November, 2021

2 of 71,680 THE ABUSE OF UNMARRIED MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN IS UNFORGIVEABLE.   NO LESS UNFORGIVEABLE IS THE PRETENSE THAT IT HAPPENED ONLY IN CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS PROTESTANT INSTITUTIONS, INCLUDING ONE INTIMATELY CONNECTED WITH THE IRISH TIMES WERE EQUALLY GUILTY   THIS IS ONE OF THE TRUTHS YOU WILL NOT SEE HEADLINED IN THE IRISH TIMES , […]

I had hoped that my BLOG of 16th November “THE IRISH TIMES AND THE BURIAL OF KEVIN BARRY” which reproduced an article by Manus O’Riordan which appeared  in The Irish Political Review in December 2016 would cause the immediate demise of the dastardly delusionary career of Fintan O’Toole and that it would be buried in […]

Is Jeffrey Donaldson a man on the rise? Is the DUP a party getting ready to surge? You’d be forgiven for thinking the answer to both questions is Yes if you read today’s article by the Irish Times’s house-trained unionist, Newton Emerson. “Jeffrey Donaldson’s party has recovered at the polls” is his breathless first sentence. […]

Johnson’s behaviour as a husband, as a journalist, as a lover, as a politician – in life ! – is stamped throughout by betrayal and dishonour. Examples abound. The blatant improbity in trying to get the despicable Paterson off the hook by abolishing the hook was the last straw. Any tolerance he still had is […]

Madam I’m not normally superstitious but I don’t think a visit from the British monarch bodes well for citizens within the Irish State’s jurisdiction. Consider her form. She was visiting Kenya when she succeeded to her office. Within eight years her hangmen had despatched 1,100 Kikuyu to their Maker, after trial by Her Majesty’s judges in […]

This powerful piece is from Danny Morrison’s website Nov 17, 2021  In this personal piece Ciarán Quinn, Sinn Féin Representative for North America, responding to reports of British Government plans to produce an ‘official’ history of the conflict, explains the importance of remembering all that happened in the past and that no ‘one truth out-trumps another’. ‘why some people be mad at […]

IN MARCH 1985 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT CARRIED A  CONTRIBUTION OF MINE from which I have gathered a few crumbs- March 1799 CLONMEL, Co. Tipperary    A teacher of French, named Wright , was awarded £500 against Thomas Judkin Fitzgerald, High Sheriff of Tipperary. Fitzgerald had had Wright flogged, without trial, and his defence was that the […]

 Following Joe McVeigh’s blog yesterday, I’m reluctant to add this one, since Joe has covered most of the main points. But we all experience things from our own unique point of view, so here are six things that struck me during Mary McAleese’s documentary on RTÉ. Calling on integrated education to save us all from […]

The Mary McAleese documentary on RTE ‘ With God on our Side’ was yet another superficial programme about the northern conflict. The programme interviewed a number of people but few had anything useful or new to say –apart from Rev Harold Good, Séanna Walsh and Gerry Adams. Their contributions were thoughtful and valuable. The only […]

Nine years ago I had an article “GALLLIPOLI, TWO GERMAN OFFICERS AND THE FOG OF MILITARY HISTORY”  published in THE IRISH POLITICAL REVIEW. It refuted an  untruth  published in THE IRISH TIMES written by  a leading member of the Military History Society of Ireland. Five years ago, following the reappearance of the same untruth in that “newspaper of […]