November, 2024

The late great John Pilger described how Sir Andrew Gilchrist masterminded the genocidal coup in Indonesia in 1966 and I mentioned  here how the same super-spook established the secretive, oath-bound IRISH TIMES TRUST to spike the guns of Douglas Gageby, the first (or only?) Irish Times Editor to give their allegiance to our country.   […]

Two items jump out of the general election news today. One is the Fine Gael/Fianna Fail claim that Sinn Féin would operate one of the biggest ‘heists’ in history (see what they did there? A darlin’ word, ‘heist’) and raid the reserve fund, money put away for the rainy day that’ll come sooner or later […]

      Years ago I came across a memoir by Clement Attlee. In 1920, as Alderman Attlee, Mayor of Poplar, ] he walked in full regalia behind uniformed IRA men  the 1st Cork Brigade in the London leg of the funeral of Lord Mayor Terence Mac Swiney, who had died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison. On […]

      Perhaps It Ain’t Necessarily So but it makes an intriguing tale.   “The term ‘Emergency’ (in Malaya) was used by the British to characterise the conflict in   order to avoid to referring to it as a war, because London-based insurers would not pay   out in instances of civil wars …..   […]

I’ve just listened to another episode of ‘Free State’, the podcast starring Joe Brolly. He was talking about John McGahon, who is a Fine Gael candidate in the South’s election and who, while found innocent by a jury of his peers, when the case was referred to the High Court, was promptly fined 39,000 euro. […]

Simon Harris would appear to have a poor opinion of the electorate’s intellect – or maybe its  hearing.    In that debate the other night he leaped to the defence of whoever it was that Niall Ó Donnghaile sent that offensive tweet to. I don’t know what the tweet was or if it was offensive/poisonous. Presumably […]

        Unless you are a Bear or such, and have been hibernating, you will have heard of the plight of Farmers with Inheritance Tax. A bank chappy was interviewed on Radio Ulster and he said that Farmers are asset rich but cash poor. This has been echoed ad nauseam and is probably […]

    Years ago I shared a rental property with several other folk one of whom was called Joan. Joan wasn’t all that house proud but once in a while she hoovered her bedroom. On more than one occasion Joan complained that the vacuum cleaner wasn’t working. It was an old cylinder type cleaner with […]

    I watched the Leaders Debate on RTE on Monday night. I thought it was a good debate -handled well by the Up Front presenter Katie Hannon. The main issues facing the 26 county electorate quickly emerged -housing, health care, cost of living, immigration and climate change.  I thought the best performer, by far, […]

      The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury has prompted an IRISH TIMESEditorial whose author should be put in the stocks and pelted with rotten eggs. Like the Church of England, the Catholic Church, in Ireland and internationally has had horrific scandals. So has the Church of Ireland in its Dublin Archdiocese, and […]