Did you see Leo V Part 2 on Sunday? In the second part of his interview with Mark Carruthers, the Tanaiste talks further about the idea of a new Ireland. Are Irish people too nice? When we get a crappy meal in a restaurant, or when the bill is a euro or pound over what […]
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UKRAINE TRAPPED IN A SPIRAL OF WAR – by Pierre de Gaulle
July 1, 2022 Pierre de Gaulle The speech that follows was given by Pierre de Gaulle, the grandson of Charles de Gaulle, at the Russian Embassy in Paris, on June 14, 2022, to mark Russia Day. It is a speech that has been heavily censored in France and we are happy to provide this English […]
WINSTON CHURCHILL IN 1938 AND 1939 ON EUROPEAN AFFAIRS – by Donal Kennedy
. On October 5 1938, following the Munich Agreement, with which he DID NOT agree, Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons. You may find some of his comments interesting – “We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us […]
Boris, Niccolo and Chris
Was it Hermann Goring who said that when he heard the word ‘culture’ he reached for his revolver? Well, when I hear people talk about morality and standards in public life, I reach for Machiavelli. There was a man who knew the score and didn’t mind saying it. Like what, Virginia? Like “The first […]
KEIR YESTERDAY, KEIR TODAY AND KEIR TOMORROW? – by Donal Kennedy
Not quite yesterday, but in April 1912, the British Labour Party leader Keir Hardie proposed in the House of Commons that soldiers should be excused action that would pit themselves against trade unionists in dispute with employers. THE TIMES next day poured scorn on the idea that soldiers could pick and choose between […]
Opposition to British Corruption of the Good Friday Agreement
AMERICAN BREXIT COMMITTEE 1919 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 1724 PHILADELPHIA, PA 1910 John M. Corcoran Esq, Chairman Michael J. Cummings, Secretary July 1, 2022 TO: Members of Congress FROM: John Corcoran, Chairman RE: Opposition to British Corruption of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) Britain continues to ignore concerns for the Irish peace process and […]
LUNCHING WITH LOCKHEED, SUPPING WITH DEVILS, AND DISINTERRING REDMONDISM – by Donal Kennedy
On 15 November 2015 my Blog “A Clown in Holy Orders” , inspired by the celebrant of a Requiem Mass for a soldier in the British Army, praised the deceased for always carrying his Irish Passport in Iraq or Afghanistan. I asked should we expect the canonisation of harlots who invariably wore their […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT LEO’S WARNING, THE PROSPECT OF A HARD BORDER, AND THE SINS OF MR PINCHER…
Leo Varadkar has accused the British government as being disrespectful and undemocratic, over the way they’ve sided with the DUP over the protocol. This could lead, he warns, to the break-up of the UK. EH?? Stephen Collins, in a column in today’s Irish Times, says that we might need to prepare for a hard […]
FURTHER TO MY BLOG “IN PRAISE OF FOLEY?” (28 June) – by Donal Kennedy
“FOLEY -‘ UNSUNG HERO OF THE HOLOCAUST’- A REPLY TO JAMES CASEMENT AND MICHAEL SMITH” Prince William might be well advised to rethink his endorsement of an insupportable fairy tale about Frank Foley. British Intelligence bankrolled Mussolini’s newspaper from 1917. George V dubbed Mussolini a Knight of […]
Matthew O’Toole: has the penny dropped?
Matthew O’Toole – who could well end up as the SDLP leader one fine day – has an article in The Irish Times this morning. “To what extent is the UK state which agreed to the Belfast Agreement in 1998, with all its attendant commitments and understandings, still in existence?” He goes on to list […]