You could call it a tale of two bonfires, but this Twelfth it goes beyond bonfires. What must be asked is ‘Who is running things in Belfast?’and the answer must be loyalist paramilitaries. And if you think a bonfire built beside an electricity sub-station and a heap of asbestos is bad, check out Moygashel with […]
On being MAD
MAD – that’s the acronym for Mutually Assured Destruction, and it’s the basis on which the world powers with nuclear weapons operate. If you attack us with nuclear weapons, we’ll hit back and we’ll all die. I remember a New Yorker cartoon years ago which caught the system rather well. It showed a Stone Age […]
Ulster’s History: Say Nothing
There’s a scene in My Fair Lady, where Eliza Doolittle has had enough and tells off the men surrounding her: Words!“Words! Words! I’m so sick of words!I get words all day through;First from him, now from you! Is that all you blighters can do?” I thought of Eliza yesterday during Talkback. Presenter Crawley was looking […]
Israel obliterates Gaza while the world looks on
So Israel has come up with a new wheeze. Rather than keep over two million Gazans in an area smaller than County Louth, the smallest county in Ireland, and the world’s biggest out-door prison, from which Hamas attempted a jail break on October 7 2023, it’s now being proposed that all Gazans will be […]
Augustinian priest Fr William Tirry OSA – execute by Cromwell’s men in 1654 – by Joe McVeigh
“As the midday sun shone down on 2 May 1654 and the river Suir went quietly by, while the Comeraghs looked on, Fr Tirry’s life on earth was ended on a scaffold in the Market Square in Clonmel. He was now a grain of wheat.” In a booklet Priest on the Run by Fr John O’Connor […]
Bibi pulls out a letter
Consider this. The town sheriff, name of Aten, is on the record as having killed ten men. He says the ten threatened him and there are other people in the town- men and women and even children – who have vowed to get him.So when he shot the ten in the back it was […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THE GPO, PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBLES, TRUMP’S BIG BEAUTY AND FDI IN THE SOUTH
The GPO is the jewel of O’Connell Street in Dublin – or it should be. There’s talk about cleaning up and renovating O’Connell Street generally, so what should be done with the historic GPO – offices?? The field for the next Presidential election in November isn’t looking particularly crowded at the moment. Will Mairead McGuinness […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT J CORBYN & HIS LABOUR-FREE PARTY, ISRAEL’S MURDER MACHINE, & THE COWARDLY BiBiC
Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana both used to be Labour Party MPs. Now they’ve left Labour and are proposing to set up a new party with socalist values. As Sultana points out , “Just 50 families now own more wealth than half the UK population” The BiBiC (geddit?) paid for a documentary on doctors […]
Politicians who wept in public – and did it work?
Rachel Reeves wept in public yesterday.Has it softened those hearts which were stony because they saw the Labour Party turning its back on the weakest in society? So was it a case of real tears of compassion or the weak sniffling of a woman out of her depth? She’s not the first to […]
Monarchs and animals and money
The British government is planning to abandon its custom of having the current monarch’s head on English coins and replace it with English landscapes and other less-directly monarchical scenes. I remember English coins. There was of course Queen Elizabeth II herself, looking like a young woman even while she was actually deep into middle age. […]