November, 2020

  “I met with Pope Francis today. He’s a really great pope — great, great pope. You know he’s the leader of the Catholic Church – big church. I couldn’t believe it when he told me how many Catholics there are. Way more than I thought. They have churches all over the world; some are […]

Jack Grealish, Harry Maguire, Harry Kane – they could all have been playing for the Republic of Ireland in Wembley last night. Should they have been? Or are they proud Englishmen? There’s been much talk about getting the vaccine, when it comes, to the most vulnerable in our society. But are the rich nations of […]

British recruiting posters in Ireland depicted prosperous Irish farms and persuaded gullible Irish youth that they should  join their war on Germany to defend them from destruction by the Hun. Scores of thousands of Irish dupes were killed and more maimed attacking and killing German, and, later Turks,  innocent of any ill will towards Irelamd. […]

Today, the Executive will meet at Stormont to try to agree on a Covid policy. One way or another, it will be a matter of life and death. On Tuesday, the DUP in the person of that man of science Edwin Poots refused to consider continuing the present restrictions after they elapse today. Using the […]

On the 19th October, when Wales announced that it was going to have a Welsh national ‘firebreak’ lockdown, it seemed like a very good idea. Covid positive test results, hospital admissions and deaths were all increasing across Britain and Boris was resisting calls from the Labour Leader Keir Starmer for a national lockdown. As Wales […]

Greg Clarke has resigned because he committed an unforgivable verbal sin. (No, Virginia, not venial, verbal.) Clarke was the Football Association chairman and was talking to a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Tuesday. They asked him about the problems gay footballers might face on social media if they made their sexuality public. Here’s […]

Yesterday I came across a piece published in an Australian Journal, of which I had never heard, by Kevin Myers, of whom I had. This morning I read in  The Dublin Review of Books an essay by Emmet O’Connor, a Lecturer at Ulster Univesity of Myers’s “Burning Heresies – a  Memoir of a Life in  […]

Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin has been on Twitter this morning with an attached picture. He shows a photograph of Leo Varadkar and  Séamus Woulfe together and smiling, with the tart tweet ‘Some people don’t seem to think the rules apply to them’.  Bull’s eye, I think. Golfgate wasn’t a good idea from start to […]

A GP performing an abortion in the 26 Counties is paid 450 Euros a throw from the public purse. A GP caring for a patient and the child in her womb until birth is reputed to be paid approximately half that sum. Between January 1st and December 31 2019 Official Statistics reveal 6,666  legal abortions […]

Is it a good idea for young people to waggle their naked rear-ends at a Trump building? Isn’t it time we all learnt to be polite? And that Leo Varadkar non-confidence motion in the Dáil tomorrow – is it a waste of Dáil time or will it have lasting implications? Did many Irish-Americans vote for […]