April, 2023

The Gerard Hutch trial failed to follow the script.  It was supposed to have produced a guilty verdict and then an endorsement of that verdict by the local people, happy to have the foot of the criminal overlord removed from their neck. It didn’t work out as the script required. Instead, Gerard Hutch walked free […]

I suppose I should be more positively disposed towards Keir Starmer…I mean SIR Keir Starmer. He’s critical of wasteful activity by Tory ministers, but let’s look at his own expense account. When he was Director of Public Prosecutions, between 2008 and 2013, he managed to burn his way through some serious expenses. An example: he […]

                He opened with a clanger, dating the Battle of Fredericksberg to September, rather than December 1862.   He also quoted a speech by Lloyd George. I knew that it was by Lloyd George and was surprised that TDs who could remember the old blackguard didn’t throw things […]

  ,   The UDR, the Ulster Defence Regiment, was initially a standard infantry unit established in April 1970 to support the RUC in ‘policing’ the North.  It’s actually quite ironic that when one researches the UDR, 3 other separate entities show up with so much frequency that one could be forgiven for thinking they […]

THAT 2021census – why were we not given all the figures about a year ago? Anyway, we’ve recently had some interesting numbers: 42.3% of people in NEI are from a Catholic background, 30.5% from a Protestant background. That doesn’t mean the percentages translate into nationalist/unionist in all cases – but it’s always been a handy […]

        The American Civil war ended with the surrender of the Confederates 158 years ago this month.  But there has not yet been the reconciliation desired by the generous- hearted Lincoln. Murderous   visceral hatred remains in many Southern States.    The “Treaty”  or “Civil” War in Ireland ended less than 19 years […]

AMERICAN BREXIT COMMITTEE 1919 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 1724 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19103 John M. Corcoran, Esq., Chairman   President Biden will travel to Ireland to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA):  the key to the Northern Ireland (NI) peace process, the search for justice and restoration of democracy.  As if attempting to […]

        Sir,   I read Fintan O’Toole’s column (15 April) with irritation as usual.   The Irish Constitution was drafted neither in Rome nor Maynooth. It never enshrined Catholic law.   Two instances refute the Princeton Professor’s contentions.   Marriages contracted in accordance with Irish Law could be deemed null and void […]

    Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill:  A Bill to address the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles and promote reconciliation by establishing an Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery, limiting criminal investigations, legal proceedings, inquests and police complaints, extending the prisoner release scheme in the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998, and […]

August 15th, which the Catholic Church there, as in Ireland, designates a Holy Day. Unlike in Ireland the day is a Public Holiday in France. Name a day when Irish Catholics are required to attend Mass and you name a Public Holiday in France, Germany and Holland.     Ireland needs Peter Kellner’s  advice   on […]