April, 2024

Maybe you’re familiar with the term ‘humble-brag’. Just in case,  humble-brag is when you give the impression of being modest about something while at the same time telling the world how great that something is. Leo Varadkar was at it, when interviewed for maybe the last time as Taoiseach.  “If there’s regret, it would be […]

  BBC Radio recently recalled the Famine imposed by Britain on Bengal 1942 and the banning of the term “Famine” from the media when the streets of Calcutta and other places were piling up with starving bodies. It is calculated that between 3,000,000 and 5,000,000 “native” human beings perished there in one year of British rule, […]

    French troops mounted guard at Buckingham Palace and British at the Elysee Palace yesterday 8th of April to commemorate the One Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of the Entente Cordiale.   The reigning Monarch in London in 1904 was Edward VII, “Edward the Caresser.”  A Dubliner’s quip that there was “more Pox than Pax”  […]

    Within a few months of the publication in February 1982 of the Press Council’s censure of the of THE  TIMES article (by its Northern Ireland correspondent, Christopher Thomas) nine months earlier. implying that all the circa 2,000 fatalities in 12 years of political strife in North of Ireland had been suffered by Protestants […]

  One morning in February 1982 I turned on  BBC Radio 4  and was unsurprised when it led an item to do with the Press Complaints Commission.   Some nine months previously THE TIMES lead story read “The Roman Catholics  buried Robert Sands yesterday as Protestants lamented their 2,000 dead from 12 years of Terrorism……..the […]

  While tens of thousands of Israelis gather on the streets of Tel Aviv calling for early elections and Netanyahu to step down,what could this mean for the future direction of a new government ,for Palestinians still living under illegal occupation,for Israeli society and Palestinians living in historic Palestine suffering under apartheid discrimination? First lets […]

    A new study has estimated that the cost of a united Ireland could potentially rise to 20 billion euros per annum. This figure appears to be quite alarming but given some of the ludicrous assumptions such as a new Ireland covering pension costs – this report needs to be treated with a large […]

A recent study by Prof John Fitzgerald and some others claims that a reunited Ireland would  cost  the  South €20 billion  per year for 20 years. So is it time we faced the hard facts and stopped chasing a pipe dream?   Do you warm to Simon Harris, the replacement man for Leo Varadkar? Well, […]

  Those of us that haven’t been totally de-sensitized by constant exposure  to slaughter will continue to reel at the naked cruelty of what is being done by Israel to the Palestinian people. Over 30,000 deaths in a few months, many of them women and children. No buildings are spared – hospitals, refugee camps, homes, […]

As you may possibly have noticed, the DUP is currently undergoing a spot of bother. What are the implications of this charge against Jeffrey Donaldson? Will the DUP appoint a soft or a hard replacement? The Easter Proclamation was read again during ceremonies outside Dublin’s GPO yesterday. To an outsider, it would have appeared that […]