October, 2024

For the past week the media, particularly but not exclusively in the North, have been on a blood-hunt against Sinn Féin. They lied, they dissembled, they put children at risk – the list goes on.And every media orifice emitted its guff: The View, Nolan, Talkback, Prime Time.  You’d nearly think an election was on the way – […]

  Sir,   Reading the review by Professor Rachel Matthews, where she recalls chairing, on July 7 2011 a panel on ethics and press standards which included a former director of the Telegraph Media who had chaired the Press Complaints Commission, I could only conclude that she was as out of place as a virgin […]

    I think that the Western World is probably at its most rotten as I write. The United States, Britain and much of the EU are up past their eyebrows in genocide and their media are happy with the murder of over 170 heroic reporters and photographers in Gaza. Heroic and honest Englishmen such […]

  The IRA ceasefire in September 1994 came about because the IRA leadership (inside and outside the prisons) considered that it was the right time to create and develop a political strategy to advance the republican objective  to end British rule and to work for Irish reunification.  It was not just the behind the scenes […]

Do the people of the South of Ireland realise how lucky they are? In some other countries, the parliamentarians don’t give a tinker’s spit about anything, including the difference between right and wrong. In the South of Ireland, we have parliamentarians whose sharp eye on other people’s affairs makes the Skibereen Eagle look like a […]

THE REIVER AND THE GAEL.By Randall Stephen Hall. A song that tells the story.https://soundcloud.com/randall-stephen-hall/rsh-reiver-and-the-gael-demo-11724www.randallstephenhallsongs.com“The past affects our future.  As children we don’t choose to do this, any of this. By the time we are 18, the damage is done. We are still divided in the north.” RSH.I grew up in north Belfast but  I had […]

  Why are Sinn Féin so corrupt? They must be, because the media are attacking them at every angle over Michael McMonagle, their two former PR people, and at this moment over Brian Stanley TD’s resignation and bitter words against the party to which he once belonged. In my podcast with Pat McArt yesterday I […]

A Scottish National Party (SNP)member called John Mason has been kicked out of the party, even though he’s a parliamentarian, for saying that Israel is not intent on  genocide in Gaza, otherwise they’d have killed ten times as many Palestinians. Is he by any chance right? Do the citizens of Israel get the same reporting […]

              An interesting, indeed intriguing, contender, TOM TUGENDHAT, first swam into my ken nearly nine years ago and featured in  my BLOG –   “WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT PRIEST”  on 28th of JANUARY   2016.   The hero of the piece was Lieutenant Colonel the Reverend […]

    As one of the two remaining contenders for the Tory leadership Jenrick displays a lack of hypocrisy in  his frank resolution to formally renounce British support for the European Court of Human Rights.   The Court predates the Treaty of Rome (1960) and has no connection with the EU and its renunciation now […]