by charley | Jan 5, 2017 | Current Affairs
This piece appears in the Chicago ‘Irish American News’ for January of 2017. “Belfast has a tradition of murals celebrating victories and losses, and its political struggles on both the Nationalist and Loyalist side of the divide. Some of them take up complete...
by charley | Dec 16, 2016 | Current Affairs
Are We Having Fun Yet…? This article appears in Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ for December, 2016. I wrote this straight after the Trump win. When I suggested that within a couple of months he would be absorbed into ‘business-as-usual’, I really hadn’t expected...
by charley | Nov 11, 2016 | Current Affairs
I wrote the following in a letter to a friend back in August. Farewell, Mr. Cohen; thank you for the words… With all the Doom & Gloom (sounds like a firm of Undertakers), it was nice this week to come across this…somewhat sad, somewhat lovely…little item. And I...
by charley | Oct 29, 2016 | Current Affairs
This article appears in Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ for November, 2016. If there even was such an outlandish idea as having a ‘gap year’ back in the 70s, then I had never heard of it. It just wasn’t something that you did back then. All I knew was that I had...
by charley | Oct 5, 2016 | Current Affairs
Straight Outta Mayo: Kenny Finds his Mojo This was written a couple of weeks back. I don’t think that anything has really changed, apart from Mr. Martin clarifying the clarifications on the U-turn that’s not one. I am amused, though, at Sinn Féin’s Louise...
by charley | Aug 27, 2016 | Current Affairs
This piece appears in Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ for September, 2016. I want to stay away from negative news this month, so let me get my disappointment with Senator Billy Lawless out of the way. Notice I say ‘disappointment’, not ‘surprise’. Once a person...
