It is a miracle that Bernard O’Connor is still alive. If the once all-powerful RUC and their loyalist friends had their way Bernard O’Connor would have been dead long ago. On 8th April 1985, a young man named Martin Love (24 years old) was shot dead on Factory Road in Enniskillen. The killers thought he was […]
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Emigration – by Gabriel McCaffrey
The issues around immigration are big questions. I don’t think that total immersion in the new country or total failure to assimilate is a binary event. I think there are shades of grey here. I am very at home in Canada. I became a senior executive in the technology field and I managed large […]
Micheál and Simon go missing
When Stephen Roche won the Tour de France, Charlie Haughey, like the sensible politician he was, made a beeline for France so he could be pictured beside this great Irish sportsman and show that he rejoiced with the rest of the Irish people. And when Jack Lynch his political foe died in 1979, he […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT HOME & HEART, IRELAND’S FUTURE IN PHILLY, MICHAEL D SPEECH, & IRELAND+NATO
Last Friday we had Gabriel McCaffrey on as a guest. Gabriel’s from Belfast but has lived for more than thirty years in Canada. He still has strong emotional and political bonds with Ireland. Is that kind of Canada-Ireland balance good, or should emigrants not embrace their new country? The civic nationalism group Ireland’s Future will have its […]
The Normalization of Zionist Ceasefire Violations – by Fra Hughes
Sunday, January 26, 2025 is the day Israeli forces are due to vacate the territories they have occupied in southern Lebanon. The ceasefire agreement brokered between the Lebanese groups and the Zionist entity stipulated that all Israeli troops would reposition to their positions in occupied northern Palestine, allowing the United Nations peacekeeping forces, […]
ONE HAND AND THE WHALE by Randall Stephen Hall
By Randall Stephen Hall © Press to playhttps://soundcloud.com/randall-stephen-hall/rsh-one-hand-and-the-whale-17 This song takes environmental issues and fuses themwith ongoing issues of peace combined with the ancient symbolof the Red Hand of Ulster.Oh I am the whale and I live in the sea.What are you making that’s just killing me.For I travel for miles and so do […]
Keeping Hope Alive in a Dark World by Joe McVeigh
The world we live in is going through an uncertain time. DJ Trump is now in power in the USA as 47th president. He and his ‘buddies’ present a real threat to peace and justice for the poor and vulnerable. We are living in difficult times -with wars, terrible disasters some the result of Climate […]
PAT+JUDE) GABRIEL TALK ABOUT THE DAIL DUST-UP, TRUMP’S RETURN, AND WHETHER WE SHOULD ALL EMIGRATE…
Today Pat and I are joined by Gabriel McCaffrey in Ottawa, Canada – originally from Belfast. We discuss the dust-up in Dublin and. the Dail. Was Micheál Martin right to say that the opposition were flouting the constitution by not allowing him to be nominated Taoiseach? (That’s a rhetorical question, by the way. And we […]
THE BOATYARD.
By Randall Stephen Hall © A poem and song. Just click to play . . .https://soundcloud.com/randall-stephen-hall/rsh-the-boatyard-demo-271024 I’m building this boat cause it’s raining. I’m building this boat cause i’m mad. At least that’s what they’d love to call me It’s the best job that i’ve ever had.I’m working with friends and relations. All […]
Malachi explains Gerry
OK, OK. Let me declare my interest. I have always liked something about Malachi O’Doherty, and not just because he once audio-recorded a statement which helped me win a £1000 bet. He’s pugnacious, shrewd and knows what goes down well with interviewers. But it’s important to distinguish between the man/person and the ground on […]