January, 2024

  When Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew uttered those words the Berlin Wall had fallen, the Soviet Union which had liberated most of Europe from Nazi and Fascist tyranny had withdrawn its forces to within Russia and then had ceased to exist, the US had withdrawn from Greenham Common and the Apartheid Regime in South […]

It’s been remarked to me that some readers will doubt my credibility unless i can back them up with irrefutable proof.   A fair point. The  Royal Society in London, founded in 1660 on the restoration of the Stuart Monarchy, in imitation of a similar body in Paris, had a motto, the gist of which […]

Today I talk to Danny Boyle (no, not the movie man) who is from Castlederg in County Tyrone but comes originally – like myself – from the town of Omagh. Danny has an interest in things political and things sporting, so we talk first about Sir Jeffrey and the DUP, and whether Sir Jeff is […]

    In 1949, in a pointless exercise, Taoiseach John A. Costello stuck the label “Republic” on the republic established by the electorate (on the guidance of Eamon De Valera) over a decade earlier.   British Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook prepared a Memorandum dismissing Ulster Unionist arguments for the continued Partition of Ireland, ending […]

     South Africa has taken its case against Israel under Article 9 of the Genocide Convention. Israel has  rejected  SA’s case, claiming it’s concerned solely with self-defence.   One has to salute SA for bringing the case. For decades it was a country that suffered appallingly at the hands of white S Africa while […]

                    The title is from a pamphlet published by the British National Council for Civil  Liberties written by Tony Gifford, a Labour Peer, and a Queen’s Counsel.   Few readers here will have read it and a generation and a third were born since it was […]

South Africa, as everyone knows, has taken a charge of genocide against Israel to the UN. Many nations, watching their TVs, agree completely – but how closely will they support South Africa?  And why did the Dublin government not weigh in there? A major study has found that drug consumption rooms could save thousands of […]

  Those of you who have bothered to watch “Howth Regatta and Lambay Races, 1942 ” and “Once Upon a Tram”  shot in 1959 may be disappointed that they failed to substantiate the Misery Memoirs of professional,that is mercenary writers.   I am interested in history but a mere amateur and what I write I […]

        Another day, another hob-nailed boot to the gut of Sinn Féin. In an article headed ‘Gerry Kelly’s mix of righteousness and victimhood fits the cry-bully culture of Sinn Féin’, an attack mastiff of The Irish Times brings Gerry Kelly to heel for ‘boasting of his crimes’ while ‘turning to law’ when […]

      In part 1 explained  the blissful experience of being born in an Ireland at peace when most of the worldwas reaping the havoc of irresponsible policies pursued by Imperialist powers since the Treaty of Versailles, havoc which De Valera warned against on its signing in 1919 and sought to prevent by statesmanship […]