January, 2021

Bishop Donal McKeown was on Sunday Politics  with Mark Carruthers yesterday, talking about the transfer tests.  He used to be the president of St  Malachy’s College, but he told Mark that he was no longer an educationalist, “just a bishop”.  Mmm. Ever so slightly fake modesty there. But that aside, the bishop said some things that […]

By Fra Hughes There are two visions of a brave new world as we face the Covid 19 pandemic. One is a unipolar world with a new capitalist globalist world order and the other is a multipolar world based on mutual cooperation and respect. One speaks of domination and control and the other of respect […]

Those of us who oppose colonialism and imperialism—and their twin-evils of racism and sectarianism—will appreciate this letter by a reader in the Irish Times of Dublin.  And, it can be added, of course,  sectarianism is exponentially fostered and condoned when enshrined to this moment in a State’s constitution—as in the British constitution, which in effect justifies the anti-Catholic discrimination […]

This review first appeared in The Andersonstown News  “I THINK what you have here is a goldmine”. That was Fr Brian D’Arcy, commenting at the start of this documentary showing Dublin long ago (THE FRANCIS STREET PHOTOGRAPHER RTE ONE). The programme was built around Suzanne Behan (no, Virginia, not those Behans) who discovered a box belonging to her grandfather,  John Walsh, which […]

Dear Friends of Unity, Justice and Peace in Ireland, I ask you not only to sign the splendid One Ireland Petition, but to also  get many others to sign it, too. Please accept this Petition—as I have done—as a sacred trust:as an honor, privilege, and duty. It is the least we can do, considering the sacrifies […]

  T Fr Tony Flannery, a priest in the Redemptorist Community in Ireland, has been silenced by the Vatican since January 2013. Fr Tony was ordained in 1974 and is a conscientious priest who works hard to spread the Good News. In 2012 he first heard from his Superior that the Vatican Congregation for Doctrine and Faith (CDF) was unhappy […]

It was not a Treaty. IT was not “ratified” by Dail Eireann, the elected Parliament of Ireland. It was discussed by the RUM “Parliament” of “Southern Ireland”   in January 1922 at its only meeting.   It was earlier discussed in Dail Eireann (a body unqualified to ratify it by BRITISH Law) and the first Teachta Dala […]

January 7, 2021 The Irish American Unity Conference works for peace, justice, and democracy in the North of Ireland, and is committed to the same values in our own country, the United States of America.  The events that occurred January 6, 2021 at the United States Capitol building are a disgrace and we condemn them […]

Is the invasion of the Capitol building by right-wing white extremists the last sting from the dying mosquito called Trump? And why were there so few cops around to prevent it? Education minister Norma Foley was on Prime Time last night, doing a hand-brake turn on the opening of schools. Should journalists be more rigorous […]

On Monday (January 4th)  THE IRISH TIMES gives its view on the Decade of Centenaries, telling  its presumably simple-minded readers, that it is “a complex history”and endorsing Leo Varadker’s assertion that the Commemorations  “had lost their way over the past year.” The paper draws the conclusion that the Government should get “a grip on the programme of […]