Why are Sinn Féin so corrupt? They must be, because the media are attacking them at every angle over Michael McMonagle, their two former PR people, and at this moment over Brian Stanley TD’s resignation and bitter words against the party to which he once belonged. In my podcast with Pat McArt yesterday I […]
Author Jude Collins
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THE SNP KICKING OUT AN MSP, HOW ISRAEL REPORTS ITS WAR, AND SF’S CLUSTERF**K
A Scottish National Party (SNP)member called John Mason has been kicked out of the party, even though he’s a parliamentarian, for saying that Israel is not intent on genocide in Gaza, otherwise they’d have killed ten times as many Palestinians. Is he by any chance right? Do the citizens of Israel get the same reporting […]
CONTENDERS ( AND BUMS) FOR TORY LEADERSHIP by Donal Kennedy
An interesting, indeed intriguing, contender, TOM TUGENDHAT, first swam into my ken nearly nine years ago and featured in my BLOG – “WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT PRIEST” on 28th of JANUARY 2016. The hero of the piece was Lieutenant Colonel the Reverend […]
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBET JENRICK’S BLUFF BRITISH HONESTY – by Donal Kennedy
As one of the two remaining contenders for the Tory leadership Jenrick displays a lack of hypocrisy in his frank resolution to formally renounce British support for the European Court of Human Rights. The Court predates the Treaty of Rome (1960) and has no connection with the EU and its renunciation now […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT SIMON &MICHEÁL,WHY IS NETENYAHU NOT ARRESTED, & VIRTUE SIGNALS WITH POUCHES
Simon Harris has left the door open to a possible November election in the South, before the gloss and shine goes off his new leadership; Micheál Martin is insisting it should be in Spring. Who’s gonna win? Could both of them lose? Why hasn’t Netenyahu been arrested. The international court has found him guilty for […]
The Brighton Bomb
Do you believe in violence to achieve your political goals or would you favour strictly peaceful means? I’m going to assume most of you renounced violence as a method and chose peaceful protest or politics. If I then asked you if you paid your taxes, virtually everyone would say they did – we’re […]
IRISH AND UKRANIAN REGIMES UNLIKELY BEDFELLOWS by Donal Kennedy
If an Irish Government were to mirror the one in Kiev it would ban the English language and the study of English literature. It would also outlaw the Church of Ireland, part of the Anglican Communion. I’m not joking. I cannot understand how any half-decent human being can identify […]
THE TOPSY-TURVEY WORLD OF FINTAN O’TOOLE and other IRISH TIMES GURUS by Donal Kennedy
Time and time again I have remarked on the perverted ingenuity of Fintan, whom I understand to hold, or have held, a Chair of Irish Letters at Princeton University. He still cultivated a bee in his bonnet about the prosecution, before he was born, of Dublin’s […]
When I was Young – by Randall Stephen Hall
When I was Young Poem. By Randall Stephen Hall When I was young The Belfast hills cupped our ears To the sound of the gun. We rattled like milk bottles. We shook to the battle of bin lids On concrete, but only on TV. Foreign feet in tough toe caps Arrived amongst us, […]
Stephen Kelly is the CEO of ManufacturingNI. He’s also heading up a committee to report on the future potential development of the Magee campus of Ulster University. Does his vision of a cross-border university, as discussed on our podcast with Garbhan Downey, have good prospects for the future? Or will it be that a thriving […]