two simple things: that nobody had spotted one and that the fillum wouldn’t be as brutal as one feared. Actually, it wasn’t. Indeed, it turned out to […]
Saturday Pics of the Week
Pics 1-4 are by Perkin Warbeck Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4 “A SPACE of HONEY Malta has long been a b-word for honey. Indeed, the name itself is redolent of the sweet, sticky, yellowish fluid of the bees. Not unlike Clonmel / Cluain Meala in Tipperary ( not so far […]
‘Eamonn McCann: From Protests to Parliament’ by Donal Lavery
Most of us have heard Mr. McCann’s recent James Deane-level car-crash interview by now. Without focusing too heavily on what was a really rather risible performance, it’s clear that Eamonn has not the look nor sound of a man with fire in his belly politically. Like his colleague Mr. Carroll, the two men share […]
Last night with Arlene
I didn’t catch the political leaders’ debate on UTV last night (relax, Virginia – I have it recorded) but I did watch Arlene Foster being interviewed by Mark Carruthers on The View (BBC). It was a tedious if significant interview. Arlene’s handlers appear to have surgically inserted the word “Soft” into her brain. And she […]
The Irish News and what matters
People are funny, there’s no doubt about it. That’s funny-peculiar, not funny-ha-ha. There are those who say that a woman attaches great importance to the kind of shoes a man wears, that it’s one of the first things she looks at. There are people who form their likes and dislikes on the basis of accent. […]
APOLOGY
A few weeks ago, I posted a link to a posting by a fictitious person – I can’t even remember his/her name now – which claimed to have researched and established links between Balcas and Arlene Foster. This was a prime example of fake news and I was foolish enough to believe it. I am […]
Enda and Arlene: separated at birth?
I wonder in what detail – if at all – Arlene Foster is following political developments south of the border these past few days. Is she, as an integral part of the UK, devoid of interest as to the goings-on in the foreign country to the south of her fiefdom? Or is she watching with […]
Mike and the sin for which there is no forgiveness
A long, long time ago, when men wore big heavy winter coats with a belt tied around the middle and no male head went uncovered, when women didn’t create unemployment by making silly demands to be part of the paid workforce but stayed at home and minded the children – way back then there […]
PLUS CA CHANGE , LIAM
Liam Neeson , the Irish actor will collect his Old Age Pension in June this year for the first time .I know this because Liam and myself are exactly the same age .Well actually he’s about two weeks older than me so he will score his those few days sooner. We both grew up in […]