by charley | Aug 23, 2017 | Current Affairs
The Narrow Minded Bigotry Doesn’t Come from Kevin Myers… Irish American News, September 2017 Well, of course, if there was any REAL Justice in this sad old world at all, then Irish journalist Kevin Myers would not only have been sacked from his position...
by charley | Jul 30, 2017 | Current Affairs
Loveable, Laughing Leo and Empty Cant Taken from the Chicago ‘Irish American News’ for August, 2017 I received a few nice emails on the back of last month’s piece, Robbery with a Fountain Pen. They are always welcome and many thanks. The graphic novel I...
by charley | Jun 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
This article appears in the July issue of Irish American News. It was written just before Leo Varadkar surprised no one at all by indicating that he was to be a case of “Out with the old, in with exactly the same…” It’s a bit messy-looking, to be honest. In fact,...
by charley | May 30, 2017 | Current Affairs
The Black Monday Murders Vol. 1: All Hail, God Mammon “If you are going to earn more…if you’re going to earn real money, accumulate real power… then that is done on the backs of others. Call them workers, call them proles, even call them slaves, I do not care. Just...
by charley | May 23, 2017 | Current Affairs
Appearing in Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ of June 2017 Did I realise how important they were then? Those rituals, those ‘rites of passage’ from father to son ’way back in the 60s and early 70s. As a kid, did I place much stock in them? Yes, I think so. At...
