A few days back, Carl Duffy wrote a guest blog on this site called ‘How to Trigger Claire Hanna”.It provoked quite a bit of interest and I’m sure there were people who were not pleased to see such an unfavourable depiction, a politician I have in the past admired. Why was their such interest in […]
December, 2025
How to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine
By all accounts, President Zelensky got a hugely warm reception in the Dail in Dublin yesterday. It seems all the TDs and Senators are wildly supportive of him, up to giving him €100 or was it €150 million to help his war effort against Russia. The only two naughty boys who didn’t join the standing […]
Michael McDowell stands on some coffins
Michael McDowell is once more on the warpath against Sinn Féin in today’s Irish Times, because of their support for the change of the name’Herzog Park’ in Rathgar, Dublin. Mr McDowell figures the Shinners should not be speaking in favour of any such change because they named a park in Newry after Raymond […]
How to Trigger Claire Hanna – by Carl Duffy
I recently attended a public meeting in Enniskillen by Claire Hanna. She spoke at length about issues such as Healthcare, Lough Neagh pollution and a New Ireland. I welcomed many of these discussions, particularly talk of greater levels of fiscal devolution for the North of Ireland. Towards the end of this short meeting, the […]