March, 2017

I am just going to be honest, I don’t think there is a single party in Ireland who has the competence or capability to actually implement the unification of this country. I believe government in Ireland is plagued with corruption, has an unhealthy relationship with the media and is so rife with incompetence that it […]

Some of you may have read the article written by one Jessica McGrann concerning her opinion on what she thinks Sinn Fein should stand for. As flawed as it is grammatically, the economic side of things is no pleasantry either, of which more later. It flowed from a written “battle of ideas” on what Irish […]

I was recently asked by someone on this blog site if I even understood what Sinn Fein stands for. As usual, that gets me thinking and I would have to say no, I possibly don’t. I had a look at their website and I would like to discuss a few areas of relevance to our […]

I watched a TV report recently on how Protestants living along the border area view the notion of a border poll. One man, whose farm straddles the north and the south, said he thought the border should be done away with – and have all of Ireland within the UK. As for himself, he’d vote […]

Pics 1-4 are by Perkin Warbeck           Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4  (A man of few words, Perkin merely tells us  “CÉAD MÍLE MALTA”)   Pics 5-7 are by John Patton ( http://www.phototilly.eu ) Pic 5 Pic 6 Pic 7   “BASS ROCK GANNET COLONY Gannets are large, white seabirds with […]

The  day that’s been innit I’ve been checking out GOOGLE TRANSLATE from the Irish into Sacs-Beurla (the Twitter/Jargon of the Saxons).   Beidh Eire fos ag Cait ni Dhuibhir               = Ah cats will still not load Dwyer. Pog mo thon                     […]

How much of our thinking is wishful? Quite a bit, I suspect.  We produce a model of how we would like things to be and then we gather together signs and portents that will point to that view. For example, The Irish Voice,  an American-Irish newspaper, had an editorial yesterday with the heading “A `United Ireland […]

When Theresa Villiers asked James Brokenshire in Westminster to confirm that he agreed that some information simply could not be made public without putting lives at risk, it is clear that this move was to reinforce a position being taken during the current post-election negotiations relating to the truth veto on grounds of national security. […]

  In 1940 Judy Garland (18) played the lead role in the fillum ‘ Little Nellie Kelly’. It is safe to say that it did not quite make the same lasting splash as the movie she had made the previous year: ‘The Wizard of Oz’. In fact, in between those two motion pictures she actually […]