With concerns growing over the impact of Brexit on the peace process in Northern Ireland, the British government, in a response to a freedom of information (FOI) request, has admitted to withholding crucial information regarding the potential security risks of a post-Brexit hard Irish border. Back in 2016 the then Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa […]
March, 2017
‘PUNDITS AND PROPHETS IN PRINT MEDIA – THE HUMOURS OF “THE TIMES” ‘ by Donal Kennedy
Older readers may remember the excitement over the “moving statue” in West Cork in 1985. Faith and gullibility moved some to prayer, some to despair and at least one man to prophesy. The Prophet was a prominent English broadcaster and journalist who was holidaying in West Cork at the time. West Cork has long been very […]
‘Britain in the 1980s and the Reign of the Iron Lady’ by Donal Kennedy
It’s hard to believe that it’s over 26 years since Margaret Thatcher was ousted from power by her own Tory Party and that her time as Prime Minister lasted only 11 years. It felt like an Eternity at the time. An Eternity in Hell. My beloved Labour- supporting spouse was away in the North of England […]
VOTING RIGHTS AND WRONGS
Now that every Irish person is to be allowed to vote for the future President of Ireland, already Tom Elliot the Ulster Unionist MP wants to make it difficult for them , even though he too has every right to vote.It is hardly credible.The anamoly has always been that any Irish person could stand and […]
How to beat the blues
You know those days. The ones where the flavour of life has been sucked away, when dark clouds loom, when you wonder what the point was in getting out of bed in the first place. I’m pleased to report that those are rare occurrences with me. But when they do happen, I like to read […]
THE PAPER WALL by Donal Kennedy
The following letter of mine was published in THE IRISH POST (London) in April 1982 when the BBC invited the then Taoiseach to give its annual Dimbleby Lecture. Thirty-five years on readers may judge the progress made or not made since. It was headed “GARRET TO SHAME THE DEVIL ON BBC?” “WHEN ARTHUR GRIFFITH FOUNDED […]
‘The Big Farmer from Meath’ by Joe McVeigh
There is a big farmer from county Meath who loves to spoof about the north. He thinks he is a living authority and often gets his wonderful words of wisdom published in the Belfast Telegraph and other self-important publications. This big farmer was once the leader of the Blueshirts and was even the […]
‘The Failures of Eamonn McCann: Why He Lost’ by Donal Lavery
At the 2016 Assembly Election, I was disappointed that some people were gullible enough to give their endorsement to two People Before Profit candidates. I sat with my head in my hands for a while, in frustration that Gerry Carroll and Eamonn McCann would now be salaried by the public purse to propagate their usual […]
THE ACID RAIN of TACIT RACISM by Perkin Warbeck
Humbly, the Perkin has an admission to make. But first by way of a context : one of the most spectacular natural views afforded to the human eye on the island of the Ancient Order of Glibernia is one’s first glimpse of the Kingdom of Kerry. The glimspse one gets after negotiating the endless, pentitential […]
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