Poor Paschal. Poor, poor Paschal. To keep a bite of bread on the family table, he’s had to take that offer of a job with the world bank. He’s going to have to slave and sweat in his role as managing director and chief knowledge officer in Washinton DC. The World Bank is the largest […]
Locked out and lurching to the right
This blogsite has locked me out for the last two weeks, but thanks to the sterling attention of my son Matt it’s up (and of course running) again. So what’s worthy of attention now? Well, one that makes my head swim is Labour’s proposal to extend the time to twenty yearsbefore some asylum seekers can […]
Piss off for tat
How strange the ways of human beings! For decades, unionism has preached to nationalism and republicanism to respect traditions other than their own, and not to do so was adopt an insular and bigoted outlook. Now we find Michelle O’Neill stretching republicanism to its creaking limit by attending a Remembrance Day ceremony, where the actions […]
Allianz and the Catholic Church – by Joe McVeigh
Allianz is an Israeli owned Insurance company which should be boycotted because of the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. We know about the campaign by some members of the GAA to get that organisation to cut all ties with the Allianz Insurance Company because it is Israeli owned. It is thought […]
From the Bridge – by Randall Stephen Hall
RSH. From the Bridge.By Randall Stephen Hall.Two videos pieces. Originally prose.“The Mechanism”Explains how divided we are in Ulster27 years after the Good Friday Agreement.https://youtu.be/lFdANaSiR7o?si=IAtyO3UbiVwxySH_“Silent Valleys”Regarding what some historians have more recently described as a Genocide in the Derry area, Donegal, Tyrone, the shores of Lough Neagh and into Fermanagh.A great devastation in the early 1600s […]
Liberation theology or right-wing theology? Time to choose – by Joe McVeigh
In my lifetime as a Catholic priest, I have met many wonderful and radical Christian thinkers, writers and activists –people who have taken Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount about justice seriously. Close to home was the late Fr Des Wilson who inspired me and many others to think about a different way of […]
Simon Says immigration is an awful problem
I so often disagree with Fintan O’Toole, it’s important to acknowledge when he speaks the truth. – in this morning’s Irish Times, truth to power. He’s talking about immigration, and the noises Simon Harris is making about immigration, in an effort to distract attention from the major cock-up that was Heather Humphreys in the presidential campaign. […]
Fermanagh – The friendliest and most Interesting county in Ireland – by Joe McVeigh
Well I would say that, wouldn’t I? I was born and raised in Fermanagh near the village of Ederney, beside the old monastic site of Kiltierney where St Tierney (Tiarnach of Clones) founded a Christian monastic settlement around the year 600AD. It is a few miles from Lower Lough Erne which once was […]
Presidential pundits and opinion polls – by Andy Murphy
After the first debate on Virgin, it seemed to me that Catherine Connolly was far and away the winner, yet the verdict of “commentators” was that there was no clear winner. The first opinion poll showed that Connolly was the clear winner in that debate and that this was the […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT STREET SIGN CONSPIRACY, HEATHER & FOX-HUNTING, AND TRUMP FLIES IN TO RESCUE GAZA Over the weekend,some enterprising person took an axle-grinder to a bi-lingual sign for a street in Belfast, cutting off the bit as Gaeilge. Is this a principled stand against the imposition of Irish signage in places that don’t want […]