February, 2024

      According to recent figures (February 2024), there are 1,866 prisoners in the north of Ireland in four prisons –1,233 in Maghaberry, 497 in Magilligan , 47 Males in Hydebank Wood and 89 Females in Ash House, Hydebank Wood. Of the total number of prisoners, 1,777 are Male and 89 are Female. There […]

  Capricorn means nothing to me, though born under its sign. I was never hornier than most of my gender and certainly have little trace of that tendency today. My birthday falls on 28 December, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, named to commemorate the infants slaughtered  by King Herod in his failed attempt to […]

      I never did learn much science in school, partly because of my tendency to day-dream and partly because of my teacher’s warped notion of how to teach. But every so often a shred of information from Science class will surface, and in recent days I’ve found myself remembering litmus paper. If you […]

It’s hard to know where to put Chris Heaton Harris – with the fools or the knaves. He has recently stated that a border poll would require the consent of both the nationalist and unionist communities in NEI. No it wouldn’t.   The Good Friday Agreement makes it clear that when it appears to the […]

It’s not often that I agree with Micheál Martin, but I do so wholeheartedly when he speaks of  “the ordinary people of Gaza who are living hell on Earth at the moment”. The Tánaiste was speaking from Brussels. The south of Ireland and Spain have sent a joint letter calling on the EU Commission    to […]

  Did you see Michelle O’Neill being interviewed on THE Late Late Show? We talk about it and compare/contrast it with Late Late Show interview with Gerry Adams fado fado. One Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has written a book called ‘The Disappeared’, in which he notes that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have made much […]

  Most of the world is up in arms about the slaughter taking place in Gaza daily.  Most countries at this stage have had large-scale, wide-ranging protests and rallies in a bid to stop the genocide taking place in that small enclave of land, and yet most countries still refuse to condemn outright the atrocities […]

The British Labour Party won two by-elections yesterday – does that matter? If Labour wins a general election, will that be an occasion for whooping and hollering, or for realising that the new UK government is Tory Lite? Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident, has been found dead in the Arctic place of exile to which […]

AMERICAN BREXIT COMMITTEE 1313 CHESTNUT STREET, SUITE 1724 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19103   BRITAIN’S TORIES AGAIN MOCK GFA   February 12    Philadelphia, NYC & Washington D. C.   Until the 1998 EU-UK treaty known as  the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), Northern Ireland (NI) was a story of despair the British labeled “The Troubles.”  Twenty-five years later […]

    Azhar Ali is in the soup, big-time. If you don’t recognise the name, you soon will. He’s a Labour councillor and the Labour candidate in a coming Rochdale by-election. He was recently recorded as saying that Israel had “allowed” the October 7 incursion by Hamas into Israel, which resulted in some 1400 Israelis […]