By European standards Ireland records some fairly low voter turnouts. The most recent North East Ireland(NEI) assembly and Irish general elections both had around a 63% turnout. If the non-voting majority united under one banner in either jurisdiction they’d represent the largest political force. Historically speaking, two seismic political events on […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT STORMONT LAST SATURDAY AND A LETTER FROM AMERICA, BRITAIN AND EUROPE
Our menu for today’s podcast is short in terms of subject but (of course) long in terms of eloquence and wisdom. Not surprisingly, we focus on the events at Stormont on Saturday. We have a look at the First Minister’s speech and that of the Deputy First Minister, comparing and contrasting. And we wonder aloud […]
DEHUMANIZATION, ITS FRUITS AND THE EVIDENCE BEFORE OUR EYES – by Donal Kennedy
My BLOG of 28th January was partly inspired by “Drawing Conclusions” a cartoon history of Anglo-Irish Relations 1798-1998 showing that English cartoonists depicted us as brute beasts and Frankenstein monsters, Irish cartoonists depicted the English as human beings even when they were behaving with the greatest brutality. Nineteen years after the Good Friday Agreement, […]
And so finally, finally, Jeffrey has groped his way to a decision about Stormont, one which he claims to have squeezed major concessions from the UK and the EU. What were these concessions?We’re not sure but we try to squeeze some meaning out of what has happened. Then there was the Man Behind The […]
STATE DEPARTMENT FAILS TO CHALLENGE – by Mike Cummings
AMERICAN BREXIT COMMITTEE 1313 CHESTNUT STREET, SUITE 1724 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19103 STATE DEPARTMENT FAILS TO CHALLENGE BRITISH ON LAWLESS LEGACY AND IRISH UNITY Philadelphia, NYC and Washington, D. C. January 31— The ABC released a letter today to Secretary of State Blinken critical of the language used in the latest annual Human […]
Sir Jeff the political genius?
And so we stumble from the darkness of DUP boycott to the shining light on the hill. Jeffrey has held the feet of the UK and the EU to the fire, and Finchley is only half as British as NEI. Happy days ahead. But wait. Didn’t Jamie Bryson reduce to farce Jeffrey’s brave and […]
Donal Kennedy and Erskine Childers (X3)
There were at least 3 ERSKINE CHILDERS THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS AUTHOR. HIS SON WHO BECAME PRESIDENT HIS GRANDSON (1929-66) who debunked the ZIONIST account of the 1948 incidents, I wrote an elegant piece of BULLSHIT and have admitted to it. Sorry to all concerned.
An Irish Journalist in Palestine in 1948 by Donal Kennedy
An Irish journalist In Gaza, reporting for a British publication, reported what he saw. The British publication apparently published his account, trusting to its veracity. He survived the experience, became a Fianna Fail TD, Minister and Tanaiste and finished his career as Uachtarain na hEireann. His name was ERSKINE CHILDERS. […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT WHAT JEFFREY MAY (OR MAY NOT) DO; THE UNWRA DISTRACTION, AND JURGEN KLOPP…
Some months ago, Claire Hanna of the SDLP said a rude thing:she suggested that it was time for Jeffrey Donaldson to piss or get off the pot. As a mother herself, Claire knows I’m sure the frustration of dealing with a wilful child, so she may be speaking in the kind of language that Sir […]
A + B + C: look out for the sucker punch, A!
You probably heard about that recent Daily Telegraph article, which claimed that the UK government would avoid new laws which would increase the trading differences between Britain and NEI. OK, the Windsor Framework ensures there’s a sizeable gap already – NEI has access to the EU Single Market, the UK does not. But there won’t […]