Allianz is an Israeli owned Insurance company which should be boycotted because of 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 is thought […]
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From the Bridge – by Randall Stephen Hall
RSH. From the Bridge.By Randall Stephen Hall.Two videos pieces. Originally prose.“The Mechanism”Explains how divided we are in Ulster27 years after the Good Friday Agreement.https://youtu.be/lFdANaSiR7o?si=IAtyO3UbiVwxySH_“Silent Valleys”Regarding what some historians have more recently described as a Genocide in the Derry area, Donegal, Tyrone, the shores of Lough Neagh and into Fermanagh.A great devastation in the early 1600s […]
Liberation theology or right-wing theology? Time to choose – by Joe McVeigh
In my lifetime as a Catholic priest, I have met many wonderful and radical Christian thinkers, writers and activists –people who have taken Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount about justice seriously. Close to home was the late Fr Des Wilson who inspired me and many others to think about a different way of […]
Simon Says immigration is an awful problem
I so often disagree with Fintan O’Toole, it’s important to acknowledge when he speaks the truth. – in this morning’s Irish Times, truth to power. He’s talking about immigration, and the noises Simon Harris is making about immigration, in an effort to distract attention from the major cock-up that was Heather Humphreys in the presidential campaign. […]
Fermanagh – The friendliest and most Interesting county in Ireland – by Joe McVeigh
Well I would say that, wouldn’t I? I was born and raised in Fermanagh near the village of Ederney, beside the old monastic site of Kiltierney where St Tierney (Tiarnach of Clones) founded a Christian monastic settlement around the year 600AD. It is a few miles from Lower Lough Erne which once was […]
Presidential pundits and opinion polls – by Andy Murphy
After the first debate on Virgin, it seemed to me that Catherine Connolly was far and away the winner, yet the verdict of “commentators” was that there was no clear winner. The first opinion poll showed that Connolly was the clear winner in that debate and that this was the […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT STREET SIGN CONSPIRACY, HEATHER & FOX-HUNTING, AND TRUMP FLIES IN TO RESCUE GAZA Over the weekend,some enterprising person took an axle-grinder to a bi-lingual sign for a street in Belfast, cutting off the bit as Gaeilge. Is this a principled stand against the imposition of Irish signage in places that don’t want […]
Presidential debate – or maybe bullfight?
Did you listen to the Catherine Connolly v Heather Humphreys debate on RTÉ radio today? I ask because we masochists must stick together. If I said it brought to mind a bull-fight it wouldn’t be totally off the mark. Not that Heather is a bull, or like a bull, or wouldn’t be very careful if […]
Riding Rough-shod – by Randall Stephen Hall
RSH. Riding Rough Shod. 4.10.25By Randall Stephen Hall A nuanced approach in our Belfast street signs is required, where the difference between perceived “introduction” and “imposition” is huge, with benefits or lost opportunities for both. I’m all for these new signs but there are those who are not. Where education, combined with friendship and vision […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT D TRUMP & PEACE PRIZES, SMEARING, THE ARAS, & MICHEÅL MARTIN’S FUTURE
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. That is, if you’re a supporter of that fine peace-loving man, President Trump. The winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has just been announced,and can you believe it, they didn’t give it to Donald J! There’s thanks for you. In the South of Ireland, the […]