June, 2021

2006 – that’s the year an Irish Language Act was agreed upon by the British Government, the Irish Government, Sinn Fein, the SDLP, Alliance, the Green Party, the DUP and the UUP in the St. Andrews Agreement. 15 years of the DUP telling us they didn’t commit to it and Unionism telling us they won’t […]

Leo Varadkar is forty-two years old. He appears healthy, not to say fit, so it’s a reasonable prediction that he’ll be around for at least another forty and maybe even fifty years. I mention the probable life-span of the Tánaiste because in today’s Irish Times, he says that he believes “in the unification of our […]

The Penny Catechism issued by the (Roman) Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin when I started school in the 1940s dated the Incarnation of Christ as 4,000 years after the creation of our First Parents. John Charles McQuaid was the (Roman) Catholic Archbishop in the 1940s and later. Whether he actually read the Catechism before giving it […]

I BBC 2 screened a wonderful revelation of “The Northern Ireland specialist Peter Taylor on June 14 but it revealed Sweet Fanny Adams about Ireland, Britain or anything else. It started with Taylor’s arrival there in 1972 over three years after  Pro -Democracy demonstrators, including Gerry Fitt MP, had been beaten off the streets by […]

Wil he or won’t he? Edwin Poots is on a 7-day high wire, now that Arlene Foster has resigned. It looks as If Sinn Féin are going to hold him to a tight commitment to an Irish Language Act. If he doesn’t commit, there’s going to be an election. The mind boggles. Meanwhile in Cornwall, […]

Some people of my advanced years may remember reading the testimony of the then Minister of Defence that citizens of Derry had been given nine days’ training in handling of firearms, in Irish Army camps, without having been sworn into the Defence Forces. Mr Gibbons explained that it was to give moral support to communities […]

Anti-national propagandists in the British-inspired Irish media, academia, and government have long peddled the falsehood that the war unleashed by Britain, France and Tsarist Russia on Germany, Austro-Hungary and the Ottoman  Empire was Ireland’s War. But they have never plausibly explained what Irish interest was involved. Too many Irishmen fell for and died for a fool’s […]

PIC 1 1. Vestments and Investments: / Éide agus InfheistÍocht. Thus, a thin wee ‘In’ was the outstanding difference between the reaction in Lisburn and Liffeyside. / Mar sin, dob í an ”In’ an t-aon difrÍocht bheag, bhídeach idir an freagra i Lios na gCearrbhach agus Cois Life. In 1920 Detective  Inspector Ozzy Swanzy was […]

Last week in the IRISH TIMES  Mary O’Rourke suggested that Dublin Airport be named after Sean Lemass whose many services to Ireland included the establishment of Aer Lingus. I’d warmly support the idea. But ” Lemass Airport”.  would be more in keeping with the man’s style, short and to the point. This week has witnessed […]

Loyalist paramilitaries and Unionist politicians are leading Northern Irish Unionism into a cul-de-sac once again. At this point there’s no doubt about that. When an entity such as Loyalism is led into a dead end with no way to retreat or escape, violence becomes the only option left because let’s be honest here, they’re not […]