I wrote the letter below to a number of papers in 2008 and forget if it was published. It arose from an article in THE IRISH TIMES from a retired Irish! Army Ofiicer. It quotes Tom Kettle. lYou might like to see BLOG – “A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN IRELAND” From: donalmkennedy@aol.com Date: 11 August […]
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‘ Seamas de Faoite: The Ego Has Landed’ by Donal Lavery
Contrary to what a few partisan people seem to think, I don’t hate anyone in our political system, there’s good and bad in each person and party. Anytime I write about the SDLP, particularly their nepotism and use of public monies, I come under a barrage of criticism from certain quarters therein. Naturally, a […]
The DUP at the No 10 door
There is no conclusion more compelling than the conclusion arrived at through personal experience. You can lecture all you like about the dangers of, say, drink-driving, but it’s only when you stare at a mangled mess of bodywork and human beings that you truly get the message. The Westminster election was a bit like that. […]
‘Ian Adamson, are you listening?’ by Daniel Collins
Just on the origin or original meaning of the word “Gael”; according to the scholar John T. Koch in his book ‘Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia’, the word – in the form of “Guoidel” – was borrowed from a Primitive Welsh form that became an Old Welsh term, roughly meaning “forest person”, “wild man” or […]
Rev Jesse Jackson meets the BBC
The Reverend Jesse Jackson, former associate of the Rev Martin Luther King, was in town yesterday. He did a phoned interview with Seamus McKee on BBC Radio Ulster on Evening Extra. I may be wrong, but I suspect Seamus may not have got the answers he expected. I’ll give the transcript and then the link: Seamus […]
Leo steps out and names the enemy
Some people will be pleased, some people will be nervous. But it’s safe to say that all Irish political parties – including the DUP, whose leader Arlene Foster is to visit Dublin today – are alert to the changes Leo Varadkar has said he will introduce as Taoiseach. Last month, he said that he was concerned […]
HOOK, LIONS and STINKERS (3) by Perkin Warbeck
The joy emanating from the mouths of the Main Scream Media south of the Black Sow’s Dyke at the success of the Provisional Sin É Party in Nornverland has been so unconfined that it has put the emphasis well and truly back on the front foot of the Free Southern Stateen: -Land of the […]
Leo and Tim: leader and ex-leader respectively
Two interesting events happened yesterday, one on either side of the Irish Sea. In the south of Ireland Leo Varadkar became Taoiseach and leader of the Fine Gael Party; in England Tim Farron resigned as leader of the Lib Dem Party. Farron first. He resigned as leader, he said, because he found it impossible to […]
‘The DUP & The Loyalists’ by Donal Lavery
As a 25 year old, I’m conscious of the fact that unlike many of you who will read this, I did not live through the long ordeal that was the conflict in the North of our country. But nonetheless, I was born prior to the ceasefires and I grew up in a home that was […]
THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR WALKING (WHERE THEY’RE NOT WANTED) by Tom Cooper
Despite marathon negotiations in 2014 between the political parties in the North chaired by Richard N. Haass; United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland and talks vice-chairman Professor Meghan O’Sullivan, the parties failed to reach a consensus on the seventh and final set of proposals. Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Alliance Party, despite some […]