by charley | Nov 4, 2014 | Current Affairs
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...
by charley | Oct 26, 2014 | Current Affairs
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...
by charley | Oct 6, 2014 | Current Affairs
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)...
by charley | Oct 6, 2014 | Current Affairs
The Intimidation Begins… …and the Cronyism Continues. You’ll all have received your little packs by now, courtesy of the Irish Water clique; and as things get worse and as the mailed fist in the velvet glove becomes simply the mailed fist, it will be instructive to...
by charley | Oct 6, 2014 | Current Affairs
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,...
by charley | Oct 6, 2014 | Current Affairs
Launch of the Cong Festival Originally written for the Hand in Hand website I happened to be looking at Paddy Rock’s face on the evening of the 10th of September when Jennifer Carpenter said: “Eventually you run out of favours to call in.” That little tic at the...
