Time and time again I have remarked on the perverted ingenuity of Fintan, whom I understand to hold, or have held, a Chair of Irish Letters at Princeton University. He still cultivated a bee in his bonnet about the prosecution, before he was born, of Dublin’s […]
When I was Young – by Randall Stephen Hall
When I was Young Poem. By Randall Stephen Hall When I was young The Belfast hills cupped our ears To the sound of the gun. We rattled like milk bottles. We shook to the battle of bin lids On concrete, but only on TV. Foreign feet in tough toe caps Arrived amongst us, […]
Stephen Kelly is the CEO of ManufacturingNI. He’s also heading up a committee to report on the future potential development of the Magee campus of Ulster University. Does his vision of a cross-border university, as discussed on our podcast with Garbhan Downey, have good prospects for the future? Or will it be that a thriving […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT MICHAEL McMONAGLE, SF & THE MEDIA; ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES, & CATHOLIC LAWYERS
Michael McMonagle worked for Sinn Féin up in Stormont. He was charged with child sex abuse; Sinn Féin immediately discharged him as an employee and a party member. Harsh, you may think, since he hadn’t been found guilty at that point, but that’s what happened. Later, McMonagle contacted two of his Sinn Féin colleagues and […]
It’s twelve o’clock. Let’s have SF for lunch…
Because you know you’re going to encounter something that smells a bit, doesn’t really take away from its stink when you come up against it. Talk Back on the B(ritish)BC couldn’t afford to allow Nolan’s show to be the only one sticking it to the Shinners, and so today we had some forty minutes of […]
THE SINN FEIN ELECTION Part 2 – by Donal Kennedy
In 1906 Unionists got more than 50% of the votes cast in Ireland, but Nationalists took the Lion’s Share of the seats, 84 of which were uncontested. In 1886 Unionists got more than 50% of the votes cast in Ireland, but Nationalists took the Lion’s Share of the seats, 66% of which were […]
THE SINN FEIN ELECTION – by Donal Kennedy
FROM IRISH REPUBLICAN NEWS December 12 2008 and still relevant. Part 1 Donal Kennedy looks at the electoral facts surrounding Sinn Fein’s historic victory at the 1918 General Election, 90 years ago this week, and takes issue with those academics, journalists and politicians who seek to undermine its democratic legitimacy. On 28 January […]
Israel – A Law Unto Itself. – by Michael Lagan
Has the UN finally grown a pair and stood up to Israel’s genocide of not Palestinians but now the indiscriminate attacks on Beirut and Lebanon? In the past days we witnessed UN delegates stand up and walk out of the UN general assembly when Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu took to the podium to […]
PAT+ JUDE TALK ABOUT THE SINN FEIN ARD FHEIS, ABOUT BOYCOTTING ISRAEL, ABOUT KNEECAP & ELTON JOHN!
At the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, Mary Lou McDonald spoke in detail of SF’s housing policy, of its aim to have universal health care by 2030, to have a border poll by 2030. Will that persuade voters to by-pass the bundles of cash Fine Gael will be waving under their noses? Now. Are you from […]
Mud, Glorious Mud
You know there’s an election on the way when you hear that some bad event or some bad person is in the news and is being tied tight tight tight to Sinn Féin. This election could be as far away as the end of February, but Shinner-kicking boots have been donned, laces tightened on both […]