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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

CEOs earning 500 times more than worker in office

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 Pat  Rabbitte, former leader of the Labour Party expressed in an interview fears growing economic inequality in society would threaten “the...
Monday, June 29, 2026

Pat Leahy’s excellent obituary of the Phoenix magazine

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The piece below is an interesting obituary of the Phoenix magazine, written by Pay Leahy. It appears in the Weekend supplement of the weeken...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

People are promoted until they get a job they can’t do

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It is the headline on this story, written by Pat Leahy in The Irish Times Weekend edition, that caught the attention of this blog. How true ...
Saturday, June 27, 2026

US lawyer recalls words from his mother about the truth

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  US attorney Ben Crump is the lawyer supporting the   commissioning an independent autopsy for one-year-old Kohen Wiley, who was shot dead ...
Friday, June 26, 2026

Quiz with the trams and low key with the electric buses

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An Irishwoman's Diary in The Irish Times yesterday. But how come Alison Healy  did not introduce the reader to lowkenuinely, (a word on ...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

In 19-year period this blog as had 1.23 million hits

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In recent weeks this blog has informed readers of the hits it receives and where it is being read. There has been a steady increase in reade...

IT fault brings every train across Germany to a stop

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German rail network comes to complete halt due to IT malfunction.  And not a word in the Irish media about this. https://www.bbc.com/news/ar...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Celebrating two years of West Kerry Local Link

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This week’s column in The Irish Times Michael Commane It’s easy to criticise and complain. On the other hand, do we ever realise how good mo...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

10 years of Brexit a Catholic may enter 10 Downing Street

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On this day, June 23, 2016 the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union; the vote was close, 52 per cent to leave, 48 ...
Monday, June 22, 2026

XXL maniple, bishops in ivory towers and anniversaries

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A priest celebrating Mass in Ireland yesterday stopped when it came to mention the names of the pope and the local bishop; he asked the cong...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

Rail fatalities in Germany and England within eight hours

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On Friday close to 5pm a train of East Midland Railway crashed into the back of a stationary train near Bedford in England. Some eight hours...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Remembering the furniture vans moving from Bonn to Berlin

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On this day, June 20, 1919 the German parliament (Der Bundestag) voted to move the seat of parliament from Bonn to Berlin. Today the former ...

What about those bedecked with medals and admired?

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Some weeks ago this blog wrote a piece on Patrick Radden Keefe’s book, ‘London Falling’. His book 'Say Nothing', a true story of mur...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

Pope insists Society of Saint Pius X must accept Vatican II

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 This week   Pope Leo  was asked about the case of the Society of Saint Pius X, which has said that on July 1  it will carry out four episco...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

The shocking horror of the only certainty in our lives

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This week’s column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane There was an interview in the weekend edition of The Irish Times with Ireland’...