What’s going on in the United States with Musk and Trump? It is often difficult to figure out what’s going on with Trump at the helm. He is so unpredictable. His erstwhile best friend, Mr Musk, has now deserted him and is very critical of him. Musk who was once his ‘big […]
June, 2025
Irish Unity as a Pre-requisite for Reconciliation – by Joe McVeigh
I read an article recently in which it was argued that Reconciliation in the northern jurisdiction is a prerequisite for a Border poll on Irish unity. I would argue that there will never be true reconciliation without a new constitutional arrangement on the island of Ireland which is free from British interference. The […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THE TRUMP-MUSK SPAT. WE. ALSO CHECK OUT THE LEFT IN THE DAIL – CAN THEY UNITE?
There is no bitterness like the bitterness between old comrades. Or so they say. It would appear that old mates D Trump and E Musk have seriously fallen out. Musk has declared that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill (that’s not me being ironic – that’s what he’s actually calling it), that bill will result in a […]
Casement Park: the place where parity of esteem went to die
There are those who shed a tear for yesteryear, when Orange Order bands could parade wherever they wanted to, housing was allocated on the basis of religious affiliation, and the RUC was 95% Protestant and 100% unionist. Dry your eyes, friends. Think Casement Park. We’ve still got our foot on the fenian neck. Ravenhill got […]
The Brutish Broadcasting Corporation – by Joe McVeigh
Gerry Adams won his defamation case against the BBC and was awarded a large sum by way of compensation. I am very pleased that the jury decided on the right verdict. For years the BBC and their allies in the Irish Times have done their utmost to discredit those who want justice and lasting […]
The IT throws a few brickbats at Adams – why couldn’t he have gone to court in Belfast?
It’s begun already. In today’s Irish Times, Kathy Sheridan questions why Gerry Adams took his defamation case to Dublin’s High Court, while at the same time she concedes he was perfectly entitled to do so. And yet she goes on for several paragraphs about the late transmission hour in the South of the Spotlight programme […]
A handshake among ourselves – by Randall Stephen Hall
A Handshake amongst OurselvesBy Randall Stephen Hall.The Reiver and the Gael from my album WAKE THE BLUE SLEEPERhttps://on.soundcloud.com/vQrzqNDFGzd8tlZwGWOf all the Border Reiver names From Scotland and England, two of the most significant in Ulster just might be Trimble (Turnbull) and Hume.According to Robert Bell, who wrote THE BOOK OF ULSTER SURNAMES, the Border Reivers were […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT GERRY & THE LAW, MACRON’S FIST FR HIS MISSUS, G’BYE STOOPID PADDY, & BOMBS
It’s become one of those Gerry Quotes that enter the language – “I took the case to put manners on the British Broadcasting Corporation”. Gerry Adams’s win in the Dublin High Court underlines an often forgotten fact – the British Broadcasting Corporation is British, and does its master’s work. There’s been push-back from a number […]
The B(ritish)BC: the paragon of responsible journalism?
“How have they found themselves in a situation where allegations were insufficiently evidenced with the consequence that license payers’ money will be now be spent on both damages and reputed legal costs running into many millions?” I’m guessing that the tortured syntax of the statement above will reveal the speaker to be a politician. This […]