Signs of life from the Irish soccer team at last. What a goal the kid scored. Showed even more class as he refused to take the interviewers bait to blow…
Category: Politics
The spud pickere hobknobbing with American presidents
I don’t know much about Scotland. We were always assured they are our lost Celtic cousins in a way that the English are not. It’s fair to say though that…
Its a shitshow
The strategy is clear enough. As Britain sends its navy into the med and Black Sea and up the baltics the ruskies send theirs into the Brits backyard to give…
For Love of Country and Tribal Glory.
If you live long enough you’ll see everything they say. Today was an example of that old chestnut as Ukraine (a country fighting a low level war against a superpower…
Tis those that suffer the most and not those who inflict the most who have conquered’
Back around 1933 when Hitler was terrorising the Austrian govt with threats, bombs and assassinations and the rest of it he demanded that a member of the local fledgling nazi…
Texit wont come cheap
In the recent U.S election I heard one pundit say that the Republican Party would never return to sanity until it lost Texas. Indeed hopes were high that Democrats could…
A ray of hope
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…
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…
Soldiers
The trouble with Europe,’ said Churchill, is that ‘it produces more history than it can consume’. The question this insight begs is what have we learned from this history. One…