In Part 1 I recalled how while in Britain’s Consular service Roger Casement discovered the criminality of the war planned on Germany, and Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey planned to have him murdered in 1915. Grey got his way in 1916 when an English Jury in the Old Bailey found him guilty […]
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Masks and the Maker – by Randall Stephen Hall
When will we rise upAnd take off their masks?From hundreds of yearsOf a badly soiled past?When will we rise upThe Phoenix and CrowTo tell all these bluffersGo on now, just go?.When will we rise upLike a rough salty seaTo clean all our beachesOf hatred and be?When will we stand upAnd cut off their gas?It […]
WARFARE STATES Part 1 – by Donal Kennedy
In his almost 1,100 page War Memoirs David Lloyd George reveals how wet behind the ears he was in 1904 when the Anglo-French Entente was announced. In the first paragraph he tells of calling on ex-Prime Minister Lord Rosebery;- “His first greeting to me was: ‘Well, I supose you are just as pleased as the […]
Two Archbishops and Trump
The two Archbishops of Armagh – the Church of Ireland’s John McDowell and the Catholic Church’s Eamon Martin – appear to be a bit pissed off with the Stormont government. Listen to this: “Our pastoral work brings us into regular close contact with many in the voluntary and community sector who generously offer their […]
THE BOATYARD by Stephen Randall Hall
Here is a new song from my forthcoming album “Wake the Blue Sleeper.” Due out in early 2025. THE BOATYARD.By Randall Stephen Hall ©A poem and song.https://soundcloud.com/randall-stephen-hall/rsh-the-boatyard-demo-271024I’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 meIt’s the best job that i’ve ever had.I’m […]
Naughty, naughty Sinn Féin
By now, you’re probably familiar with the warm-up at Madison Square Gardens last Wednesday by ‘comedian’ Tucker Carlson. His job was to get the audience thinking pro-Trump, and so he compared…I was going to say ‘America’, but I guess that somewhere in his scrambled head he had in mind Kamala Harris. But he pictured […]
Irish media have stopped kicking – they’re exhausted
It’s about time. Finally, finally the mainstream media have stopped (probably from exhaustion) kicking the crap out of Sinn Féin. At least judging from today’s headlines. Mind you, if you push on into the letters page pf The Irish Times, you’ll find a letter from Queen’s emeritus professor Liam Kennedy, claiming that…well, what does Kennedy […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT ADAMS & TRIMBLE TOILET TALK, THE ELECTION’S CORE ITEMS, & VOTING FOR UNKNOWNS
Remember that time, fado fado, when Gerry Adams and David Trimble stood shoulder to shoulder in the Stormont toilets during the Good Friday Agreement discussion, with the future of Ireland in their hands? How exactly did the conversation run? We reveal all. In the Irish Times this morning, Pat Leahy has an article listing three […]
No balancing act in sight as Irish media sets its Sinn Féin agenda – by Philip O’Connor
. I hate to say “I told you so”, but here we are. Regular readers will remember my post last week about a brief TV appearance I made that put the cat among the Irish media pigeons about Sinn Féin and how they are covered, and everything that has happened since on the airwaves […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT KIELTY’ + TRAITORS, SF & THE COMING ELECTION, AND DID LOYALISTS DECOMMISSION??
Are you a fan of the Late Late Show on RTÉ? If so, you probably heard Patrick Kielty’s pre-show monologue where he linked Mary Lou McDonald’s name with the show ‘Traitors’. RTÉ says it was satire; SF’s Louise O’Reilly says it is a phrase used by those on the far right and that it had […]