This blog originally appeared as a column in the Andersonstown News Sensible politicians and pundits regularly scold us for being fixated on flags and emblems, even (God bless the mark!) on a border poll. It would be better, they tell us, if were to focus on ‘bread-and-butter’ issues (cue John Hume’s father telling his wide-eyed son that he couldn’t eat a flag). So what is […]
October, 2021
PECCAVI – I HAVE SINNED, OR, UM, ERRED. Here I make Amends and Amendments – by Donal Kennedy
A British General on capturing an Indian city is reputed to have sent a simple telegram – “Peccavi” which was decoded a “I Have Synd.” It was a joke which will have been appreciated by most of my Irish and billions of other Christians who attended Sunday Mass. Anyway,I confess that I have erred – […]
THE ALTAR BOY who altered THE MASSES (2) – by Perkin Warbeck
(Contd) Total Tool Time (3). ‘In a weird coincidence, the same seventeenth floor of the Grand Cypress, Orlando, Florida was occupied at the same time by the great icons of a new form of global Irishness, the rock band U2. They were about to launch in Florida what could become to be regarded as […]
JOHN REDMOND: WARMONGER EXTRAORDINARY – by Donal Kennedy
“A part of the compact under which Redmond was elected to the chair limited the power of the newly chosen. He was to be a Chairman, not a leader. That is to say, he was not to act, except after consultation with the party as a whole: he was not to commit them upon policy. […]
Does it pay to tell the truth?
Are you familiar with Professor Kathleen Stock? She teaches at the University of Sussex and has recently published a book in which she questions the notion that gender identity is more “socially significant” than biological sex. That’s when the roof fell in on her. An anonymous campaign was mounted at the university, accusing her of […]
PAT + JUDE TALK ABOUT THOSE AGIN SF AS 1ST MINISTER, LEO & THE BRITS, & SALLY ROONEY SAYS NO…
Both Doug Beattie, the leader of the UUP and Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the DUP, have refused to say they’d take the role of Deputy First Minister if Sinn Féin emerged as the largest party next May and became First Minister. Is this just business as usual or should we be worried? Both Dominic Cummings […]
Hillary Clinton Installed as New Chancellor of Queens University Belfast – by Fra Hughes
Source: Al Mayadeen Net The promotion of a warmonger like Clinton to a seat of learning must surely be, at the very least, controversial, and at the very most a shameful act of denial of power abuse that she, her husband, and the corporate imperialist American political system represent. A protest of 50 people organized […]
Well, Lordy Lordy…
You’re by now probably familiar – over-familiar, maybe – with the good Lord Frost. He’s the unelected figure leading the British charge against the protocol, which was signed up to by the British government, only now they’re suffering buyer’s remorse and want to call the whole thing off. The EU, in its announcement yesterday, has […]
FROM ‘THE IRISH TIMES:PAST AND PRESENT’ by John Martin Belfast Historical Society 2008 distributed by Athol Books – by Donal Kennedy
from the back cover “..a very fine journalist, an excellent man, but on Northern questions a renegade or white nigger.” Those were the words from a conversation with the British Ambassador to Ireland at a lunch meeting in 1969, which he duly reported without delay to his masters at the British Foreign Office. But who […]
All the news that’s… by Donal Kennedy
You should note I present you with synonyms. The paper’s essence is treasonable tripe. It is run by an oathbound, secret, unaccountable, untrustworthy “Trust” set up by Lord Arnold Goodman. For many years Goodman managed the finances of Lord Portman, and swindled him out of millions of pounds. As Mae West once quipped “GOODNESS had […]
