These days THE TIMES reprints some snippets from 100 years back.The above was reprinted on Saturday 29 July 2023.“The Hyde Park demonstration was held simultaneously with gatherings in various parts of the country……the processions may come to have real influence in promoting international friendliness – the League of Nations Union, the National Peace Council, the Fellowship […]
August, 2023
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT OOH AAAH, ETC; THE OMAGH BOMB, & ABOUT SOUTHERN NOSES STUCK IN NEI AFFAIRS
This morning, a large section of the Nolan Show was devoted to the Wolfe Tones’ Feile concert in West Belfast, and the fact that they sang along with the audience the words “Ooh, aah, up the ‘RA!” Was Nolan right to say that this was to show contempt for IRA victims like Colin Parry’s […]
EXCERPTS FROM THE POLITICAL DIARY OF C.P. SCOTT OF THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN 1921- by Donal Kennedy
July 15De Valera “Saw de Valera at his hotel in the afternoon. A whole bevy of people in the sitting-room, through which Childers showed me to the bedroom, where the great man afterwards appeared. After greetings I remarked that I fancied he had a little quarrel with me for something in the Manchester Guardian […]
Brexit’s impact raised at the Royal Black Parade in Tempo – by Victoria Johnson, Impartial Reporter
The head of the Royal Black Institution has called on the UK government to “free us from the tyranny of persecution we are suffering” as he addressed issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol during his address on Saturday afternoon, August 5 in the village of Tempo. Sovereign Grand Master Rev. William Anderson was speaking at […]
‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.’ Simon Byrne, Chief Constable of the PSNI must feeling that, as he struggles to make sense of the leakage of details regarding his police force/service. Already republican dissidents say they have details of over 10,000 people working in the PSNI – including some undercover agents. Should Byrne […]
Sewage in Lough Erne by Joe McVeigh
Recently, I attended a meeting of the newly formed Erne Catchment area. This is what I learned. Some 280,000 tonnes of untreated waste are discharged into Upper and Lower Lough Erne on an annual basis, much of it through unmapped pipe work. The Lough Erne Trust is not functioning as it […]
Sewage in Lough Erne by Joe McVeigh
Recently, I attended a meeting of the newly formed Erne Catchment area. This is what I learned. Some 280,000 tonnes of untreated waste are discharged into Upper and Lower Lough Erne on an annual basis, much of it through unmapped pipe work. The Lough Erne Trust is not functioning as it should be and […]
THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH ABOUT SINN FEIN’S VOTE IN 1918 by Donal Kennedy (repeated 10 August 2023)
Some 14 years ago this letter was published in HISTORY IRELAND (May/June 2009 Volume 17.3) in response to a Book Review. Half a generation has since grown up unaware of the facts within it/and an older generation may have never known of them, The Custodians of the Decade of Remembrance, if they know […]
An open letter to Pat Cullen
Ms Cullen We are writing to you in connection with your public statement that the future of medical care in Ireland would be best served by a reunited Ireland. We find this kind of talk totally inappropriate, coming from a person who is the General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing. Had […]
Seven questions about PSNI data leak
If you’re a serving police officer in the PSNI , you’re probably not going to be too thrilled with today’s top story: the surname, rank, location and more of all PSNI people have been leaked online and sat online for hours, so that those interested could make notes. We could talk […]