Sent: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:55Subject: OLDEST PARTY IN THE DAIL Madam,According to your political editor, Stephen Collins (Nov 19) Labour is the oldest party in the Dail and its 100th anniversary is coming up in 5 years. Only the second part of that assertion should go unchallenged, as the Irish Labour Party was indeed […]
February, 2022
TV REVIEW: TALKING PICTURES
This blog first appeared as a review in The Andersonstown News Hands up who remembers Alec Guinness? OK, as I expected – everyone. Devoid of the preening personality of his contemporaries such as Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and, yes, Richard Harris, Alec Guinness was self-effacing and almost shy off-camera. In TALKING PICTURES – […]
REMEMBER THE MAINE? OR THE GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENT? by Donal Kennedy
On February 15 1898 the battleship USS MAINE visiting Havana, to protects American commercial interests in Spanish-ruled Cuba, blew up and sank in its harbour. There was a war for Independence being waged in Cuba at the time. Without a shred of evidence that Spain or its agents had caused the explosion, but following […]
WHOM CAN ONE TRUST? by Donal Kennedy
WHOM CAN ONE TRUST? Last Night on NEWSNIGHT, to explain the posturing of Western Governments. the BBC wheeled out its “Diplomatic Correspondent,” MARK URBAN. I can remember some years ago Mr Urban dismissing the Bloody Sunday atrocity as a public relations blunder. He did not tell us that, a mere 17 […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT COLLUSION, ABOUT GOLFGATE, ABOUT JOHN MAJOR ON BOJO, AND THE BEST-KNOWN CAT EVER
The Irish Times this morning has an editorial critical of the RUC and politicians in terms of ‘collusive behaviour’ – the Ombudsman report that the RUC was paying ‘informants’ whom they knew were guilty of murder. Also in the Irish Times, Stephen Collins criticises the media over Golfgate, where they ‘bayed for blood’, and […]
WESTERN WARMONGERS SKATING ON THIN ICE by Donal Kennedy
.IRELAND SHOULD ADHERE TO THE PRINCIPLESOF HER DEMOCATICALLY ENACTED CONSTITUTION In 1949 the British Cabinet Secretary, Sir Norman Brook considered the Implication of Ireland’s description of herself as a Republic, He said, in a memorandum marked “Noted” by Prime MinisterClement Attlee that the Ulster Unionist position had little merit but that, for strategic regions ” SOME PART OF […]
Kurt Zouma and his unspeakable cruelty…
OK – let’s get one thing clear. I’m not in favour of kicking, throwing or slapping cats. Or dogs. Or sheep. Or cows. I want to make that clear as I consider the sad tale of Kurt Zouma, who plays football for West Ham. There’s a video, apparently, which shows Zouma doing some cat kicking, […]
CHINA, RUSSIA AND IRISH SECURITY – by Donal Kennedy
A Commission set up by the Irish Government advocates the tripling of the country’s Defence budget to meet what they describe as the threat to Irish airspace and territorial waters by China and Russia, In their and our long histories neither China or Russia invaded our country, nor insulted, injured or killed our people. China […]
THE IRISH TIMES ON INCENDIARIES, GUNS AND THE BALLOT BOX by Donal Kennedy
THE IRISH TIMES PUBLISHED A MEAN-MINDED, DISHONEST OBITUARY OF RUAIRI O BRADAIGH. WITH ITS CUSTOMARY COWARDICE, THE PAPER THEN REFUSED TO PUBLISH THE LETTER BELOW. OR ANY LETTER QUESTIONING ITS INFALLIBILITY. I was never a member of Sinn Fein nor the IRA, but I do believe in Cothrom na Feinne, or if you like Cricket, codes […]
Drew Harris and Special Branch collusion: was he kept in the dark?
There has been much reporting and commentary, both in Britain and in Ireland north and south, about the findings of the investigation of police ombudsman Marie Anderson into ‘collusive behaviour’ between the police and loyalist/unionist paramilitaries during the 1990s. The ombudsman said she was ‘deeply concerned’ by the failure to investigate murders carried out by […]