Every time Pat and I have a chat, we find ourselves. Coming back to the same topics. I think we both struggle against this,but some topics can’t be avoided. An example this week: Wes Streeting whining about appalling scenes from Glastonbury being shown on TV. I wonder did Mrs Streeting drop wee Wes on […]
June, 2025
Jeremy Bamber from Essex: almost 40 years in jail for a crime he did not commit – by Joe McVeigh
In the early hours of 7th August 1985, five members of the Bamber family were found dead by Essex Police after forcibly entering their home at Whitehouse Farm shortly after 7.00am. The police had been alerted by Jeremy Bamber after he received a phone call from his adoptive father, Nevill Bamber, telling him that […]
Remembering Father Des on his 100th birthday – by Joe McVeigh
Fr Des Wilson died in 2019 at the age of 94 years. On 8thJuly this year Fr Des would have been 100 years of age, had he lived. The people in Springhill Community House will be remembering him in a short service. Fr Des Wilson wrote in the Foreword to a book by Fr […]
Why is the South so slow to speak out and condemn – and act against – Israel? And almost as bad – now that they’ve found the cojones to speak out, the big guns of the EU are blocking them. Will history look kindly on such inhumanity? Is the BBC the paragon of impartiality? Because […]
Boycott Israeli products – by Joe McVeigh
The ongoing slaughter of the innocents in Gaza by Netanyahu and his Zionist henchmen in the Israeli government/military is shocking to most people around the world. Those in positions of power who might be able to stop the war and the killing are compelled to support Netanyahu and the Zionists – for whatever […]
RSH The Forward Moving Tongue – by Randall Stephen Hall
RSH. The Forward Moving Tongue.By Randall Stephen Hall.Including the song THE BOATYARDFrom the album “Wake the Blue Sleeper”Am I a son of the soilAnymore or less than you?The tongue in my headBeds itself down.Once a creature of the crown.Now, a shrinking ideaWithin our heads in the North.My tongue, my tongueA shape shifter.A lifter of […]
American Brexit Committee – Michael J Cummings
Britain’s historic legacy of treachery, violence and injustice in Ireland continues to this day. In2023 Parliament declared that 1100 killings in NI were ineligible for the rule of law. Why? Allthe deaths bore signs of government collusion. Parliament’s burying the truth of the killingscame with a provision absolving the government of […]
The work of reconciliation must go on – by JoeMcVeigh
The recent remarks of both former Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar and Wallace Thompson, one of the founding members of the DUP, are to be welcomed. Both men have offered their vision for the New Ireland. Also to be commended is Reverend Karen for her engagement over a number of years. These are the kind […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT TRUMP AND HIS BEAUTIFUL BIG BOMB AND HOW IT’S GOING DOWN. ALSO LEO V IN BELFAST
Two topics only this time, I’m afraid. But rest assured – we squeeze both dry. The first is events in the Middle East. Trump has shown his usual light touch by dropping a massive bomb – short of nuclear they don’t come any bigger than the Bunker Buster. Only now what? Will the Iranians […]
Dystopian UK has voted to Decriminalise Abortion – by Carl Duffy
Yesterday, 379 MPs voted to decriminalise abortion, after 24 weeks, despite those babies being able to survive outside the womb. The two SDLP MPs – Colum Eastwood and Claire Hanna – were amongst those in support of such an extreme position. One must wonder how we got to a stage where even a nine-month […]