September, 2019

It was on the front page of that venerable organ The Irish News this morning, it is at this moment of typing on Talkback,  and if you think you haven’t got enough, you should tune in to Darragh McIntyr’s A History of the Troubles  on BBC tonight. Of what do I speak? Brace yourself: was […]

I Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus Appeal judges warned of threat posed by Brexit to peace process Brexit has lit the fuse on a stick of dynamite under the Good Friday Agreement, Appeal Court judges in Belfast have been told. Belfast Telegraph. Monday, September 16, 2019. A legal challenge against a no-deal exit from […]

SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA                                                It is a truth universally acknowledged than an Eamon with only one n and who wishes to make n’s meet, must be in need of a few shekels. That […]

Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “This attached article is important reading for Members of Congress concerned about the terrible implications for Ireland, North and South, of a hard Brexit. Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland’s best-known historians and is Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin.”—Fr. Sean McManus. DUP’s sacred cows the […]

Two quotations from a public figure – “Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed ….We have no option. If it isn’t curbed voluntarily it will be curbed involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation or war.” Quoted December 1981 […]

People who say ‘Compromise is a dirty word’  usually mean ‘My opponent considers compromise a dirty word, whereas I’m totally open to it.’ The obvious case in point is the ‘negotations’ going on at present between the EU and the UK. The DUP and the Tory party have, on several occasions, pointed to the difficulty […]

Following on from my Blog “Each Actor on His Ass…..” I think that some readers may believe in a level playing field for all humanity and that each human has rights and responsibilities. Moses came down from a mountain with a set of rules, which if followed’ would save a lot of grief. The French Revolutionists […]

At the time of writing (I have to start with that phrase since these days anything can and often does happen), the mad gallop of Boris and his Brexiteers towards the Brexit cliff-edge seems to have been slowed if not stopped. So is there a small dark part of us that feels disappointed? At the […]

– Liam Neeson is a fine actor and, when given a good script is a man to admire. But when speaking for himself he can appear a clown. Once, after a friend of his was raped by a man with a dark skin, he says he wanted to murder any black person he met. Some years […]

 I don’t always agree with Alex Kane, the unionist commentator, especially when he’s displaying his tendency to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. But credit where credit is due: in today’s Irish Times he makes a highly valuable point about Brexit. “The softest of soft Brexits – in the next few weeks […]