Proud to have been at the Galway Water March!

Proud to have been at the Galway Water March!

Proud to have been at the Galway Water March! So what did I learn at the November 1st Galway march in protest against the water charges?   Well, I’m not the most sociable, so marches and demonstrations are things that don’t hold appeal for people like me.  Yet...
Let’s Start Taking Back Our Country!

Let’s Start Taking Back Our Country!

This Weekend…Let’s Start Taking Back Our Country!     Listen up if you please, friends and occasional readers. I haven’t been posting on this site half often enough, due to time constraints as much as anything.  But I know that there are people out there who...
Make a Politician Happy: Commit Suicide.

Make a Politician Happy: Commit Suicide.

Make a Politician Happy:  Commit Suicide.     “Will you close that damned door? Were you born in a barn?” That used to puzzle me when I was a nipper.  On so many levels.  I mean, sometimes this was my parents talking (although it could have been any adult)...
A Not-So-Quiet Man… Ian Paisley 1926 – 2014

A Not-So-Quiet Man… Ian Paisley 1926 – 2014

A Not-So-Quiet Man…     A version of this piece appears in the October issue of Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’.       So… the week in which I’m writing this is the one in which Ian Paisley went off into that good night; and at the end, I suspect,...