SINN Féin organised a public debate, ‘Brexit, the Good Friday Agreement and Irish Unity’ in Brighton, at a fringe meeting of the British Labour party’s annual conference. The room was at maximum capacity with attendees spilling out into the corridor, demonstrating the marked increase in interest in the case for Irish unity. This event was […]
October, 2019
YOUNG LIVES LOST: CROCODILE TEARS FROM TARA STREET-WA*KERS by Donal Kennedy
THE IRISH TIMES, today (October 5th) has an editorial on 186 children killed in the war which arose from the RUC attack on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Derry exactly 51 years ago. It is ironic for an organ that for decades led the successful campaign for the removal of legal protection for children in […]
Irish Congressional Briefing – the DUP veto by Fr Sean McManus
Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus DUP veto must be withdrawn Irish News Editorial. Belfast. Monday, October 7, 2019 Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was stating the obvious at the weekend when he said that the UK has so far failed to come up with proposals which are capable of breaking the Brexit deadlock and allowing deeper negotiations to follow. […]
A QUESTION OF RECOGNITION by Donal Kennedy
When Clement Attlee was British Prime Minister, he and a fellow Cabinet Minister, Frank Pakenham, went for a meal in Chelsea, a couple of miles or so from Westminster. When the bill was presented they didn’t have enough cash on them and when Pakenham proferred a cheque, it was refused. Pakenham was a Director of […]
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING -The fraudulent Boris Johnson – by Fr Sean McManus
Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus“Fintan O’Toole is one of Ireland’s finest columnists, especially on the Brexit issues. In the attached article, he incisively anddecisively refutes the fraudulent nonsense of Boris Johnson.”—Fr. Sean McManus Boris has destroyed what is left of UK’s credibility British government has broken its own solemn legal and political commitments Fintan […]
Strictly go crazy
Febrile. That’s the word they like to use about politics these days. Probably because they know most of us have to guess what it means or look it up, which makes commentators sound smart. Or so they think. My dictionary tells me it means feverish, a high state of excitement. Which a lot of politics […]
Boris’s big deal for Ireland
What is the big sticking point on Boris’s Big Deal (BBD)? That’s easy – he’s for putting in place customs checks/posts/huts/whatever you’re having yourself. This will please the DUP, whose future existence hangs on the extent to which they can persuade people that Ireland is really two countries. The presence of a physical border, whether […]
Nigel Dodds and the great Sea change
Does Nigel Dodds think the people in our sweet statelet are mentally defective? That they will accept that what was declared black yesterday is today white, simply because he says it is? You’ll remember that Theresa May’s deal was sunk because it included a backstop which would have made an economic distinction between our sordid […]
Irish Congressional Briefing – Bojo and No Deal by Fr Sean McManus
Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Columnist Brian Feeney tells it as it is—about Brexit, Boris Johnson and his key fanatical Brexiteers. Boris’ key adviser—he of the very Irish and Catholic name of Dominic Cummings— says: ‘I don’t care if Northern Ireland falls into the f***ing sea.’ … And this is what the DUP supports! Brexit clearly […]
CONGRATULATIONS, CHINA! by Donal Kennedy
Where in THE FREE WORLD could thousands of masked rioters repeatedly attack the police with weapons such as iron bars and not suffer a single death? And call on outside powers to come to their aid? Londonderry? London? York? New York? Paris,Texas? Paris,France? Dublin? The Hong Kong Police were originally modelled on the Royal Irish Constabulary […]