June, 2026

    I was invited to attend and speak to the Public Inquiry in Omagh  3 June 2026  by the local group ‘Save Our Sperrins’ (SOS). This Inquiry was set up by the Department and was supervised by three Commissioners who are supposed to be impartial. One of them acted like a cross schoolteacher dealing with […]

The one thing I like about the Occupied Territories is that they call a spade. The land belongs to the Palestinians, but is occupied by Israelis. And with their customary callousness.  In the last year, in the Gaza Strip, it’s reckoned that 18000 Palestinians have died. On the West Bank ,including east Jerusalem, up to […]

I know it’s belly-laughable to use the words ‘facts’ and ‘Trump’ in the one breath, but hell, I’m going to try. The American president has claimed that US planes have attacked and destroyed Iran’s nuclear capacity. That was last year. This year, we know he’s done no such thing. Andit’s hypocrisy on steroids for the […]

Israel Katz is the Israeli Defence minister. He wants to clear Gaza of Palestinians, and southern Lebanon, so they can rebuild these places. Good idea? The Occupied Territories Bill – should it include services as well as trade. Michéal Martin wants just trade. Will the Palestinians just love him for it. Allianz, as you know, […]

Let me make my position clear at the start: I believe the media in Ireland have been anti-clerical and anti-Catholic Church for several decades now. Yes, that sits in a wider and earlier contest, when the media fawned over every edict of the Church and feared the belt of a crozier if they stepped out […]

By Joe McVeigh   Allianz is an Israeli owned Insurance company which should be boycotted in protest against the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. We know about the campaign by some members of the GAA to get that organisation to cut all ties with the Allianz Insurance Company because it is Israeli owned. It […]