Category Archives: Ireland

Our Play For The Gathering

Two years ago in the Little Theatre in Athlone I had the privilege of watching a debut performance of a play written by Neil Richardson and directed by Caroline Barry called From The Shannon To The Somme. A true story about an Athlone man, Sgt Michael Curley, a soldier before and during World War 1.  Michael had done his seven… (more…)

The Rights Of Man In Ireland.

Ireland is in the shit and has been for several years now, brought on by a combination of avaricious developers, scheming bankers, indolent public servants and corrupt and not so bright politicians who in just ninety years of self-determination have delivered Ireland from colonial rule from Westminster to colonial rule from Brussels,  which has decided to tax the bejabers out… (more…)

Political Priapism

It has taken me a couple of weeks to get over Dave McGarry’s death and judging by the amount of e-mails and comments received, I would guess his death has disturbed a great number of people and him a Catholic priest whose stock as a group of people has been lowered considerably over the last few years.  It just shows… (more…)

A Pox On All Politicians Especially Phil Hogan

Writing about that monster Phil Hogan in my last blog posting got my blood up so badly that it has taken me two days to calm down.  What I forgot to mention in that posting was the details of the writ served on Hogan and others at the end of last week.  I give you a link below where you… (more…)

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