As the murderous Zionist onslaught upon the civilian population of Gaza continues, what is the end plan? We have watched helplessly from operation Cast Lead in 2009 the cyclical nature of Israeli aggression, murdering old men, grandmothers, children and eviscerating whole families cowering in the dark huddling close for comfort and praying […]
TOPICAL? THE KILLING OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM – by Donal Kennedy
DEATH ON THE STREETS OF DERRY. Tony Gifford. NCCL. 21pp. 75p Tony Gifford is a Labour Peer and a Queen’s Counsel. His pamphlet follows visits to Derry where he questioned eye-witnesses to two incidents in April 1981.In them three young civilians, all unarmed, Irish and Catholic, met their deaths. Fifteen-year old Paul […]
The Hypocrisy of the High and Mighty – by Michael Lagan
The excuse from the UK, America and the EU backing Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel was and continues to be, self-defence. The right of a nation, country or state to use, more often than not, physical force in a bid to defend its people and its borders from an […]
PAT+ JUDE TALK ABOUT GAZA AND ISRAEL, AND ASSISTED DYING (PS – WE PROMISE WE WON’T DEPRESS YOU…)
It’s just possible you’ve noticed how the airwaves and media generally have been dominated by events in the Middle East. So can Hamas’s actions in Israel be justified? How about the reporting of the situation – has it been truthful about the context of events as well as the events themselves? And why are the […]
Israel and sowing for the future
One of many dark memories from my adolescence is the teacher who would demand to know who had written on the board/been talking/made that rude noise. When the culprit didn’t own up, the teacher would say “Very well – the entire class will be punished” and he’d take out his strap and go to […]
John Taylor speaks and surprises
It can be frustrating when people won’t stay in the little box they have been assigned to. When Martin McGuinness became Minister for Education in the newly-created Stormont Assembly, there was a gasp of disbelief throughout the chamber. When McGuinness went on to work with and create a friendship with Ian Paisley, […]
LEO AND MAGNA CARTA – by Donal Kennedy
I think it was Tony Hancock who asked whether Magna Carta had died in vain. It seems that Leo Varadkar is truly smitten with her. Never mind that her key benefit, Habeas Corpus, has been suspended, as often as Irishmen have been, by their necks, for the wearin’ of the green since […]
Poised on the Edge – by Michael Lagan
An outdoor prison, totally at the mercy of one of the world’s worst human rights violators, a human rights violator which at this very moment has shut down electricity, water, gas, and supplies into an area less than half the size of Louth but in which 2.3 million people reside due to being displaced […]
BRITISH TREACHERY & BARBS FROM THE BARD – by Mike Cummings
MICHAEL J. CUMMINGS 201 W EVERGREEN AVE, APT. 715 CHESTNUT HILL, PENNSYLVANIA 19118 October 9, 2023 Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro once claimed the Bard was given that honorific title because “…he comes from an ancient Irish tradition of semi-mystical poets who were able to see the future and glimpse worlds unseen to ordinary mortals.” […]
Some further thoughts on Israel and Palestine
One thing that is unavoidable in the Middle East violence is the role of Hamas. Israel, naturally, emphasises the cruelty and destruction of Hamas, and laments the taking of hostages by Hamas. There is of course another side: the thinking of Hamas.I don’t mean their shrewdness in somehow overcoming Israeli intelligence, who over […]