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...
by charley | Apr 26, 2017 | Current Affairs
We Really Have to Talk About Bill… From the May, 2017 issue of Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ …Or do we? I’m not so sure now. Perhaps a few weeks ago — when he once more began to come out with his completely barmy and in-denial utterances concerning...
by charley | Mar 11, 2017 | Current Affairs
The Fear in the Broken Wee Women ‘Irish American News’, Chicago. “There aren’t going to be any happy endings here. No one is going to come out of this looking very good. What were the fathers of these children doing? Did they just watch and breathe a sigh of...
by charley | Feb 23, 2017 | Current Affairs
This article appears in the Chicago ‘Irish American News’ for March, 2017 – their 40th Anniversary issue. When you say it like that: forty years ago… Ireland was still something less than two years in my future. I had finished school and was preparing for my Great...
by charley | Jan 30, 2017 | Current Affairs
The Reverse Robin Hoods of the Irish Health Service This article appears in the Chicago ‘Irish American News’ for February, 2017. “Every single power system manipulates and uses ordinary people to further that system’s own supposedly noble aims.” I’m slightly...
