Rachel Corrie was only 23 when she died In Gaza in 2003. A young American filled with humanity and a fighter for justice, she joined ISM the International Solidarity Movement and travelled to Gaza. The organisation’s aim then as it is now is to record Israeli war crimes and protect where possible the lives and […]
August, 2022
The farce of drugs and the legal system
Big news from Longford. Earlier this week €8.4 million in cocaine was flown in by private airplane and two men have now appeared in court. Their cases will come up in August and September. Are you pleased with that news? Successful garda operation in war against drugs? I’m not. There must be scarcely a town […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT MUSEUM THEFT, RETROFIT & SNOBBERY, THE SANDYHOOK MONSTER, +WHO CAN WE BELIEVE?
London’s Horniman Museum is returning 72 artefacts to Nigeria, for the very good reason that in 1897 British soldiers looted them. Better a century and a half than never, I suppose. But should all museums return all their exhibits? And btw, when were you last in a museum? The Dublin government has announced a generous […]
MAJOR BRYAN COOPER ERSKINE CHILDERS AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO UNDERSTANDING IRISH HISTORY
My last Blog “Publish and be Damned……….” introduced both men who served in the British Army in the Great War. Cooper was the Protestant owner of a huge estate belonging to his family for centuries, part of the Ascendancy. His life story demolishes the lies spread by the late Professor David Fitzpatrick […]
PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED? PRESS FREEDOM UNDER BRITISH RULE 1919 – by Donal Kennedy
Returning to Ireland after service with the British Army in Gallipoli, amongst other fields of slaughter, Major Bryan Cooper recalled: “Personally I know that I have never experienced from my neighbours as in the eighteen months that followed my return from the army. To what it may be attributed I do not know, […]
WHAT’S IN WITH THE DAILY NOOS AND WHAT’S BEYOND THE PALE? A BLOG FOR ALL SEASONS – by Donal Kennedy
Truth is beyond the Pale in the “FREE WORLD” Witness Julian Assange. Witness the blackout in the Western media of anything that might embarrass all the American President’s men, the recipients of Lockheed’s largesse at their luncheon in Dublin. In fact it reminded me of Madam Cynthia Payne who ran a knockshop in London’s […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT MICHELLE & ‘NO ALTERNATIVE’, EOIN O BROIN & REGINA DOHERTY, SUNAK v TRUSS, AND ARE SINN FÉIN TOO KEEN TO TAX BUSINESS?
Michelle O’Neill has said in an interview she was ‘prayed over’ when she became pregnant at sixteen. Is there a difference between being ‘prayed over’ and ‘prayed for?’ She also said that there was no alternative to political violence back in the day. Stand by for unionist outrage. Is it good to have politicians moonlighting […]
IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY – by Donal Kennedy
For nearly 70 years I have been inspired by Frank Gallagher, alias David Hogan since reading his “THE FOUR GLORIOUS YEARS” From 1919 t0 1921 he was the main compiler of Dail Eireann’s IRISH BULLETIN, part of a team of brilliant writers including Lawrence Ginnell, Robert Brennan, Desmond Fitzgerald, and Erskine Childers. The British […]
Five things to think about after you throw your radio out the window
‘It’s very complicated, nuanced’ William Crawley explained, talking about the violence of the Troubles. No it’s not. I’ve never met anyone who was opposed to political violence. That is to say, I’ve never met anyone belonging to a country which maintained an army, who didn’t pay their taxes. Armed forces maintenance is only possible […]
That speech of Michelle O’Neill: Ian and Jeffrey grab a bit
I had a choice. The car radio was set to Raidio Uladh when I started the engine and I could have switched it off. I made the decision not to. Nolan was waxing indignant, echoing Ian Paisley Og who I gathered had been outraged ( what else?) that Michelle O’Neill, in the course of an […]