Sometimes I’m a little alarmed at the people I find myself agreeing with – or defending, which is not necessarily the same thing. This morning I’m alarming myself because I find myself defending Piers Morgan. When I look at a picture of Morgan, or watch him on TV, he irritates me. There’s something smug and […]
March, 2021
Last night’s interview? Pass the bucket.
Did you waste 60 minutes of your life last night? Me too. I know the Americans like to lay the emotion on with a trowel, but I thought last night was suitable only for the brain-damaged. So here are the big revelations. Harry’s da didn’t take his phone-calls at one point. An unnamed royal asked […]
PAT + JUDE TALK ABOUT ROY GREENSLADE, AND THAT HARRY + MEGHAN INTERVIEW
Roy Greenslade the journalist has annoyed a lot of people by revealing that he was a supporter of the IRA while a working journalist. Should he have declared his loyalties? Should all journalists declare their loyalties? And That Interview – you know, the Harry and Meghan one. People will be crowding round their TV sets […]
Frosty Accusations by Michael Lagan
The EU are to blame for the mess that is Brexit and by extension the NI Protocol…or so Lord Frost, the new Brexit Secretary claims, and I’d hazard a guess there are many English nationalists who agree with him. Something tells me Michael Gove was being too easy on the EU, too friendly some […]
TV REVIEW
“Fly me to the moon” , Frank Sinatra used to demand. And while Francis Albert never got there, Neil Armstrong was lepping about on the surface of the moon over half a century ago. But by today’s standards, going to the moon was a stroll in space – a mere 233,800 miles. On PRIME TIME […]
Terrorists being terrorists by Michael Lagan
A Nationalist phoned in to the Nolan Show this morning during the debate on the Loyalist Community Council letter to Boris Johnson. This republican said Nationalist youth are not as war weary as the older GFA generation of republicans were and continued “They would be up for a fight” should Loyalist terrorist’s return to physical […]
International agreement? What international agreement?
It’s hard to know which to be more critical of – the British government or the media which fail to speak truth to power. The British government, in the person of Lord Frost, have declared their extension of the grace period for checks on good coming from GB-NEI – unilaterally. In other words, they are […]
WHY AFRICA’S HERO HAS AN IRISH NAME by Ronan Lynch
Over Westport in the county of Mayo on an April afternoon in 2018, a streak of clouds like an upside down canyon drifted from the direction of Croagh Patrick, so stark that I went down to the car and drove the seven kilometres out to Deer Park, at the bend in the road at Killadangan […]
THE DAILY MAIL, THE IRISH TIMES,AND THEIR FRIENDS. by Donal Kennedy
. The DAILY MAIL since its inception in 1896 has been a consistent champion of tyranny. In 1965 I had a conducted tour of its Fleet Street premises and was shown a copy of its edition dated 31 December 1899. It was a celebration of a century of British Imperial expansion by foul means and […]
The things we do with animals
One thing we can be sure of: the horse on which trainer Gordon Elliot sat or the one jockey Rob James jumped on didn’t mind a bit. They were dead. Even when they’re alive horses don’t do outrage. So it’s been left to people on phone-ins and the like to say how sick to their […]