If on the Day of Judgement my Divine Judge is as merciful to me as the camera is I’ll have a privileged cloud in Heaven. It amazes me that professional, even mercenary, correspondents in THE IRISHTIMES choose to show the worst of their many faces to their readers. One historian presents […]
Was that Washington gig a win?
So how was the visit of various Irish political parties to Washington, including the DUP, the UUP, Sinn Féin and Alastair McDonnell (his party, we’re told, boycotted the shindig) – was their journey fruitful? No and yes. No, in that not a word or a half-syllable of what they said will deter Joe Biden […]
THE WORLD AND IRELAND SINCE 1918 Part One by Donal Kennedy.
There were no elections or plebiscites in Palestine nor other territories seized by the British and French during the Great War, nor in those seized from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Invented “nations” Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia have fallen apart more than once and the Britain’s purported justification for involvement in the war “the self-determination of nations” […]
Charlie Bird, boy and man
Charlie Bird, the former RTÉ journalist, died yesterday. I knew him in 1966-67 and then again, very briefly, in 2011. In 1966-67, I taught in a Dublin school called Sandymount High School. Charlie was one of my students, and I can say without fear of contradiction that he was one of the weakest students I […]
Frank Hester: he has a way with words. And money
Frank Hester has a lot pf money. That’s why he gave £10 million to the Tory party. Needless to say, none of the Tories thought Frank was any other than a loaded boy scout, honourable and upright and rich. In their exclusive clubs, if someone raised Frank’s name in the same sentence as racist, the […]
FELTWELL – WINSTON CHURCHILL’S GENOCIDAL WET DREAM – by Donal Kennedy
FELTWELL – WINSTON CHURCHILL’S GENOCIDAL WET DREAM From June 1940 onwards Germany occupied Continental Europe’s Atlantic Coast from the North of Norway to the the Franco/Spanish border. Britain, which for some twenty years had used chemical weapons to “police” Iraq and other “barbarian” territories,and approved of such […]
A letter to God about the Irish Times – by Donal Kennedy
Dear God! THE IRISH TIMES published letters trashing its advice to the people of Ireland. Is this a record? Nearly 5 years before the people enacted our Constitution, on the advice of De Valera, and ignored that paper’s warning (in February 1933 ) that a return of Fianna Fail to power would […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT RAFAH & A RED LINE, THE OSCARS, THE KENOVA REPORT, & BORIS IS COMING BACK???
President Joe Biden has declared that Rafah is a red line which must not be crossed. Netenyahu has said he’s going to finish the job of destroying Hamas. Is Biden playing politics, or has he, however belatedly, seen the light? The Oscars happened last night and Cillian Murphy got his Oscar. He also spoke […]
Scappaticci and the dirty war
There are reasons why the public want to have the Freddie Scappatici story revealed in full, and many reasons why the British government want many aspects of it to remain under wraps. But the most anxious to hear the full truth are the families of those killed by Scapattici’s ‘nutting squad’. The period of the […]
Living by Our Values by Richard Rohr and Randy Woodley
Randy Woodley points to the values that have been essential to Indigenous wisdom: Why would human beings promote systems, structures, ideologies, and lifestyles that work against their own survival? Good air quality is also a medicine. So is clean water. And healthy soil. Even a stress-free life is known to prolong people’s lives. […]