Maybe you thought they’d gone away? Uh-uh. The Orangemen of Portadown have applied for the right to march down the Garvaghy Road, since Sunday will be All-Ireland day and all the Armagh nationalists will be watching the game. What could go wrong? Carla Lockhart MP says it’s an example of ‘positive thinking’ by the Orangemen. […]
CHANNEL 4 NEWS TUESDAY 24 JULY 2024 as recalled by Donal Kennedy
Nearly 160 reporters, mainly from Aljazeera have been murdered by Zionists in Gaza in the past nine months, and yesterday 164,000 Palestinians whose homes had been destroyed and had been repeatedly driven from whatever flimsy shelter they could erect were ordered by the Zionists to move into another target area for Israeli […]
Paradox of Debt and Sir Scammer – by Parick Donnelly
At the moment we are in thrall to Sir Scammer and his minions one of whom, Reeves, happens to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. She said recently “I’m not going to be able to magic money out of nowhere”, as if she couldn’t possibly know how government really spends. She is […]
MICHAEL GOVE – A STUPID BOY. by Donal Kennedy
One Easter, over 30 years ago Michael Gove first attracted my attention, declaring, in THE TIMES that the 1916 Insurgents were “a squalid gang who betrayed Ireland.” I dismissed him at the time as a “Stupid Boy” like Private Pike in “Dad’s Army.” No jury tried the Insurgent Leaders shot by the British […]
DE VALERA AT EUSTON STATION IN 1938 A TEMPLATE FOR A HARD DAY’S NIGHT?
The ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS captured his rapturous reception where welcomers carrying a Tricolour climbed onto the roof of his carriage. The photos might have been stills from A Hard Day’s Night. Dev may not have been more popular than Jesus but in 1920 had packed sports stadia across the United States, been acclaimed in […]
Yesterday on Capitol Hill, US politicians hit a new low
It’s nice to see a. guest being welcomed, but there are some guests we should be more welcoming towards than others. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, got a huge and rousing reception yesterday when he addressed a joint gathering of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The temptation is to nuance his […]
Why cannot the Yanks mind their own business?
by Joe McVeigh This is a summary of USA military interventions in countries all over the world from 1846 until 2014. It was compiled by the Worcester Catholic Worker in their April/May 2014 newspaper. Mexico 1846-48 Argentina 1890, 1973 Chile 1891-1973 Haiti 1891, 1914-34, 2004-05 Hawaii 1893 Nicaragua 1894 , 1981-90 China 1894, […]
DRAWING CONCLUSIONS: A Cartoon History of Anglo-Irish Relations 1798 -1998. – by Donal Kennedy.
The book’s authors are Roy Douglas, Liam Harte and Jim O’Hara. The belated review, together with remarks concerning even earlier propaganda and current propaganda is all my own effort: DONAL KENNEDY July 2024. This is a superb book, containing over 250 cartoons from British, Irish, continental European and American sources. […]
A FREAK ELECTION AND A RUM PARLIAMENT? – by Donal Kennedy
Charlatan academics and and other chancers have for nearly 106 years sought to invalidate the Republican Mandate of 1918, although THE TIMES conceded that all parties looked on the Election as a plebiscite, But, back to the recent election, where the Labour Party won less votes and a lesser proportion of […]
Good-bye Joe – you’ve been a big help to mass murder
When you see a world figure stumble and collapse verbally (in debate with Donal Trump) or stumble and collapse physically (in going up plane steps), it’s hard not to cringe and share their pain and embarrassment. Besides, Joe Biden has an Irish background of which he is very proud. So aren’t you sorry to see […]