During the War Between the American States a pompous General addressed reports to his
Commander-in- Chief from “Headquarters in the Saddle.”
Unimpressed, Abraham Lincoln asked an aide to tell the General that he had his Headquarters
where his Hindquarters should be.
Before the Internet it was common for American Executives to inflict on their correspondents
letters “From the Desk of Pompous Wee-Orrsole III” or some such nonsense.
One would think that the paper which in February 1933 predicted a horrendous future for
Ireland should the voters return de Valera to power, and followed that false prophecy in
March 1933 with an Editorial celebrating Hitler’s coming to power in Berlin on account
of his rough-handling of Socialists might have learned a little modesty in the last ninety
years.
It did,under Douglas Gageby, when it engaged honourably with the mass of the Irish people,
until it was reduced to being the puppet of the British War and Foreign Offices, under the
secretive oath-bound, Irish Times Trust, the brain-child of the genocidal Sir Andrew Gilchrist,
arranged by Harold Wilson’s crooked “Fixer” Lord Arnold Goodman.
The Irish Times is not trustworthy. Its star commentator can safely publish untruths about long
dead heroes such as Roger Casement, Kevin Barry and Eamon de Valera, and the long-dead
Archbishop MaQuaid – all in one article.
And refuse to publish a rebuttal by the (since deceased) Manus O’Riordain, an outstanding contributor to the prosperity, welfare, education and happiness of his fellow Irish citizens and others throughout the world.
Donal Kennedy
“THE IRISH TIMES – PAST AND PRESENT” by John Martin gives a full account of the establishment of the IRISH TIMES TRUST.
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