My sojourn in Manchester is slowly coming to an end, two and a half days of authority induced mayhem whilst they arrest every man with a slight hue, give him a cup of tea, ask him how he is then release him. It is musical chairs time in Manchester Police […]
Books etc
Morocco – Renewal Renewed. Part 3 of this posting
The heat, the dust, the goodness of the people, the greenery, the gris, M Ricard, the regimented chaos of Marrakech have all dragged me out of my ennui and tristesse. I am pretty much a new man. It is Day 11 of my trip and everybody is back at school […]
Holy Ghostly Tales
Living where I do, on the banks of the Boyle River where even on a bad day you see more wildlife than cars, more rats than people, more rain than sunshine, our major task is the gathering of correct information. As by choice we do not have a television or […]
The Last Fuck Up Of 2014
This posting is short and really it is to wish all my readers a HAPPY NEW YEAR and to remind everybody of the last fuck up of 2014. Yesterday Baroness Butler Sloshed, the erstwhile chair of the Inquiry into Child Abuse, agreed to be interviewed by the BBC and in […]
My Moroccan Diary, Day 1- Day 3
Readers will have to respect the fact that this is not a report but a diary written contemperaneously with the events on the trip. So there will be some repetition and in fact as I type there might be the odd sentence thrown in when events did not give me […]
The Truth.
I think that the main purpose for every intelligent human being on this planet is to seek the truth whatever and wherever that may be. If we start with the premise that we believe absolutely nothing unless supported by obvious fact we are starting at the right jumping off point. […]
My Awakening.
For 63 years I was a dumb fucker, I believed in everything I had been taught, in everything I had read in the newspapers and everything I had listened to on television and everything and anything a priest told me, he of the ultimate authority. Then in November 2009 came […]
The Folio Society
I have just read a book sent to me from that excellent organization The Folio Society. These people realize that well written, informative, quality bound books, full of new artwork, are of great pleasure to the owner, giving tangible and olfactory pleasures before the pleasant task of reading commences. Such […]
The Future And What It Holds.
Last Thursday was my youngest son’s 19th birthday and as he was painting Cork red, I thought I would celebrate it by going to Dublin, to a book launch in Hodges and Figgis’s commendable book store on Dawson Street. The book Dark Times, Decent Men by Neil Richardson is the […]
Paedophilia, Cover up, Armageddon.
Yesterday I watched an American documentary about clerical child abuse in California between 1970 and 1990. It was the most distressing 120 minutes I have ever watched. It was on the channel More 4, last Tuesday night. We recorded it and have it saved and I understand that you cannot […]