July, 2019

Senator Mark Daly from Kerry is a remarkable man. Everyone I’ve ever met from Kerry sees themselves as remarkable, but Senator Daly’s remarkableness springs from his actions rather than his place of origin. He’s been doing what southern governments should have been doing for at least the last twenty years: he’s been looking at what […]

You could say that we were shocked at President Trump’s recent attack on four Democratic Congress women, where he urged them, if they didn’t like the state of the US, to go back to their own crime-infested countries. For a start, three of the four were born in the US and all four are bona […]

SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA                                  Early in the Errigal Ciarán  week, the Tyrone GAA County Board was eerily pressurised by a blanket offence (enthusiastically taken both North and South of the Black Sow’s Dyke by outraged, upright Yunes who, in unison,  […]

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGDistributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Noted author and journalist Susan McKay is from a Unionist/Protestant background in Northern Ireland. When she speaks about Unionism and Orange-ism people should listen. Orange supremacy (established and institutionalized by the London government in 1920) is the very opposite of the hopes and dreams of the Good […]

I was in London over the weekend ( do I really  have to explain why?) and I found myself at the Harold Pinter Theatre watching Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. A musical. There was a time when I loved musicals – the Omagh pantomime  (pronounced ‘pantomine’) was an annual high-point, and I fell hopelessly in love with […]

Has Jeremy Corbyn failed his party and his country?  Watching and listening to the critical shot and shell being directed his way,  you’d probably nod your head so vigorously it’d be  in danger of falling off. What is it about Corbyn that makes him, in the views of his critics, such a hopeless leader of […]

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGDistributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “This article gives a good background to understanding why England—yes, England, because Wales and Scotland can hardly be blamed— has shown no concern for what Brexit is doing to the 1920 British-imposed Border that partitions Ireland.”—Fr. Sean Mc Manus A Ronan McGreevy. Irish Times. Dublin.Tuesday, July 9, […]

Guy Walters’ s review of “To Save a People” (Nov 21) is prefaced by the statement about its subject- “He saved thousands of Jews from the gas chambers, but Raoul Wallenberg is now an almost forgotten figure.” Really?    Wllenberg has been a subject of a play by Douglas Murray, a young protege of Education Secretary Michael […]

In all the huffing and puffing on last night’s Panorama programme, one key matter was not addressed:has Jeremy Corbyn been guilty of anti-Semitic remarks? There’s a good reason for that: because the ‘investigating’ team wouldn’t have been able to find them. As everyone knows, or should know, Jeremy Corbyn has spent most of his life […]

Cruel times produce villains and heroes. Sweden, neutral in the Great Wars which ravaged Europe between 1914 and 1945 produced two men of outstanding courage and compassion who saved thousands of Jews from destruction by Nazis and other Fascists, whose memories deserve veneration by all humanity. Both served as Swedish diplomats. One of them, Raoul […]