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III After his weird linguistic breakdown, Carney moves onto the middle powers bit of his speech that the International Right so admires. He wants his peer countries to be: Principled in our commitment to fundamental values: sovereignty and territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except when consistent with the UN Charter, and…
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I Now the wording above is not how the overpraised leader of the Settler State of Canada has described our Present State of course, rather he referred to the end of a pleasant fiction. And he is correct about the ending of a fiction, though not about its having been pleasant. Let us keep in…
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How appropriate at Samhain to turn to some ghouls. A spectre is haunting Ireland, the spectre of Fascism. The Far Right cannot get one of their own onto the ballot paper, but they have managed to make themselves into the story, with the compliance of the Liberal Right more keen to report on empty ballots…
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The headline of the election of the new Uachtarán na hÉireann is of course, the extraordinary election of Catherine Connolly herself. Her pretty flawless campaign demonstrated not only her principles but also an unexpected and astonishing ability to keep a ball in the air. We have maintained the tradition, now more than thirty years of…
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I Do not listen to those who say that this shambolic Presidential campaign is reminiscent of the last time there was a Fianna Fáil implosion during such a campaign, with Brian Lenihan in 1990; in fact the last time there was a Fianna Fáil implosion during a Presidential election was with Seán Gallagher in 2011.…
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Macdara has long held it to be a commonplace that the unbearable Timothée Chalamet has been cast in any and seemingly every Role available to a male actor in the last decade because he reminds directors of the awkward White Youth they used to be. It was less clear to him that Charlie Kirk was…
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I Perhaps your correspondent was just awaiting a piece of good news in order to pick up his poison pen once again. The English State, once capable of sustained judicial conspiracies against Irish people, has proven that it cannot now even get a showtrial right, and has had to dissolve its case against Mo Chara.…
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Lest anyone doubt the craven nature of the Partitionist elite, the West Brit Times ran an article (unseen by the present writer, who preserves his sanity by avoiding the paper), but helpfully and inevitably summarised in its politics podcast (into which your correspondent dips only to gather material for his Letters). The man who may…
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Amnesty International’s Occupied Ireland director gave a typical response: It is shameful that the authorities allowed this despicable display of hate to go ahead. What a shocking message to send to local migrant families. […] The authorities must treat this as a hate crime, conduct a full investigation and ensure those responsible are held to…
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So in this terroristic townland, we find that a gross crime is committed every year: the bonfire for Eleventh Night, commemorating (better to say celebrating) a key battle in the invasion of Ireland. Stacks of material up to 60 meters high are lit on fire, constituting a multiple crime, being at once a threat to…