by charley | Aug 1, 2016 | Current Affairs
“I worked, long ago, in New York City, in construction, like many young men of the Mohawk Nation. I found that whites were often like us, and I could not hate them one at a time. But they do not know the earth or love it. They do not speak from the heart, usually. ...
by charley | Jul 23, 2016 | Current Affairs
There Was a Crooked Man… This article appears in the August issue of Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’. Since writing it a couple of weeks ago nothing much has changed, although we have learned that Creepy Conman Kelly can’t even tell the truth about his own...
by charley | Jul 16, 2016 | Current Affairs
Yes, I’m all Gay-ed out; just plain flat Gay-ed and Transgendered-out. I’m fed up hearing both of those words, to tell you the truth. I’m also tired of the initials LGBTQ. Q for Questioning has to be stuck on the end of this now? Hell, we’re all questioning – I’m...
by charley | Jul 9, 2016 | Current Affairs
“It’s really depressing at the moment that there is so much attention on refugees and migrants nearly losing their lives, then not being treated well when they get to Europe. “ Such were the wise words from ex-Irish President Mary Robinson this week. She didn’t go...
by charley | Jul 7, 2016 | Current Affairs
And so his real legacy is now that future generations will read about him and remember him as being one of the chief instigators and main players in helping along a conflict that will never end. Well, certainly not in my lifetime and possibly not in the lifetimes of...
by charley | Jun 22, 2016 | Current Affairs
This piece appears in Chicago’s Irish American News for July, 2016 Ah, two weeks of straight sunshine! You know, with all of my moaning and griping I sometimes forget what a great place Ireland is. In fact, if it were only possible to transport all of the venal,...
