I’ve checked on the meanings of TRUST in The Oxford Paperback Dictionary.
Used as a noun it can mean “firm belief in the reliability, or strength of a person or thing, a
confident expectation, a responsibility arising from trust in the person given authority”.
It also can mean “an organisation founded to promote or promote something”.
As a verb it means “to have or place trust in, treat as reliable.”
I do not trust THE IRISH TIMES nor treat it as reliable.
At Easter 1916, a writer purporting to be a both Member of the Society of Jesus, and a Professor
in an American University, made the assertion that Daniel O’Connell after whom Dublin’s
widest street is named, never shot a man.
In more enlightened times (or TIMES?) schoolboys were flogged for such howlers, and adults (I would have hoped), burned at the stake.
In 1815 O’Connell shot John D’Esterre dead in a private quarrel. O’Connell was a barrister who
considered himself a gentleman, -( while studying in France in 1789 of all years, Royalist France
recognised that distinction). He was of the Roman Catholic majority, despised by Ireland’s rulers.
Irish barristers were notorious duellists. And when d’Esterre challenged O’ Connell who had implied
that the former was a beggar, O’Connell believed that he could not with honour retract his word.
Later in that same year O’Connell was arrested in Ostend, where he had travelled to meet a challenge from Sir Robert Peel.
The alleged Jesuit Professor exhibits in his contributions to THE IRISH TIMES neither the attributes
of a scholar nor of a gentleman. Rather does he pose as a reincarnation of TITUS OATES.
Under its TITLE on the Front Page THE IRISH TIMES carries the legend
“TRUSTED JOURNALISM SINCE !859”
It was not generally trusted in Ireland for most of its existence.
In Ferbruary 1933 when Eamon de Valera, who had led a Fianna Fail Government, with Labour
support since the previous year, was campaigning during a new election, the IRISH TIMES
predicted woe and the gnashing of teeth for Ireland. Fianna Fail was returned to power with an
overall majority, and continued uninterrupted in office following several elections until 1948.
In March 1933 THE IRISH TIMES was overjoyed with Adolf Hitler’s accession to power in Berlin.
Its Editorial “HERR HITLER’S WAY” was particularly happy with the brutal suppression of the
Left, and endorsed the thuggish slogan that “one can’t make Omlettes without Breaking Eggs”.
THE IRISH TIMES is controlled by the secretive, oathbound IRISH TIMES TRUST, set up by
Harold Wilson’s crooked “Fixer” Lord Goodman, following the advice of British Ambassador,
Sir Andrew Gilchrist in 1969. Four years earlier as Ambassador to Indonesia, Gilchrist had masterminded the genocidal coup that that gifted the almost limitless assets of that archipelago
to Western corporations.
The great Australian Journalist John Pilger, who died a few days ago wrote in detail about that
coup.
Correction: It was at Easter 2016 on the Centenary of the Insurrection in Dublin, that the alleged Jesuit
Professor asserted that Daniel O’Connell never shot a man.
It was in the “Rite and Reason” lying columns of the paper, together with a Corner Boy’s diatribe against
Pearse, Connolly and their comrades.