May, 2017

I was on the Lá Dearg demonstration last Saturday, and felt a bit of a fraud. As some of you know and are maybe sick hearing, I spent the greater part of my life fearing and detesting the Irish language. That’s because my teachers during my teen years tended to have big fists and I […]

I’ve a glitch in my computer and cannot add comments to my own or other blogs which is why I am using a new blog to comment on feedback . First I’d like to ask Scott Rutherford whether he thinks it eccentric to expect that a group of athletes purporting to represent their nation in […]

  What I experienced in the north of Ireland from 1970 until 1994, was a reign of terror against Catholic working class people carried out by the UDR, the RUC and the British army at the behest of successive British governments. This reign of terror took the form of daily harassment of Catholics at British checkpoints, on […]

Having corresponded with someone who isn’t a die-hard Sinn Fein voter, if at all, on why he should use his vote at this election, I’ve agreed to write this piece on the underlying basis for electing John and have set my own time aside to do it to demonstrate to that person that not only […]

    Fergal Keane, OBE, buttermilk baritone of the BBC, who made a brief appearance as a blood substitute during the first half of this MASSIVE attempt to spear tackle, oops, spearhead the Bid of Paddyland for the RWC 2023, is back on the field of play for the start of the second half. Once […]

The horror of what happened in Manchester last night struck home like a punch in the face when I first heard it. At the time of writing, 22 people are dead, among them children. You may be sure that total will rise. Witnesses spoke of seeing body parts, of  faces studded with shrapnel, of blood […]

Picture by Antrim Lens   If the events of the last 18 months or so have taught us anything it is that it is almost impossible to predict what will happen in any political situation. We had Brexit, then Trump and so we could be forgiven for not putting out faith in polls that tell […]

The title of this article is intended to garner your attention and as it suggests, that is exactly what it entails. For this sick and twisted tale started back in the 1970s, when psychiatrist Dr. Maurice Fraser started to sexually abuse child patients at the hospital without any hindrance from the authorities. This man became […]

   It was a pleasure to watch, on TV,  England being deprived of a Rugby Grand Slam at Lansdowne  Road earlier this year. I was first in Lansdowne Road in 1948 or 1949 when Karl Mullen was the Irish Captain and Ireland won the Triple Crown. I was taken there by my father, who had […]

Why do we the media – and sometimes politicians – call on selected people to condemn certain events and certain groups? Because to do so is to encourage hypocrisy and lies. We used to have it here all the time. People who detested Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness and other leading Sinn Féin politicians would repeatedly […]