Did you watch the Bulgaria-England soccer international last night? I watched part of the first half and, with England 3-0 up and the referee halting the game twice to check on racist abuse coming from the crowd, I switched over. This morning press reports on the match have headings like ‘Vile and disturbing Sofia spectacle […]
October, 2019
Eating the truth
OK – stall the wedding, as Sean Coyle might have said before the BBC dumped him. Put the champagne on ice. It now appears that the happy ending to Brexit has at best been postponed and at worst cancelled. Jim Shannon, he of the DUP, has said it plain and straight: “It is simple. Are […]
CLASSIC 3-MINUTE IRISH NATIONAL CAUCUS ANIMATED INTERNET VIDEO by Fr Sean McManus
Please click on this YouTube link below to view the classic Irish National Caucus Animated Internet Video, which each day grows more relevant than ever—and is the ultimate solution to the madness of Brexit… And the solution to dreams and prayers of all Irish-Americans.What American could possibly object to this sweet reasonableness and common sense? … This must […]
UCD – A UNIVERSITY WITH NO IDEA ABOUT WHAT IT OUGHT TO BE? – by Donal Kennedy
UCD’s boycott of the canonisation of Cardinal Newman depresses me. The greatest prose writer in English of the 19th Century, according to James Joyce and one of the great intellectuals of his age and a man of integrity. One doesn’t have to be a Catholic nor a believer in any religion to recognise generosity of spirit […]
How Ireland could solve Brexit
Bonnie Greer is a formidable black woman with a deceptively soft voice. She’s an American writer and has been living in the UK for several decades. She was on QUESTION TIME (BBC) last week and inevitably the topic of the border in Ireland came up. Using that signature drawl of hers, Bonnie told the panel […]
Boris and Leo: bomb-defusers or delusionists?
Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar going in to confer at Wirral yesterday were like two men sent to defuse a massive bomb – Leo chest out and ready to meet his fate, Boris crouched round-shouldered, braced to receive the blast. And they were in a risky situation. Snip the wrong wire or press the wrong […]
All hail the DUP, the king-makers
The central problem with being a king-maker is that you have to make a king. While you’re doing a public display of your political muscle, and boasting about what you’ve got the would-be king to agree to, the time comes when the public form a judgement on the kind of king you’ve landed them with. […]
Ireland, too, has the right to be “one nation under God, indivisible, with justice and justice for all.” – by Fr Sean McManus
The following fully personalized letter is going to all Members of Congress, House and Senate. It surely reflects what is in the hearts, dreams and prayers of Irish-Americans. It is entirely consistent with the Good Friday Agreement and with American principles:respect for international human rights, democracy and national self- determination. It will be published as an Internet Petition and […]
Talking with the British
The BBC’s flagship news programme Today was coming this morning from Grafton Street (not ‘Grafton Road’, as presenter Nick Robinson called it at one point). Why so? Well, Ireland is at the heart of the problem that could mean years of economic damage in Ireland, in the UK and in Europe. And there may be […]
Irish Reunification: How it can happen – by Donal Lavery
In 1916, men and women heroically gave their lives for the birth of a nation. A Republic was proclaimed and died for in blood. That reality has hung proudly on the walls of many households which recognise the validity of our provisional sovereignty as a country. At that point, we picked ourselves up as a […]