The picture of a man relieving himself by the boarded-up statue of Churchill, and apparently oblivious of the memorial to a London policeman murdered while protecting innocent people, might, and has been been taken, to represent deliberate disrespect for the murdered man. However I have the perhaps outmoded idea that a person should be presumed […]
June, 2020
Five things about the coming FG-FF-Greens government
Well, it looks like it’s a done deal in the south of Ireland, wouldn’t you say? The Greens will go into coalition with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. A lot of money will be borrowed and a lot of money spent – for example, there’ll be approximately €1 million a day devoured on improving walking […]
LEGITIMATE TARGETS FOR ETHICAL CITIZENS – A MORAL COMPASS FOR SLOW LEARNERS?
“We Irishmen are morally entitled to carry arms in defiance of the so-called ‘police’ who are no police at all but a mere branch of the British military forces and to resist ‘police’ who endanger our lives in the exercise of that right. Undoubtedly the bearing of arms being the occasion of shooting on sight […]
The n- word and other stupid things
I’m in shock. I’ve been watching RTÉ’s Sunday Politics just now and Áine Lawlor showed a clip of Eamon Ryan, the Green Party leader, talking in the Dáil. Ryan was pointing out how minority ethnic groups are disadvantaged in the south and sometimes abused, and he gave an example of somebody using what Áine Lawlor […]
ON THE ONE HAND….AND THE OTHER by Donal Kennedy
You may have heard of Benedict Arnold. No relation of Thomas Arnold the famed Headmaster of Rugby School nor of Matthew Arnold, author of Culture and Anarchy. An American patriot who first distinguished himself in the War of Independence and then turned his coat and supported the British Enemy. Benedict Arnold’s name in the […]
The Statue as a living thing!
Paul Francis Keeney emigrated from Ireland to Australia early in the last century, around 1911. He went to Perth and some years after his arrival he decided to become a Christian Brother. If you had read his story you would have been really impressed – he was awarded an MBE in the 1950s and there […]
Hello Joe, goodbye Donald??
View Post This blog first appeared as a column in the Andersonstown News Finally it’s official: Joe Biden is the Democratic Party’s candidate for US president in November. He’s not so much a Teflon candidate as a window-pane candidate – he was vice-president under Obama for eight years and most of us were so busy observing Obama, Joe scarcely registered on our consciousness. Except for […]
Pat and Jude zoom-talk about…what it says in the papers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyzgLtj7Km0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR36WBH8XkxJFQCQQewh-Sl48hgYcQZSdkBImqZIrchkLGyL3oGyTAF3qS8
Why the Establishment hate social media
I have now been running this blogsite for eleven years, with a blog or more going up every day of those eleven years. Has it been worth it? One obstacle I had to get over was that I wasn’t being paid. When I was a columnist with that Venerable Organ The Irish News, and then […]
FRIEDRICH ENGELS ON THE MANCHESTER MARTYRS by Donal Kennedy
On 24 November, the morning after the executions, Engels wrote to Karl Marx – “All the Fenians lacked were martyrs. These they have been presented with…..Through the execution of these men, the liberation of Kelly and Deasy has been made an act of heroism which will be sung over the cradle of every Irish child…..The Irish […]