In 1963 when Jack Kennedy (or ‘yer man’) as he came to be called landed in Ireland as part of his re-election campaign a journo helpfully described his job back…
Author: Dot Kirby
Hurling’s perennial loser model
The ref had barely blown the whistle last Sunday when some of the more excitable scribes were saying that this Limerick teams achievement put them among the greats. Indeed, wrote…
Fascism dressed in the native garb
The US media is all over the place trying to label the perpetrators of yesterday’s events in Washington. In the same report they’ve been called ‘a mob’ ‘terrorists’ and ‘rioters’…
Comeback for the ages at Croke Park
Admittedly, I saw little enough of last weekends hurling matches. Even so it was impossible not to see the massive black banner about ‘bloody Sunday’. To be honest, it distracted…