August, 2025

    America is now Great Again. Donald John Trump, convicted felon, is democratically elected President of the United States.    America is now Great Again.  President Trump received Vladimir Putin, war criminal, in the United States of A. on a Red Carpet, as a friend.    America is now Great Again. Mr Trump bullied Mr Zelenski, President of Ukraine, in […]

  So President Zelinskyy is heading back to the White House – but this time he’s taking his EU mates plus Starmer as back-up. Will Trump tell them all they have no cards, or will he secretly be delighted that the EU is prepared to bear the burden of looking after Ukraine? And what about […]

By now the world and its mother knows that Mairead McGuinness, the Fine Gael party nominee to run for President, has dropped out for health reason. The Irish Times has described Heather Humphries as ‘charismatic’: would she be a good choice to replace Mairead? And if so, would she not suffer for being seen as […]

  This is the fifth interview with notable people about their views on a border poll and Irish reunification. Kevin Meagher has been part of Ireland’s Future and is an important factor in the move towards a border referendum. 

There was an excellent article in the Irish Times  by Kathy Sheridan. It was about 35 Gareth Sheridan ( no relation, I assume) who has declared himself as a potential candidate seeking nomination support from local councils. Ms Sheridan asks the very reasonable question : why would a young guy who’s already a tech millionaire and […]

If the British people say ‘Are we there yet?’, it won’t be because they’re on their holiers, it’s because the depths of Brexit seem to be reducing their economy to a wilderness. There’s a moral there for those who think a border poll might be better sooner rather than later.  In the recent Feile interview […]

Does Keir Starmer’s hypocrisy disqualify him from leading the Labour Party? Well, no and yes. There are Westminster politicians who might claim their hypocrisy is just as big and blatant as Starmer’s (remember B Johnson and that promise on the side of a bus?) but none of them really reach Starmer’s  fake integriy. Remember his […]

    In 2020, Helen McEntee received 7,691 first-preference votes in her Meath-East constituency. A couple of years later she published a bill which attempted to suppress certain forms of speech that the Government deemed ’hateful’.   Initially, this bill would’ve permitted An Garda Síochána to enter people’s homes and search their devices for ‘offensive’ […]

  I was at the Feile’s interview by Andrée Murphy of Mary Lou McDonald a couple of nights ago. It wasn’t what you might call a gouging interview – Andrée (like the audience) treated Mary Lou with much respect. Both of them Rathgar girls, dontchaknow.   Andrée didn’t ask her if she planned to run […]

  I was at a Feile an Phobail event yesterday, where there was some discussion of Gerry Adams’s case against the BBC, and how  he was glad to win and  so ‘put manners on the BBC.’ Robin Livingstone was on the panel and suggested Gerry’s phrasing was a joke/barb against the Beeb. Gerry A was […]