May, 2021

I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t the slightest bit surprised when news broke recently that Eoghan Harris had been sacked by the Sunday Independent newspaper for holding a private anti-Sinn Fein twitter account(s) and using it/them to spout lies and attack a number of journalists who he didn’t like or agree with. Harris’s […]

This TV review originally appeared in The Andersonstown News In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, King Duncan asks if the treacherous Thane of Cawdor has been executed yet.  Malcolm tells his father that  he has, and that “Nothing in his life/Became him like the leaving it.” I found myself thinking of those lines as I watched Arlene Foster make her […]

Darwin’s Theory of Relativity inspired, amongst other things, a song, only a portion of which is sung in Casablanca. Though the lyric is accessible on the internet, I can find no rendition of it. But the fundamental things still apply. Mr Poots’s belief that created things are only 6,000 years old is not to be […]

Israel has initiated a ground war in Gaza.  It can pull from the power of 1,650 main battle tanks, 7,500 light armoured vehicles, 650 self propelled artillery, 300 towed artillery, 100 multi-launch rocket systems, 595 fighter bombers, 48 attack helicopters, 643,000 military personnel, 465,000 reserve personnel…not to mention an 8,000 strong paramilitary force.   A […]

t The total siege on Gaza by air sea and land can only work with the complicity of the Egyptian military regime. Egypt, once the leader of the Arab world and defender of the Nasserite vision of a socialist Middle East, has become a cruel caricature of those dreams. Egypt was first occupied by the […]

Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4 Griangrafanna sa Ghrian / Sunny Snaps by/  le Perkin Warbeck1.    Gozo is the smaller sister island of Malta / Is í oileán Gozo deirfiúr beag  Mhalta. 2.    Ceanglaítear an dá oileán le bád farantoireachta / The two islands are linked by ferry boat. Turas gairid mara 20 noiméad/ A […]

Well, there’s a surprise, the ‘Old Brigade’ has been rejected in the DUP leadership battle.  The duo of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Gregory Campbell – two massive, hard hitting personalities within the ranks of the DUP and Unionism have essentially been rejected for what is being seen as a more modern…Deputy Leader.  We certainly can’t […]

For the past 100 years unionists have been at pains to stress that this little corner of the island is a country in its own right. They insist on having their own football team, they like to refer to this ‘country’ (we’ll say nothing about the biggest show), they like to act as if they […]

Micheál Martin is off to London today to meet Boris Johnson and to talk about – inevitably – the Ballymurphy Massacre and their loved ones. Will Boris bother to listen? And shouldn’t people be talking about and two General Mike Jackson, who lied about Bloody Sunday and two years ago said that the notion of […]

There has been talk of gold in the Sperrin mountains at least since the 1950s. During the late 1980s a number of companies did some prospecting but it was discontinued on the grounds that they would need to blast the rock. They couldn’t get a licence for explosives during ‘the Troubles’. Dalradian, a Canadian gold […]