There are reasons why the public want to have the Freddie Scappatici story revealed in full, and many reasons why the British government want many aspects of it to remain under wraps. But the most anxious to hear the full truth are the families of those killed by Scapattici’s ‘nutting squad’. The period of the […]
Living by Our Values by Richard Rohr and Randy Woodley
Randy Woodley points to the values that have been essential to Indigenous wisdom: Why would human beings promote systems, structures, ideologies, and lifestyles that work against their own survival? Good air quality is also a medicine. So is clean water. And healthy soil. Even a stress-free life is known to prolong people’s lives. […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S STATE OF UNION ADDRESS, TRUMP’S SECOND COMING, & BORDER POLL PLANNING
How sleepy (or alert) did Joe Biden seem during his State of the Union address yesterday? Will he be able to withstand the Trump voters in November? Right now Trump is well ahead in the polls. And what kind of person is a Trump voter? It’s not as if Trump were a novelty. But poorer, […]
Father Brendan Hoban and some Bullbrit
As a practising Catholic I try to pay attention to public utterances by the clergy of the Catholic Church. So when Father Brendan Hoban published a column in The Western People I made a point of reading it. It’s titled ‘Sorry is still the hardest word for Sinn Féin’, No smudged on-the-one-hand-on-the-other here. For Father […]
The Belfast BBC: Back Then (and Right Now)
I’ve just listened to a group of…worthies on Raidio Uladh discussing the BBC Four programme from last night. Naturally, they focused on the part that dealt with the BBC here in the 1960s, and how the British public were kept in the dark about the discrimination, gerrymandering and plain old sectarianism that prevailed at the […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT ALLIANCE & UI, BBC 4 PROG AND REPORTING NEI , AND GALLOWAY DESPISING SUNAK
Professor Jon Tonge has conducted a survey in the Alliance Party and has found that the number of Alliance members favourably disposed towards a united Ireland is much increased. What are the ramifications of that, if any? BBC FOUR put out a programme last night noting how difficult BBC NI made it for any […]
The Irish Times: trusted journalism since 1859? – by Donal Kennedy
THE IRISH TIMES claims a record of “Trusted Journalism since 1859” the year of its foundation. I’ve checked the word “TRUST” in various dictionaries which I have learned to trust. Used as a NOUN it can mean -“firm belief in the reliability, or strength of a person or thing, a confident expectation, a […]
What about parking at Casement on match days?
I was talking to a man today about Casement Park, and he raised a point I simply hadn’t thought of: how will car parking work on match days? He said Casement Park makes sense but probably would work better on another site. I think we’d all agree with that, sort of. The original agreement was […]
Irelands Shame The Betrayal of Palestine – by Fra Hughes
800 years the Irish have fought a genocidal British occupation . Eight centuries of ethnic cleansing,land clearances,massacres,starvation,colonisation and a brutal military oppression. Sucessive generations of Irish men and women ,boys and girls have fought clandestinely and openly to liberate Ireland from foreign imperialist control. Ireland was Britains first conquest. The British […]
GENERAL SIR FRANK KITSON – KNIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES? PART 1 by Donal Kennedy
Just as the Listowel, County Kerry born Herbert Kitchener did wonders for Imperialism as a super Recruiting Sergeant, Frank Kitson (whose place of birth is unrecorded in Obituaries) was an outstanding Recruiting Sergeant for Republicanism. Kitson died,aged 97, on January 2nd this year He was the Grisly Eminence who co- ordinated the Parachute Regiment, the […]