“What is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide”, Pope Francis has said. “We should investigate carefully to assess whether this fits into the technical definition (of genocide) formulated by international jurists and organisations.” That’s moderate language to a fault. Amichai Chikli is a member of Netenyahu’s cabinet and says this amounts to […]
December, 2024
PAT+JUDE TALK THAT RAPE TRIAL IN FRANCE, ISRAEL’S DUBLIN EMBASSY, AND CHRISTMAS IN A CASTLE
French woman Gisèle Pelicot was, over a 10-year period drugged and then raped by her husband – and by over 50 men that he contacted online. The case has been widely reported, and Gisele hailed for her courage in refusing anonymity. But why should any rape victim feel shame? Isn’t that the perpetrator’s […]
Was Gerry Adams in the IRA?
It’s weird the way sometimes things line up together. Yesterday I watched a 2013 Youtube interview of Miriam O’Callaghan with Gerry Adams, in which she kept asking him if he had been in the IRA; then this morning in the Irish Times I read an article by Pat Leahy who plays the same tired […]
Accepting Labels.By Randall Stephen Hall.
For my great great grandmother.We live so much in the nowBut not the moment.The past is out of focusFocused only on the future.That was then and this is nowAnd how could we possiblyTake seriously anyone withoutA mobile phone or credit card?Primitives looking back at usFrom metal plates and fading prints.What would they say to us […]
Good Riddance by Joe McVeigh
I began to write a blog in March 2024, as the war against the Palestinian people was raging in Gaza. Already, more than 30,000 mostly women and children had been killed and many more injured by Israeli forces acting on the orders of the Netanyahu government. They claimed that they are fighting the Palestinian […]
How to become the target of rage
The late David Dunseith, presenter of Raidio Uladh’s Talkback, said many sensible things during his life. The one that sticks in my mind is his comment that “People in this place don’t hear what you say. They hear what they want you to say.” Drawing on just two personal experiences, I can vouch for the […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THE CLOSING OF THE ISRAELI EMBASSY, THE SHOOTING OF BRIAN THOMPSON, AND SEDUCTIVE AI
So Israel is hopping mad with the Dublin government for supporting claims that it, Israel, has committed war crimes. Simon Harris has strongly rebutted charges of anti-Semitism. Are you proud of the Fine Gael Taoiseach? Brian Thompson was a CEO of United Healthcare, a US medical insurance group, and took home an annual salary of […]
What Anna said
Anna Lo died last month. She was a former Alliance MLA and the first Chinese woman to sit in a legislative assembly in Europe. But it wasn’t for that reason most people remember her. Or certainly not why I remember her. Some ten years ago she did an interview with The Irish News and in the course […]
PRIVY BUSINESS by Donal Kennedy
It’s said that Winston Churchill, when informed that the Lord Privy Seal wished to see him, replied: “Tell him that I’m in the Privy, and unable to deal with One Shit at a time.” I do wonder whether all members of the UK’s Privy Council or Cabinet are informed of all business discussed […]
Potential Threat – by Randall Stephen Hall
Not everyone From Northern Ireland Is a potential threat. (Know, what I mean like?) Yes, occasionally, I will explode But not like a misplaced reaper bomb. I won’t go shooting my mouth off And if I do you probably Won’t be the target. We can be a hateful, spiteful lot over […]