Roger Casement, serving in the British Consular Service discovered that his bosses were plotting war. He exposed their great crime and they plotted his murder and promised his servant, in writing, thousands of dollars and free passage to America if he arranged to have him knocked on the head. Casement exposed that crime too. […]
A CEO DIES
How do you feel about Luigi Mangione? He’s the 26-year-old arrested for the shooting dead in Manhattan of Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare. Your natural first reaction might well be “How horrible”. The alleged gunman fired a number of shots into the back of Thompson , before, as they say, fleeing the scene. […]
A CULTURE OF LOUTISH INTLORANCE IN HAMMERSMITH IRISH CENTRE? by Donal Kennedy
I have fond memories of Hammersmith, dancing to “The March of the Mods” by Joe Loss in December 1964, and enjoying the Chieftains’ sessions in one of its pubs a few years later. Many decades later, in fact early this year, I enjoyed the brilliant dramatisation of the written memoirs of Sean Moylan in the […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT JOURNALISTS & A UNITED IRELAND, JOURNALISTS & SUMS, SOLDIER F, & UNI IN NORWAY
John Hume used to talk about the borders in Ireland being in our heads, not on the land. Was he right?Patrick Murphy of The Irish News thinks so. He also thinks that a border poll , if it ever comes , will be a long time coming. Is he right? Echoing Michael O’Leary, Leo […]
Fool’s Gold by Randall Stephen Hall
Fools Gold. By Randall Stephen Hall. First draft. Once upon a time It was Green, white and . . . Green white and . . . Jesus, I can’t bear to say it . . . Here goes . . . “Orange!” There, I’ve said it . . . Orange. It almost tastes […]
DISSING DEV AND FIANNA FAIL AND THE IRISH STATE IS NOT CLEVER by Donal Kennedy.
Some of what I write here was touched on in my BLOG – “I MET A TRAVELLER FROM A DISTANT LAND” in 2016. I now believe that Eamon de Valera was the greatest statesman of the 20th Century, that he combined the cool calculation of a mathematician, with ethical principles, caution and courage in […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT CATCHING WAR CRIMINALS, MUSK & SON, AND HOW TO FORM A GOVERNMENT & NOT GET HURT
Amnesty International has denounced the war crimes being conducted by Israel in Gaza. Does it matter what they or anyone else says? If the slaughter can’t be stopped and the criminals convicted? Elon Musk turned up at Capitol Hill yesterday, with one of his twelve children – a little boy – on his shoulders. […]
The Shallow End of the Pool.Poem By Randall Stephen Hall
(Unrelated image purely to catch your eye.)The shallow end of the Pool.That’s the way it is on Facebook.Not deep man, not deep enoough, I cus.Where the waterRarely comes up to your knees.“Please oh please,” he thinks.“When will someone actually readThe words in my post ?”But the Holy GhostRarely calls these daysAs we walk the […]
QUESTIONS FOR NORMAL PEOPLE by Donal Kennedy
Q.1 Would you pay anybody to travel 12,000 miles to commit perjury? Q.2 Would you pay for their return? Q.3 Would you be happy to have them as your next door neighbour? Q.4 Would you be happy to lend them money or valuables? You may have paid, in 1986to send […]
Two questions for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, plus. one for the Southern media
It’s sometimes important to articulate clearly and in a focused way what exactly it is that you aim for or want answered. If you don’t, you could end up like Simon Harris, spewing out ideas and information at such a pace, people jump back as if you’ve just vomited. So – here’s my question: “For […]