July, 2024

The ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS captured his rapturous reception where welcomers carrying a Tricolour climbed onto the roof of his carriage. The photos might have been stills from A Hard Day’s Night.   Dev may not have been more popular than Jesus but in 1920 had packed sports stadia across the United States, been acclaimed in […]

  It’s nice to see a. guest being welcomed, but there are some guests we should be more welcoming towards than others. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, got a huge and rousing reception yesterday when he addressed a joint gathering of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The temptation is to nuance his […]

by Joe McVeigh     This is a summary of USA military interventions in countries all over the world from 1846 until 2014. It was compiled by the Worcester Catholic Worker in their April/May 2014 newspaper. Mexico 1846-48 Argentina 1890, 1973 Chile 1891-1973 Haiti 1891, 1914-34, 2004-05 Hawaii 1893 Nicaragua 1894 , 1981-90 China 1894, […]

    The book’s authors are Roy Douglas, Liam Harte and Jim O’Hara.   The belated review, together with remarks concerning even earlier propaganda and current propaganda is all my own effort: DONAL KENNEDY July 2024.   This is a superb book, containing over 250 cartoons from British, Irish, continental European and American sources.   […]

    Charlatan academics and and other chancers have for nearly 106 years sought   to invalidate the Republican Mandate of 1918, although THE TIMES conceded that   all parties looked on the Election as a plebiscite,   But, back to the recent election, where the Labour Party won less votes and a lesser proportion of […]

When you see a world figure stumble and collapse verbally (in debate with Donal Trump) or stumble and collapse physically (in going up plane steps), it’s hard not to cringe and share their pain and embarrassment. Besides, Joe Biden has an Irish background of which he is very proud. So aren’t you sorry to see […]

And so we say farewell to Joe Biden. Trump won’t have him to kick around any more. But will Kamala Harris take his place as Democratic presidential candidate? And do American election campaigns have to run for around two years? Everywhere else manages quite well on six weeks.   Bishop Eamon Casey is in the […]

    So Ursula von der Leyen  has been re-elected top dog in the EU. Given her record with regard to Israel and a few other things, should Irish people be dancing in the streets or rending their garments? And is it true that Ireland ‘is full’? Diarmaid Ferriter in today’s Irish Times thinks not, but makes […]

  In his acceptance speech for vice-presidential candidate, J D Vance spoke of his home town of Middletown in Ohio. The picture he painted was of a good-living, neighbourly, supportive community –  straight out of the Walt Disney presentation of life. None of us wants to do down our old home town, but most of […]

Pat Cullen MP -victorious in spite of the BBC The result of the Fermanagh /South Tyrone election showed that Pat Cullen, a newcomer to electoral politics, did very well in spite of the best efforts of the BBC –or maybe because of the best efforts of the BBC. She won by more than 4000 votes. […]