July, 2017

This is what the grown ups in Norneverland do every Summer.The tribes who adhere to the Worshipful Cult of Bonfire Builders begin by stealing wooden pallets and old rubber tyres so that they will be in readiness to build competing towers of tinder ,which they will set alight at a given time to worship Horus […]

A Fordham university professor, Fr. Bryan Massingale, challenged the sixth annual assembly of Priests gathered in Atlanta, June 19-22, to retrieve a crucial insight of Martin Luther King Jr. — the need to “redeem the soul.” According to Massingale, “We are in a struggle for the soul of America.” To heal a fractured society is not […]

  Here’s Robin Swann trying to sound like a credible politician: “Let me state very clearly that this proposal is totally unacceptable and is one example of why any reasonable person could not agree to the proposals for an Irish Language Act.” What is this proposal? Well, it comes from the mouth of Conradh na […]

Thanks to Donal Kennedy for sending me this interesting link. I think it catches the respect with which Dev approached minority languages in general. What a good example to our elected representatives…   http://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/grandson-of-de-valera-follows-footsteps/

Fifty-five years ago when it looked like WORLD WAR THREE was about to wipe us all out  I bought a copy of Newsweek and, probably a copy of TIME magazine.  A picture in one of them showed an American Senator being given a message on the crisis at an airport.  The caption named him as […]

  Hugh Linehan’s recent writhing on the wall of woe in the Saturday edish of The Unionist Times is, as harbingers go, a dead ringer for the little big debt knell for TUT of Tittle Tattle fame. So morose, indeed, was Hugh   he felt compelled to overdose in the holding out of the gloomy flat […]

  Rupert Murdoch’s media empire includes the English newspaper the SUN, and 21st Century FOX. He hopes to add SKY TV to his holding. However, for his commitment to broadcast standards he needs  to receive a “fit and proper” rating from British authorities.  The phone hacking scandals at Murdoch’s News of the World and the […]

I’ve just ingested a bowlful of Rice Krispies (other types of cereal are available), tea and a small mountain of home-made bread. As I was slathering on the butter and marmalade I was listening to Radio Ulster /Raidio Uladh; they were questioning the DUP’s Simon Hamilton and Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy about the suspension of talks. […]

OK – listen up, all posters of comments. I’ve been told that posters are using abusive language to each other. If I see it, I’ll take it down and the poster will be on a yellow card. I’ve been told I have compared the DUP to dogs. I’ve searched but failed to find this. If […]

Father Joseph Mallin , 103-year-old Jesuit priest in Hong Kong and son of Michael Mallin  executed by the British on May 8th 1916, prepared a Document ” In Memory of my Father“ which debunks the libel and slander of Michael’s good name as a courageous, honest and a man of integrity by the British Empire’s Brigadier Macconchy […]