July, 2019

Barbara Flaherty, Dr. Everett Kelley, Fr. Sean McManus The National Secretary-Treasurer of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the latest World Peace Prize laureate. AFGE is the largest federal employee Union proudly representing 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas. Dr. Everett Kelley, a native of Alabama and a Baptist Minister, was honored with the […]

 Did you catch The Big Debate last night? I did – well, OK, from time to time I looked up from the book I was reading. And what I saw deepened my conviction that the British people, having made fools of themselves by voting for Brexit, are now so embarrassed by what they’ve done they […]

IRISH HERALD,  July, 2019 Norman Ten with Pat Goggins at the ceremony. Norman grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, is a working member of SEIU and President of APALA. Norman co-ordinated the First Prize Railroad Worker unit in the SF Chinese New Year’s Parade. Thank you for your front page coverage of the May 10 […]

“I am so an outstanding forgetter that, along with all the rest, I forget even my own woks and writings.” I quote Gore Vidal’s translation from the French essayist Montaigne, who supposedly made the remark at the age of 66. Vidal was having the same problem at the age of 79, as he recorded in […]

On 10th May this year (2019), along with Ciaran MacAirt and Solicitor Pat Fahy, I launched a report into the police murder of my cousin, Michael Leonard, on 17th May 1973. I wrote the report following the discovery of critical new evidence which proved that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) patrol fired three deliberate shots at a […]

SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA If Michaelangelo, revived from a centuries-long coma  and rearing to go with a chisel in his hand and a sizzle in his eye,  were to indulge in a spot of time-travelling, going forward, he would immediately hop on a Roma-exiting Ryanair.  And not stop till he reached DUPlin’s fair-to-middlin’ city, the still […]

SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA                                      LAPDOG   BITES   BULLDOG  (48) If Michaelangelo, revived from a centuries-long coma  and rearing to go with a chisel in his hand and a sizzle in his eye,  were to indulge in a spot of time-travelling, going forward, he would immediately hop on a Roma-exiting Ryanair.  And not stop till he reached […]

On 4 September 2018 I asked here “IS GORDON BROWN A HUMBUG? On a visit to the Vatican he presented the then Pope a collection of Sermons by his (Gordon’s) late father, a Presbyterian Divine. Gordon does not lay claim to religious belief, himself, but does lay claim to a Moral Compass. I accused Brown […]

“Be grateful for small mercies” is a commendably Christian view on experience, and it looks as though the relatives of those killed by the infamous Glenanne gang will have to be grateful for the news that there’ll be an independent investigation into state collusion with the gang in the killing of their loved ones.  And […]

According to a report by Dominic Kennedy in THE TIMES 6.JULY 2019 the IRA ” killed an estimated1,800 people, including  more than 650 civilians, during a 30 year struggle against British rule in Northern Ireland.” In May 1981  on its front page THE TIMES carried a report by its Northern Ireland Correspondent,Christopher Thomas, that the […]