(First published in the Irish Political Review in November 2014 but still relevant) A CLOWN IN HOLY ORDERS, celebrating Requiem Mass in Dublin for a soldier killed serving with theBritish Army in Afghanistan (or Iraq?) said in his praise that the deceased always carried his IrishPassport.Perhaps we should expect the Pope to Canonise adulterers who […]
ARE SOLES WELL SERVED BY LOBB’S OF ST JAMES? – by Donal Kennedy
My blog “THE GRISLY DEATH OF WEAPONS EXPERT DAVID KELLY AND ITS BIZARRE AFTERMATH” (August 21st) revealed that the late Emperor Bokassa, released after suffering imprisonment for several murders, and the Late Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, BrianHutton were so anxious for their soles’ salvation that they both patronised Britain’s most exclusiveshoemakers, Lobb’s of […]
Flags, flags,flags, flags
I spent a short time in the US recently and while New York and environs wasn’t coming down with Stars n Stripes, it wasn’t short of them either. We’re talking here, of course, about the American national flag. The head-bangers who invaded the Capitol building in protest against the fact that Biden got more […]
McCord-Irish National Caucus call on King Charles to refuse Royal Assent to appalling British Amnesty Bill – by Fr Sean McManus
Fr. McManus and Raymond McCord. Congressional office. 2009. . The Tories in the British Parliament have the votes to pass the appalling Amnesty Bill. Only one individual can personally stop them—King Charles III. In the British system, such a Bill can only become law with the “Royal Assent”—the assent of the Monarch, King, or […]
The Irish American Unity Conference has received an appalling letter from the British Government
The Irish American Unity Conference has received an appalling letter from the British Government which lays bare the UK’s disdain for Irish America. Lord Caine, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, writing “on behalf of the UK Government,” basically tells the US and Ireland to stay out of Northern Ireland affairs. […]
N Emerson and the Sean Graham betting shop commemoration
Newton Emerson (pipe down, Virginia) recently executed a little victory dance column in The Irish Times. It was in honour of the fact that two policeman had been disciplined for unlawfully detaining a man at a memorial event for those killed at Sean Graham’s betting shop on the Ormeau Road in 1992. The fact that […]
THE GRISLY DEATH OF WEAPONS EXPERT DAVID KELLY AND ITS BIZARRE AFTERMATH by Donal Kennedy
Prime Minister Tony Blair committed his country to war, claiming incorrectly that Britain was in imminent danger of an attack by IRAQ with weapons of mass destruction.It is inconceivable that he believed that. Britain’s intelligence service since the reign of Elizabeth the First, together with its step-child the American Central Intelligence Agency have been […]
AN HONEST MAN NAMED CHURCHILL!!! by Donal Kennedy.
On 14 July 1917 Britain’s Lord Lieutenant in Ireland wrote a Memorandum to the Cabinet in London,which remained under wraps for the following 50 years.It read:-“The Sinn Fein victory in East Clare is a fact of cardinal significance, and has precipitated events. Following as it does on a course of extreme lenience and conciliation […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT JOINING THE PSNI, FALSE NOSES, THE WOUNDED LIONESSES & MONEY FOR NOTHING
Archbishop Eamon Martin has urged young Catholics to consider joining the police as a career move. Is he right? Would it improve the PSNI? Would it put the young Catholic in harm’s way? In the movie ‘The Maestro’, Bradley Cooper plays the part of Leonard Bernstein, the famous conductor and composer. Bernstein was Jewish and […]
NONSENSE IN THE OBSERVER – NOTHING NEW IN THAT! by Donal Kennedy
Rory Carroll, Ireland Correspondent of the Observer, knows little of Ireland, and when he sought an authority on Irish music consulted Bono who gave him the Bone-headed story that what the lateGarech Browne (1939-2018) was doing when he founded Claddagh Records in 1959 was an (apparently unprecedented) attempt “to preserve melodies that might never […]