Two of my three daughters-in-law are English and I love them both. Why then, as I watched the Women’s World Cup Final earlier today, was I cheering for Spain? I like Spanish weather, I’ve found both Madrid and Barcelona beautiful in different ways, and the Spanish people have a verve in their approach […]
Much Ado About Nothing – by Michael Lagan
I’ve come to the conclusion that this whole ‘Ooh Ah Up The RA’ issue is nothing more than a sideways swipe at people who may not actually care about what happened pre-GFA and in the era known as the Troubles. The same happens every year and it’s usually the same unimaginative, Unionist voices leading the […]
HOW PUTIN USES HISTORY AS A WEAPON – by Donal Kennedy
I found Lara Marlowe’s comments under the above heading (Aug 13) intriguing, and and not for the first time.Some years ago in the former Irish College in Paris, together with a Maynooth Professor who moonlighted at West Point, (where he appeared to have acquired his Moral Compass)she helped launch an attack on the […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT TUBRIDY&NOLAN, THE ROSE OF TRALEE, MICHAEL PARKINSON, BIDENOMICS AND THE NEED TO LOOK GOOD…
Broadcasting in Belfast and Dublin is experiencing some turbulence these days. Just when Ryan Tubridy thought it was save to settle behind a microphone again, his boss, the new Director-General of RTÉ, showed him the door. Ouch. In Belfast, on the other hand, tales of Stephen Nolan sending pics of naked and excited men to […]
Ryan Tubridy, Stephen Nolan and Darby O’Gill
You’d think it was deliberately co-ordinated. First Ryan Tubridy, the star at the top of the RTÉ tree, is outed as a man who was receiving under-the-counter payments. Secret payments of some €345,000 were paid to him between 2017 and the present, and the licence-paying people of the south weren’t one bit amused. […]
BRITISH GOVERNMENT TELLS AMERICA TO BUTT OUT OF NORTHERN IRELAND – by Peter Kissel
IAUC PRESS RELEASE: AUGUST 15, 2023 CONTACT: PETER KISSEL, IAUC PRESIDENT (202) 262-4785, pckissel47@gmail.com 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 […]
“NO MORE WAR” MEETING IN HYDE PARK: (Headline from THE TIMES 29 JULY 1923 ) by Donal Kennedy
These days THE TIMES reprints some snippets from 100 years back.The above was reprinted on Saturday 29 July 2023.“The Hyde Park demonstration was held simultaneously with gatherings in various parts of the country……the processions may come to have real influence in promoting international friendliness – the League of Nations Union, the National Peace Council, the Fellowship […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT OOH AAAH, ETC; THE OMAGH BOMB, & ABOUT SOUTHERN NOSES STUCK IN NEI AFFAIRS
This morning, a large section of the Nolan Show was devoted to the Wolfe Tones’ Feile concert in West Belfast, and the fact that they sang along with the audience the words “Ooh, aah, up the ‘RA!” Was Nolan right to say that this was to show contempt for IRA victims like Colin Parry’s […]
EXCERPTS FROM THE POLITICAL DIARY OF C.P. SCOTT OF THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN 1921- by Donal Kennedy
July 15De Valera “Saw de Valera at his hotel in the afternoon. A whole bevy of people in the sitting-room, through which Childers showed me to the bedroom, where the great man afterwards appeared. After greetings I remarked that I fancied he had a little quarrel with me for something in the Manchester Guardian […]
Brexit’s impact raised at the Royal Black Parade in Tempo – by Victoria Johnson, Impartial Reporter
The head of the Royal Black Institution has called on the UK government to “free us from the tyranny of persecution we are suffering” as he addressed issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol during his address on Saturday afternoon, August 5 in the village of Tempo. Sovereign Grand Master Rev. William Anderson was speaking at […]